WordPress does Windows

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Josh Holmes is a UX Architect Evangelist at Microsoft.com, where he works hard to bridge the gaps that exist in technology adoption and Microsoft and open source projects. In the past, Josh used DasBlogML and he migrated it to WordPress quite easily. On the show, Josh shared with us many of the projects and contributions Microsoft is making to the WordPress community.  Among those plugins created by the Microsoft team is Windows Azure Storage for WordPress with is similar to Amazon Web Services or Rackspace Cloudfiles. Among the more interesting was learning how WordPress can be run using Microsoft SQL Server for the database store as shown on sites like oddlyspecific.com for example with performance enhancements. Josh also highlighted some of the steps Microsoft is taking to make deployment of their technologies easier using the Microsoft Web Platform, which is quite a solid offering.

For those of you that are diligent developers or up for a challenge you may want to try the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever.

In news:

• WordPress 3.0 release candidate is now available and looking good.
• Encourage constructive feedback for the developers that make the WordPress community so rich and free.

Plugin picks of the week:

• Changelogger Plugin
• DasBlogML