HipHop for PHP – what now ?
6 months ago, Facebook unveiled Hip Hop, with impressive performance gains.
The announcement corresponds to reality, reducing CPU consumption by about 50%. But the team did not stop there, and was successful in optimizing a bit more speed and thus performance. Although the code is open source and begins to be deployed to other PHP projects like Drupal, MediaWiki, phpBB, WordPress.
Scott of Facebook shows the direction of the next estimates as support for FreeBSD and 32-bit environments or as Mac OS X.
Source : Facebook's Engineering Note
Bye bye TYPO3 4.1 !
TYPO3 4.1 is officialy announced as dead.
So you're invited to upgrade to a newer version.
TYPO3 4.1.15, 4.2.14, 4.3.5 and 4.4.2 announced
A small post only to say that 4 new versions of TYPO3 are available for download:
- 4.1.15
- 4.2.14
- 4.3.5
- 4.4.2
JavaFX 1.3.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1 for JavaFX available
There is not a lot of major features but a large package of bugfixes.
Read the release notes
Available on javafx.com
Joomla! Community Magazine
The Joomla! Project proudly announces the August 2010 Issue of the Joomla! Community Magazine. The magazine is a collection of articles and illustrations highlighting events and accomplishments of the free software community behind Joomla!, an award-winning open source content management system.
Convert file to utf-8 on Unix based OS
A little snippet that I needed today. I didn't found what I needed so I wrote it.
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cp originalFile backupFile
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iconv -f fromEncoding -t utf-8 originalFile > originalFile
Cheers 
WordPress 3.0.1 available
This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues. The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had.
Download WordPress 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area.
Source : WordPress announce
WordPress : PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!
First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
Source : WordPress official post
The Computer History Museum released the source code of MacPaint
MacPaint is a software for creating and editing bitmap developed by the company Apple.
MacPaint made his first appearance in 1984 with the first Macintosh 128k and the software is the most impressive one, MacPaint is a software that is known to Apple in the '80s with new novel, with MacPaint so just use the mouse to paint, draw, erase, color, select, erase ... You click on one of the tools and then used in the work area. At that time the software was unique and he was also capable of creating images for use in other applications.
MacPaint is written in Pascal and contains 5822 lines of code and 4,000 lines of assembler for Motorola 68K in 5 files. It weighs 67.8 k0.
The sources are provided with MacPaint those of QuickDraw, the graphics creation library.
Source : http://www...seum.html
Joomla 1.6 beta 5 available
The Joomla Project is proud to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6 beta 5 (download). IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a beta version and is not intended to run any type of production site. It is intended to be used for evaluation purposes only.
Since the Joomla 1.6 beta 4 release on Jun 28, we have fixed approximately 65 issues in the tracker. Much of this progress is directly related to the stepped up efforts of the Joomla! Bug Squad. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us one increment closer to stable!
See the CHANGELOG for details of what has been changed in this release.