The slides from my talk on the Memcached extension are now available and can be downloaded from here: ipc_Memcached_2011.pdf Thanks to all the people who attended the talk and I really am looking for your feedback via Joind.in.

My slides for the "Hidden PHP Features" talk at ConFoo are now available at http://ilia.ws/files/confoo_2011_hidden_features.pdf. If you were at the talk, please give me your feedback/suggestions at: http://joind.in/2905.

Thanks to all the people who attended my talk on the APC and Memcached yesterday at Confoo. The slides are now available to download at: http://ilia.ws/files/confoo_APC_MEM2011.pdf If you have any feedback, or comments they would be much appreciated via Joind.In (http://joind.in/2806)

The 0.9.1 version of the Excel extension was released and is now available for download. This is mostly a bug fix release, with a number of contributions by Rob Gagnon. The 2 main fixes are related to detection of custom formatted numeric fields, that were incorrectly detected as dates and readRow()/readCol() methods that had a bug when 2 and 3rd parameters are supplied, causing the last row/column not to be read. Additionally a getSheetByName() method was introduced that allows locating a sheet by it's name in either case sensitive or insensitive form. GitHub: http://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/ Source: http://github.com/downloads/iliaal/php_excel/php-excel-0.9.1.tar.bz2

The past two information gathering runs showed that GoDaddy is the world largest ISP, but I was curious who else falls into the “Top ISP” category as determined by consumer shopping habits. To do this I’ve used my resolved IP database of 124 million domains and an ISP database from MaxMind. The results are pretty interesting, and it clearly shows that a small number of ISPs are definitely doing something right, which is causing many consumers to vote with their dollars in those ISPs favor. As usual the information is shown in graph form, to filter down the data to just the large providers I’ve set a minimum at 100,000 domains, leaving me with just 122 ISPs. The image below shows the break-down of the Top 25. If you click on it, you will be able expand the chart to 50,100 or the entire list in a form of a bar chart, or explore the pie chart that includes %s. Since we already know GoDaddy is #1, I will skip them over them and focus on the next largest 3. At #2, we have The Planet, a Texas based data-c...