drupal and microsoft
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Presented at DrupalCamp CT 2010, Yale Universifty, on August 28, 2010TRANSCRIPT
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Did you know…Microsoft operates two Open Source Technology Centers?
• Redmond, WA: 400+ servers, 340+ Linux distributions
• Cambridge, MA: staffed by Microsoft and Novell, focused on virtualization interoperability
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Did you know…Microsoft contributed 20,000 lines of code to the Linux kernel community for device driver support under virtualization with Windows Server Hyper-V?
http://bit.ly/oDBHi
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Did you know…Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of the Apache Foundation and contributor the Stonehenge and Hadoop projects (among others)?
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Did you know…Microsoft has full-time employees working on the PHP project?
They helped update the decade old foundation of PHP 5.2 to PHP 5.3.
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Did you know…Microsoft announced the SQL Server Driver for PHP 2.0 at DrupalCon 2010?
… and demoed Drupal 7 running with it.
(Psst! SQL Server Express is free.)
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Did you know…Microsoft provided $1M in funding for the CodePlex Foundation, with a mission of closing the gap between commercial software and open-source developers?
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Did you know…Microsoft holds an annual Web Developer Summit of worldwide PHP influentials?
… David Strauss attended last year. Image credit to Rafael Dohms
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http://tinyurl.com/DrupalNGO
Did you know…Microsoft sponsored the DaNGO project resulting in Drupal modules to support non-profits and NGOs?• Fundraising• Live Messenger• Bing Geocode
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Did you know…You can download, configure, and install Drupal (including MySQL and PHP) in about 10 minutes using the Web Platform Installer?
http://web.ms
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Did you know…Microsoft provides a free platform to build Web sites using Windows… including
http://web.ms/webmatrix
• A Web server: IIS Express• A database: SQL Server Express• An IDE with ASP.NET, PHP, and
open-source CMS support• Direct publishing to hosters
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Did you know…Microsoft offers a PHP IDE specifically for Web designers?It’s not free… but a piece of it is.
http://bit.ly/IGM8O
$149 MSRPExpressionWeb SuperPreviewFor Internet Explorer
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Did you know…The Aten Design Group in Denver held a funeral for IE6?
Microsoft sent flowers
… and I all got was thislousy t-shirt.
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Did you know…IE9 beta will be released on Sept. 15?
Four platform previewshave been available
… and we’re all HTML5,CSS3, and feel the need for speed!
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Did you know…Microsoft gives away free* development and server software?
…to Web design and development shops
…to startups
…to students
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Did you know…
Well, now you do!
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Thank You!
Jim O’NeilDeveloper Evangelist
Microsoft
[email protected]@jimoneil
http://blogs.msdn.com/jimoneil