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.

This morning we announced a new ‘Zend on Windows Server’ Rebate Program. A
limited-time offer established by Microsoft and Zend for customers running
PHP Web applications using Zend Server on Windows Server. Rebate Terms and
Conditions:

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If you’ve been using the Zend Framework on a Windows platform (running IIS as the web server) and have been getting some 500 errors and have been left lacking the detail you need on the problem, you should read this new post from Rob Allen about an IIS setting that can help you out.

Recently a contribution was made to combine Ingres with PHP to help users get started developing PHP applications. The project is called EasyIngres and was created by Cedric Pasquotti, a PHP developer based in France .

Both Don Raman and Ruslan Yakushev have posted about the latest release of the WinCache caching tool from Microsoft for Windows-based PHP installations.

Don comments:

In partnership with Microsoft Philippines, PHP User Group Philippines presents PHP Developers Summit 2010 on January 30th. We are inviting you to come and join us in this gathering of the country’s best tech-talents, professionals and web developers promoting the use of PHP and open source solutions in the enterprise and schools.

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.

Vikram Vaswani has written an article for IIS.net, describing how one can configure and setup a production web server on Windows using IIS and Zend Server. The tutorial takes you from installing Zend Server, writing a basic application, and setting up both SQL Server as well as MySQL. It then wraps up by showing how Zend Server Cache can be used to increase the performance of the application without changing any code.

Zend is joining up with Ibuildings, Microsoft, and LeaseWeb to support the European WinPHP Challenge, and is offering up free 1 year subscriptions to Zend Server, as well as licenses to Zend Studio as prizes.

p. I received several emails from friends at Microsoft yesterday letting me know that they have released the second technical preview of FastCGI. Come on in and I’ll share what I know.