Bravo, sir. Bravo.

Wow, you're being really generous calling it "pr0n for the mind". More like special effects pr0n!

Not that surprising if you've read the book "The Accidental Billionaires". They specifically mention that there is one person dedicated to writing a PHP compiler and compiling all Facebook PHP.

Also, I don't understand why they don't use one of the currently available PHP compilers, phc or Roadsend. It's possible they started their initiative earlier, but they should have announced it and possibly prevented some duplicate work.

Where are my mod points when I need them? This post is right on.

I'm a little suspicious as to why the computers need to return to IT for backup and reformatting. Sounds like they need a better tool for backups. The higher ups might have a really good reason to not follow this policy.

Just curious, where did you get this info? The USGS thinks differently.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/ash/health/index.php

Plus you can compile over ssh.

It's nice to be able to compile a local directory with M-x compile, then you can jump to errors in the offending file from the *compilation* window.

You can also set to do remote compile from emacs by putting something similar to this in your .emacs:

;; remote compile support
(setq remote-compile-host "hostname")
(setq remote-shell-program "/usr/bin/ssh")
(setq default-directory "/home/username/compileDir")

No you can compile on the remote host AND bring up offending files from the compile output window with the click of a button.