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 [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP
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 [...]
Tags: #phpazurecontest, PHP, PHPOnWindows
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