Now’s your chance to put those skills to the test, going toe-to-toe with Canada’s best and brightest web developers during the FTW! Coding Competition. Choose your weapon…ahem…language and platform to develop the next great Canadian Web App. Walk ten paces, turn, and…dazzle the country with your incredible new app!
Zend Technologies, the PHP Company, today announced the general availability of Zend Server 5.0, a major new version of the company’s PHP Web application server. New Code Tracing technology in Zend Server 5.0 enables PHP developers and administrators to slash problem resolution time by up to 50%. For the first time, users have visibility into the behavior of their code in production environments,
The Apache Software Foundation Announces the 15th Anniversary of the Apache HTTP Web Server. ASF Flagship Project is World's Most Popular Web Server, Powering More than 112 Million Websites
Open source programming and Microsoft: two incompatible worlds? Microsoft is partnering with renowned actors of the open-source community to organise the Jump In! Developers' Camp in an effort to combat this misperception. Twenty-five knowledge-hungry open source application developers from all over Europe will be invited to spend four unforgettable days of dialogue, networking and workshops at t
PHP might have put the "P" in LAMP - the all open-source server stack - but on the desktop, it seems that those using PHP generally prefer the "W" to the "L."
In a recent study from Zend Technologies, forty two per cent of PHP programmers named Windows as their primary development operating system. Linux came second, with 38.5 per cent, while Mac's OS X was third on 19.1 per cent.
In a recent study from Zend Technologies, forty two per cent of PHP programmers named Windows as their primary development operating system. Linux came second, with 38.5 per cent, while Mac's OS X was third on 19.1 per cent.">
This month not much changed in the index. Objective-C and Go are still scoring all time highs, while staying close to each other. There are 4 programming languages that have a realistic chance of entering the top 20 next month. These are educational language Scratch, functional language Erlang and JVM languages Scala and JavaFX Script.
This morning Facebook announced, as had been rumored for several weeks, a new, faster, implementation of PHP. To someone, like me, who loves dynamic languages and virtual machines this type of announcement is pretty exciting, after all, if they have some new techniques for optimizing dynamic languages they can almost certainly be ported to a language I care about. However, because of everything I
In the need for speed, Facebook had been working under the hood to boost PHP runtime to crazy levels which were not possible before. Facebook has now Open sourced the underlying code, as predicted.
One of the key values at Facebook is to move fast. For the past six years, we have been able to accomplish a lot thanks to rapid pace of development that PHP offers. As a programming language, PHP is simple. Simple to learn, simple to write, simple to read, and simple to debug. We are able to get new engineers ramped up at Facebook a lot faster with PHP than with other languages, which allows us
The reported Facebook release of a PHP compiler optimized for high-volume transaction services (like Facebook) is yet more evidence the company takes its open source responsibilities seriously.
The rumors have been flying over what's going on over at Facebook headquarters. The word has been that a PHP team was brought in and made to sign non-disclosure agreements before discussing a PHP project that has been in development for the past two years. Alex Handy, senior editor of the Software Development Times Blog, predicted last Saturday that Facebook "has rewritten the PHP runtime from sc
PHP offers a light-weight runtime for small-to-medium sized webapps. If you are not a PHP developer, you will be surprised to know that PHP doesn’t support multithreading natively, though there are ways to make it possible. People have often come up with solutions to mock multithreading but still PHP sucks at performance as far as large applications are concerned.
Last year, I ran a series of polls via Twitter to try and learn a bit more about your plans to move to PHP 5.3, and whether or not you actually followed through. A huge thank you to everyone who voted!
Russia Now Stands Between Oracle and Sun. With the European Commission expected to approve the Oracle-Sun deal next week, Russia has suddenly leapt into the fray. The Russian Federal Anti-Monopoly Service, (FAS) has opened an investigation to get more information on the merger and specifically mentions MySQL. There's no telling how long another investigation could take, but Monty Widenius, who's
PHP Zeitgeist is a new initiative to show the trends on what PHP developers have been looking for year after year. It is somewhat similar to Google End of the Year Zeitgeist. This article explains in detail what is this initiative and how you can take advantage of the information that it provide to keep up with the latest trends in the PHP development market and improve your career.
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