June 2010
Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world’s largest site | Royal Pingdom
by 1 otherFacebook 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.
Blog | Symfony2 Online Conference | symfony | Web PHP Framework
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.
January 2010
Official Google Reader Blog: Follow changes to any website
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.
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