August, 2012

DrupalCon Munich is next week, and I am lucky enough to be going. As part of preparing for the conference, I thought it would be worthwhile to see just how easy (or difficult) it would be to migrate an existing Drupal site to Windows Azure Web Sites ...

Last week, as part of my preparation for DrupalCon Munich , I investigated how to migrate a simple Drupal website to Windows Azure Websites . While Windows Azure Websites makes it easy to get a website up and running quickly and is great for many applications...

If the amount of sleep one gets at a conference is inversely proportional to how good the conference is, then DrupalCon Munich was a huge success for me. I’m back home now, still catching up on sleep, and I’ve had a chance to reflect on the conference...

I was recently asked if it is possible to run PHP 5.4 in a Windows Azure Worker Role. (The default scaffold for a PHP worker role currently installs a version of PHP 5.3.) This got me to wondering how you might use any custom PHP installation in a worker...

I am happy to announce that the Windows Azure team has added cloud services support to the ServiceManagement API in the Windows Azure SDK for PHP . A few weeks ago I wrote a post ( Service Management with the Windows Azure SDK for PHP ) that outlined...

Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (the recently-created Microsoft subsidiary charged with advancing the company’s investment in interoperability, open standards and open source) has updated the Windows Azure Storage Plugin for WordPress . The plugin...

Just got back from a customer visit in San Francisco, had a great time and the weather was good. Hope the rest of you are having a good summer also! Here's some links for your weekend: Task Scheduling with Windows Azure Web Sites using a Cron...

Here in the Seattle area it already feels like autumn is in the air…and it’s not even September yet. Oh well, short summers are a way of life here (but they are good summers!). No matter, I’ve had plenty of good reading to keep me occupied…hope...

Larry is on vacation this week, so my reading list will have to suffice for this week (and it has some good stuff, if I do say so myself ). If you’ve got interesting Azure/OSS-related links, let us know in the comments. Comparing Service Bus for Windows...

If this week’s list of interesting/informative reading is any indication of how busy people are, then it would appear that summer vacation is winding down. Lots of good stuff this week…enjoy (and learn)! New Java Resources for Windows...

It's Brian's turn to be on vacation today, but I get the last laugh; I'm on vacation again next week. :) Here are my links for your Friday reading. If there's anything else interesting going on in the cloud/OSS space, let us know. Node 0.8...