"php" entries

Developer Year in Review: Programming Languages

Java's wild ride, multicore drives functional, and a look at how the usual programming suspects stacked up in 2010.

This year brought confusion and chaos in the Java space, continued growth for functional languages due to the attack of multicore, and the usual popularity for all of the dynamic languages we know and love.

Four short links: 21 June 2010

Four short links: 21 June 2010

Internet Explained, Crowdsourced TV, PHP Visualisation, Google Shell

  1. Law of Success 2.0 — a blog of interviews with famous and/or interesting people, from Brad Feld to Uri Geller.
  2. Pioneer One — crowdsourced funding for TV show, perhaps a hint of the future. Pilot shot for $6,000 which was raised through KickStarter. Distributed via BitTorrent.
  3. DrasticTools — PHP/MySQL visualisation tools, including TreeMap, tag cloud, hierarchical bar chart, and animated list. (via TomC on Delicious)
  4. GoogleCL — command-line interface to Google services. At the moment the services are Picasa, Blogger, YouTube, Contacts, Docs, and Calendar.

What Facebook’s HipHop means for developers and businesses

O'Reilly PHP author Kevin Tatroe puts Facebook's PHP project in context

Facebook claims to have reduced CPU usage by 50 percent with its HipHop for PHP project, and now it's releasing the code as open source. O'Reilly author and PHP expert Kevin Tatroe digs into HipHop's applications beyond Facebook.

What Facebook's HipHop means for developers and businesses

O'Reilly PHP author Kevin Tatroe puts Facebook's PHP project in context

Facebook claims to have reduced CPU usage by 50 percent with its HipHop for PHP project, and now it's releasing the code as open source. O'Reilly author and PHP expert Kevin Tatroe digs into HipHop's applications beyond Facebook.