by Community Contributor on February 27, 2008
First, many thanks to Microsoft’s Port 25 Team for the opportunity to post today! Today SpikeSource announced the availability of five additional PHP-based applications on the Windows Server 2008 platform. Gallery, Mantis, Moodle, PhpBB and WebCalendar... more
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by Sam Ramji on February 22, 2008
Four years ago, we started the Linux Lab at Microsoft. Two years ago, we established the Open Source Software Lab at Microsoft. One year ago, we initiated the Linux Interoperability Lab at Microsoft. Yesterday, we announced the broadest change to the... more
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by billhilf on February 21, 2008
I have always been a fan of Tim O’Reilly’s phrase the “ architecture of participation ” to describe “systems designed for user contribution.” I liked it so much that at last year’s OSCON I made this concept the focal point of a discussion about how Microsoft... more
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by Sam Ramji on December 19, 2007
First, let me say thanks to Jeremy Allison and Andrew Tridgell for their decades of hard work and their optimism.
Back in March, Jeremy invited me to talk about Samba and Microsoft, and how we could work together. It turned out
that our first opportunity to meet was actually at the annual Samba developers’ conference, SambaXP in Gottingen,
Germany in late April. I spent three days there listening... more
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by Bryan Kirschner on November 09, 2007
I blogged awhile back about “Microsoft and open source growing together”—more in the sense of concurrency rather than causality. Today I’m blogging about the latter. I’ve found the graphic below to be one of the most powerful visual representations of a basic fact that is often forgotten. The surface area of the globe below represents the total number of the people working in the technology ecosystem... more
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by jcannon on November 08, 2007
Our own Hank Janssen gives the Channel9 team an update on the work that has been done to provide a native driver to SQL Server for PHP. SQL Team Says: "The SQL Server Driver for PHP (October 2007) Community Technology Preview (CTP) is designed to enable reliable, scalable integration with SQL Server for PHP applications deployed on the Windows platform. The Driver for PHP is a PHP 5 extension that... more
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by hjanssen on October 19, 2007
Yes I am still alive! As I write this, I realize that I have been very delinquent with writing blogs. Time has gone by very fast, and I keep on working on more and more things. And before you know it, you look back and months have gone by without any blogs....But I wanted to write a few things that have happened here in the last few months. As you might be aware, Microsoft has been working very hard... more
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by jcannon on September 24, 2007
Just about one year ago, Bill Hilf announced Zend and Microsoft's partnership to enhance PHP performance on Windows Server's IIS web server. This technical collaboration has focused on enhancing the reliability and performance of PHP on Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008. As part of this collaboration, the IIS product group has been working on a new component for IIS6 and IIS7 called FastCGI... more
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by Sam Ramji on September 05, 2007
After a great deal of work between the Moonlight and .NET teams, we’re ready to formally announce that we (Microsoft and Novell) will be bringing Silverlight to Linux, fully supported and including application and media codec compatibility...... more
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by billhilf on April 26, 2007
When I started programming, it helped me a lot to think about the OSI model (Open Systems Interconnection Basic Reference Model). This type of model can help when coding or administering a system so you can effectively debug at the right ‘layer’. I’ve found that I use this same logic now in all sorts of other areas, as it helps me parse out the details of an issue...... more
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by Community Contributor on April 25, 2007
This morning, a guest blog from Gerardo Narvaja, Senior Sales Engineer from the MySQL User Conference......
In Bryan’s article he used the metaphor calling the coopetition between Microsoft and MySQL the “beautiful game”, or like the Brazilians like to call it: “jogo bonito”. I will try to exemplify it scripting what could be a real world scenario. I will be making a quick demo based on this article... more
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by anandeep on April 03, 2007
Michael Koziarski (a.k.a) Koz is one of the core group of about 12 people who holds the keys to the code repository for the Rails framework (also known as Ruby on Rails. They’re all listed on the Rails core page with name and mug-shot. (I checked, a guy who looks like the Michael I interviewed has his mug shot on the page!)... more
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by MichaelF on March 20, 2007
Awhile ago we talked to Martin Woodward from Teamprise about their suite of client applications allowing cross-platform access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Today Teamprise announced free client licenses for developers who want to use them to access Codeplex. In this post we provide information on the announcement as well as a new interview with Martin...... more
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by Sam Ramji on February 14, 2007
Based on the email I received I would say that many Port 25 readers noticed my post last week on job openings in my new lab. Thank you for your positive responses (and especially the resume submissions)! Brad Cutler, my counterpart at Novell, has been overwhelmed with responses as well, so thank you on his behalf. I’ve called this a sneak peek because there is much work ahead of us, but it’s time... more
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by MichaelF on January 15, 2007
Back in August we posted a podcast with Praerit Garg regarding the announcement of the Service Modeling Language draft specification put together by Microsoft and a number of other leading technology companies. We wanted to follow-up and provide an update on the specification and the workgroup…... more
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