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Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week
Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform.  This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out.  Here is a quick overview:   IIS Search Engine Optimization v1 final release...
Do you think building Web sites should be easier, faster and fun?
If you answered “Yes” then it might be interesting to you that there is an opportunity on our team for a person who has passion for making web development easier and exciting for everyone… This job posting is the unofficial job posting  describing...
Microsoft Launches New Open Source CodePlex Foundation
Microsoft’s strategy with open source has evolved over the past several years as we strive to make Windows the platform of choice for customers.  My team has participated in that process first hand, we’ve worked hard with the PHP community to ensure...
Tip #94: Did you know … How to improve the performance of PHP application on Windows?
Today the Microsoft IIS team has released the beta of the Windows Cache Extension 1.0 for PHP . The Windows Cache Extension for PHP is a PHP accelerator , that is used to increase the speed of PHP applications running on the Windows operating systems...
Comments on my recent benchmarks.
Overall I’ve been pretty impressed with the reactions to my first round of PHP/Linux/Windows/ASP.NET performance tests. I’d like to comment of the comments   First, while I appreciate the enthusiasm of my .NET friends, the point of my exercise...
PHP versus ASP.NET – Windows versus Linux – Who’s the fastest ?
NOTE: This is “Misfit Data” - While I do work for Microsoft, this data is NOT “official Microsoft” data and is not endorsed or ratified by Microsoft in any way. I built and ran these tests because I was personally curious about comparative performance...
Microsoft Contributing to PHP Open Source Projects – Weird ?
Though I do allot of PHP development work, I still think ASP.NET is the best option for new web development. Still, it “feels” a bit weird that Microsoft is contributing to these PHP efforts. Did you know that Microsoft is contributing to the PHP Engine...
I have a Silverlight for PHP Developers article in this months PHP Architect Magazine.
This month the PDF version is FREE ! http://phparch.com/c/magazine/issue/97 There are SEVERAL articles for Developers working on the Microsoft Platform ! Installing PHP on Windows by Hank Janssen and Pierre A. Joye The Windows version of PHP has always...
The SQL Server Driver for PHP is now available via the Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta!
I like to connect things, I always have. Early in my career as a developer things got build and no one ever considered application integration until after the fact. When I started at Microsoft in 2001 nobody was integrating ASP.NET and PHP applications...
.NET 4.1 Preview - New Base Class Library (BCL) Extension Methods - RFC
As web programmers, we use a lot of strings to move data around the web. Often we’ll use a string to represent a date or an integer or a boolean. Basically "1" in instead of 1, or "April 1, 2009" rather than a proper ISO-8601 formatted...
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