A blog about Business, Marketing and around the Application Platform Ecosystem... Tons of success stories of local customers and partners plus loads on SQL Server, BizTalk Server and the .NET Platform!http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/atom.xmlCommunity Server2009-06-16T19:09:06Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/10/16/looking-for-a-learning-map-for-your-ict-career-check-this-out.aspx2009-10-15T15:51:01Z2009-10-15T15:51:01Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/10/16/looking-for-a-learning-map-for-your-ict-career-check-this-out.aspx";digg_title = "Looking for a learning map for your ICT career? Check this out!";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Click for <a href="http://www.prodigy.ie/UserFiles/File/IT_Academy/IT_Academy_Brochures/Microsoft_Qualifications_Roadmap.pdf" target="_blank">full view</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.prodigy.ie/UserFiles/File/IT_Academy/IT_Academy_Brochures/Microsoft_Qualifications_Roadmap.pdf" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/LookingforalearningmapforyourICTcareerCh_E39F/image_3.png" width="572" height="939" /></a> </p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:5636b0ac-46ff-4933-9b73-cc04521ba04d" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Career" rel="tag">Career</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ICT" rel="tag">ICT</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Roadmap" rel="tag">Roadmap</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/learning" rel="tag">learning</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9907719" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/10/16/windows-7-is-well-worth-the-wait.aspx2009-10-15T15:49:49Z2009-10-15T15:49:49Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/10/16/windows-7-is-well-worth-the-wait.aspx";digg_title = "Windows 7 is well worth the wait";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Great article in <a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/10/15/technology/20091015172551&amp;sec=technology" target="_blank">The Star</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2009/10/15/technology/20091015172551&amp;sec=technology" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/Windows7iswellworththewait_14EED/image_3.png" width="470" height="605" /></a> </p> <p>Enjoy</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9907718" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/27/biztalk-server-2009-click-through-demo-available.aspx2009-09-26T19:45:08Z2009-09-26T19:45:08Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/27/biztalk-server-2009-click-through-demo-available.aspx";digg_title = "BizTalk Server 2009 Click-Through Demo Available!";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Awesome <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/click-through-demo/hol.htm" target="_blank">resource</a>!!</p> <p>We have published the new <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/click-through-demo/hol.htm" target="_blank">BizTalk Server 2009 click-through demo</a>. The demo, highlights BizTalk's SharePoint and WF integration and is based on PO and Invoice Processing scenarios. </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/click-through-demo/hol.htm" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalkServer2009ClickThroughDemoAvailab_9F6/image_5.png" width="592" height="450" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/click-through-demo/hol.htm" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/BizTalkServer2009ClickThroughDemoAvailab_9F6/image_6.png" width="596" height="498" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/biztalk/en/us/click-through-demo/hol.htm" target="_blank">Check it out</a> today!</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:60807ba9-905e-44ab-8d30-ad064944ae3a" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/BizTalk+Server+2009" rel="tag">BizTalk Server 2009</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Demo" rel="tag">Demo</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Click-Through" rel="tag">Click-Through</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9899880" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/sql-server-compared-to-oracle.aspx2009-09-20T10:30:47Z2009-09-20T10:30:47Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/sql-server-compared-to-oracle.aspx";digg_title = "SQL Server compared to Oracle";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Another awesome resource on SQL Server in comparison to Oracle</p> <p>Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a data platform with many advantages and business benefits including better security, performance and scalability, developer productivity, and Business Intelligence tools (BI) – all at a lower total cost of ownership. To learn more, <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/compare-oracle.aspx" target="_blank">check this out</a></p> <p>&#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/compare-oracle.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServercomparedtoOracle_D697/image_3.png" width="377" height="250" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/try-it.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServercomparedtoOracle_D697/image_6.png" width="236" height="102" /></a> </p> <p>Enjoy,</p> <p>-Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:70e4010f-c4a3-4f63-9f1a-f51afd19d76b" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL+Server" rel="tag">SQL Server</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Oracle" rel="tag">Oracle</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9897233" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/sql-server-2008-manageability.aspx2009-09-20T10:25:11Z2009-09-20T10:25:11Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/sql-server-2008-manageability.aspx";digg_title = "SQL Server 2008 Manageability";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server along with tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning that enable administrators to more efficiently manage their databases and SQL Server instances.</p> <p>This functionality helps streamline tasks related to ensuring security and compliance, deploying patch upgrades, and resource utilization.</p> <h5>Top New Features</h5> <ul> <li> <p>Use Performance Data Collection to troubleshoot, tune and monitor SQL Server 2008 instances across the enterprise</p> </li> <li> <p>Define configuration policies for your enterprise by using Policy-Based Management</p> </li> <li> <p>Use built-in framework facets and policies to manage surface area configuration and apply best practices</p> </li> </ul> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/manageability.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; 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border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServer2008Manageability_D7C8/image_16.png" width="354" height="337" /></a> </p> <p>&#160;</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/try-it.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image[9][1]" border="0" alt="image[9][1]" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServer2008Manageability_D7C8/image%5B9%5D%5B1%5D_0ceb6985-8a14-49f4-8444-d3e598a668be.png" width="240" height="106" /></a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/manageability.aspx" target="_blank">Find out more here</a></p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>-Rohan</p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <p></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:f8fe68ab-ccc9-48f8-98cd-165f0d82d3c2" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Server+Server+Manageability" rel="tag">Server Server Manageability</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9897231" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/discover-sql-server-2008-through-a-variety-of-solution-and-technology-focused-white-papers.aspx2009-09-20T10:10:43Z2009-09-20T10:10:43Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/20/discover-sql-server-2008-through-a-variety-of-solution-and-technology-focused-white-papers.aspx";digg_title = "Discover SQL Server 2008 through a variety of solution and technology-focused white papers";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx" target="_blank">Great resource of SQL Server 2008 white papers</a> on a ton of topics including:</p> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx#otpdm" target="_blank">Online Transaction Processing/Data Management</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx#businessintel" target="_blank">Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx#appdev" target="_blank">Application Development/Data Programmability</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx#switching" target="_blank">Switching to SQL Server 2008</a></li> <p>&#160;</p> <p><a href="https://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/white-papers.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/DiscoverSQLServer2008throughavarietyofso_D500/image_5.png" width="643" height="441" /></a> </p> <p>Enjoy,</p> <p>-Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ac98269a-aa2d-48f1-bbd7-f84ed45d5151" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL+Server+2008" rel="tag">SQL Server 2008</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/White+Papers" rel="tag">White Papers</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9897229" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/19/sqlserverpedia-your-community-knowledge-base-for-sql-server.aspx2009-09-19T14:47:06Z2009-09-19T14:47:06Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/19/sqlserverpedia-your-community-knowledge-base-for-sql-server.aspx";digg_title = "SQLServerPedia – Your community knowledge base for SQL Server";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>An awesome site by Editors at SQLServerPedia.</p> <p><a href="http://sqlserverpedia.com/" target="_blank"><img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServerWiki_115CA/image_3.png" width="807" height="469" /></a> </p> <p>Good job guys!</p> <p>Enjoy the <a href="http://sqlserverpedia.com/" target="_blank">SQLServerPedia</a>,</p> <p>-Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; 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Consider SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to efficiently manage your business-critical applications. </p> <p>Do the math on SQL Server value and you’ll see the efficiencies add up. </p> <p>This tool allows you to input your Bandwidth needs, Sever purchases, etc and then let you do the math!</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/value-calc.aspx" target="_blank">Check it out today</a>!</p> <p>You can also download an offsite excel version from the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/value-calc.aspx" target="_blank">page</a> too…</p> <p>Enjoy,</p> <p>-Rohan</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/value-calc.aspx" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/SQLServer2008ValueCalculatorROICalculato_10C09/image_3.png" width="911" height="567" /></a> </p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:67fbed87-0381-4e9c-b873-dab6b3240a9d" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Calculator" rel="tag">Calculator</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL+Server" rel="tag">SQL Server</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/ROI+Calculator" rel="tag">ROI Calculator</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9897101" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/19/top-ten-tpc-h-by-price-performance.aspx2009-09-19T13:56:30Z2009-09-19T13:56:30Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/19/top-ten-tpc-h-by-price-performance.aspx";digg_title = "Top Ten TPC-H by Price/Performance";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Saw this study by Transactions Processing Performance Council (TPC)</p> <p>Some very interesting observations:</p> <p>In 100GB, <b>SQL Server</b> is in the top 10 best performing, least expensive results. </p> <p>In 300GB, <b>SQL Server</b> is in the top 10 best performing, least expensive results. </p> <p><a href="http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/TopTenTPCHbyPricePerformance_109AD/image_3.png" width="969" height="241" /></a> </p> <p>Check it out <a href="http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_price_perf_results.asp" target="_blank">here</a>!</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:74481942-aaa2-4879-a2bc-07fcba7e39f0" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/SQL+Server" rel="tag">SQL Server</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Oracle" rel="tag">Oracle</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/DB2" rel="tag">DB2</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TPC" rel="tag">TPC</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/TPC-H" rel="tag">TPC-H</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Price" rel="tag">Price</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Performance" rel="tag">Performance</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9897100" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/02/windows-cache-extension-for-php.aspx2009-09-02T03:27:55Z2009-09-02T03:27:55Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/09/02/windows-cache-extension-for-php.aspx";digg_title = "Windows Cache Extension for PHP";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Are you running/wanting to run your PHP app on IIS? Then check this out!</p> <p>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 Extension for PHP is enabled and loaded by the PHP engine, PHP applications can take advantage of the functionality without any code modifications.</p> <p>And what’s even better – you don’t have to configure it or start tweaking your code, it comes in Web P.I</p> <p>So head over to <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/web" target="_blank">www.microsoft.com/web</a> and download it today!</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appsxml=www.microsoft.com%2Fweb%2Fwebpi%2F2.0%2FWebProductList.xml%3Bwww.microsoft.com%2Fweb%2Fwebpi%2F2.0%2FWebProductList.xml&amp;appid=939%3B949" target="_blank"><img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/rohant/WindowsLiveWriter/WindowsCacheExtensionforPHP_7640/image_3.png" width="325" height="170" /></a> </p> <p>Enjoy :-)</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0bd45b98-e82d-4394-92dc-ed7c685ad632" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHP" rel="tag">PHP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/IIS" rel="tag">IIS</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Windows+Cache+Extension+for+PHP" rel="tag">Windows Cache Extension for PHP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Web+PI" rel="tag">Web PI</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9890152" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/08/28/moving-on-from-web-platform-and-ux-technical-advisor-to-application-platform-product-marketing-manager.aspx2009-08-28T06:17:23Z2009-08-28T06:17:23Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/08/28/moving-on-from-web-platform-and-ux-technical-advisor-to-application-platform-product-marketing-manager.aspx";digg_title = "Moving on from Web Platform and UX Technical Advisor to Application Platform Product Marketing Manager";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><p>Hello there!</p> <p>Allow me to start by saying that I’m very sorry for the lack of posts on my blog for the past couple of months, it’s been heck of ride for me – in a good way :-)</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>I would like to thank all the readers of my blog for the past 2 years! You guys have been awesome!</p> <p>I would also like to thank everyone(our customers, partners, communities, Educational Institutions, various Government Departments of Malaysia, colleagues from Microsoft Malaysia and Microsoft Worldwide) who I had a chance to work with – it has been a real pleasure for me. Thank you again so much for that wonderful opportunity :-)</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>While this may sound like i am going away, I’m not…</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Today marks my last day as the <strong><font color="#0000ff">“Senior Web Platform and UX Technology Advisor for Microsoft Malaysia”</font></strong>. From the following working day(1st Sep ‘09), I’m taking on the role of <strong><font color="#0000ff">“Application Platform Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft Malaysia”</font></strong>. As you can tell from the title, not only the platform has changed(Web to Application) but my core role also has moved towards Product Marketing as I planned for my career…</p> <p>I’m super excited about this role and am again looking forward to working with all you guys :-)</p> <p>And as I said before – I’m not going away, I’m still here so please feel free to call upon me anytime if I can help in anyway :-)</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>I will also be changing my blog from “<strong><font color="#800000">The Web Platform @ Rohan Thomas’ Blog</font></strong>” to “<strong><font color="#800000">The Application Platform @ Rohan Thomas’ Blog</font></strong>” – if you have objections to that of if you think I should start a new blog to do that, please do let me know :-)</p> <p><font color="#008080"><strong>I would still continue to post customer/partner success stories and business and marketing related stuff on my blog</strong> </font><strong>*in addition*</strong> to a mix of Application Platform, SQL Server, BizTalk server, etc. Although, quick warning here – over the next 2 weeks, I have a lot of internal reading up, analysis and prepping to do, so you might not see the action this the 3rd week of September!</p> <p>I am also in the process of getting a couple of personal blogs, SU, squidoo up and running too, I will post more info on that here too…</p> <p>&#160;</p> <p>Let me also take this moment and thank all who have helped me grow and enabled me to take on my new challenge - it’s gonna take a long blog post and a lot of time to list down all the names , but here are the few of those important people: Yasir Yousuff, Wai Mun Ng, Tyson Dowd, Nadiah Tan Abdullah. 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It’s Tweetup time!</p> <p>Come together and see what’s happening amongnts the tweeps in Malaysia!</p> <p>You can join the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=83229518672&amp;ref=ts" target="_blank">KL Tweetup facebook group</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=83229518672&amp;ref=ts" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=92445836783&amp;ref=ts" target="_blank">sign up for the KL Tweetup #4 event on facebook</a> or twtvite below:</p> <p><script src="http://twtvite.com/js/badge.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script src="http://twtvite.com/badge/?twt=tezd7t" type="text/javascript"></script></p> <p>See ya there :-)</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:0e4c5883-d080-497f-9c77-ceed67b3858c" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/KL+Tweetup" rel="tag">KL Tweetup</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Tweetup" rel="tag">Tweetup</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Malaysia" rel="tag">Malaysia</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Events" rel="tag">Events</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9775112" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/06/16/php-and-microsoft-php-tek.aspx2009-06-16T13:09:06Z2009-06-16T13:09:06Z<div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="float:right; margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 4px 8px;"><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = "http://blogs.msdn.com/rohant/archive/2009/06/16/php-and-microsoft-php-tek.aspx";digg_title = "PHP and Microsoft @ PHP|TEK";digg_bgcolor = "#FFFFFF";digg_skin = "normal";</script><script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">digg_url = undefined;digg_title = undefined;digg_bgcolor = undefined;digg_skin = undefined;</script></div><object width="600" height="425"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5097293&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5097293&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="600" height="425"></embed></object> <p><a href="http://vimeo.com/5097293">hank janssen at php|tek</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/briangorbett">brian gorbett</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <p>I love this talk which Hank Janssen, who heads up Microsoft's open source technology center(OSTC) delivered at PHP|TEK Chicago</p> <p>Thought I’d share with you guys…</p> <p>Enjoy :-)</p> <p>Yours,</p> <p>Rohan</p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ea1aac4d-4ea3-4bc9-85a0-212777471d96" class="wlWriterSmartContent">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHP" rel="tag">PHP</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/PHP%7cTEK" rel="tag">PHP|TEK</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Microsoft" rel="tag">Microsoft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Hank+Janssen" rel="tag">Hank Janssen</a></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9760170" width="1" height="1">rohanthttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/rohant.aspx