by Peter Galli on October 26, 2009
Great news on the data portability front: today, Microsoft announced that it will be releasing documentation for the .pst file format - the format in which data is stored in Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders. Even better is the fact that the documentation... more
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by Peter Galli on July 06, 2009
I have some good news to announce: Microsoft will be applying the Community Promise to the ECMA 334 and ECMA 335 specs.... more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Peter Galli on March 10, 2009
I was fortunate enough to spend last Thursday with a group of LAMP engineers who have some experience with Windows Server and IIS, and who are based in Japan. The three - Kimio Tanaka, the president of Museum IN Cloud; Junpei Hosoda, the president of... more
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by Peter Galli on February 10, 2009
There's a new Open Network in town, known as Snakebite, which is the brainchild of Trent Nelson , a committer to Python. Snakebite is a network of some 37 servers of different shapes and sizes, spread over three sites and specifically geared towards the... more
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by MichaelF on April 30, 2007
As promised in the first post today, here is the second interview regarding today's announcements regarding Microsoft's Dynamic Language Runtime and Silverlight...... more
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by MichaelF on August 10, 2006
The second person we interviewed during the LANG.NET symposium is John Lam. John is the creator of RubyCLR and most recently he created an Avalon Ruby Editor...... more
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