Introduction HipHop for PHP transforms PHP source code into highly optimized C++. It was developed by Facebook and was released as open source in early 2010. HipHop transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then compiles it with g++ to build binary files. You keep coding in simpler PHP, then HipHop executes your source code in a...

Chive is a free, open source, web-based database management tool, designed to bring joy to web developers – with easy administration, super fast UI and state of the art web technologies. Why should you give it a try? Rich User interface. Chive is web-based and takes advantage of the capabilities of modern web browsers. See the screenshots for...

Much awaited credit card size $25 computer Raspberry Pi is about to go in production early next year. First run beta devices are currently being tested. If all goes well, you will be able to purchase it in January. If you don’t know, Raspberry Pi can plug into your TV and a keyboard. It can be used for many of the things your desktop PC does,...

Yes! Ceylon Ceylon is a programming language for writing large programs in a team environment. The language is elegant, highly readable, extremely typesafe, and makes it easy to get things done. And it’s easy to learn for programmers who are familiar with mainstream languages used in business computing. Ceylon has a full-featured Eclipse-based...

In Think Big, which emanates from the last chapter of his best-selling Gifted Hands, Dr. Ben Carson prescribes his personal formula for success. And who could better advise than one who transformed his own life from that of being a ghetto kid with problems in school to becoming the most celebrated pediatric neurosurgeon in the world? With an acrostic,...

YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build a search portal for their intranet or to help search the public internet. When contributing to the world-wide peer network, the scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users in the world and can index billions of web pages. It is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network...

Someone asked on Facebook how to connect to a MySQL Database Using C++. So I thought it will be cool to just share it here for everyone. Download Source Ground Work Here is how things look like on my computer. OS:  Ubuntu 11.04  ( Linux legacy 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux) DB: MySQL 5.1 ( mysql...

The transition from a plan-driven to an agile process affects not only the development team members, but also other teams, departments, and management. The authors describe common pitfalls and effective approaches to making this change. Writing Great Software using Agile Framework series has forced me to read more and more about the subject. And when...

This is a team like no other team: there are no predefined roles, anyone can do anything and yet among all the chaos, confusion, and lack of formal hierarchy, high-performing agile teams somehow seem to regularly produce quality software. But then what makes the agile team work? What are the characteristics of good agile teams? How are agile teams different?...

As far as the customer is concerned a working product is more important than anything documentation we can write. So as developers we need to always ask our selves, “What would it take to deliver something of value each and every week?” we want to deliver a something of value to the customer every week Deliver Something of Value Every Week A...