It was brought to my attention today that there are a lack of “Examples” on Windows Azure Applications. This completely baffled me, as I know of many sites that offer Code Snippets and Full Windows Azure Applications. To address this issue I bring you the Windows Azure Examples Blog post as a follow up to my highly acclaimed Essential Resources for Getting Started with Windows Azure Post that I co-authored with John Bristowe. Are there Example Applications for Windows Azure? There are a number...
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Big thanks to John Bristowe and Andrew Howell for sharing the new HTML5 logo that has been fully Canadianized. Well… I guess the only thing that’s missing is some Canadian Beer and possibly a Hockey stick. This blog post is Angry Beaver Approved!
Wednesday, 8 June 2011 18:14 by
SyntaxC4
A while back I had the opportunity to talk to Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin of DotNetRocks. The Show focuses on how to run PHP applications on Windows Azure. Check out DotNetRocks: Episode 651. One of the things that I talk about during the show is the PHP SDK for Windows Azure. What I forgot to mention was all the hard work Fellow MVP Maarten Balliauw has put into the Development and Maintenance of the PHP SDK for Windows Azure. If you’d like to find out how to install PHP to run on Win...
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Sunday, 20 February 2011 10:55 by
SyntaxC4
In the last post of this Series, Installing PHP on Windows Azure leveraging Full IIS Support: Part 1, we created a script to launch the Web Platform Installer Command-line tool in Windows Azure in a Command-line Script. In this post we’ll be looking at creating the Service Definition and Service Configuration files which will describe what are deployment is to consist of to the Fabric Controller running in Windows Azure. Creating a Windows Azure Service Definition Unfortunately there isn’t a...
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Wednesday, 9 February 2011 17:31 by
SyntaxC4
Considering this blog post is about an open source language (PHP), I’m intentionally avoiding my trusty development tool Visual Studio. Even without using Visual Studio it will be necessary to download the Windows Azure Tools & SDK 1.3, this will provide us with some necessary command-line tools. That’s right, Windows Azure is Console Ready! Context is Everything Over the next three blog posts, I am going to be describing how to Install PHP on Windows Azure. With the release of the 1.3 re...
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