The influence that Facebook is having on the enterprise now goes beyond making the corporate world a more Web-oriented place – its impact now goes deep into the code.
Facebook announced this week that it has rewritten the PHP runtime, translating it to C++ (a more machine-readable language) which is then compiled with g++. This is no small feat. Facebook engineer Haiping Zhao said that the rewrite significantly reduced the CPU usage on its Web servers by an average of about 50% depending on the page …
Last time some websites reported that Facebook was planning to release a JIT compiler for PHP, a huge step toward making the PHP runtime – and PHP-based sites and apps – faster by taking the interpreted language (a.k.a., more human-readable code) a few steps closer to the bare-metal ones and zeros machines actually read.
We’ve been updated that the PHP runtime has in fact been rewritten, with an extra step: The PHP is translated to C++ (a more machine-readable language) which is then compiled with g++. This project, called HipHop, has been in development under great secrecy at Facebook for the past couple years and has just this morning been open sourced …
With the advent of information age, several efforts to streamline the development of web pages have come in to being. Different frameworks have distinct set of libraries, set of functionalities, capabilities and different objectives with which they are built …
With time some of these frameworks mature and thus become the standard in the developer community.
All these frameworks have some common themes such as reusability of pieces of code which are used frequently by the developers in their code, object orientation, providing simplicity of the structure of the code, and ease of coding allowing the developer to focus on the objective outcome of the job at hand without being cluttered by the intricate details of making simple things work out.
It is a bit too late to release the news because I just noticed it this morning. The next generation of script.aculo.us a well known, powerful and flexible JavaScript library is already in alpha release. Thomas Fuchs has announced the alpha release of script.aculo.us also known as scripty2. Scripty2 is designed to help you write your own delicious visual effects & user interfaces …
Web pages now-a-days seem to be flooded with fancy tab boxes, the cute animations or illustration that too without making the pages heavy to upload. The credit goes to jQuery which is believed to be the solution to all queries related to the development of Ajax based web application. For creating dynamic and interactive websites and web application jQuery is trusted and tried Java script library formula and better than the best. jQuery facilitates function and program access between JavaScript and Html codes …
Hypertext Markup Language better known as HTML is used to formulate structure documents with lingual as text, headings, paragraphs, lists and embedded links. Now, the creation of HTML 5 can be seen as a major leap in the world of mark-up languages …
Hyper text preprocessor (PHP) is a server side scripting language. Like others scripting languages this HTML embedded scripting language creates dynamic web pages.
One of highly useful language for web programmers to develop dynamically generated web pages fast, the language draws most of its syntax from Perl, Java and C with some unique features of its own …
While Rasmus Lerdorf was creating PHP in 1995 for his personal usage to make his home page interactive yet programmatically simple, he would not have even thought of the world wide utility and hype it could invoke among the techies. Originally an abbreviation for Personal Home page, it was not until 1997 when two Israeli developers rectified the original version and called it by the name its known today- Hypertext Preprocessor. The result was enormous. It was more- friendlier and functional than before. PHP got more advanced and hi-tech when Zend Engine added to it. This add-on upgraded PHP in terms of security and bugs-safety …
Oak…Err…Green…err Java. Not many languages in the computer programming history had gone through changes of names like Java had. Java was a brainchild of James Gosling who was working with Sun Microsystems then. It was in 1995 when Java saw the daylight outside Sun Microsystems chambers and the whole computer fraternity witnessed the first public release of the language which promised a hassle free inter operation on multi computer platforms …
