Web Development Strategy @ Microsoft : ASP.NET / PHP / Silverlight / Java / UX

In Love with Orchard

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:59:29 GMT

I’m so enamored with Orchard ( http://www.orchardproject.net ) that I’ve decided to make it my primary blogging platform. Come check out my new blog at http://www.philotic.com/blog , written and run on the Orchard platform! All future blog posts will...(read more)

SQL Server Driver for PHP Adds Support for PHP Data Objects

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:49:38 GMT

This week, Microsoft is participating in the DrupalCon San Francisco Conference at the Moscone Center. The event marks an important milestone for Microsoft, as we announced the release of a Community Technology Preview (CTP) for the new SQL Server Driver...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4, ASP.NET 4 Released

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 05:28:26 GMT

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, which includes many of the frameworks, tools and languages utilized when deploying solutions on Microsoft’s Web Platform . As part of this launch, deploying ASP...(read more)

Free training on Microsoft Web Platform in Web Camps

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:24:00 GMT

function webCamps() {
   day1.Learn();
   day2.Build();
}

Interested in learning how new innovations in Microsoft's Web Platform and developer tools like ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 can make you a more productive web developer? If you're currently working with PHP, Ruby, ASP or older versions of ASP.NET and want to hear how you can create amazing websites more easily, then register for a Web Camp near you today!

Microsoft's Web Camps are free, two-day events that allow you to learn and build on the Microsoft Web Platform. At camp, you will hear from Microsoft experts on the latest components of the platform, including ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, jQuery, Entity Framework, IIS, Visual Studio 2010 and much more.

Web Camps also provide the opportunity to get hands on with labs and get creative by building in teams. All this with Microsoft experts on hand to guide you through.

We look forward to seeing you at camp soon!

www.webcamps.ms

Presenting IIS URL Rewriter 2.0

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:13:22 GMT

Optimizing Windows Server-based Web sites for search just got a lot easier now that the final release of IIS URL Rewriter 2.0 is available for download . The newest version of URL Rewriter takes URL simplification to the next level by enabling developers...(read more)

FastCGI for IIS6 and IIS5.1 has been released.

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:13:04 GMT

Today the IIS team released the FastCGI Extension 1.5 for IIS 6.0 and IIS 5.1. This allows popular application frameworks that support the FastCGI protocol to be hosted on the IIS web server in a high performing and reliable way. FastCGI provides an alternative...(read more)

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Just Got Easy

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:14:23 GMT

Today, Microsoft announced a monthly spotlight series, beginning with the SEO Toolkit , an extension for IIS. Start with the free download, review your website, and make changes fast. The SEO Toolkit with its detailed analysis and search engine friendly...(read more)

Microsoft, Open Source and the CODEPLEX Foundation

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:58:56 GMT

Today the CodePlex Foundation announced the addition of the Orchard Project to it’s ASP.NET Gallery . Orchard is a free, open source, community-focused project aimed at delivering applications and reusable components using the ASP.NET platform. It’s first...(read more)

Accelerate PHP Applications on Windows with the new Cache Extension

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:54:18 GMT

What is it? The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. Once the Windows Cache Extensions for PHP are enabled and loaded by the PHP engine – PHP...(read more)

Web 2.0 – What’s it all about?

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:36:48 GMT

Introduction Ask any ten people what Web 2.0 is and you’ll likely get ten different answers. Ask any ten business owners what it is, and you’ll likely get the same variety of answers – but one thing will be in common – they’ll all want to have a part...(read more)

Dream it: Build It: Grow It – With the Microsoft Web Platform

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:03:55 GMT

The Internet and the Web are hardly new, but, with the rapid change and rapid innovation that is happening almost daily, knowing how easy, or how hard it is to get content on the web is a constantly moving target. So, I’m starting this series of blog...(read more)

Update to WebNEXT Blog

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:41:30 GMT

It’s been a little while since I’ve updated this blog, but there’s a lot of new content coming down the pipe. I’ve moved on from being the Silverlight Evangelist at Microsoft and am now working on Web Development Strategy across a number of technologies...(read more)

How to build a good install UX with Silverlight

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:17:28 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight The Silverlight object model exposes events that can be used to build a very friendly end user experience for installing Silverlight. When it comes to using a Web site that requires a plug-in...(read more)

Free Silverlight 3 Book Preview Now available…

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:48:17 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight Technorati Tags: Silverlight For those of you who were not able to attend MIX (and it wasn’t just the best MIX ever, but IMHO the best conference I’ve ever been to), and were not able to get their hands on a copy of my Silverlight...(read more)

March Madness is upon us

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:39:27 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Basketball , March Madness Just a quick update from MIX. If you’re a sports fan, I’m sure you’re familiar with March Madness :) Well it kicks off today, and it’s all available, free and in HD on http://mmod.ncaa.com...(read more)

One Last Riddle: Solve this and win a pass to MIX09

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:53:44 GMT

del.icio.us Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight Technorati Tags: MIX09 , Silverlight So, if you haven’t gotten into MIX already, or if your employer is pulling back on budgets because of the economy, here’s a chance to score a free pass (just a pass mind you, and...(read more)

Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:48:19 GMT

The Patterns and Practices team @ Microsoft have been busy working on helping answer the question – how do I maximize my skills in XAML and .NET development to build for both Silverlight and WPF. The result: Prism 2.0 has just been released to the wild...(read more)

Think you have search engine skillz? Prove it and win a pass to MIX.

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:28:31 GMT

I’m glad you all enjoyed the last riddle, the answer to which was ‘Area 51’. I told the story in the comments section. Due to its popularity, I’ve scored another pass, and want to try out your search engine skills to do a sort-of global scavenger hunt...(read more)

Solve the riddle, and get a free pass to MIX

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:32:28 GMT

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 del.icio.us Tags: Silverlight , MIX09 As you may know, MIX is coming up very soon – March 18-20 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. You can find the full details on the conference at http://www.visitmix.com . It’s an unmissable...(read more)

Strangely Hypnotic Silverlight App

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:21:31 GMT

I just got this in my email from Denis Dollfus , and had to share it. It’s an extremely odd, and strangely hypnotic app. Would make a great screensaver :)...(read more)

MIX09 – Why YOU should be there.

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:49:26 GMT

Ok, so we turn on the news and we see economic crisis everywhere, we hear of layoffs and cost cutting and rumors of depression. Well, I’m a rose-tinted-glasses kind of guy, and I firmly believe that it is at times like this that the smarter investor sows...(read more)

Some great new Silverlight Apps from the Netherlands :)

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:24:56 GMT

A few new Silverlight Apps from our friends in the Netherlands are definitely worth checking out. First up is Monteverdi.tv, a portal for classical music events, built in PHP, but which delivers Silverlight: http://live.monteverdi.tv/rco/view.php It allows...(read more)

Silverlight and Otaku – A match made in heaven :)

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:23:12 GMT

I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m an Otaku and I’m happy that I work in a job that allows me to visit Otaku heaven (Akihabara) once or twice a year. Anyway, it was only a matter of time before someone used Silverlight to build a site for Otaku like me...(read more)

Silverlight and Windows Live

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:05:48 GMT

For those of you who have been asking about Silverlight and Windows Live, I’m now pleased to announce that Windows Live downloads will include Silverlight in the installation. If you haven’t already tried the Windows Live applications, I thoroughly recommend...(read more)

Silverlight 2 Update for BiDirectional Text in Hebrew and Arabic

lmoroney[at]microsoft.com — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:12:34 GMT

In its early days, Silverlight concentrated on being Web friendly with its text, meaning that the number of fonts were constrained to those that would be available on most computers. On this blog I listed a number of workarounds for languages such as...(read more)