Newer Note: The Interoperability Team at Microsoft has annouced a new version of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP which contains a set of shiny new command line tools and has deprecated the Windows Azure PHP Command-line Tools project. This post is not valid for the SDK, however a config file of the same name

What I am about to show you is a terrible hack, however if you are having random issues with storage connection in Windows Azure while using the PHP SDK this just might be the stopgap to keep your app working. First let me give you a description of the issue: Your code instantiates an object

Newer Note: The Interoperability Team at Microsoft has annouced a new version of the Windows Azure SDK for PHP which contains a set of shiny new command line tools and has deprecated the Windows Azure PHP Command-line Tools project. This post is not valid for the SDK see http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com for documentation on the new SDK

I would like you all to meet my new desk mate, Peggy. Peggy started her life as a disconsolate ball of yarn which my sister lovingly nurtured into a full and prosperous life. Peggy now works hard with me to show Microsoft the beauty of Open Source. Peggy may make random appearances so stay tuned.

In a recent project I needed to strip all the empty lines and comments from all the files in a directory and it’s sub directories. Being a PHP developer I naturally turned to PHP to do the work for me. What I came up with is a simple solution that let’s you send in a