This past week, the DCPHP Developers’ Community had the privilege of hosting Scott MacVicar from Facebook. His title is “Open Source Developer Advocate” which puts him in the odd position of making good things happen within Facebook, representing them to the community, and convincing the community to get involved. Towards that goal, this presentation was […]

Facebook’s Jason Sobel explains how the social media giant improved their overall end-user performance. This in-depth look at what they did provides a roadmap for any site facing heavy traffic. Oh—and they show you t-shirts you can’t have.

Anyone developing with PHP quickly learns that PHP’s ability to generate HTML is both a blessing and a curse. While PHP supports the ability to generate dynamic websites and HTML, it often creates kludgy and difficult code. Facebook, one of the world’s largest consumers of PHP and fresh off their announcement of HipHop, has noted […]

It’s another episode of the php|architect podcast! This week, we’re chatting with Ben Ramsey, who joined Cal and Marco at Facebook’s headquarters to hear about their new open-source technologies.

The topic: HipHop—Facebook’s new PHP-to-C++ compiler that promises up to 50% CPU savings over the traditional PHP runtime and has stirred up a debate across the entire community.

Facebook’s HipHop is a game changing-technology for companies deploying large scale applications written in PHP.

Blue Parabola and php|architect are working on supporting HipHop with a series of new initiatives, ranging from content to consulting.