Archive for May, 2011

May 16, 2011 2

PHP Azure Contest Wrap Up

By admin in PHP Azure

Over the past couple of months I’ve participated in the #PHPAzureContest. As I was doing a large body of work for my dissertation it seemed like a good opportunity to try something new and get my project running on a new platform.
A Quick Recap Of The Product
The product is called ‘Twitter Sentiment Engine’. It looks [...]

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May 15, 2011 0

Offloading Libraries To Azure Blob Storage: Initial Experiments

By admin in PHP Azure, Uncategorized

In a previous post I’ve mentioned one of the big pain points on Azure for PHP developers is that it’s necessary  to upload the frameworks or libraries used in an application each time you push to Azure.
It was suggested that one way in which to get round this is to move your libraries to Azure blob [...]

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May 13, 2011 1

PHP Application Logging On Azure

By admin in PHP Azure

In previous posts I’ve mentioned that once you get an app on Azure it’s often difficult to gain visibility on errors that occur on staging and production. The problem is compounded when (as in my Azure App) you have a number of remote workers processing tasks with little feedback on the results of each task.
To that end I’ve developed a little [...]

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