Interoperability @ Microsoft team blog

Interoperability at PDC09: let's recap

I just flew back from the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC09) in Los Angeles. What a week, with a lot of announcements, surprises and achievements on multiple fronts. From the interoperability perspective, a lot happened too.

This PDC09 further demonstrates how Microsoft is making interoperability a priority and reality by demonstrating how − as an open platform − Windows Azure offers choices to developers. [More ...]

Apache Stonehenge demoed at PDC09

A couple weeks ago, Microsoft was at ApacheCon. [More ...]

PHP developers get more choices with Windows Azure, Bing, and SQL Azure

Today I presented a session at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York called Cloud Computing with Windows Azure Using Your Preferred Technology.
During my talk, I stepped the audience through a series of demonstrations in which non-Microsoft tools and programming technologies, such as PHP or Java, were used natively to create cloud computing solutions with the Windows Azure platform. [More ...]

Bing search helps PHP developers remedy 404 error pages

As many of you know, most large web sites that feature lots of content often experience traffic that is looking for pages that either don’t exist or have been moved. But did you know that the percent of traffic that causes web servers to return a generic 404 error page or sitemap is as much as 2 to 10 percent? That’s an awful lot of viewers experiencing a dead end as a result of nonexistent or relocated pages. [More ...]

Building PHP simple database applications for SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure

The SQL CRUD Wizard for PHP is a wizard type application that can be used to generate a simple "Create, Read, Update, Delete" PHP application from a Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure database table. The generated PHP application supports paging, sorting and simple CSS customization. [More ...]