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Windows Azure <3 Joomla!. Tips & Tools You can use…. Peter Laudati Technology Evangelist, Microsoft peterlau@microsoft.com http://www.peterlaudati.com @ jrzyshr. Joomla! on Windows is Easy! Joomla! in the cloud with Windows Azure is even EASIER!.
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Windows Azure <3 Joomla! Tips & Tools You can use… Peter Laudati Technology Evangelist, Microsoft peterlau@microsoft.com http://www.peterlaudati.com @jrzyshr
Joomla! on Windows is Easy!Joomla! in the cloud with Windows Azure is even EASIER!
And if you’re still skeptical, stick to your Linux stack… in Windows Azure!
History Joomla! Is Built on PHP
History PHP Runs on Windows For over a decade!
History PHP Runs WELLon Windows For about ~5+ years now
Trivia time… Who knows that Microsoft has an Open Source Technologies Group?
Goals • “MS Open Tech is focused on providing our customers with even greater choice and opportunity to bridge Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies together in heterogeneous environments, because we’re convinced that openness is good for our customers, good for the community and good for our business.” • -Jean Paoli – President MS Open Tech
Anyway, back to PHP on Windows! FastCGI for IIS brings stability, Scalability and Performance to PHP on Windows
OpCode, File, and Object Caching! WinCache for PHP Enables your PHP apps (including Joomla!) to speed up!
SQL Server Driver for PHP The SQL Server team stepped up to address the gap and provided a native code extension.
Next, you’ll tell me you’re participating in PHP development… Participation in active development with the community developing PHP
In what way? PHP 5.3 Is the most significant update to PHP on Windows.
Give me some more concrete! • All libraries updated to latest versions (in some cases newer versions that used on Linux) • Re-Wrote the build system from scratch • Top PHP Windows community programmer working for Microsoft • Build with VS 2008 • Available in 32 and 64 bit version • Created windows.php.net • 99% of all POSIX calls changed to native Windows calls
Get Joomla! On Windows! http://www.microsoft.com/web/joomla
Microsoft Web Platform Installer • http://microsoft.com/web
What is the cloud? An approach to computing where someone else does all the hard work of maintaining your server stuff
Windows Azure is a place to run your applications.
And a LOT of other stuff too… CDN, Distributed Caching, Azure Active Directory, Media Services, Mobile Services, Service Bus, Notification Hubs, Traffic Manager, etc…
3 Choices Virtual machines Cloud services Web sites More Control Focus on the App
IE6I feel the same way you do! Taken @ Drupal Camp Atlanta
Thank You! Peter Laudati - Microsoft http://www.peterlaudati.com @jrzyshr