Code || Theory

Scott Guthrie is telling us about IIS. Not to be a wiseacre, but snooooooze.

There is a tangential mention of an actually interesting thing, the MS SQL Server driver for PHP. We will get a whole session about that tomorrow.

"Free visual web developer express edition"

Strange that got mentioned, when it is "An ideal environment for new Web developers" according to the Microsoft web site.

Silverlight! This actually relates to work, except that we would probably never use it because we're so anti-Microsoft. With good reason, of course, because wmv files gum up the works on the Whole site: they are kind of a dead end, format-wise.

They have a Silverlight demo: