{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with Zach Skyles Owens, a PHP Evangelist at Microsoft. If you missed the embed, watch the video. I have some sparse notes below. I learned some new things: Microsoft spends time working with the PHP community They are porting applications to work with an SQL Server backend They are ensuring that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[880,839,882,494,513,512,621,42,883,212,881],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-evangelist","tag-fosstv","tag-iis","tag-microsoft","tag-mysqlce09","tag-mysqlce2009","tag-mysqlconf","tag-php","tag-sqlserver","tag-video","tag-zach-skyles-owens"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-nC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1466,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}