Unless you have been under a rock, out in the wild trying to find yourself or too enthralled with the fact that Lost is back, then you’ve heard of HipHop PHP.  The twitterverse and blogs have been exploding with what they think of HipHop PHP.

For all of you who haven’t really heard, HipHop was created by Facebook to help them scale…I guess they have a lot of users or something.  Essentially HipHop compiles/translates PHP (script language) into compiled C++.  This makes good speed improvements, decreasing CPU usage.  As a lot of other developers have mentioned, this seems really cool and beneficial. Read the rest of this entry »