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Garrett Serack: Open Source Development at Microsoft

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May 2009 - Posts

Using JScript as a batch scripting language (Part III)
Now that I’ve shown how to build a cool .Format() method for strings, we can put it to good use in a lot of places. In batch scripting, it’s really nice to be able to make nearly every call support replacement arguments in a consistent fashion. In cmd.exe Read More...
PHP on Windows Optimized build—Thread Safe version too!
I’ve just finished tweakin’ out the PGO (Profiled Guided Optimization) build script for PHP on Windows to crank out the thread-safe version of PHP as well. So, now you can test PHP 5.3 RC3-dev PGO optimized for Windows with Apache 2.2! What’s the difference Read More...
Using JScript as a batch scripting language (Part II)
Last time, I wrote about synthesizing an #include facility along with handling environment variables in a trivial way. This time, let’s look at filling in a couple more gaps in JScript’s basic scripting functionality. What’s wrong with String? The String Read More...
Using JScript as a batch scripting language (Part I)
As I mentioned a few days ago , I chose JScript to script of the optimized PHP build process that I’ve built. JScript in-box on pretty much every modern Windows operating system, and provides a great deal of flexibility and benefits for a scripting language: Read More...
PHP 5.3 RC2 *Highly-Optimized* for Windows available
Howdy, I’ve been working for many months with Pierre Joye —well really, many people in the PHP community--on getting PHP to run faster on Windows. Pierre has been working rapidly on upgrading libraries (Pierre pioneered the work to get PHP and its hoard Read More...
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