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

A litte tardy, but better late then never. The slides from my talk on Memcached extension are now up and can be downloaded from here: ZendCon_Memcached_2010.pdf Thanks to all the people who attended the talk and I really am looking for your feedback via Join.in ;-).