On Tuesday, February 2nd, Facebook announced a new runtime for PHP, called HipHop. It was rumored that this project was an under the table sort of thing. However it turns out, HipHop is not just a runtime, it’s also a new webserver and has been powering 90 percent of Facebook’s servers for months now.
Archive for the ‘development’ Category
Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 06:36 am GMT -5Installing Alterative PHP Cache (APC) with Plesk on Ubuntu
Friday, July 24th, 2009 04:02 pm GMT -5Alternative PHP Cache (APC) is a PHP accelerator. PHP accelerators are extensions built to increase the performance and decrease the load time of software applications written using the PHP programming language. Most PHP accelerators work by caching the compiled bytecode of PHP scripts to avoid the overhead of parsing and compiling source code on each
Plugin News
Monday, June 8th, 2009 03:50 pm GMT -5I’ve updated all my plugins to be compatible with WordPress 2.8. There are still the lingering bugs that affect some people but not others. Here’s the latest news and updates regarding the plugins. Actionable Actionable has been languishing for a while now and needs some attention. Among the work that needs done it to the
WordPress Developer’s Toolbox
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 12:13 pm GMT -5Smashing Magazine has a very lengthy article they published recently called WordPress Developer’s Toolbox and it’s pretty impressive as well as exhaustive. I’m probably going to pull all the resources apart and sling them into a set of toolbox pages with additional information as I can provide here. I’d really like to see the thing
