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Meet the latest open source software developer: Facebook?
kguske writes "
That's right. Facebook is a technology company, serving billions and billions of pages each week (actually, over 100 billion per week, but I couldn't resist a nod to Carl Sagan and McDonald's). And doing so efficiently. So it should come as no surprise that the company has developed some unique software. On Feb. 2, the company released HipHop for PHP.
What is HipHop for PHP? Facebook describes it as:
...a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP's runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.
This is a fascinating look behind the scenes of arguably one of the most successful websites ever (and certainly, one of the most successful PHP-based websites). But do so quickly before Google, Oracle or someone with higher revenues and / or stock valuation decides to snatch Facebook up...
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Posted by Raven on Thursday, February 04, 2010 @ 00:12:14 EST (448 reads) ( | Score: 0)
InfoWorld compares 8 PHP IDEs
kguske writes "
InfoWorld reviews 8 PHP integrated development environments (IDEs): ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. Comparison factors include ease-of-use, tools, web & SQL support, documentation, installation and value.
And the winner is...
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Posted by Raven on Wednesday, February 03, 2010 @ 20:48:20 EST (652 reads) (Read More... | 868 bytes more | Score: 0)
DESCRIPTION: Multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in PHP, some of which have unknown impacts and others that can be exploited by malicious users to bypass certain security restrictions and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks and cause a DoS (Denial of Service). The vulnerabilities are reported in versions prior to 5.2.12.
Posted by Raven on Friday, December 18, 2009 @ 02:33:31 EST (838 reads) (Read More... | 1767 bytes more | Score: 0)
Phpnuke PhpInfo for Admins Only
floppydrivez writes "Just a very small hack I came up with to allow only logged in admins to see.
We all know that the phpinfo function can be very helpful to determining server variables and also a security risk to leave on your server. Anyway, read the full details below.
Posted by Raven on Saturday, January 10, 2009 @ 06:45:11 EST (896 reads) ( | Score: 0)
PHP Upgrade Improves Windows Support
nb1 writes "PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) 5.3, a significant upgrade to the server-side scripting language for Web applications, is expected to be available in a beta release in October, a representative of the PHP community said on Wednesday.
Version 5.3 features improved support for Windows, said Andi Gutmans, who is participating in the development of the release and is CTO at PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies. Gutmans spoke about the release during an interview at the company's ZendCon 2008 conference in Santa Clara, Calif. on Wednesday afternoon.
"The community has worked on creating a much better binary package for PHP on Windows, which includes the latest [Microsoft] compilers," to benefit performance, Gutmans said. Additionally, more recent third-party libraries are featured for running PHP applications on Windows, with support for XML, graphic manipulation and database access.
Namespaces, which allows mixing and matching PHP code from various sources, is highlighted in 5.3. This feature enables better maintenance and reuse, Gutmans said. "It allows you to modularize your applications for better maintenance and it makes it easier to use various frameworks together," he said.
Posted by Raven on Saturday, September 20, 2008 @ 21:33:25 EDT (903 reads) ( | Score: 0)
PHP 5.2.6 Released
[01-May-2008] The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.6. This release focuses on improving the stability ofthe PHP 5.2.x branch with over 120 bug fixes, several of which are security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.
Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.6:
* Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
* Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
* Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
* Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
* Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
* Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6
Posted by Raven on Friday, May 02, 2008 @ 12:57:49 EDT (1271 reads) ( | Score: 0)
2006 DC PHP Conference: NukeEnthusiasts should attend
NukeEvangelist writes "2006 DC PHP Conference - Nuke-Evangelits should attend - any takers. {see more infos over at PHP.net ]
[06-Sep-2006] The 2006 DC PHP Conference group is pleased to announce our speaker and schedule lineup. The conference is taking place in downtown Washington, DC, USA at the L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, October 19-20, 2006.
There will be presentations and networking opportunities in the heart of the public sector.
Well we need some enthusiasts and NukeEvangelists to attend. We need to have some
folks in the Washington DC Area to attend the show. Any takers "
Posted by Raven on Friday, September 08, 2006 @ 00:21:16 EDT (1337 reads) ( | Score: 0)
PHP 5.1.6 Released [24-Aug-2006] :: celebrate the great network of success
NukeEvangelist writes "The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.1.6. This release contains a fix for memory_limit restriction on 64 bit systems that was not included in PHP 5.1.5.
celebrate one of the biggest open source develpment groups in the php-world. Celebrate the 200 000 developers, helpers, supporters, users and friends that run PHPNuke
yes: the php-devs that work on php are one of the supportergroups that we can rely on. That is fantastic. celebrate one of the most powerful groups with a big big success-story."
Posted by Raven on Monday, August 28, 2006 @ 08:17:57 EDT (1129 reads) ( | Score: 0)
Lead PHP developer quits
nb1 writes "One of the lead developers of the PHP Zend Engine, as well as a lead developer for the thread safety system and other core components of the PHP project, has quit. The developer, named Jani Taskinen, has been involved in in the PHP project for six years. In a post to the php-internals mailing list, Jani stated "Thank you all for the last 6 years or so. It has been fun (sometimes) and many times not so much fun. Unfortunately I have had enough and I don't want to be associated with this project anymore." . Jani has been a big contributor to the project, and this news will most likely have an impact throughout the PHP community
Posted by Raven on Friday, July 28, 2006 @ 22:16:38 EDT (1437 reads) ( | Score: 0)
PHP Version 4.4.2 was released - a new release: get your copy today
nukeevangelist writes "PHP 4.4.2 - yeseterday released
the PHP-development team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.4.2. This release address a few small security issues, and also corrects some
regressions that occurred in PHP 4.4.1. All PHP 4 users are encouraged to upgrade to this release. Some of the key changes of PHP 4.4.2 include:
HTTP Response Splitting has been addressed in the header() function. An XSS problem inside the error reporting functionality has been removed.
Apache 2 regression with sub-request handling on non-Linux systems has been fixed. A regression with the key() and current() functions have been fixed.
Over 30 various bug fixes.