This Week’s Link List (April 23, 2010)
I’m back from an exciting trip to DrupalCon in SF and I’m still reflecting on that experience. Look for a DrupalCon summary from me early next week. In the meantime, I’ll share some of my interesting links for the week. Of course, several of these are related to Microsoft announcements at DrupalCon…
- Ashay Chaudhary blogs about the release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0: https://blogs.msdn.com/sqlphp/archive/2010/04/19/sql-server-driver-for-php-2-0-ctp-adds-php-s-pdo-style-data-access-for-sql-server.aspx
- I thought David Peterson's comments about Microsoft's announcement at DrupalCon were interesting: https://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2010/04/21/microsoft-launches-sql-server-driver-for-php/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=PHP
- InfoWorld's take on Drupal 7: https://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/drupal-upgrade-be-slower-more-scalable-239
- Did you know that www.whitehouse.gov is powered by Drupal? I didn't. Check it out: https://www.whitehouse.gov/tech
- SQL Server 2008 R2 is released! https://blogs.technet.com/dataplatforminsider/archive/2010/04/21/sql-server-2008-r2-released-to-manufacturing.aspx
- Jas Sandhu talks about his trip to SugarCon 2010 and how Microsoft's investments in the cloud computing relate: https://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2010/04/16/microsoft-interoperability-at-sugarcon-2010.aspx
- Josh Holmes writes another great help topic - Creating a Simple PHP Blog in Azure: https://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2010/04/15/creating-a-simple-php-blog-in-azure/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoshHolmes+%28Josh+Holmes%29
- This is a helpful tutorial for building your first Facebook app with PHP: https://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/sachin_khosla041910.php3
- A new course on msdev.com - PHP and Windows Azure Platform: What does it mean? https://www.msdev.com/Directory/Description.aspx?EventId=1825
- You will have to sign into to your LinkedIn account to view this, but I found this to be an interesting discussion procedural vs. OO programming in PHP: https://www.linkedin.com/groupAnswers?viewQuestionAndAnswers=&discussionID=16092923&gid=40870&trk=EML_anet_qa_ttle-0Tt79xs2RVr6JBpnsJt7dBpSBA
That’s it for this week.
Thanks.
-Brian