It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server.

The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# web services back to the SQL Server.

Like the online booking, the AJAX layer is based on "The Ultimate AJAX object" by Patrick Hunlock, which I’ve found to be one of the only objects that elegantly supports concurrency.

It uses concurrent AJAX, calling a lightweight PHP+XML web service layer to communicate with a Microsoft SQL Server.

The management application that the staff at the Links use to administer the bookings is written in C#, using C# web services back to the SQL Server.

The AJAX layer is based on "The Ultimate AJAX object" by Patrick Hunlock, which I’ve found to be one of the only objects that elegantly supports concurrency.

Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any POSTed values were lost, so no forms could be used.

I thought all was lost until yesterday, I stumbled across an article on Microsoft’s IIS site.

This walkthrough will guide you through how to enable “Pretty Permalinks” for blog posts in the WordPress blog engine installed on IIS 7.0. Typically, without URL rewriting functionality on a Web server, WordPress users have to use “Almost Pretty” URLs (for example, http://example.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/). This was the primary option for users who chose to host WordPress on IIS. Now, with the URL rewrite module available, you can have “Pretty Permalinks” (for example, http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name/) for WordPress blogs hosted on IIS 7.0.

This solved all my problems for a major project I’m involved in. It involves the URL Rewrite Technical Preview that can be found here.

[Via: IIS.net]

The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images.

I’ve zipped up the code here.

Anyway, I decided to do one myself. I’ve zipped up the code here and I’ve hosted it on my employer’s server here.

Give me a shout if you find an errors or improvements.

The WordPress plugin I chose is this one by Semiologic.

A very valuable tool if you’re interested in site usage statistics.

It can be found at http://www.7a.bb-network.org.

…the deal will mean that PHP programs will run on past and future versions of Microsoft Web server software including the upcoming Longhorn.

Zend’s co-founder, Andi Gutmans, said that while PHP has always worked on Windows it never performed very well. The deal will mean that technical improvements by Zend and Microsoft to make it easier to run PHP on Windows.

It’s about time PHP got the recognition we all know it deserves.

[Via: The Inquirer, Slashdot]

It’s working out really well so far, so keep up the good work guys.

[22-Dec-2005] Update: I took it off cause, in the end, it was guff.