PHP has been facing the music for quite a while now, but nothing like this! The developers at FaceBook, the most popular social networking site in the world, are perhaps in the best position to test the limits of PHP, and that is exactly what they are doing.As their latest open source release, FaceBook brings to you HipHop for PHP. A new way to improve the performance of PHP applications by compiling PHP code -- indirectly. PHP is one of the most popular server side scripting languages for creating web applications, however that has not absolved it of its performance issues. To a website like FaceBook performance issues are especially important as even a 1 per cent performance gain can lead to great savings. Their latest release tackles these performance concerns by converting your PHP...

While you're still figuring out how to get your Hackintosh up and running, here's someone who's actually managed to get Mac OSX running on the Nokia N900! There is truly nothing a geek cant accomplish once their minds are set on it.Using a version of the PearPC emulator compiled for maemo on N900, Mac OSX managed to run, but at a snail slow pace, taking as long as 90 minutes just to boot up! ...

Mozilla Weave a project aimed at bringing synchronization features to Firefox has now been released in its final version.Like the synchronization features added in Google Chrome, and the one present in Opera called Opera Link, Mozilla had in its plans a synchronization feature for Firefox. For now Weave is available as an add-on, however the plan is to have this integrated as a native feature of the browser.One of the best things about Weave is that it allows you to use your own server for synchronizing with, and the server side component of this synchronization engine, along with source code, is also available. Most people will prefer to just use the default Mozilla servers though.As people begin to use a greater number of computers and computing devices, the fragmentation of...