Microsoft

I've made a good progress this week. The things I've done are:

• Built basic features of fundraising module
• Installed PHP and Drupal on IIS (finally)
• Learned a bit about Silverlight and tried out the developer tool

Fundraising module

As mentioned in my previous blog post, I decided to use PG API as the basis of the fundraising module. It is light-weight and yet it provides good enough payment handling features.
As of now, the fundraising module:

• Allows admin to enter the amount for donation amount options

The past two weeks had been a bit frustrating. Apart from falling ill and spending few days in bed, we haven't been able to set up Drupal on IIS.

Problems installing Drupal on IIS

The problem is that, when Drupal's installer runs, I get this error message:

Blogging about the project's progress and Microsoft's tools is one of the requirements so I'll be blogging about these topics weekly.

Here's a list of things I did last week (w/c 1/March/2010):

1. Researching on existing payment modules
2. Configuring the IIS server

1. Researching on existing payment modules

A couple of months ago I was approached by Robert Castelo of Code Positive if I would be interested in working with Microsoft to build some useful Drupal tools for charities and NGOs. Since I work exclusively with charities as a Drupalista, there were no reasons to decline. I was also interested in getting in touch with Microsoft to know what they have to offer.