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Facebook has announced “Hip Hop”, a PHP to C++ compiler stack that they hope will overcome some of the scaling and speed issues associated with PHP apps.  The video above lays out the reasons they started the project and the types of things they want to accomplish with it.  As a PHP developer, this project [...]

MySQL inventor Michael “Monty” Widenius shares his thoughts on the deal and its impact on MySQL. What could be Oracle’s plan with MySQL? Three different plans come to mind: They are going to kill MySQL (either directly or by not developing/supporting it fully) MySQL will get sold of to another entity, either because Oracle doesn’t [...]