Random .NET Ramblings

This last weekend myself, Mark Brown & Rob Bagby presented at Drupal Camp LA 2009. Daniel Eagan also was there on Saturday showing off Windows 7 on a big a@@ HP TouchSmart and Jason Campell helped on Saturday with the installfest.

Mark did a great session on the IIS SEO toolkit titled “Boost Your Drupal Site’s SEO with the IIS SEO Toolkit” it motivated me to check the tool out and see how much help I need on this site.

Rob did another great session titled “PHP, Drupal and Microsoft Interop Demothon” where he showed several cool things including the Web Platform Installer, URL Rewriter Module for IIS 7.0, Embedding Silverlight in a Drupal site and more…

I did a session titled “How Microsoft is working with PHP & Drupal” where I talked and demoed some of the investments Microsoft has made around PHP and how PHP developers can get more out of the Windows platform. If you want you can download my deck but note the survey link will not be active much longer. I also got to do the key note where I was introduced as “Microsoft’s Woody” :).

It was a great weekend and I hope the organizers Chris Charlton and Mike Stewart do another Drupal Camp i know I will be there and as always props go to Crystal Williams for getting Drupal Camp going!

You should read it... it's all good!

.NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS7) 

For a lot of ASP.NET developers this may not seam like a big deal but for cgi users out there this is huge! With FastCGI the windows platform is now a first class citizen for cgi applications. Now PHP developers have a wider choice of platforms. And from a ASP.NET developers perspective now that have away to add functionally or migrate functionally to a more structured environment.

Details on the www.iis.net web site download from there as well.

This may seam strange for a resource for developers but I think it's quite important for developers to understand the OS. The Windows marketing team has a lot of resources for this month about Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7 check it out!

Windows Server Division WebLog : October Marketing Waves

Last night I go to present to the San Diego Small Business Server User Group on PowerShell and IIS7. I had a great time, the group is extremely diverse group. We had a scheduling conflict with the San Diego SharePoint Users Group and I had to ask the SBS group to use a smaller room in the San Diego office and they were great about it, we had about 20 people packed in to the room and no complaints.

The slides I used are here as a pdf file. I am looking forward to doing more with this group.

all the links in the slides are below:
For PowerShell

Newsgroup:  Microsoft.Public.Windows.PowerShell
Channel 9 tag:  http://channel9.msdn.com/tags/Monad
Team blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/PowerShell/
Marc van Orsouw’s blog:  http://ThePowerShellGuy
Wiki:  http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.WindowsPowerShellWiki
Script Center:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
O’Reilly book – Monad:  Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msh/
Manning Press book by Bruce Payette: PowerShell in Action
http://manning.com/powershell/
Sapien Press book by Don Jones: PowerShell
http://www.sapienpress.com/
PowerShellAnalyzer tool
http://www.karlprosser.com/coder/?cat=8

For II7

Web site: http://www.iis.net
GoLive: http://www.iis.net/goLive
Developers: http://www.iis.net/developer