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PHP Developer survey shows dominance of mobile, social media and cloud

By tim, on January 12th, 2012 Follow tim on Twitter

Zend, a company which specialises in PHP frameworks and tools, has released the results of a developer survey from November 2011.

The survey attracted 3,335 respondents drawn, it says, from “enterprise, SMB and independent developers worldwide.” I have a quibble with this, since I believe the survey should state that these were PHP developers.

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Which Microsoft cloud? Windows Server 8 shows Azure is not everything

By tim, on September 14th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I was fortunate to attend a two-day drilldown into what is coming in Windows Server 8 last week, just before the BUILD conference under way in Anaheim, California. It is an impressive release, with two things standing out for me.

One is that Microsoft has successfully re-engineered Windows Server so that it is both

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Microsoft releases Visual Studio LightSwitch: a fascinating product with an uncertain future

By tim, on July 26th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has released Visual Studio LightSwitch, a rapid application builder for data-centric applications.

LightSwitch builds Silverlight applications, which may seem strange bearing in mind that the future of Silverlight has been hotly debated since its lack of emphasis at the 2010 Professional Developers Conference. The explanation is either that Silverlight – or some close

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Hands on debugging an Azure application – what to do when it works locally but not in the cloud

By tim, on July 8th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have been writing a Facebook application hosted on Microsoft Azure. I hit a problem where my application worked fine on the local development fabric, but failed when deployed to Azure. The application was not actually crashing; it just did not work as expected. Specifically, either the Facebook authentication or the ASP.NET Forms Authentication was

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Microsoft Office 365: the detail and the developer story

By tim, on June 29th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I attended the UK launch of Office 365 yesterday and found it a puzzling affair. The company chose to focus on small businesses, and what we got was several examples of customers who had discovered the advantages of storing documents online. We were even shown a live video conference with a jerky, embarrassing webcam stream

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Microsoft partners with Joyent to bring node.js server-side JavaScript to Windows

By tim, on June 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft will port node.js to Windows in partnership with Joyent. This will work on Windows Azure as well as other versions of Windows back to Server 2003.

But can you not already run node.js on Windows? This is possible using Cygwin and instructions are here. Cygwin makes Windows more like Linux by providing familiar Linux

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Would you consider running PHP on Azure? Microsoft faces uphill battle to convince customers.

By tim, on May 27th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Yesterday Microsoft announced Windows Azure SDK for PHP version 3.0, an update to its open source SDK for PHP on Windows Azure. The SDK wraps Azure storage, diagnostics and management services with a PHP API.

Microsoft has been working for years on making IIS a good platform for PHP. FastCGI for IIS was introduced partly,

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Three questions about Microsoft’s cloud play at TechEd 2011

By tim, on May 17th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

This year’s Microsoft TechEd is subtitled Cloud Power: Delivered, and sky blue is the theme colour. Microsoft seems to be serious about its cloud play, based on Windows Azure.

Then again, Microsoft is busy redefining its on-premise solutions in terms of cloud as well. A bunch of Windows Servers on virtual machines managed by

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Microsoft’s Azure toolkit for Apple iOS and Android is a start, but nothing like enough

By tim, on May 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft ‘s Jamin Spitzer has announced toolkits for Apple iOS, Google Android and Windows Phone, to support its Azure cloud computing platform.

I downloaded the toolkit for iOS and took a look. It is a start, but it is really only a toolkit for Azure storage, excluding SQL Azure.

What would I hope

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Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie moving to Windows Azure

By tim, on May 3rd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

According to an internal memo leaked to ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie who is currently Corporate VP of the .NET Developer Platform is moving to lead the Azure Application Platform team. This means he will report to Ted Kummert who is in charge of the Business Platform Division, instead of S Somasegar who

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