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We told you about HipHop a while back and we were pretty excited about it. Now Facebook have decided to develop a virtual machine to allow dynamic translation and faster results than their previous interpreter based approach. This is paving the way for further performance improvements and ease of development. You can read the full [...]

Stage Gear – General Site Improvements Stage Gear needed a number of aspects of their OSCommerce site improving, including the look and feel, the addition of SEO URLs to improve site ranking, improving search on the site and adding basic Facebook integration. Stage Gear Stage Gear is a company that specialise in retailing sound and [...]

Very interesting this one: http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?story=358&blog;=1 With HipHop we’ve reduced the CPU usage on our Web servers on average by about fifty percent sounds good to me HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses [...]

Just came across this blog post featuring a PHP helper class for Facebook application developers. Not something I am planning on getting into for the moment but its bound to come up at some point.. More… New Facebook Blackberry Application Coming SoonFacebook Marketplace: First Real CL Challenger « Screenwerk More Reading:PHP Virtual Machine – HipHop [...]