A developer's 2009 year-end review, highlighting top ASP.NET MVC and performance posts, open-source projects, and tech presentations.
A developer recounts attending Microsoft's invite-only Web Development Summit 2009, focusing on dialogue between Microsoft and the PHP community.
Introducing PHPMEF, a Managed Extensibility Framework for PHP inspired by .NET's MEF, enabling declarative application extensibility.
A review of the book 'Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development,' covering its MVC focus, application design, and testing practices.
Announcing the official release of Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse, a plugin for PHP developers to build, debug, and deploy applications to Azure.
Announcing an updated version of rgba.php, a server-side script for cross-browser RGBA color support, with new features and bug fixes.
Announcing upcoming tech sessions on Azure, PHP, and ASP.NET, including cloud migration and PHP-Microsoft integration.
Zend and partners release Simple Cloud API, a unified interface for interacting with multiple cloud storage and queue services.
Explains how to use Shared Access Signatures with the PHP SDK for Windows Azure to securely grant granular access to blob storage resources.
A guide to creating a PHP extension for accessing Windows Azure ServiceConfiguration and logging from FastCGI web roles.
Announcing the second milestone release of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure, focusing on Table Storage support with examples.
A session recap on integrating Microsoft Silverlight rich front-ends with existing PHP applications, including demo code.
Podcast episode discussing the new PHP SDK for Windows Azure, designed to help PHP developers utilize Azure cloud services.
Microsoft releases an open-source PHP SDK for Windows Azure, enabling PHP developers to use Azure cloud storage and services.
Announcement of PHPPowerPoint 0.1.0, a new PHP library for programmatically generating PowerPoint (PPTX) presentations.
Announcing upcoming tech conference sessions on PHP/Silverlight integration, ASP.NET MVC, and unit testing with mocking.
A tutorial on connecting to and using Windows Azure Blob Storage from PHP, including code examples for basic operations.
A guide to implementing cross-browser RGBA color backgrounds with CSS and a PHP fallback script for older browsers.
A tutorial on extending PHPExcel to save spreadsheets directly to Google Docs using a custom writer class and Zend Framework.
Announcing PHPLinq 0.4.0, a PHP library bringing .NET's LINQ query capabilities to arrays, XML, and databases.
