Step out of your comfort zone Last year you might’ve seen several blogposts here about my experience working with PHP on Windows. It was because I participated in the WinPHP Challenge, another coding contest which was organized by Microsoft Netherlands. One of the reasons I participated in this contest was because I wanted to step…
I have just deployed my entry to the competition server. This means configuring the competition server to actually serve the application, and this reminded me again how easy the IIS/PHP combination has become. A couple of clicks, some thinking on how I did things before, some more clicking, and I’m done. I did download the…
And the first thing I really have to admit is that it has been far from as hard as I had expected. A lot of the hard work is done by the PHPAzure library, which does most of the actual work of talking to Azure storage. So since the last update, I’ve been working mostly on Blob storage.…
I was a bit afraid that it would be quite hard to connect to Azure Storage for my app, especially with the deadline looming in less than two weeks. My anxiety turned out to be without reason, mostly thanks to the great work of PHPAzure in abstracting away all the complicated stuff. Really, it is…
First of all, I didn’t want to reinvent the wheel for some basic stuff. So I did some research and ended up using several libraries: Using this, I’ve created a basic system that allows me to easily handle the request with a single front controller, delegate the actual execution to a controller, then pass back…
As I don’t have any spare hardware on which I can install Windows, setting up Windows for me meant creating a new Parallels virtual machine on my iMac. On that VM, I installed Windows Server 2008, of which I still had a copy lying around. The easiest way I had heard of to get a server environment…
First of all, I’ve decided to name the app MediTerra. I didn’t want to use the standard php* type of naming. Since I’m going to be building on the Windows Azure technology, I let my thoughts go a bit. Now, in the mediterranean, the color of the sea is the sort of blue that some…
It is no secret to people that know me a bit that, despite the fact that I work solely on OSX and Ubuntu, I have some friends in the Microsoft camp. So far though, I never really felt the need or will to start working with things Windows-related myself. When Microsoft announced they’d be running…