Matthew Turland's Blog: Setting up EC2 for Drupal with Puppet
In this new post to his blog Matthew Turland shows how to set up a puppet configuration to deploy and set up an EC2 environment for Drupal. I'm currently working on a project that involves running...
View ArticleJuan Terminio's Blog: Setting Up a Debian VM, Step by Step
In this new post Juan Terminio shows you how to set up a new virtual machine (VM) that hosts a Debian system (replacing the setup of his previous tutorial for setup of a Ubuntu system) in VirutalBox....
View ArticleMatt Frost: Starting with Selenium (and Headless on a VM)
Matt Frost has posted a two part series of some of his experiences in setting up Selenium to execute it in a VM and run tests on your application. I was a little scared when it came to setting up...
View ArticlePHPClasses.org: Lately in PHP, Episode 27 - Running PHP code with JavaScript...
PHPClasses.org has posted the latest episode of their "Lately in PHP" podcast series - Episode #27, "Running PHP code with JavaScript and Python VM". PHP applications popularity is so high that...
View ArticleJustin Carmony: Vagrant & PHP: Our Success Story at the Deseret News
Justin Carmony has shared his success story about the use of Vagarant and PHP as a platform to make setting up and configuring developers' environments simple. Now-a-days, you have frameworks that...
View ArticleReddit.com: How do you manage many PHP projects? Lots of VMs?
On Reddit.com there's a discussion that centers around the management of VMs and PHP projects in a multiple-checkout environments. I have been using a Linux install for a couple years now and it has...
View ArticleAllan MacGregor: First steps on HHVM
In his previous post Allan MacGregor introduced the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and some of the functionality it offers. In this second part of the series sharing some "first steps" towards getting...
View ArticleJavaWorld.com: Facebook invents a PHP virtual machine
On JavaWorld.com there's a new article posted about an update Facebook has made to their HipHop virtual machine (HHVM) version that is supposed to execute PHP nine times faster than its normal rate....
View ArticleLiip Blog: HHVM with Symfony 2 looks amazing
On the Liip blog today Christian Stocker shares some of the interesting results he's found when working with Symfony2 on the HipHop VM (based on Facebook's work around the HipHop version of optimized...
View ArticleEngine Yard Blog: Alternative PHP Implementations
On the Engine Yard blog they've posted a guest article from PHP community member Chris Hartjes about some of the alternative PHP implementations that are out and available to the community. Many PHP...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Build Virtual Machines Easily With PuPHPet
On the SitePoint PHP blog today Matthew Setter introduces you to a tool that can help make the setup and configuration of your Vagrant/Puppet development environments a lot easier - PuPHPet. I can't...
View ArticleAlex Bilbie: Using Vagrant and Ansible for distributing educational course...
in his latest post Alex Bilbie shares a guide for the steps he follows to create virtual machines for an educational course using Vagrant and Ansible with a PHP+Apache environment set up and ready to...
View ArticleHHVM Blog: We are the 98.5% (and the 16%)
On the Facebook HHVM (HipHop VM) blog there's a recent post sharing some of their progress towards parity with the PHP language inside the tool (and the results of their "three week lockdown"). On...
View ArticleHipHop Virtual Machine Blog: Nightly Packages
On the HipHop Virtual Machine blog today they're announcing a new option for those that "just can't wait" to get the latest and greatest HHVM version - nightly packages. If you just can't wait to get...
View ArticleHHVM Blog: HHVM 3.1.0
On the HHVM blog today they've announce the release of the latest version of the popular project, version 3.1.0. This version fixes a few issues (including a segfault) and crossed into their...
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