How Wikipedia Doubled Editing Speed Using HHVM
WikiMedia have a new blog and a great new experience on scaling writes for WikiPedia, by doubling editing speed using HipHop Virtual Machine. Having WikiPedia written in PHP is an advantage...
Fat-Free PHP Framework
Fat-Free is a modular and lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web application framework designed to help build dynamic and robust Web sites. It shows some resemblance to Ruby's Sinatra and PHP's Limonade,...
PHP for IoT and Embedded Systems
HHVM is now fully-functional on ARM hardware! Announced Max Wang in a blog post.The blog post which is deeply technical, explains in detail how HHVM ARM port have been implemented. You should guess that...
CiviCRM, or how PHP and Open Source can help NPOs and NGOs
CiviCRM is a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solution that could be easily integrated with the CMS of your choice such as Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress. It's specifically designed for the needs...
Behind the Scenes of Wikipedia’s Migration to HHVM
As we have previously announced, Wikipedia migrated its platform to HHVM and we have found some interesting details on their experience posted by Ori Livneh in a Wikimedia blog post. Today...
PHPStorm 8.0.3 EAP released
JetBrains PHPStorm team released version 8.0.3 in the early access program, adding mainly performance and bug fixes. Overall eleven issues fixed including two usability problems. Other changes from IntelliJ platform and...
Jade Advanced Templating Engine available for PHP
Jade is originally a template engine for NodeJS, now available for PHP also. Jade.php is a high performance template compiler heavily influenced by Haml and implemented for PHP 5.3.
Key features include...
Diablo in JavaScript and HTML5 !
You certainly know Diablo, but not sure if you saw the isometric minimal-code style version of the game using html5 canvas and javascript ! the latest update extracted one original level...
INISCAN, The PHP ini scanner for best security practices
Since the PHPSecInfo is no longer updated, there is a similar tool which is recent, updated and could provides you with common security best practices for your PHP installations. Written by...
PHPStan, PHP Static Analysis Tool
PHPStan is a PHP static analysis tool that focuses on finding errors in your code without actually running it. It catches whole classes of bugs even before you write tests for...