October 2006 - Posts

    Andi Gutmans on working with Microsoft & Improving PHP Performance on Windows
    by MichaelF on October 31, 2006

    Today at Zendcon Bill Hilf and Andi Gutmans announced a new technical collaboration aimed at improving the performance of PHP on Windows both for IIS 6 as well as in the future including IIS 7 on Longhorn. In this interview Sam and Andi discuss how Zend came to be as well as the details of the announcement. Andi provides his perspective on what this collaboration will mean to the PHP community and... more

    • Tuesday, October 31, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Zend & Microsoft Technical Partnership: Enhancing PHP on Windows
    by billhilf on October 31, 2006

    Today I had the opportunity to attend and present at the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo in San Jose. I was here to announce a technical collaboration between Zend and Microsoft that will improve the performance of PHP on Windows Server (and down the road Longhorn Server). You can read the specific details of the collaboration here.... more

    • Tuesday, October 31, 2006
    • in: Community
    • billhilf
    Unsexy Development
    by anandeep on October 27, 2006

    I loved doing development in a research and university environment. You got to write cool code, prove new ideas, break new ground and generally ended up with bragging rights to say “I did an image recognition algorithm on a multi-layer architecture implementing reactive and planning parallelism on an autonomous robot!” When I moved to industry and wrote software for day to day use – things changed... more

    • Friday, October 27, 2006
    • in: Community
    • anandeep
    Network Security Interoperability: Sam talks NAP/NAC with Mark Ashida
    by MichaelF on October 26, 2006

    On September 6, 2006 Microsoft and Cisco announced the details of a technical partnership announced in October of 2004 focused on providing interoperability between the companies' disparate network security technologies: NAC and NAP. In this interview Sam digs into the details with Mark Ashida, General Manager of the Enterprise Networking Group...... more

    • Thursday, October 26, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    There's a Vendor in my OSS
    by MichaelF on October 23, 2006

    Taking a brief detour from the thread about OSS and its similarities (or not) to law to take note of a couple recent publications, both of which discuss the interaction between traditional IT vendors and OSS...... more

    • Monday, October 23, 2006
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Overloading 'Clusters'
    by Frank Chism on October 20, 2006

    I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Looking Glass Land. This usually occurs when I’m talking to someone new to cluster computing or someone who comes from a different tread of the industry than I do. My roots are in a thread that used number crunching to mean serious floating point arithmetic done... more

    • Friday, October 20, 2006
    • in: Community
    • Frank Chism
    Centrify's Paul Moore Fields Questions from the Community
    by jcannon on October 19, 2006

    Paul Moore sits down with Sam in this podcast, our second go around with Centrify. For those who don't know, Centrify builds software that provides access control and centralized identity management in mixed networks (yes, this can include Windows, Linux, UNIX, Mac, J2EE and web platforms with Active Directory). This interview is a bit different as Sam runs through questions submitted to Port 25 from... more

    • Thursday, October 19, 2006
    • in: Media
    • jcannon
    Introducing Frank Chism: High Performance Computing Blogger on Port 25
    by MichaelF on October 18, 2006

    Today we are pleased to introduce Frank Chism. Frank is a Technology Specialist at Microsoft who has worked in the High Performance Computing space for 41 years. He is joining our team of bloggers and will contribute a monthly blog regarding HPC...... more

    • Wednesday, October 18, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Xensource, Microsoft and Virtualization: Sam Interviews Simon Crosby, Xensource CTO
    by MichaelF on October 17, 2006

    Today Microsoft announced the addition of it's Virtual Hard Disk Format (VHD) to the list of specifications covered by the Open Specification Promise (OSP). In light of the announcement we thought it would be a good time to catch up a bit with Xensource to discuss virtualization... ... more

    • Tuesday, October 17, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Windows and Linux Integration: Printer Sharing between Windows and Linux
    by MichaelF on October 16, 2006

    Last Thursday we posted an interview with Jeremy Moskowitz in which we mentioned the book he authored: Windows and Linux Integration. As promised, today we have posted a complete chapter from the book... more

    Using Vista's Boot Manager to Boot Linux and Dual Booting with BitLocker Protection with TPM Support
    by MichaelF on October 13, 2006

    Today we are introducing Cyril Voisin, Security Advisor for Microsoft in France who shares his insights on booting Linux with Vista's boot manager and building a dual boot system with Windows Vista BitLocker protection with TPM Support...... more

    Windows and Linux Integration: A Conversation with the Author
    by MichaelF on October 12, 2006

    Sam Interviews Jeremy Moskowitz who runs http://www.winlinanswers.com and http://www.gpanswers.com to discuss his experiences helping clients solve their Windows and Linux integration problems...... more

    • Thursday, October 12, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
    Centeris was Here
    by MichaelF on October 12, 2006

    Capturing the sentiment from my colleagues, Anandeep, Hank and Sam – I LOVE THIS JOB !!! Last week I had a chance to meet w/ Mozilla, watch Sam interview Steve Wozniak and the wonder of it never ceases to amaze me...... more

    • Thursday, October 12, 2006
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Developer Resources for Open Source Software on Vista
    by MichaelF on October 10, 2006

    Recently we posted about http://www.devreadiness.com, an online resource for Vista Application Compatibility questions/guidance.  After posting we received some feedback that with some changes they could become much more useful for Open Source Developers.  Based on this feedback we are going to create a set of resources specifically tailored for the open source developer/ISV.  This is where we would... more

    • Tuesday, October 10, 2006
    • in: Community
    • MichaelF
    Catching up with Woz: Sam interviews Steve Wozniak
    by MichaelF on October 06, 2006

    A Friday special: Sam interviews Steve Wozniak...... more

    • Friday, October 06, 2006
    • in: Media
    • MichaelF
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