Microsoft has continued to engage with the open source community over the last year. Following up on the Q&A from last May, they would like to share their progress as well as hear your thoughts on how you see PHP working on Windows Server and Microsoft stack in general. More information in the post.
This covers updating your Dev server to recent versions of PHP and MySQL, as well as setting up an Apache VHost, and using the Hosts file to provide development server naming.
UFPDF is a Unicode/UTF-8 extension for FPDF by Steven Wittens. It is quite outdated right now, but if for some reasons you're stuck with it, you might not like the fact, that one quite important function is broken.
GRAPH is a plugin engine for MySQL (and also MariaDB and Drizzle) that allows for more efficient handling of trees, graphs and similar structures within a relational database.
Summer season has ended and MySQL University sessions are being held again. This week's topic might interest those of you, who use transaction capabilities of InnoDB.
This entry focuses on the discussion of the pcre regex escape sequence, \K. Surprisingly handy yet perhaps largely unknown and under used. Once understood, this regex tool can make certain problems very easy to solve.
This article covers the installation and configuration of a LAMP development environment on a windows laptop using Sun's free VirtualBox. http://www.gizmola.com/blog/archives/95-Run-a-Centos-Lamp-development-server-on-XP-using-VirtualBox.html