This Week's Link List (May 28, 2010)
Lot's of interesting links this week...topics ranging from Microsoft's involvement in PHP/Open Source to tips on how to secure a PHP application. As usual, I hope these prove to be interesting and/or helpful...
Cal Evans talks about "seeing Microsoft in the big picture" (great discussion follows the post): https://blog.calevans.com/2010/05/25/seeing-microsoft-in-the-big-picture/
- This follows on the previous link nicely - Nik Garkusha talks about why the @&*# Microsoft is doing this: https://port25.ca/archive/2010/05/27/why-the-amp-is-microsoft-doing-this.aspx
- A WordPress widget that lets you display WinCache stats on your site: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wincache-stats/
- This is a great presentation by Kanwaljeet Singla (IIS and WinCache develper) about how to get the most with PHP/Windows and PHP/Windows Azure: https://www.slideshare.net/ksingla/how-to-get-the-most-with-windows-and-windows-azure
- Mark Brown (senior product manager on the Web Platform team at Microsoft)talks about announcements made at DrupalCon SF earlier this year and engaging with the Drupal community: https://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupal-voices-109-mark-brown-on-microsoft-sql-server-and-drupal-7?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=lullabot
- There is a new SQL Server connectivity portal on MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/connectivity.aspx
- The SQL Server Driver for PHP team is looking for feedback on the SQL Server connectivity portal: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlphp/archive/2010/05/27/need-your-feedback-on-our-new-sql-server-connectivity-portal.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
- This article has some good guidance about how to secure a PHP site: https://www.codediesel.com/php/how-to-fix-php-vulnerabilities/
- Guidance about managing application users and passwords: https://www.php-security.org/2010/05/26/mops-submission-10-how-to-manage-a-php-applications-users-and-passwords/index.html
Thanks.
-Brian