We previously covered the final release of the IIS FastCGI module, jointly developed between Microsoft and Zend… But just this week, Microsoft (MSFT: $33.76 -0.50%) announced the availability of the RTM of the IIS FastCGI module.

So what’s going on? We’ve downloaded the current release (which, by the way, is not compatible with the old one, you must uninstall then install the new version) and checked the version number on \Windows\System32\inetsrv\fcgiext.dll - it came out to be 6.1.36.1.

By contrast, the version we downloaded and installed a month ago (which seems to have been dubbed the Go Live release) was checked and found to be 7.0.6001.16606.

Obviously the Go Live release was using the numbering from the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 releases, but it’s got us confused.

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During my usual surfing, I came across a cool free application that enables a 4 way display, like Ubuntu’s cube display, that let’s you use up to four virtual desktop for a more productive day of computing and such. I know this is not a tweak, but it’s so cool I immediately downloaded it and tried it. It’s fun, and also helps me get the most real-estate my desktop and monitor can cramp in, as my dual display configuration is getting a bit crowded. I tried experimenting on this, and yes it did enabled me to open more applications that I can handle in a day, Plus it’s cool to look at and gives me calmness.
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Shock 4Way 3D provides 4 virtual screens. It´s especially useful for notebook users and those with small monitors. This version is the OpenGL edition.

Congratulations are in order for Microsoft’s IIS development team - today they’ve just announced the public availability of the final version of the IIS-FastCGI ISAPI Extension - a long-awaited and much-improved way of running just about any open-source scripting engine on IIS, safely and quickly.

This FastCGI module for IIS 5.1, 6, and 7 (with Windows Vista and Server 2008) have been in the works for quite a while now, and we’ve been using them since the first beta release - they’re good. While the biggest benefit will be seen in using FastCGI w/ IIS7 to take advantage of the new kernel-mode caching, it’s still a huge improvement over the old way of running scripting engines for languages like PHP on Windows.

The Problem: Most open-source scripting engines like PHP and Ruby on Rails were initially developed on/for the *nix world. On Unix-based platforms, the easiest way of creating multi-threaded applications is just to run the same app twice or more (The CGI model). On Windows, that doesn’t work out so well, because it takes a lot more resources to create another process. So these engines released Windows-specific single-process multi-threaded engines; the only problem was, they weren’t stable. Too many race conditions in some very non-thread-safe code wreaked havoc on many Windows systems, with the PHP developers themselves giving “Stability on IIS” the lowest level of concern.

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