Archive for March, 2011

March 19, 2011 0

Utilizing all HTTP Verbs on IIS7 with PHP

By admin in PHP Azure

When building the API for Twitter Sentiment Engine it quickly became obvious that out the box IIS7 only accepts requests for certain HTTP Verbs (GET / POST). When using the REST Client to PUT on a resource i got the message ‘405 METHOD NOT IMPLEMENTED’. After googling round I found you need to some settings [...]

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March 15, 2011 4

Twitter Sentiment Engine: A Proper Introduction

By admin in PHP Azure

Over the course of the past few weeks I have been so tied up in the working on a  new technology stack that I haven’t formely introduced my PHPAzureContest (and university disertation project) ‘Twitter Sentiment Engine.’
Today I took an hour or two  to catch up on some of the written side of this project and [...]

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March 9, 2011 2

Deploying A Zend Framework Application To App Fabric

By admin in PHP Azure

In my previous post I mentioned I’d completed a few of the Windows Azure: Getting Started tutorials. The tutorials are ok as far as they go (displaying a single page) but when I tried launching my ZendFramework application to Azure I encountered a few issues.
1) Creating web.config
2) Getting URL Re-Writing to work
This post describes the [...]

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March 2, 2011 1

Setting Up A Local Microsoft Development Environment

By admin in PHP Azure

Over the past two weeks I’ve been busy creating the bare bones of my disertation project. This included creating a process to query the Twitter Streaming API, a process to create sample from the results and building a Bayes Classifier. Early on in the project I made the descision to launch the platform using Azure. [...]

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