Entries tagged with php - Channel 9

Windows Azure extended Interoperability presented at PDC09

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:48:11 GMT

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 Srivastava-Tushar Shanbhag's talk Developing PHP and MySQL Applications with Windows Azure.

Additional links:

Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/
Windows Azure interoperability: www.windowsazure.com/interoperability

Meet the people behind the Window Azure SDK for PHP Maarten Balliauw

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:47:04 GMT

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 PHP
Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse
Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/
Windows Azure interoperability: www.windowsazure.com/interoperability

Apache Stonehenge demoed at PDC09

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:47:00 GMT

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 WSO2), Metro (by SUN Microsystems), Spring (by SpringSource). The latest version of StockTrader uses the WS-Security and WS-Trust protocols for claims-based authentication scenarios. This allows the end-users to be authenticated through an independent Security Token Service (STS) that is trusted by the bank and to pass that token to the broker to process the transaction.

This week at PDC09, we were demoing the project. I went to see Kent Brown, product manager for WCF and asked him to give us an update and show a demo of the different StockTrader applications working together.

Watch the video till the end, Kent unveils the mystery on why the project was called Stonehenge!

Additional links:

Project page: Apache Stonehenge
Interoperability Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/interoperability/

Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK for PHP developers

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:44:00 GMT

The Windows Azure platform AppFabric (formerly called .NET Services) SDK for PHP 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 Codeplex: http://dotnetservicesphp.codeplex.com/. Microsoft is providing funding and architectural guidance for this project.

Sumit Chawla, Technical PM/Architect from the Microsoft Interoperability Team gives more details about the scenarios and present a quick demo of the SDK in action with a sample PHP application.

Additional ressources:

BING 404 error management kit for PHP

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:17:00 GMT

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 that replaces the default error page on Microsoft IIS or Apache web servers with Bing search results that are based on keywords that have been derived from the URL requested by the user. The toolkit is available on Codeplex as an open source project, and is released under the Microsoft Public License.

Building PHP simple database applications for SQL Server, Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:59:00 GMT

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.

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Connected Show Podcast: Claudio Caldato on PHP & ADO.NET Data Services

Brian Johnson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:38:00 GMT

In this episode of the Connected Show, guest Claudio Caldato joins Peter to discuss interoperability at Microsoft and how his team is working to make Windows Azure cloud services more accessible to PHP developers. Claudio provides us details on the PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services.

Guest host G. Andrew Duthie joins Peter to discuss Office Starter 2010, the wonders of VHDs, Red Hat & Microsoft interoperability, the ASP.NET MVC Firestarter, and “Are we really smarter than you?”

Connected Show Podcast: Please Pass the Duct Tape

Brian Johnson — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:54:00 GMT

In the latest episode of the Connected Show, guest Joe Stagner joins Peter to discuss the future of ASP.NET, what it means to be the Misfit Geek at Microsoft, what Plan 9 means for web developers and some comparisons to PHP.

Dmitry and Peter also discuss the news with Windows Azure management, Courier tablet rumors, the new WebsiteSpark program, and duct tape programming.

You can subscribe to the Connected Show through Zune or through iTunes.

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msdn TV - Nachrichten für Entwickler (Ausgabe vom 23.09.2009)

Jan Schenk — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Fashion Victim Jan Schenk beweist in der neuesten Folge von „msdn tv“ einmal mehr, dass der Begriff „Moderator“ eindeutig vom Wort „Mode“ herrührt. Sein Interviewpartner ist diesmal der deutsche MSDN Online-Chef Kay Giza, der einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der MSDN-Website wirft und um Feedback aus der Community bittet. In den Kurznachrichten außerdem Infos zur deutschen Version von Expression Studio 3, einem aktuellen Interview mit Pierre Joye, seines Zeichens Team Lead der „PHP on Windows Developer Division“, dem Windows 7 Training Kit für Entwickler, einem neuen MSDN-Blog für Partner und zu Fragen & Antworten aus der MSDN Hotline

Weitere Infos gibt es auf meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Viele Grüße aus dem harten Leben eines Moderators =),
jan

Introducing Simple API for Cloud Application Services

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:21:00 GMT

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.”
The initial goal of the project is to provide a set of programming interfaces for PHP developers to facilitate the development of applications that have basic cloud storage needs.

Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect, from the Interoperability Technical Strategy team at Microsoft gives an overview of the Simple API for Cloud Application Services and details the initial contribution from Microsoft.

Related links:

Simple API for Cloud project site www.simplecloud.org.
Blog post: Microsoft, Zend and others announce Simple API for Cloud Application Services
July CTP of Windows Azure for PHP Released and support in Zend Framework
Windows Azure SDK for PHP

Deploying IIS 7.5 + FASTCGI + PHP on Server Core

Phil Pennington — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:06:00 GMT

Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core introduces support for subsets of the 2.0/3.0/3.5 .NET Framework in addition to a number of other new optional features and roles. These additions extend the role of Server Core system deployments to not only enterprise network service hosting but also to application hosting. The Framework additions make it possible to host The Web Platform including ASP.NET web applications. Windows PowerShell is available along with the integrated IIS Provider. Application Developers should ensure their new and existing Enterprise Solutions integrate well with the Server Core deployment environment.

FastCGI is a language-independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance. The FastCGI extension is available in IIS 7.5 and enables application frameworks such as PHP to achieve improved performance and stability on Internet Information Services.

This demo illustrates FastCGI configuration on a Windows Server 2008 R2, Server Core deployment target.

Learn more at the IIS Extensions portal.

Take a video tour of Server Core application development scenarios via MSDN Channel9 and find detailed samples on MSDN Code Gallery. See live Server Core demos at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Launch Tour.

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 3 von 3

Jan Schenk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:45:00 GMT

Bits to Bite: Wir wollen doch nur spielen!
Pierre Joye, PHP Core Developer, im dritten und letzten Teil meiner Interviewserie. Jetzt reden wir mal Klartext. Oder besser gesagt, wir lassen Pierre spontan antworten, auf Stichwörter wie Windows7, Standards, Barcamps oder Yoga. Klingt komisch? Dann seht euch das Video an. Eine Art Rohrschach-Test für den Interviewpartner - das Beste, was die Spontaneität zu bieten hat, für euch.
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Die vorangegangenen Interviews mit Pierre findet ihr hier:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kitano/PHP-Core-Entwickler-Pierre-Joye-im-Interview-Teil-1-von-3/
und hier:
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/kitano/PHP-Core-Entwickler-Pierre-Joye-im-Interview-Teil-2-von-3/

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 2 von 3

Jan Schenk — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:34:00 GMT

Pierre Joye, PHP Core Developer und Team Leader der PHP on Windows Developer Division, ist heute mein Interviewpartner. Er erzählt uns in diesem Video, was es mit dem Windows-Build von PHP 5.3 auf sich hat, und wie dieser so extrem stabil und schnell geworden ist. Außerdem plaudert Pierre ein wenig aus den Nähkästchen der PHP Core Developer und erlaubt uns einen Blick in die Communitystruktur der PHP Gemeinde.
Reinschauen lohnt sich, nicht nur für PHP Entwickler!
Einen dritten Teil gibt es auch noch, der kommt am Freitag in eure Heimkinos, natürlich auf Channel 9.
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

PHP Core Entwickler Pierre Joye im Interview - Teil 1 von 3

Jan Schenk — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:27:00 GMT

Letzte Woche hatte ich die Ehre, mich mit Pierre Joye zu treffen, seines Zeichens Team Leader unter den PHP Core Developern der Windows Division. Pierre ist für die Stabilität und Performance der Windows-Builds verantwortlich, und hat mit PHP 5.3 die beste Windows-Unterstützung geschaffen, die es jemals gab. Nicht zuletzt dank der Verwendung eines neueren Compilers, der den 10 Jahre alten VC6-Compiler abgelöst hat. In diesem Video interviewe ich Pierre zu seiner Person, seinem Privatleben und seinen Hobbies. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein PHP Core Developer so offen gegenüber Microsoft sein kann? Nach der Devise "Make Web, Not War!" ist Interoperabilität und Zusammenarbeit der Schlüssel für bessere Technologien. Aber seht euch das Video einfach an und freut euch auf den zweiten Teil, in dem es um PHP 5.3 gehen wird!
Mehr zum Thema Interoperabilität und "Make Web, Not War" gibt es in meinem Blog unter http://blogs.msdn.com/jansche

Consuming data over the web between PHP and .NET with REST and ADO.NET Data Services

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:32:00 GMT

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 sort of data in a RESTful way, more details here).

The video starts with a quick introduction and architecture white boarding session, followed by a demo.

Enjoy!

Additional resources:

Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services on Interoperability Labs & Bridges
Codeplex Project site: phpdataservices.codeplex.com
Blog post "A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: Toolkit for PHP with ADO.NET Data Services"
ADO.NET Data Services on MSDN

Configuring WebDAV Extension and Deploying PHP Applications

Phil Pennington — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:33:00 GMT

The IIS WebDAV extension module incorporates new features that enable web authors to publish content easier than before, and offers web administrators more security and deployment options.

Windows Server 2008 R2 incorporates the WebDAV extension module feature. All you have to do is to enable it.

Watch this how-to demo and learn more about IIS Extensions here.

See more Windows Server2008 R2 webcasts.

Find samples at MSDN Code Gallery.

Interoperability demo between PHP, Windows CardSpace and Geneva Server

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:51:00 GMT

Last week Donovan Follette wrote about the work Intand did with Microsoft, a project, for the Lake Washington School District, that's based upon the use of Microsoft code name Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva and Intand’s PHP application using the Zend Framework’s information card support for interoperability. Check the full interview with Bryan Otis and Scott Otis from Intand along with Vijay Rajagopalan from the Microsoft Interoperability Strategy team. We've followed up with Scott Otis who's giving a demo and then is diving into the PHP code, showing how to implement this.

URL references:

The whole story: Identity Interoperability scenario with PHP and Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace, Information Cards
Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability from Donovan
The Interoperability key topic on Channel 9
Zend Download for Information Card Support

Open XML made easier for Java developers with Apache POI

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:17:00 GMT

When developers are tasked to deal with document file formats it might be challenging to do the right thing if you don’t have a good experience with a particular format, and need to crack it open and understand all the details.

For Java developers and Microsoft Office file formats there’s a very interesting solution with the Apache POI project, which provides a Java API to access Microsoft Office formats. Last year Microsoft and Sourcesence announced that they would collaborate to add support of the Open XML file format to the Apache POI project, and the resulting Open XML support has been integrated as part of POI 3.5 beta 5.

The end result: Good news for Java developers who need to manipulate the Office Open XML files (.XLSX, .DOCX, .PPTX), because it really makes it easier for them to do the job!

To illustrate the point, let me walk you through a demo scenario that uses Apache POI Java Libraries and actually combines it with the PHPExcel project (for PHP developers) and the Open XML Format SDK 2.0 (for .NET developers). My goal is just to give you a sense of the type of scenarios you can easily develop using multiple languages and multiple platforms.

We will make that demo available with more explanation in an article on http://openxmldeveloper.org/. Before we get into the demo itself I want to thank Julien Chable and Maarten Balliauw for their help in building this demo.

For now, let me walk you through the scenario. For the sake of our demonstration we are going to show how raw data can be consumed by a Java web application using the Apache POI, to create an .XLSX file from scratch. How that file can then be accessed and modified by a PHP application (with PHPExcel). And finally how the resulting file can be digitally signed and finalized via the .NET framework using the Open XML Format SDK.

Here’s the data flow:

Step 1 of the scenario starts in the Java Web applications:

Once the “Create Spreadsheet” button is pressed, it creates the files:

And does some processing to inject the initial XML data and formatting. The result looks like this:

Most of the Java code required to do this fits in this code snippet:

Step 2, moving to the PHP application, the UI is similar:

This step adds cell protection, renames the .XLSX file, changes cell formatting, and inserts additional content formatting. The result looks like this:

And the code to accomplish it looks like this:

Step 3, finally, from the ASP.NET web applications using the Open XML Format SDK:

Where the code for adding the digital signature looks like this:

Easy, don’t you think?
Stay tuned, as I said earlier, we will follow up on http://openxmldeveloper.org/ with a more detailed article.

Additional background on PHPExcel and the Open XML SDK:

The PHPExcel project is an open source project available on Codeplex. It consists of a set of classes for PHP that enables PHP applications to read and write to various file formats. These formats include HTML, PDF, and the relevant one for our demonstration…Excel 2007’s .XLSX format. This class set supports features such as setting spreadsheet meta data (author, title, description ...), multiple worksheets, different fonts and font styles, cell borders, fills, gradients, and adding images to spreadsheets. In parallel to this project, there is also the sister project PHPPowerPoint, which is intended to operate along similar lines as the PHPExcel application but with a focus on the .PPTX file formats. Both of these projects are built around the OpenXML standard, and the PHP framework. Read this nice article: Use PHP to create Open XML Spreadsheet reports

The Open XML Format SDK provides methods for .NET developers to access and manipulate XML content, including XML data contained in OXML document formatted files. It provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents. The SDK also uses the .NET Framework Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) technology to provide strongly typed object access to the XML content inside the parts of Open XML documents. The April 2009 CTP release also adds support for the validation of Open XML documents.
Read Brian Jones' blog to go deep on Open XML SDK.

Jean-Christophe Cimetiere - Sr. Technical Evangelist

Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva, Information Cards and PHP Interoperability

Donovan Follette — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:07:00 GMT

In this episode Donovan sits down with the Intand President, Bryan Otis, and CIO, Scott Otis, along with Vijay Rajagopalan, Principal Architect, Microsoft Interoperability Strategy, to drill into how Intand enabled their PHP application to support information cards. This prototype project, for the Lake Washington School District, was based upon the use of Microsoft code name Geneva Server, Windows CardSpace Geneva and Intand’s PHP application using the Zend Framework’s information card support for interoperability. This project was also featured in a video during the Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft, keynote address at the April, 2009 RSA Conference.

URL references:
“Geneva” Forum on MSDN
"Geneva" Team Blog
Microsoft code name "Geneva"
The Identity key topic on Channel 9
Zend Download for Information Card Support

Cannon PI - To Catch An Eagle

Mark Brown — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:49:00 GMT

Welcome to Episode #1. In this episode watch Cannon PI, and his sidekick "Jim" as they help two developers get their web developer platform setup and ready to go with the applications they need using the Web Platform Installer.

PS: There is a reference to "The Wizard of OZ" in this episode. See if you can find it in this video. Good luck :)

Cannon PI - Introduction

Mark Brown — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:07:00 GMT

There comes a time only maybe once in our lives where a true hero for the web developer emerges. They are daring problem solvers but may be a little rough around the edges, drive fast cars from the 80’s, drink a bit too much and sometimes are misunderstood.

Well the time has come and a new hero joins us and brings help to Web Developers everywhere. I’d like to introduce you to the, fast driving, hard drinking, moustache wearing, Hawaiian shirt loving, and problem solving, Cannon P.I.

Enjoy our short series and have a few laughs and over the series see if you recognize a few people you may know.