DevShed: Integrate Facebook Comments Code with Wordpress or PHP
On DevShed today there's a new tutorial showing you how to integrate Facebook commenting with your PHP application via the Facebook Connect API. Facebook comments are a great way to optimize your site...
View ArticleCasey's Blog: Make Your Life as a PHP Developer Twice as Easy With phpsh
In his (Python) blog today Casey reminds the developer community about a handy tool that the developers at Facebook have made available to make a PHP coder's life easier - phpsh. The developers at...
View ArticleVentureBeat.com: Exclusive: Facebook opens up about open-source software
On VentureBeat today there's a post (the first of two parts) looking at Facebook's involvement in Open Source software, including their work on HipHop and XHP for PHP (an interview with David Recordon...
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: Talking to Facebook's Social Graph with PHP
On PHPBuilder.com there's a recent post showing you how to connect your application with Facebook's graph API and grabbing the current user's public profile information. In recent years, [Facebook's]...
View ArticleDZone.com: Speed Up Your PHP Like Facebook
On DZone.com John Esposito reminds you about another technology Facebook has introduced to the world of PHP (besides HipHop) - XHProf, a PHP profiler. Facebook did more for PHP: they also created...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Wrangling with the Facebook Graph API
On the NetTuts.com site today they have a (very complete) guide to help you wrangle the Facebook Graph API and make it useful for your application. It makes use of the official Facebook PHP SDK to...
View ArticleXPertDeveloper.com: Get Facebook Page Detail Using Graph API and PHP
New from the XPertDeveloper.com blog there's a tutorial showing how to use the Facebook graph API to get page details via a simple cURL request (cURL PHP support required for the example). Here is the...
View ArticleServer-Side Magazine: 10 Questions with Facebook Research Engineer - Andrei...
The Server-Side Magazine site has posted an interview (10 questions) with Andrei Alexandrescu, a research engineer currently working at Facebook. Today we caught up with Andrei Alexandrescu for a "10...
View ArticleNerds Central: Facebook Moving To The JVM
According to this new post on Nerds Central, there's been speculation that Facebook, needing even more of a performance boost than hiphop gave them, is moving into using PHP in a JVM. The presence of...
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: Oauth Authentication for Social Apps in PHP
On PHPBuilder.com today there's a tutorial introducing you to OAuth and how to use it in your PHP applications. Oauth is an open standard for authorization that allows secure authorization from web,...
View Article/Dev/Hell Podcast: Episode 34 - Is Sara Pissed?
The /Dev/Hell podcast has released their latest episode - #34 - Is Sara Pissed? In this new episode hosts Ed Finkler and Chris Hartjes talk with guest Sara Golemon, a PHP developer (both with the...
View ArticleAllan MacGregor: An Introduction to HHVM
Allan MacGregor has posted a (high level) introduction to the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) that was created by Facebook to address some of their PHP-related needs inside their platform. It sacrifices...
View ArticleJavaWorld.com: Facebook invents a PHP virtual machine
On JavaWorld.com there's a new article posted about an update Facebook has made to their HipHop virtual machine (HHVM) version that is supposed to execute PHP nine times faster than its normal rate....
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Using Facebook's Realtime Updates and Subscription API
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial showing you how to use the Facebook API and get real time subscription information and updates using this code as a base. Facebook's real-time updates allow us...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: CurlFile and the Facebook SDK in PHP 5.5
Phil Sturgeon has a new post to his site today looking at a new feature that's included with PHP 5.5, Curlfile, and how he uses it with calls to the Facebook API (and a fix to make it cooperate). One...
View ArticleCodeception.com: Working with PHPUnit and Selenium Webdriver
On the Codeception site they've recently posted a guide to using PHPUnit and the Selenium Webdriver to easily create functional tests for your application. They make use of the php-webdriver library...
View ArticleHipHop Blog: Faster and Cheaper: The Evolution of the hhvm JIT
On the HHVM (HipHop Virtal Machine) blog there's a new post that looks at the evolution of the HHVM JIT compiler since the project started about four years ago. When the hhvm project was started...
View ArticleLukas Smith: The future of PHP .. at a distance
In his latest post Lukas Smith looks at what he sees coming for PHP and its community as well as some thoughts about the current state of the language and ecosystem around it. To me it feels like PHP...
View ArticleEngine Yard Blog: Alternative PHP Implementations
On the Engine Yard blog they've posted a guest article from PHP community member Chris Hartjes about some of the alternative PHP implementations that are out and available to the community. Many PHP...
View ArticleDoctrine Project: Our HHVM Roadmap
The Doctrine project has posted an update about the work being done in collaboration with and to help its performance with HHVM (the HipHop VM from Facebook) and talking about their future plans....
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