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There’s a new database option available for PHP, It’s called SQL2005
05 years ago
Ever since Bill Staples first blogged about the collaborative work Microsoft was doing with Zend to improve PHP stability and performance on IIS, I've been giddy as a school girl. Having run a core component of the AppliedI.net infrastructure that makes use of PHP and MySQL on IIS7 and making use of FastCGI and the new Windows CGI friendly DLLs/builds it's made me even more giddy, PHP simply zips along these days on our windows servers and I can't wait to move my blog to a box running FastCGI. Read more [...]
WordPress 2.3 and Windows Live Writer Beta 3 bring new stuff to bloggers
05 years ago
WordPress 2.3 was released on September 25th. This release of WordPress brought some great new features: Native tagging support (previously available through plug-ins) Plug-in update notifications. and some URL handling improvements Earlier in September Windows Live Writer, Beta 3, was also released. This latest build of WLW brings with it: Insert Video dialog (previously available through plug-ins) Support for 28 additional languages Ability to print posts Improved image Read more [...]
AppliedI.net and IIS7 on Windows Server Core 2008
06 years ago
This week at Tech-Ed Bob Muglia announced that IIS7 would be supported as a role in Windows Server Core 2008. If you're not familiar with Server Core, it's a trimmed down version of Windows Server 2008 with just the bare minimum bits needed to run. Over the past few months we've had the great pleasure here at Applied Innovations to work with Microsoft and the IIS team at Microsoft as one of the earliest IIS7 Early Adopters. During the beta testing of Longhorn we had the opportunity Read more [...]
PHP on Windows and what’s happening
06 years ago
I blogged earlier about the great work the Microsoft Team was doing with the Zend team to get PHP running better on Windows. I can definitely say it's made a difference. Some of our clients run really large PHP sites or bulletin boards (in fact this blog is running on PHP 5.2.1 on Windows). In today's Zend newsletter they mentioned an article in Redmond Developer News: Zend Boosts PHP on Windows. My favorite quote from the article is: "[A] lot of PHP development happens on Windows," says Read more [...]
Great News for those looking to run their own IIS7 / Longhorn Server
06 years ago
We've had the pleasure of really digging in Longhorn and IIS7 for a few months now but yesterday Microsoft made the first public beta release of Longhorn available. This new beta also includes the latest builds of IIS7 and a plethora of new information was released along with this. You can learn more about what's new in this release of IIS7 on www.iis.net. Bill Staples blog has a great write-up on just what all has changed with IIS7 in this release. The IIS team has the golive program Read more [...]