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Facebook reimplements faster, lower load PHP

Facebook is releasing a source code transformer that boosts the performance of PHP.

Best Find: XAMPP

Another quick note: a great way to get Apache/PHP/MySQL and other products quickly, efficiently and properly installed on Windows Anything – XAMPP with its Control Panel.
Easy as pie.
Updated frequently.
Manage through its CP or via SCM.
Works great. Used it for multiple projects.

Interesting Concept: Scraping Bing

Just like other major search engines this requires some careful coding so as to not violate their policies and/or get your IP temporarily or permanently banned.
A set of proxies are a necessity. Lining up the urls and user agent is real easy.
http://www.fromzerotoseo.com/scraping-bing-serp/

Interesting Find: SublimeVideo

Check back on this on a rainy day – has the potential to replace flash video players by taking advantage of HTML5. They boast:
- Full-window mode
- Full-screen mode
- No browser plug-in
- Jump anywhere in the video without waiting for buffering.
The comments left on their blog (http://blog.jilion.com) are very favorable so [...]

Interesting Find: DevToaster.com

Very cool. Connect your iPhone to your cars ECU (computer) via WIFI or direct connect. Receive all sorts of information including vehicle speed, rpm, fuel consumption, engine temp/pressure, etc. Basically does what a mechanic gets paid to do – can even help diagnose engine light warnings.

Best Find: Compiled PHP

Looks like you can create a windows binary from PHP code.