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    Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP Released
    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

    • Thursday, November 19, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Zend Launches Open Source Initiative to Drive Cloud Application Development
    by Peter Galli on September 22, 2009

    Today, Zend Technologies announced the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project, which is a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features... more

    • Tuesday, September 22, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    More on the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components
    by hjanssen on July 20, 2009

    Well, there is no easy way to say this, so I am simply going to start this blog with the following line: Microsoft just submitted source code for the Hyper-V Linux Integration Components to the Linux Kernel Community Under GPL v2 ... more

    • Monday, July 20, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    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
    • in: Community
    • 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
    • in: Community
    • Garrett Serack
    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
    Integrate Your IT Environment
    by Peter Galli on April 02, 2009

    Microsoft is embarking on a 15-city road show to help customers learn more about available solutions that may address their unique interoperability needs. This is just another of the many ways Microsoft continues to respond to customers working in heterogeneous... more

    • Thursday, April 02, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    The Hidden Technology Decision-Maker
    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

    • Wednesday, March 25, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Mark Stone
    Japanese LAMP Engineers Visit Redmond
    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

    • Tuesday, March 10, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    Update: PHP 5.3 on Windows
    by hanrahat on January 16, 2009

    Congratulations to the PHP community on its PHP 5.3 alpha 2 release in December. In roughly one month, there have been over 80,000 downloads of the alpha 2 release from unique IP addresses. You can see that interest in PHP on Windows is growing significantly... more

    • Friday, January 16, 2009
    • in: Community
    • hanrahat
    What's Microsoft up to with PHP?
    by Peter Galli on January 06, 2009

    Over the past year, Microsoft has stepped up its participation in initiatives supporting Free and Open Source Software projects like Apache, Samba , and PHP . The company has also been working more closely with the PHP community, sponsoring PHP events... more

    • Tuesday, January 06, 2009
    • in: Community
    • Peter Galli
    On the Road in Europe - Take 2
    by hjanssen on October 29, 2008

    Wednesday - Day two for my IPC in Mainz conference, which is a developer orientated PHP conference . Very well attended. The most negative thing I can say about this conference is that for some unknown (but brilliant beyond my level of comprehension)... more

    • Wednesday, October 29, 2008
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    On the Road in Europe - Take 1
    by hjanssen on October 28, 2008

    Today is Tuesday - That must mean I am in Mainz. I am on day 12 of my European trip. I was in Rome and Amsterdam last week. In Rome I attended the Moodle conference , which was pretty cool. It was put on by Roma Tre and was one of many destinations in... more

    • Tuesday, October 28, 2008
    • in: Community
    • hjanssen
    Opening Day: Azure Platform Debuts
    by Sam Ramji on October 27, 2008

    Today at PDC in Los Angeles, Ray Ozzie unveiled the Azure Services Platform , which will enable developers to build the next generation of applications - spanning all the way from the cloud to the enterprise data center. My team's focus has been on making... more

    • Monday, October 27, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
    Why I’m excited about Yahoo!
    by Sam Ramji on February 25, 2008

    There are no guarantees that a future of Microsoft + Yahoo! will arrive, but the possibilities have me feeling positive. These are just my personal opinions – and who knows what will happen – but a few things described below give me optimism for an increasingly... more

    • Monday, February 25, 2008
    • in: Community
    • Sam Ramji
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