G. Andrew Duthie

About G. Andrew Duthie

G. Andrew Duthie, aka devhammer, is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed. Andrew has been participating in the user group community since way back in 1997, when one of his co-workers dragged him out to the Internet Developers User Group in Tyson's Corner, VA, and he's been hooked ever since.

Andrew is also the creator and developer of Community Megaphone, a site designed for promoting and finding developer community events.

Andrew can be reached through his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/. You can also follow Andrew on twitter.

Install, Customize and Deploy Your Joomla! App (and other apps) on Windows Quickly and Easily with Web PI and Microsoft WebMatrix

It might surprise some, but Microsoft has been quietly working hard over the last few years to make Windows the best place to run Joomla! and other PHP- and ASP.NET-based applications, with investments in PHP performance and caching, as well as projects to make it easier to deploy and configure PHP-based applications on Windows.

In this lunch session, Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie will show you how the Web Platform Installer, the Microsoft App Gallery, and Microsoft WebMatrix, currently in beta, combine to make it very easy to install, configure, and customize an instance of Joomla!, and also to quickly find hosting and publish your Joomla! app to your web host.