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PHP array() is a little scary

Push 100,000 elements onto a PHP array() where each element is a four element associative array (a hash in Perl speak). Here’s the data being pushed: array( ‘owner’ => 100, ‘host’ => ‘www.example.com.co.uk’, ‘path’ => ‘/this/is/an/example/path.html’, ‘hostkey’ => ‘1111’ ) The memory grows by over 80 megabytes. Pushing takes less than a second or two […]

June 19, 2012 | Startups | 8 comments

Hidden Data in The Spanish Economic Crisis

Spain has been all over the press this weekend with a 100 Billion euro bailout agreed to by   Eurozone finance ministers. I spent the last three days in Spain and I find the coverage I’m reading somewhat disconnected with reality. I drove down to Madrid from where I live in Southern France and spent […]

June 10, 2012 | Startups | 4 comments

My name is Mark Maunder. I've been blogging since around 2003 when I started on Movable Type and ended up on WordPress which is what I use to publish today. With my wife Kerry, I'm the co-founder of Wordfence which protects over 5 million WordPress sites from hackers and is run by a talented team of 36 people. I'm an instrument rated pilot and I fly a Cessna 206 along with a 1964 Cessna 172 in the Pacific Northwest and Colorado. I'm originally from Cape Town, South Africa but live in the US these days. I code in a bunch of languages and am quite excited about our emerging AI overlords and how they're going to be putting us to work for them.