Reporting live from the basement of a hotel in Seattle, Washington, here is my report for today on Microsoft’s SQL Server jump In! Camp. […]

What do you get when you mix developers from more than 10 different PHP based projects with the Microsoft team that writes/maintains MS SQL Server? I don’t know either, but if you stay tuned this week and I’ll try to describe it to you. […]

Microsoft is at it again. Every time I turn around the are finding new ways to engage the PHP community. Now they’ve gone and started another programming contest – this one involving their Cloud platform Azure. Click on in, I’ll give you what details I’ve got so you can get to coding. […]

Julian Egelstaff recently posted “Things I learned at Jump In Camp” about Microsoft’s Jump In Camp last month in Seattle. Click on in, let’s look talk about it. […]

Ruslan Yakushev has written a new blog post recently titled. “PHP Manager 1.1 available in Web PI” If you use PHP on Windows, you really want to read this. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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). […]

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! […]

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! […]