Simple Cloud API announced
Eli White (Editor-in-Chief) |
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A number of industry leaders have comes together and made an announcement. A new Simple Cloud API is being developed for PHP, that will create an easy way to interface with any number of cloud services. The current contributors to this project include Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid.
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Preview of Windows Azure Support in Zend Framework Released
Eli White (Editor-in-Chief) |
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Today a technology preview of upcoming interoperability between Windows Azure and Zend Framework has been announced, in the form of a PHP SDK for Windows Azure.
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Creating PowerPoint 2007 files using PHP
maartenba |
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Maarten Balliauw has blogged about the fact that a new project has just been released on CodePlex: PHPPowerPoint. Just like with PHPExcel, PHPPowerPoint can be used to generate PPTX files from a PHP application. This can be done by creating an in-memory presentation that consists of slides and different shapes, which can then be written to disk using a writer (of which there’s currently only one for PowerPoint 2007).
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phpGG Frontend Special: client-side event on January 24th, in The Netherlands
remiwoler |
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The new year has just started, and to start off well the dutch PHP usergroup (phpGG) is organizing a frontend-oriented event. This event is intended for developers who get in touch with client-side technology. Not just PHP developers, also frontend developers, and everyone who has to deal with frontend stuff in some way. Whether you deal with frontends on a daily basis, or are curious to the possibilities of making a new application more attractive in a graphical sense, you can't miss out on this day. Besides all this, it's also an excellent opportunity to get a (free!) membership of phpGG!
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Reading Access Databases with PHP and PECL
vvaswani |
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
You’ve already seen, in previous articles, just how easy it is to read and write Microsoft Excel spreadsheets with PHP and PEAR. But spreadsheets are just one way of representing structured data – the other, of course, is to use a database. Well, guess what? If your database happens to be Microsoft Access, PHP has you covered there as well! In this article, I’ll introduce you to PHP’s MDBTools extension, which provides an API to programmatically read data from Microsoft Access database files. If your project involves working with such files, extracting database records either for calculations or for conversion to other formats, you’ll find this extension invaluable. Come on in, and see how it works!
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LINQ for PHP (Language Integrated Query for PHP)
maartenba |
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Monday, March 17, 2008
On his blog, Maarten Balliauw posted that he has started a new class library mimicing C#'s LINQ technology.
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Microsoft to extend Windows eco-system!
andi |
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Friday, February 22, 2008
Microsoft announced a significant initiative which aims to provide the developer community with access to a large number of Microsoft protocols and file formats. Many of the specifications will be made available under the Microsoft Open Specification Promise (OSP) which enables both open-source and commercial companies to build implementations of the said specifications.
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Tomas Petricek on Writing Silverlight applications in PHP
Cal Evans (editor) |
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Tomas Petricek has an interesting post on his blog titled “Writing Silverlight applications in PHP”. In it he talks about using PHP inside of Silverlight applications.
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FastCGI and PHP: A User's Story
Cal Evans (editor) |
10 comments |
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Microsoft is releasing FastCGI for IIS6, meaning the shiny little “beta” tag is finally going the way of the dodo. What is FastCGI? I could go on for pages about the technical background, and Microsoft already has some great documentation on the subject, however I’ll put it in layman’s terms for those who aren’t Computer Science majors.
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FastCGI for IIS6 Officially Released and Supported
Cal Evans (editor) |
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Monday, November 12, 2007
The IIS Team is eager to announce the official release of Microsoft FastCGI Extension for IIS 6.0 as a free download. For the first time, we are providing hosters and PHP developers full support for a stack of technology that enables reliable, scalable PHP hosting on production Internet Information Services 6.0 (IIS 6) Web servers.
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