Guest blog by Vinu Thomas, PHP Community Lead (Bangalore) Vinu’s detailed profile can be found at: http://blog.area91.in/page/Area91-Guest-Bloggers.aspx A few weeks back I had attended the Virtual Tech Days events, specifically the Interop sessions. I was quite interested in seeing what Microsoft had to offer for PHP developers. Going through the oveview of the programs, they seem to have come up with quite a few solutions for PHP developers. One of the important integrations for PHP is the ability to run PHP directly from IIS, as a FastCGI app, without having to install Apache in Windows...
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Guest blog by Praveen Srivatsa, Founder and Director of AsthraSoft. Praveen’s detailed profile can be found at: http://blog.area91.in/page/Area91-Guest-Bloggers.aspx One of the technologies under software development is the concept of relational databases. Late in 1970's Codds rules for database normalization set a benchmark that most RDBMs have tried to support. But the process of designing a database is unusually not as refined in most software companies. Even today, we still have projects that fail due to a badly designed database. There are religious discussions on which database i...
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