Juozas devBlog

It’s been more than a month since this competition started, but the time ran very quickly. Today I’m going to summarize what I’ve used to create my entry and what I’ve learned.
Final application available at http://winphp.juokaz.com:82/.
Goal was:
My project will allow people to upload huge collections of photos (probably archived in one zip file) and get [...]

External libraries are useful for performance demanding tasks where PHP is simply too slow. Also PHP can work as front-end system for various back-end systems (where server doesn’t provide any PHP supported communication types). I have written some posts about using .Net libraries in PHP so far, but there are some other choices available too. [...]

Only on rare cases applications created with Silverlight (or Flash) are static – it’s very common to have information coming from a RSS feed, REST service or any other data source. What is more important, these applications usually needs configuration variables (user name, language, products category, etc.) to be passed to them. But how to [...]

Tuesday I’ve posted post how to use .Net assemblies in PHP, however, as Teal’c correctly pointed out:
Making your library COM visible requires that you register the DLL in the GAC and registering something in the GAC should only be done when multiple applications need to access the same version of the same library. Even then, [...]

One of the biggest issue for me in WinPHP challenge (more info) is using C# written libraries in PHP. Actual PHP part is very easy to write, because only thing you need to do is to create COM object. However, making your dll’s visible by PHP is a bit tricky.
I followed this tutorial, which [...]

To start with, all work took about 1:30, including Skype distractions, reading how-to’s, etc. Only one problem I had is that I was given remote desktop connection access to Windows Server 2008 machine, but I’m working with Linux. How to connect to remote desktop from Linux?
Luckily, I had Windows XP in VirtualBox so I tried [...]

Sometime in the end of March Microsoft and partners announced 2009 WinPHP competition. I always wanted to try to create an app with both PHP and C#, so I decided to register – my idea is to create a project, which will demonstrate both PHP and .NET connectivity and Deep Zoom functionality.
My project will allow [...]