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 [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, azure, PHP
Today I successfully launched v1 of my application on Azure. Yesterday i was feeling quite disheartened and was faced with a difficult problem to solve in order to get my application running in the cloud. Luckily PHP on Windows veteran Juozas Kaziukėnas was around to lend me hand. As he never sleeps we were [...]
Tags: #finalproject, #phpazurecontest, PHP
Over the past two weeks I’ve been frantically developing Twitter Sentiment Engine, my entry for the PHP Azure Contest and my university final project. With the functionality for v1.0 nearly complete I thought that it would be a good idea to get the application on Azure. I could then diagnose any platform specific bugs that [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP
In preparation for the launch of my project on the Azure platform I created a new Azure Database Server Instance and a database to host the data for my application. The whole process went smoothly and within 5 minutes I had a functioning database with test data. Hats off to Microsoft for this, SQLAzure is [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP, SQLAZURE
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 [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP
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 [...]
Tags: #finalproject, #phpazurecontest, PHP, PHPOnWindows
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 [...]
Tags: #finalproject, #phpazurecontest, PHP
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. [...]
Tags: #finalproject, #microsoft, #phpazurecontest, PHP
Today I put some time aside to work through the various tutorials recommended by the PHP on Azure contest team.
The tutorials I used:
Getting the PHP Windows Azure Prerequisites
Deploying Your First PHP Application with the Windows Azure Command Line Tools for PHP
Deploying Your First PHP Application to Windows Azure
Cover the following steps:
1) Sign up for a Windows Azure [...]
Tags: Final Project, PHP, PHPAzure
I’m pleased to announce I have just signed up to Microsoft’s PHP Azure contest. I’m currently writing a PHP application as part of my university final project. The project was announced at PHPBNL11 with the slogan ‘Your application in the cloud and your ass in Vegas!’ The Microsoft key note illustrated some of the benefits [...]
Tags: Final Project, PHP, PHPAzure