In an effort to learn more about IIS (which a number of my students and contracting contacts seem to use), I have decided to challenge myself: To design, build, and launch a PHP based site, and receive at least 1,000 unique visitors a day by Feb 28, 2008, served from an IIS7 server.
Details after the jump
What's the goal?
To learn about IIS7, it's all well and good to shout "apache is better, faster, more secure and free" then stick your head in the sand, but I'd like to know what's happening on the other side of the fence. This way I will be in a better position to help students, and contracts with IIS issues.
What will you be coding in? Expression Web? Visual Studio?
Likely neither, I lack a development machine running windows. I do most of my fun coding on the couch on a mac laptop. I could use the testing server I mentioned, but I don't want to sit in the office at a desk during my free time. So likely Komodo & Zend Studio. I could buy a crappy laptop rather than a crappy desktop but: I want to do performance testing which needs a real hard drive, and they're more expensive. I'm not spending hours coding in parallels unless my MBP gets an upgrade.
Did Microsoft make you drink the kool-aid while you were down there?
Not unless it tastes remarkably like vodka
What happens if you don't make it?
I'm open to suggestions.
What happens if you do?
Also open to suggestions, I'm leaning towards drinking.
Why FFAQ? Fake?
In order for questions to be asked frequently, the topic must first be presented. Any time you see a FAQ on a just launched page, the questions were made up, not asked frequently.
Details after the jump
Assets:
- One smart-ass programmer with enough idiocy to throw down the gauntlet, pick it up, then slap himself across the face with it.
- One kick ass designer
- One license for IIS7 + OS that I can use locally for development
- An Idea!
- One sneaky ninja cat
Required:
- One local testing server (I'll buy one on sale from some crappy online retailer)
- Hosting (apparently I can get free IIS7 hosting for a while)
- Time
- Using PHP as the scripting language to power the site (Not phalanger or some other fakery)
- Blogging about the issues I encounter
Idiocy
- Timeframe
- Hit count
- Having never used IIS
FFAQ (Fake Frequently Asked Questions)
To learn about IIS7, it's all well and good to shout "apache is better, faster, more secure and free" then stick your head in the sand, but I'd like to know what's happening on the other side of the fence. This way I will be in a better position to help students, and contracts with IIS issues.
Likely neither, I lack a development machine running windows. I do most of my fun coding on the couch on a mac laptop. I could use the testing server I mentioned, but I don't want to sit in the office at a desk during my free time. So likely Komodo & Zend Studio. I could buy a crappy laptop rather than a crappy desktop but: I want to do performance testing which needs a real hard drive, and they're more expensive. I'm not spending hours coding in parallels unless my MBP gets an upgrade.
Not unless it tastes remarkably like vodka
I'm open to suggestions.
Also open to suggestions, I'm leaning towards drinking.
In order for questions to be asked frequently, the topic must first be presented. Any time you see a FAQ on a just launched page, the questions were made up, not asked frequently.
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those questions you ask yourself , that what make the FAQ so Frequently .
those questions you ask yourself , that what make the FAQ so Frequently .
Hey, interesting project. I will be following it closely. This will give you clear points of comparison between both technologies.
Good Luck
Good Luck
sounds like fun to me! 
Let me know if you have any questions!
Let me know if you have any questions!
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