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Facebook Rewrites PHP Runtime For Speed

Thursday, February 4th, 2010 06:36 am GMT -5

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.

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Installing Alterative PHP Cache (APC) with Plesk on Ubuntu

Friday, July 24th, 2009 04:02 pm GMT -5

Alternative 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

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Lightbox Plus Plugin 1.5.x Issues and Updates

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 11:47 am GMT -5

Issues with Lightbox Plus 1.5.x upgrades.

Plugin News

Monday, June 8th, 2009 03:50 pm GMT -5

I’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

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WordPress Developer’s Toolbox

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008 12:13 pm GMT -5

Smashing 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

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