Reminder that this tech talk is tomorrow. Hope you can join! On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Rachel Farrand <[email protected]> wrote:
> Please join us for the following tech talk: > > *Tech Talk**:* Hack: An Evolution of PHP > *Presenter:* Josh Watzman from Facebook > *Date:* March 4th > *Time:* 1800 UTC > <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Hack%3A+An+Evolution+of+PHP&iso=20150304T18&p1=1440&ah=1> > Link to live YouTube stream <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXqdqUhxy8> > *IRC channel for questions/discussion:* #wikimedia-office > Google+ page > <https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/103470172168784626509/events/ckh4leo7qam35mc5560cr3d8qh0>, > another > place for questions > > *Talk description: *Although PHP has several features that allow > engineers to be extremely productive in it, it also has several rough edges > and pitfalls that cause problems (and often give the language a bad name). > This talk will introduce Hack, Facebook's dialect of PHP. Hack keeps most > of the PHP language -- all of the parts that make engineers so productive > -- but sands down several of the more problematic sharp edges. It also > introduces several new features, such as a simple yet extremely powerful > syntax for asynchronous IO, to make the language even more effective for > existing PHP programmers and newcomers alike. > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
