This Week’s Link List (July 1, 2011)

I wish I could attribute my recent lapse in reading to enjoying more time outside in a beautiful, sunny Seattle summer. But alas, summer hasn’t really arrived yet, and work hasn’t slowed down (the pace seems to have picked up, actually). So, my list is a bit shorter than usual (but not short on quality!). Enjoy…

• I expect more articles will be written based on last week's SQL Server JumpIn! Camp, but here's a couple…
  • Mark Story shows how to get SQL Server and IIS running in a VM on a MacOS using a local directory: https://mark-story.com/posts/view/developing-for-sqlserver-and-iis-in-a-virtual-machine
  • MediaWiki running on IIS, SQL Server, SQL Azure, and Windows Azure! https://mediawikiworker.blogspot.com/2011/06/sql-server-jumpin-outcome.html

• Windows Azure news…
  • A quick preview of the new packaging feature available in the upcoming Windows Azure SDK for PHP: https://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/855/a-quick-look-at-the-upcoming-packaging-tool-in-the-windows-azure-sdk-for-php
  • Part 3 of how to scale PHP applications in Windows Azure: https://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/articles/scaling-php-applications-on-windows-azure-part-iii-performance-monitor
  • The Windows Azure team announces free data ingress for all customers: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011/06/22/announcing-free-ingress-for-all-windows-azure-customers-starting-july-1st-2011.aspx

• Node.js is coming to Windows!
  • Microsoft's take on the work being done: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2011/06/23/microsoft-working-with-joyent-and-the-node-community-to-bring-node-js-to-windows.aspx
  • Joyent's perspective: https://joyeur.com/2011/06/23/joyent-partners-with-ms-to-port-node-js-to-windows/
  • Ryan Dahl's point of view: https://blog.nodejs.org/2011/06/23/porting-node-to-windows-with-microsoft%E2%80%99s-help/

• On writing code…
  • Good insight on refactoring for readability and maintainability: https://css.dzone.com/refcardz/html/practical-php-refactoring/practical-php-refactoring-0
  • Sorting multi-dimensional arrays: https://shiflett.org/blog/2011/jun/sorting-multi-dimensional-arrays-in-php
  • Autoloading, serializing, and querying PHP objects: https://www.elated.com/articles/object-oriented-php-autoloading-serializing-and-querying-objects/
  • "Two-Factor" authentication with CodeIgniter (and you will learn what "two-factor" auth is): https://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/integrating-two-factor-authentication-with-codeigniter/

• Miscellaneous…
  • Command line tools for managing PHP in IIS are available as part fo the PHP Manager! https://ruslany.net/2011/06/command-line-tools-for-managing-php-in-iis/
  • Josh Holmes on HTML5 and developing for mobile devices: https://www.joshholmes.com/blog/2011/07/01/is-that-a-rich-web-in-your-pocket/

• Just for fun…
  • The math teacher in me drools: https://www.mathjax.org/
  • This is cool...the Periodic Table of SEO Ranking Factors: https://searchengineland.com/seotable

Have a great weekend! For those in the U.S., enjoy the long weekend!

-Brian

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• Anonymous
  July 02, 2011
  Hi Brian,The SQL PHP Driver Examplesand news updates are really great!Just so you know the ODATA Videos that you postedabout have dead links and it appears no one is monitoringthe comments at the Video Site.So maybe you can check what is going on.Cheers:)