{"id":1464,"date":"2009-04-22T14:03:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1464"},"modified":"2009-04-22T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T19:04:19","slug":"video-interview-with-microsofts-php-evangelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/22\/video-interview-with-microsofts-php-evangelist","title":{"rendered":"Video: Interview with Microsoft&#8217;s PHP Evangelist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with <a href=\"http:\/\/english.zachskylesowens.net\/\">Zach Skyles Owens<\/a>, a PHP Evangelist at Microsoft. If you missed the embed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OyeUjSbHfv4\">watch the video<\/a>. I have some sparse notes below. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OyeUjSbHfv4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>I learned some new things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft spends time working with the PHP community<\/li>\n<li>They are porting applications to work with an SQL Server backend<\/li>\n<li>They are ensuring that the language should &#8220;just work&#8221;, with the IIS and SQL Server stack. This is quite different from the usual AMP (Apache = server, MySQL = database, PHP = language) stack that we&#8217;re quite accustomed to.<\/li>\n<li>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Web\/\">Microsoft Web Platform<\/a>, and there&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/web\/gallery\/\">Web Application Gallery<\/a>, that brings in dependencies that you need, to use popular open source software packages.<\/li>\n<li>Drupal for example, is a featured application, for the <a href=\"http:\/\/php.iis.net\/\">PHP on IIS<\/a> stack. If the software allows, it brings in SQL Server Express Edition; otherwise, it even brings in MySQL!\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Video%3A%20Interview%20with%20Microsoft%27s%20PHP%20Evangelist&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F04%2F22%2Fvideo-interview-with-microsofts-php-evangelist&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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