OS Symbian became free and opened

On February, 4th developers of mobile operational system Symbian entirely will open initial codes and will make OS free, writes Wired. The publication of initial codes was carried out for four months earlier, than it was planned initially.

Symbian Foundation plans...

Together with codes developers will publish plans on development Symbian for the period till 2011. Foreign developers can affect these plans or add new functions.

The noncommercial fund Symbian Foundation uniting more of 50 companies, OS Symbian working over development as open platform, has been created at the initiative of Finnish corporation Nokia by summer of 2008.

Symbian Limited for Nokia Co.

In December of the same year Nokia became the owner of developers of OS, Symbian Limited. In some days representatives of the Finnish company have promised to open initial codes Symbian within two years. It has occurred after Google has published source codes of mobile operational system Android.

Now Symbian it is used on 330 million mobile devices, mainly in phones Nokia.

Facebook has transformed PHP in C ++

Developers Facebook have promulgated project HipHop for PHP which transforms a code in language PHP into a code in language C ++. Last is compiled in the usual appendix which is carried out much faster, than the scenario on PHP. All interested persons can take part In project development — Facebook has opened an initial code.

HipHop for Facebook

HipHop for PHP has helped the largest social network with the world twice to lower loading on the processor and to accelerate display of 400 billion PHP-pages in a month. Requirements to number of servers, and consequently, and company expenses thereby have considerably decreased.

5 thousand tests

Working out HipHop for PHP has occupied two years. Now the project contains 300,000 lines of a code and has passed over five thousand tests. HipHop for PHP works with some restrictions, forbidding some too difficult for transfer on C ++ or slow designs PHP.

PHP — one of the most popular languages of web working out. It is used more than on 20 million sites, including on such resources, as Wikipedia, Yahoo! And Digg. Facebook — one of the most visited sites actively applying PHP. Its audience exceeds 350 million persons.

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