How to change OS family with the Windows Azure PHP Command-line Tools

April 21, 2011

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

How to change VM size with the Windows Azure PHP Command-line Tools

April 21, 2011

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

A hack to stop false storage connection failures with PHP on Windows Azure

April 20, 2011

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

How to use the Subversion developer snapshot of the Windows Azure PHP SDK on CodePlex with the PHP Command-line Tools

April 13, 2011

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

Running comparisons on Windows Azure Storage for PHP developers

March 16, 2011

Let me setup a scenario. You have a Windows Azure Storage Table with a column called PartitionKey that is a series of numbers that are timestamps. You are testing your code to retrieve all timestamps greater than X in order to perform time based data calculations. Being smart you try “PartitionKey gt 1”, because 065983400000