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PHP on IIS

Having been a PHP developer on LAMP servers for quite a while, is there anything that I will need to take into consideration while preparing an application for IIS on windows. ...

HCI: UI beyond the WIMP Paradigm

With the popularity of the Apple iPhone, the potential of the Microsoft Surface, and the sheer fluidity and innovation of the interfaces pioneered by Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel ... What are good examples of Graphical User Interfaces which have evolved beyond the Windows, Icons, ( Mouse / Menu ), and Pointer paradigm ? ...

PHP, MySQL on IIS - MySQL not being loaded when serving pages

I have, as best as I can manage, set up IIS (6.0), PHP (5.2.8) and MySQL (5.1.30) on Windows Server 2003, with all the involved mucking about (I think) in IIS and PHP to get things talking to each other. PHP does work - however, I cannot use the mysql or mysqli libraries from a PHP page. Fatal error: Class 'mysqli' not found in... Fata...

User interface paradigms that need changing?

Often times convention is one of the most important design consideration for user interface. Usually the advice goes to do it like Microsoft does. This is for three reasons: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If your users expect to click on a floppy disk icon to save, don't change the icon (even though some of them may have never see...

Why are there no longer Windows binaries for PECL extensions like pecl_http?

I'm working on a PHP project running on Windows and it would be so very handy to be able to use pecl_http rather than working with cURL and re-inventing the wheel in order to do all the cool stuff the pecl extenwion does like parsing headers and so forth. Everywhere I read (including the PHP site) is that the Windows binary for pecl_htt...

Why is Drupal writing to root and not sites/default/files?

I'm using Drupal 6.14 on Win7. Everything seems to work except files that should be written to sites/default/files are trying to be written to /. The site was moved from a linux installation, which is writing the files correctly. I have setup a web.config w/ the rewrite rules for drupal. Not sure what or where else I should check. Thanks...