Speaking at Devlink tomorrow…
Devlink had a cancelled session tomorrow, so I volunteered to give my PHP Applications on Azure talk. So tomorrow at 2:30pm I will be speaking about PHP on Azure in room 13. Anyone at Devlink come out and see me give my talk. I am always looking for honest feed back and appreciate any suggestions that you as a listener can provide.
PHP Applications in Windows Azure Presentation
Last night I gave a presentation at the Central Ohio Cloud Computing User Group on using PHP in Windows Azure. I had a great time giving the talk and look forward to going back in the future both as a presenter and eager listener. In either case I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. As promised, albeit a little bit late, the files from last nights presentation are linked below. The file includes my slide deck, original and updated source for the gallery application along with a couple other files. Let me know if you have any questions, problems or need help with PHP in Azure or just PHP on Windows in general.
Been a while…
So life has been crazy for me over the last year and a half. Apparently holding down a demanding job and having a child is hard work. In either case it is time for me to start making some time for writing again.
Very shortly I will be starting a series on working with PHP on Windows Azure. I will start off by explaining how to get PHP running in Azure using Full-IIS mode. I know there is another article out that explains this, but my approach is slightly different as it does not require using Web PI for the PHP install. Next up is setting up your development environment to work with Azure for development and testing. I will be using Zend Studio for this, but it should be easily translated to any Eclipse based IDE. From there I will move on to talking about the good stuff, code. For this I will be building a Photo Gallery using Zend Framework. In this I will show you how to write a web role to work with table and blob storage as well as using a worker role to work with Azure queues. All of this is leading to a speaking engagement in July, more information on this and other speaking engagements coming soon.