Zuck’s engineers unveil formal spec based on PHP 5.6
A group of Facebook developers has decided to break with 20 years of tradition and release a formal specification for the PHP programming language.…
Quicker, easier to fly to MOON than change web standards … OR IS IT?
Snail’s pace system might be forced to speed up
Programming the Web, Pt. II It took the United States eight years to put a man on the Moon. That was time between John F Kennedy’s call to Congress in 1961 and Neil Armstrong getting his boots dirty on the lunar surface, in July 1969 – 45 years ago this month.…
BlackBerry lands feature-light BBM on Windows Phone
Solid port, but Beta lacks vid chat and other extras
The wait for BBM on Windows Phone is over. BlackBerry has brought its pioneering and much-imitated messaging app to Windows, following launches on Android and iOS last year, albeit with the “Beta” label.…
Microsoft: IE11 for Windows Phone 8.1 is TOO GOOD. So we’ll cripple it like Safari
Grudgingly supports quirky features so sites look right
The forthcoming Windows Phone 8.1 Update will include plenty of tweaks and fixes for Internet Explorer 11, and while many of them are designed to improve the browser’s web standards compliance, Redmond says others are designed to do exactly the opposite.…
What the FLOCK? Addictive ‘Flappy Bird’ is back – and it’s coming for your family
What a time to be alive
Pic Infuriating yet stupidly popular crapp Flappy Bird has officially returned, it appears – and it’s now a multi-player game called Flappy Birds Family. It’s available for free for Amazon’s set-top box, the Android-based Fire TV.…
Red Hat rallies hardware makers with 64-bit ARM server partner program
Standards sought for low-power data center kit
Red Hat has upped its commitment to support servers based on the ARM processor architecture, with the formation of a new partner program specifically for vendors of 64-bit ARM hardware for the data center.…
AMD dangles 64-bit ARM code developer kit over, well … developers
Sample Seattle for $3,000 minus change
AMD has been promising shipments of its 64-bit ARM-based server chips, code-named “Seattle”, for the end of the year but now you can get hold of one with the firm’s latest developer kit release.…
Oracle: That BUG in our In-Memory Option will be fixed in October
Don’t worry, though … it’s probably (mostly) harmless
After much back-and-forth on blogs, Twitter, and online forums, Oracle has admitted that there is a bug that can cause its new in-memory database option to be reported as being in use when it’s not, although the actual risk it poses remains unclear.…
Fiendishly complex password app extension ships for iOS 8
Just slip it in, won’t hurt a bit, 1Password makers urge devs
AgileBits wants more apps to use 1Password’s strong passwords, and has released an extension on github to that end.…
PEAK LANDFILL: Why tablet gloom is good news for Windows users
Sinofsky’s hybrid strategy looks dafter than ever
Analysis “Everything points to a boom in the landfill business – The Register, 2012…