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
Facebook launches location-based service-shared “Places”
In a press conference organized by invitation in the head of Facebook in Palo Alto, California, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled the new geolocation service Facebook.
Dubbed "Places", it will enable users to share their social networking sites more easily and discover which of their "friends" are in the same region.
This service will focus on mobile devices from which the members can post and update their geolocation.
The social networking giant has played the cautious this time and included from the outset, control over the visibility of this information adjusted default to "friends only".Users can include friends with whom they are, and the information will be published following the same system used for tagging photos. Once a place "tagged", it becomes permanent on Facebook, although it may be deleted by the user who posted first.
If a trade or business, its owner can reclaim his property.
Zuckerberg did not specify how to control or planned administration in this case.
Facebook officials have explained that a comprehensive API for reading and writing research will be offered to developers.
This service can be integrated with third party applications.
The logo of the service, representing a "4" in a square (in English and Four Square), puts the rumors about the future of the Foursquare between acquisition, partnership or single glance.
Source : Facebook's blog
Yahoo announced an agreement with Facebook
Yahoo and Facebook have announced an agreement between their two sites.
In fact, their services are now linked in some ways. A user with an account on both platforms, and can see the notifications relating to its activities on a site, appear on the other.
In addition, users of certain services offered by Yahoo (such as Flickr or Yahoo Answer), can more easily share their data will be housed with their Facebook friends.
They will also be possible to update both their Yahoo profile and their Facebook profile into a single action, since both pages are linked. Yahoo Profiles will be renamed Yahoo Pulse, and their privacy settings (about fashionable!) Will be improved and simplified.
Source: Press Release
Spip 2.1 is out
The new version of SPIP 2.1 is out. After a long wait, this new version brings huge changes.
This new version opens to the modularization of functionality in the form of extensions and plugins, as proposed by all the other CMS.
But Spip has also undergone other changes as an improvement of the cache, more security. It is also compatible with PHP 5.3 and includes the library Jquery 1.4.2 and 2.8.2 pclzip.
It is now more flexible and more structured with an improved debugging.
A statement of this new version is available.
Twitter for Android
Twitter officially announces Android application, what rekindling fears of independent developers?
Twitter has just made available its formal application for devices running Android. As promised by the leaders of social network, it's free.
Her widget appears on the home screen and the user allows direct visualization of his tweets on a map or in its address book, view its flow, etc..
The application also syncs contacts.
It only works with Android 2.1 (and versions later).
She was co-developed with the team and Android integrates the various functions of the phone as well as third party applications.
The developpers have serious internal plate on Twitter integration at different levels of the OS in order to access.
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Argggg. Spam, spam and spams !
Less than one year that I've opened my blog and I already have more than 1000 spams caught !
A hacker sentenced to 20 years in jail for datas stealing
After a long deliberation, it is a heavy verdict was delivered several months late on the date announced in early trials.
Remember in late 2009, we had talked of Albert Gonzalez, the pirate who stole more than 130 million numbers of credit cards.
At his trial, he had finally decided to plead guilty.
The attacker was disturbed 28 years of the sentence awaiting him, but he expected a sentence too heavy?
On Thursday, he was sentenced by a court in Boston (Massachusetts) to twenty years imprisonment.
This is the highest penalty ever imposed for piracy data
The 28 year old man did not stop in so good way, and it will compare this weekend to charges of conspiracy, computer fraud and identity theft for other acts of piracy.
His sentence could thus extend to 5 years.
American justice has wanted to make this case an example, as explained by Judge Patti Saris: "Even if you have any remorse (...), I must send a message, given the enormous cost of your crime" .
Albert Gonzales was most hidden one million dollars in the garden of her parents. Amount he has returned to the authorities to repay some of his victims.
Gonzales wanted to put 15 million dollars later, bought a yacht and retire. It will take, for sure, but in the shade.
Source : developpez.com
Google Wave Notifications
Remember Google Wav
e? No, not Google Buzz — Wave, that other social information pump that Google launched last year. It’s hard to blame you if you don’t. While Google’s goals are ambitiouswith Wave, many users couldn’t figure out what to do with it, or why they needed it in their lives. Perhaps more importantly, it was basically impossible to know if someone was talking to you in Wave unless you had it open all the time. Not anymore.
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