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Facebook still uses PHP, but it has built a compiler for it so it can be turned into native code on its web servers, thus boosting performance.

Yesterday and the day before, Sensio Labs organized the first Symfony2 online conference. It was a great success with more than 350 attendees (from over 35 different countries), and a dozen hubs around the world. Thankfully, the platform worked fine.

« on a presque l’impression que les utilisateurs d’Internet sont plus avancés techniquement chez eux que les départements IT avec lesquels ils travaillent. »

Feeds make it easy to follow updates to all kinds of webpages, from blogs to news sites to Craigslist queries, but unfortunately not all pages on the web have feeds. Today we're rolling out a change in Google Reader that lets you create a custom feed to track changes on pages that don't have their own feed.

Les patrons de l’IT ne sont pas avares de critiques à l’égard de leurs concurrents, quitte parfois à se montrer excessifs. Ballmer, Ellison, Gates, Jobs… Retrouvez quelques citations des principaux dirigeants du secteur.

One of the latest software errors that had widely noticed consequences was Google’s Gmail outage in February. The problem in that case was, according to Google, a bug in the software that distributed load between its different data centers. The Gmail outage only resulted in people not having access to their email for a few hours. No one got killed. Nothing exploded. It was an inconvenience, and while it was a significant inconvenience for some of Gmail’s users, it was still just that: an inconvenience. This article is about some of the more dire consequences of software errors through the years. Incidents that make the Gmail outage seem rather trivial.

Le secteur IT subit de plein fouet la crise économique. Les licenciements se multiplient sur tous les segments du marché. ZDNet.fr dresse, jour après jour, le tableau des sociétés en difficulté.

f you’re like us and have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this list. We have collected a list of posters that focus on interesting information rather than nice-looking sunsets. And of course all are computer and network related.