This Week’s Link List (April 16, 2010)
A longer list than usual this week. There was lots of news/buzz this week around Windows Azure and PHP. The first three links below are follow-ups by attendees of the recent JumpIn Camp in Zurich (which focused on PHP and Azure). The other links provide better-than-usual content too…
- This is an interesting overview of the recent JumpIn Camp held in Zurich: https://blog.echolibre.com/2010/04/switzerland-microsoft-and-the-jumpincamp/
- Josh Holmes continues to pump out interesting and helpful content. In this post he re-caps his trip to JumpIn Camp and walks though how to get set up for PHP on Azure development: https://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/04/13/easy-setup-for-php-on-azure-development
- Maarten Balliauw also attended JumpIn Camp. On his blog, he provides his take on using Windows Azure driver in PHP (or Ruby): https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/04/09/Using-Windows-Azure-Drive-in-PHP-(or-Ruby).aspx
- This MSDev course (PHP on Windows Azure Quickstart Guide) has a 5 star rating so far: https://www.msdev.com/Directory/Description.aspx?EventId=1811
- I just discovered Enrico Zimuel’s blog (he’s a Senior Consultant at Zend). If this post about PHP session sharing and SQL Server is indicative of the quality of his blog content, I can’t wait to see more from him: https://www.zimuel.it/blog/?p=402
- In last week’s Link List, I mentioned the release of the SQL Server Reporting Services SDK for PHP. This Redmond Developer blog entry provides an overview of that SDK in the broader context of Microsoft’s overall efforts to provide PHP interoperability: https://reddevnews.com/articles/2010/04/09/microsoft-courts-php-developers-with-reporting-services-sdk.aspx
- On his blog, Ruslan Yakushev (from the IIS team at Microsoft) posted a Q & A that was a follow up to a recent webcast. I found his candid responses interesting: https://ruslany.net/2010/04/slides-and-questions-from-php-on-windows-webcast/
- Alex Pearce has released another excellent paper about installing Moodle on Windows Server 2008 R2 x64, SQL Server, and IIS: https://learninggateway.net/blogs/ajp/archive/2010/04/12/installing-moodle-on-windows-server-2008-r2-x64-sql-iis.aspx
- Handy (and very well done) SQL Server cheat sheets: https://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/sql-server-cheat-sheet/
- If you are using the mssql driver for inserting/retrieving images with SQL Server, this Stackoverflow thread might be useful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2630711/help-reading-binary-image-data-from-sql-server-into-php
That’s it for this week.
Thanks.
-Brian