by Peter Galli on November 19, 2009
The Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) team announced today the release of Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP , a PHP accelerator that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on Windows and Windows Server. This is a production... more
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by Peter Galli on November 16, 2009
I have great news to announce. Today, at the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) here in Los Angeles, we announced not only the release of version 4.0 of the.NET Micro Framework, but also that we are open sourcing the product and making... more
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by Peter Galli on September 29, 2009
Microsoft continues to deliver on its ongoing promise to build bridges between different technologies, and this week jointly announced with Noelios Technologies a new interoperability bridge between Java and .NET through REST. The Microsoft Interoperability... more
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by Peter Galli on August 21, 2009
Today, the DPE Interop team at Microsoft released a new open source project that bridges PHP and .NET using REST. Specifically, the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services was made available, which makes it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of... more
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by Aaron Fulkerson on August 04, 2009
It has been a while since I last guest wrote at Port25, which is always a pleasure. Today, I am writing about the latest MindTouch software release, codename Minneopa, which introduces three new innovative capabilities
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by Mark Stone on April 10, 2009
Discussions of the PC market usually break down into "desktop" vs. "server", as if these are the only platform categories. However, the developer's dev box -- call it a "workstation" to distinguish it from desktop -- is really a separate platform. Remember... more
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by Mark Stone on March 30, 2009
We should never forget that a key motivator for open source developers is fun. For student developers -- where open source really starts -- this is especially true. We’ve been looking at several potential student projects in Croatia, and for the past... more
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by Mark Stone on March 25, 2009
On Monday Microsoft and SD Forum held the 3rd annual Open Source ISV Forum. In a day of interesting talks, I was particularly struck by Larry Augustin's talk. As an emphasizing example of the growth of open source projects partnered with a commercial... more
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by Vijay Rajagopalan on March 18, 2009
In October 2008 , when Microsoft announced the general availability of Silverlight 2.0, and, as part of Microsoft’s ongoing commitment to interoperability, Microsoft and Soyatec unveiled the Eclipse Tools for Silverlight (Eclipse4SL). Today, Microsoft... more
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by Mark Stone on March 16, 2009
I’m going to tell a story that starts in Indiana, but really it’s about Brazil. Once upon a time “scientific computing” was nearly synonymous with “Fortran”. Today, though, just about any high level language can be used to write High Performance Computing... more
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by Peter Galli on February 11, 2009
Moonlight 1.0 is now available. Moonlight is an open source project that gives Linux users access to Microsoft Silverlight content, and is available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu... more
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by Peter Galli on January 07, 2009
DotNetNuke Corporation, the creator of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework , has decided to leverage the CodePlex infrastructure for its core product distribution . DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for download infrastructure, bandwidth... more
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by Peter Galli on November 04, 2008
The extremely popular and well attended Web 2.0 Summit starts in San Francisco today, where Microsoft officially launched its global BizSpark program, designed to help startups grow into successful businesses through software support, a vibrant global... more
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by jcannon on November 27, 2007
For those who've been participating on Port 25 since the beginning, you may have noticed two recurring themes. One, Microsoft has a focus on generativity - or the ability for technology to be extensible to others, be they community or commercial developers. Windows, Office - the Live APIs - are all examples of this ability for technology to serve a purpose, and allow others to build new purposes simultaneously... more
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