Thanks to everyone who participated today! If you missed that talk and would like to view the recording, here is the link: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXqdqUhxy8 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqXqdqUhxy8>* It has been released under a creative commons license.
If you have any questions about today's talk please feel free to get in touch with Josh Watzman <jwatz...@fb.com>. Because there was so much interest today I will work with Josh to potentially set up a part II sometime in the future with more time for questions. You can check out past tech talk recordings at the MediaWiki YouTube page here: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg4wlhlN8RjP6_e_vMC4CTA If you have an idea for a future tech talk that you would like to nominate (or see what we have coming up), please add your suggestions here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event/TechTalks Please feel free to email me with your ideas as well. :) Thanks! On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Rachel Farrand <rfarr...@wikimedia.org> 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 Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
