As part of my on-going domain informatics coverage, I am now publishing some additional information that I’ve been able to gather in the last few days. I am making available two additional geographic chats that breakdown the domain distribution by top world cities. The first chart a preview of which can been below (click to see full, browse-able/zoomable version) shows the Top 150 cities, by domain distribution. These cities represent a total 91.3% of some 102 million domains that could be resolved to a city level. The most popular city in the world, with 26.4 million domains calling it home is Scottsdale, Arizona in United States. Which is not entirely surprising, given that it is the hometown on GoDaddy, world’s largest domain provider/hosting company. This coincidentally means that Arizona, which had won the US state domain count contest with 26.7 million domains in our previous round of statistics, is entirely due to GoDaddy. The 2nd largest city is San Francisco, with a respectable 14.3 million d...

I recently re-started the process or aggregating PHP usage data and first sample of small dataset (about 10 million domains) has been the subject of my PHP Advent article. Now, I've started the process of collecting the data on the full data set which comprises of 124 million domains that represent the entirety of .com, .net, .biz, .info, .us, .sk and .org TLDs. The first step of the process has been resolving all of these domains, which is now complete. The next step is fetching the server information, which began, but will take some time to finish. However, even from the domain revolving data there is a lot of useful data to be gleamed, which is what I am now publishing. My first focus was on the world-wide distribution on these TLDs, which at least for me held a few surprises. First of all, unsurprisingly US has the most domains hosted on its soil, however its sheer overwhelming of other countries is quite impressive, and stands at just over 89 million domains, 71% of all domains!. In 2nd place is...

The 0.9 version of the Excel extension was released and is now available for download. This version was updated with support for LibXL 3.1.0, and introduces a number of new methods that can be used to manage repeating of printable rows, creation of named rages, and summary positioning. GitHub: http://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/ Source: http://github.com/downloads/iliaal/php_excel/php-excel-0.9.0.tar.bz2

The slides from my talk at Forum PHP on the topic of "APC & Memcached" are now up and can be downloaded here: Barcelona_APC_MEM2010.pdf Thanks to the all the listeners, who hopefully were able to keep up with a the slightly rushed timing of the presentation and I am really sorry that there was not much time for questions, if you have any, please catch me during the conference, I'll be happy to answer them. As always feedback (good or bad) is much appreciated via Joind.In at: http://joind.in/2107

My slides for the "Hidden Features of PHP" talk that I've given at ZenCon 2010 are now available at: zendcon_2010_hidden_features.pdf Thanks to everyone for listening, and I look forward to feedback at: http://joind.in/talk/view/2270