During day one PDC09 keynote, Ray Ozzie highlighted Microsoft’s commitment to interoperability announcing additional technologies you can now use on Window Azure Tomcat (Java), memcached and MySQL. We sat down with Steve Marx (Technical Strategist in the Window Azure team) and Vijay Rajagopalan (Principal Architect in the Interoperability team) to discuss these new possibilities. If you want more detail and demos, refer to Steve Marx’s talk Building Java Applications with Windows Azure and Mohit…[more ]

Maarten Balliauw from RealDolmen initiated the Windows Azure SDK for PHP a few months ago. Since then we have been working together to improve the project and we were very excited to announce at PDC09 the availability of version 1.0 of this SDK. In this video, Maarten  Balliauw and Vijay Rajagopalan from the Microsoft Interoperability Strategy teams discuss how this project came to life, and show demo of the SDK using the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse. Additional links: Windows Azure SDK for…[more ]

A couple weeks ago, Microsoft was at ApacheCon. We reported the progress made on the Stonehenge project and presented the roadmap.  The goal of Stonehenge is to provide a public forum to test the interoperability of WS-* protocols on different vendor stacks and to build sample applications that could provide best practices and coding guidelines for better interoperability. The main sample application, StockTrader has been implemented on .NET (by Microsoft), PHP (by WSO2), WSAS JAVA stack (by…[more ]

Johnny Halife, Partner Architect from Southworks started a few months ago a project aiming at providing a Windows Azure SDK for Ruby developers.

Still in beta, the SDK puts the Window Azure storage features ( table, storage & queues) very close to ruby developer.

Johnny was at PDC09, so we took the opportunity to talk and asked him to tell us more about this project and show a quick demo.

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I’m pleased to announce a new software development kit (SDK) that helps PHP developers easily leverage the Windows Azure platform AppFabric (formerly called .NET Services). This SDK is the third in a series, the first of which was released a year ago. Equivalent SDKs for Java and Ruby are also available and they have been updated to reflect the latest version of the AppFabric. The AppFabric SDK for PHP is an open source project developed by Persistent Systems Ltd. and is available today on…[more ]

, the Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP, which was debuted at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York today, helps developers better manage 404 errors by dynamically creating a customizable page that contains error messages and search results that are seeded with relevant keywords from Microsoft’s Bing search engine. This page ultimately helps web site visitors move past the missing page and find the information they need. The Bing 404 Web Page Error Toolkit for PHP is a customizable PHP application…[more ]

The SQL CRUD Wizard for PHP is a wizard type application that can be used to generate a simple "Create, Read, Update, Delete" PHP application from a Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure database table.  The generated PHP application supports paging, sorting and simple CSS customization. The generated PHP Application Code, generated by the PHP to SQL CRUD Wizard, includes logic for CRUD functionality between the PHP application and a SQL Server database instance on the web server.

Related links:

• Blog post: Building PHP simple database applications for SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure
• Interoperability Team blog
• SQL CRUD Application Wizard for PHP

Today, Microsoft announced a new XMPP Gateway for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 that enables interoperability with Cisco Jabber/XMPP and Google Talk, along with new licensing options for Office Communications Server customers to connect with AOL and Windows Live (read the details of the announcement). To get more details about how all of this works we sat down with Ashima Singhal (Senior Product Manager) and Albert Kooiman (Senior Product Manager) from the Communication Server team…[more ]

Zend Technologies today launched the Simple API for Cloud Application Services project , “a new open source initiative that allows developers to use common application services in the cloud, while enabling them to unlock value-added features available from individual providers.”  …[more ]

Claudio Caldato, Senior Program Manager in the Interoperability Technical Strategy team and Pablo Castro, software architect of ADO.NET Data Services introduce a new project that bridges PHP and .NET: the Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services. The PHP Toolkit  is an open source project available on Codeplex at phpdataservices.codeplex.com. The goal is to make it easier for PHP developers to take advantage of the ADO.NET Data Services (ADO.NET Data Services offer a simple way to expose any…[more ]