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Facebook officially announced a long-rumored project it has been working on called HipHop for PHP, a source code transformer application. According to the announcement, HipHop is a code transformer that turns PHP code into “highly optimized C++.” By using HipHop on their servers, Facebook has been able to reduce CPU usage by over 50%, and substantially increase the speed of their pages. All without giving up the “rapid pace of development that PHP offers.”

As the announcement notes:

Microsoft is set to move its Windows Azure cloud platform to a a commercial production stage.

Microsoft is offering the full, production-ready version of Azure as of the PDC, adding capabilities such as variable virtual machine sizes to accommodate different-sized services. The full Azure platform also supports platforms such as Java and PHP.

PHP is the most widely-used language for programming on the web. Here are thirty best practices for beginners wanting to gain a firmer grasp of the fundamentals.

Back in July, a tweet from Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP, foreshadowed his departure from Yahoo.  This week he announced, via another tweet, that he finally quit.  Since his July tweet surfaced the same day Yahoo announced the outsourcing of it's search techology to Microsoft, there's

In this paper, Stefan Esser discuss the different protections an attacker faces in hardened PHP environments, after succeeded in executing arbitrary PHP code. He introduce new techniques to overcome most of them by the use of local PHP exploits. He demonstrate how info leak and memory corruption vulnerabilities can be combined to enable PHP applications to read and write arbitrary memory. He will show step by step how important memory structures can be leaked and manipulated in order to deactivate or overcome protections.

Yahoo released Traffic Server, a high-performance HTTP 1.1 proxy server. It fills the need for a fast, extensible and scalable HTTP 1.1 proxy and cache. We have a production proven piece of software that can deliver HTTP traffic at high rates, and can scale well on modern SMP hardware. We have benchmarked Traffic Server to handle in excess of 35,000 RPS on a single box. Traffic Server has a rich feature set, implementing most of HTTP/1.1 to the RFC specifications.

Amazon extended its Web services offering today with an on-demand relational database service that provides the equivalent of a MySQL database. The relational database service makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.