This Week's Link List (May 21, 2010)

<Sound of big breath> OK, I’m coming up for air. Very busy week…I’ve been heads down working on a number of things. BUT, I’ve still managed to come across some excellent resources related to PHP and/or Microsoft…

• I discovered Kanwaljeet Singla's blog this week. He's published some great stuff, like these instructions for setting up a PHP build environment on Windows: https://www.ksingla.net/2010/05/setting-up-php-build-environment-on-windows/

• This is also from Kanwaljeet's blog…about adding a PECL extension to your PHP build environment: https://www.ksingla.net/2010/05/adding-a-pecl-extension-to-your-php-build-environment/

• As usual, Maarten Balliiauw publishes some interesting ideas on his blog about extension methods for PHP: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/05/18/Extension-methods-for-PHP.aspx

• The Interoperability team at Microsoft has announced the release of new command line tools for packaging PHP applications for deployment on Windows Azure: https://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/archive/2010/05/20/new-version-of-the-command-line-tools-for-php-to-deploy-applications-on-windows-azure.aspx

• Speaking of Azure, here's a WordPress plugin that allows you to use Windows Azure Storage Service to host your media for your WordPress powered blog: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/windows-azure-storage/

• IIS re-write mapping cluttering your web.config file? Store them in a separate file: https://blogs.iis.net/ruslany/archive/2010/05/19/storing-url-rewrite-mappings-in-a-separate-file.aspx

• Part 3 in a series of videos by Rob Bagby about taking advantage of Azure Table Storage from PHP: https://bhbodeezy.com/php/working-with-azure-table-storage-from-php-part-ii/

• A helpful Stackoverflow thread about the difference between PHP time and SQL time: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2841937/whats-the-difference-between-php-time-and-sql-time

As usual, I hope some of those are interesting/useful.

Thanks.

-Brian