Reminder, this talk starts in 30 min. If you are going to be watching live using the YouTube link remember to also follow along on IRC so you can ask questions if you have them!
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
