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    OSCON 2009
    by Peter Galli on June 29, 2009

    As Microsoft continues to support and participate in open source communities, the company is again a proud sponsor of the annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention ( OSCON ), which is being held in San Jose from July 20 to July 24. In addition to having... more

    • Monday, June 29, 2009
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    • Peter Galli
    Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part IV
    by Garrett Serack on June 23, 2009

    In the previous post, I discussed what it took to use PGO on the Windows PHP build. That led to me building automated build scripts... more

    • Tuesday, June 23, 2009
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    • Garrett Serack
    Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part III
    by Garrett Serack on June 17, 2009

    Previously, I talked about using PGO in the PHP build process. In order to use it I had to observe the Heisenberg build process... more

    • Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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    • Garrett Serack
    Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part II
    by Garrett Serack on June 11, 2009

    I talked about getting started in building the PHP stack in my last post, now I'm taking it one step further.... more

    • Thursday, June 11, 2009
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    • Garrett Serack
    Crafting a Better PHP Build Process on Windows – Part I
    by Garrett Serack on June 09, 2009

    The last several months, I've been working very deeply with PHP - specifically, compiling the PHP core itself, and looking for avenues for optimization. This is the first of four posts about the journey I've been on with PHP. ... more

    • Tuesday, June 09, 2009
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    • Garrett Serack
    Microsoft, NASA and Open Source
    by Peter Galli on June 02, 2009

    There has been some renewed media interest in the NASA Space Act Agreement with Microsoft, which was signed earlier this year. Microsoft signed that agreement so as to provide an umbrella framework of contractual terms that allows for a variety of cooperative... more

    • Tuesday, June 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Real Mission Critical
    by Mark Stone on June 01, 2009

    The 1.0 release of WinBioinfTools might seem like a modest event; as of this writing, the project has 44 downloads. High Performance Computing (HPC) is a small community, granted, and the number of HPC applications for bioinformatics is a small subset... more

    • Monday, June 01, 2009
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    • Mark Stone
    Migrating PHP Apps to Windows
    by Peter Galli on May 29, 2009

    Microsoft Malaysia is helping sponsor a competition, known as LAMP2WIN, designed to help ensure that PHP applications run well on both Windows and open source platforms. The competition, themed ‘World of Interoperability,' is being organized by PHP.net... more

    • Friday, May 29, 2009
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    • Peter Galli
    PHP|Tek in Chicago
    by hjanssen on May 27, 2009

    Last week I got the perfect excuse to get out of the Planning and Budget process that we are going through right now, attending PHP|Tek, which was a welcome escape as planning and budgeting in any company is usually enough fun to make a grown man cry... more

    • Wednesday, May 27, 2009
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    • hjanssen
    More Open Source Goodness
    by Peter Galli on May 20, 2009

    Tony Hey , the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research's External Research group, used the Open Repositories Conference to announce today the public availability of Zentity and the second version of the Article Authoring Add-in for Word 2007 ,... more

    • Wednesday, May 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Microsoft Teams up With Black Duck Software
    by Peter Galli on May 18, 2009

    Microsoft and Black Duck Software this morning announced an agreement under which projects from CodePlex will be fed automatically into Black Duck's open source KnowledgeBase repository, and which will also will be searchable through Koders.com, a search... more

    • Monday, May 18, 2009
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    • Peter Galli
    Announcing the PHP SDK for Windows Azure
    by Peter Galli on May 12, 2009

    Vijay Rajagopalan, a Principal Architect here at Microsoft, is at TechEd India, where he will demo later this week a new set of interoperability projects related to PHP. These projects include the PHP SDK for Windows Azure , an open source effort for... more

    • Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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    • Peter Galli
    Apache Stonehenge: Interoperability at Work
    by Peter Galli on May 12, 2009

    The Stonehenge incubator project is approaching its first milestone: deploying the first set of samples and making them work together. This is a really exciting development and continues to deliver on the project's primary goal: to provide practical applications... more

    • Tuesday, May 12, 2009
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    • Peter Galli
    PHP 5.3 RC2 Highly Optimized for Windows
    by Garrett Serack on May 11, 2009

    Howdy, I've been working for many months with Pierre Joye - well, really many people in the PHP community - on getting PHP to run faster on Windows. Pierre has been working rapidly on upgrading libraries (Pierre pioneered the work to get PHP and its hoard... more

    • Monday, May 11, 2009
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    • Garrett Serack
    Helping Facilitate Open Government
    by Peter Galli on May 06, 2009

    Microsoft will announce on May 7 an initiative to help government agencies and developers publish and interact with their data in Windows Azure, the company's cloud computing platform. One of these is the Open Government Data Initiative (OGDI), a cloud... more

    • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
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