I was surprised to know that Facebook runs on PHP.
It also uses C++ and Java in places, but it’s the fact that it uses the little scripting language that could (PHP) is what is interesting. Aditya Agarwal of Facebook describes how the social networking giant does it in a presentation at QCon SF 2008.
The story [...]
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Of late, there isn’t just one version of MySQL being used anymore.
First, there’s the version of MySQL offered at mysql.com by the former MySQL, AB, which was bought by Sun for one billion dollars.
Then, there’s MariaDB being offered by Monty Widenius, former head at MySQL, AB.
Percona claims to be the high-performance MySQL version.
Then, there’s Drizzle, [...]
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Linux.com reports that OpenOffice will offer PDF editing in the next version.
Linux.com :: OpenOffice.org extension will add PDF editing
This is interesting in that OpenOffice has been in the forefront of PDF support: It offered “export to PDF” in previous versions, which was available in Microsoft Word only through third-party plugins.
What’s even more interesting is so-called [...]
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