performance enhancements

In the run-up to an expected spring launch of Photoshop CS6, Adobe has started posting teaser videos on YouTube that demonstrate some seriously awesome functionality.

Today, following up from the critically acclaimed introduction of Content Aware Fill and Heal in CS5, Adobe demonstrated Content Aware Move and Extend.

Maarten Balliauw has a new post announcing the release of the latest Windows SDK for Azure for PHP, version 4.

We look into some of the new features/additions/changes in the 2.6.38 kernel. In a nutshell: think performance enhancements, additional capability, and additional management options. Continue reading →

InternetNews.com: "There are many performance enhancements that went into 2.6.38, Transparent Hugepages is one of those noticeable features."

ars Technica: "Google has issued a new stable release of the Chrome Web browser and is rolling it out to users.

The new version introduces some noteworthy JavaScript performance enhancements, new plug-in security features, improved support for synchronization, and a new user interface for managing the browser's settings."

Red Hat press release: "Back in April, we began talking about the development road toward the availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 when we delivered the first beta of the platform, with noteworthy improvements spanning performance enhancements to new security features to expanded virtualization capabilities"

Developer.com: "Key to Google's Web application development effort is its Google Web Tools (GWT) applications, which became open source in 2006.

This week, Google debuted GWT 2.0, which provides new developer workflow improvements as well performance enhancements."

TechRepublic: "Today, Fedora 12 was released (November 17, 2009). This is perhaps one of the most significant Fedora releases to date, for a few reasons.

A lot of performance enhancements under the hood make this a much more tightly optimized release for x86 (32bit) systems."

Brandon Savage has a new post to his blog today with a few tips on some "micro" optimizations you can make to your PHP applications to improve performance and make for better maintainability.