The people that know me have over the years *slowly* figured out that I’m a big whisky fan: I’m a member of the norwegian malt whisky association, me and some friends come together to taste whiskies and enjoy the flavors that it brings. If I have to choose I’d go for some Islay whisky, but tasting is fun, so every now and then I’ll gather up some notes when I taste something new or have had a tasting night with the nmwl or my friends.
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With the release of 4.4.9 PHP4 is now officially dead. What can I say? Nothing much really: it should die silently and we’ll move along with PHP5/6 and be happy!
Today I’ll look at some iterators: a set of classes in the SPL that implements various iterating patterns: ArrayIterator, AppendIterator, FilterIterator, LimitIterator and NoRewindIterator. Hopefully you’ll get a idea of what these are capable of and that you can get some new ideas for your day-to-day tasks.
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Today I will look at the Countable interface, it has a single function that needs to be implemented: count(), by implementing this you can ensure that there is a count() function ready to use on any given class that implements it. The Countable interface is used in other places in the SPL as well: the ArrayIterator and ArrayObject classes implements this interface ( and SqliteResult if present )
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Well, the testfest 2008 is wrapping up and a lot of the tests are now a part of the php distribution. php.no had a session where Hannes Magnusson introduced us to writing tests. I focused on some SPL areas that didn’t have coverage, and I got myself a elephant! ( check out the flickr group if you are unfamiliar with it)
The testfest is a great introduction to the internals of php and will teach you a lot when it comes to the behavior of the functionality you touch on, so next year: meet up at your local testfest and participate in getting the code coverage for php even higher ( or just digg into writing tests now! ).
Well, back from vacation out west at my parents house and a week at beitostølen. The first week was kinda bad with rain and really bad weather, but the final week I spent with some friends in a cabin doing some walking in the mountain area of Jotunheimen. Since I recently got a new Canon 450D and took a lot of pictures I’m posting some here.
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In this post I will look at SplObjectStorage: a container that allows to store objects uniquly without the need to compare them one by one.
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Congratulations to Trude and Marte from my track & field team ( gfil ) with silver and bronze in todays national championship in women’s hammer throwing competition!
Ok: why this interest in hammer throwing? Some people might not know, but I have a history that might have eluded some: I’ve been throwing hammer since I was 15 years old, I have one gold medal in the Norwegian championship for boys 16yo and actually was on the under 23 national team on one competition!
This week was actually sort of a “comeback” when it comes to hammer throwing for me: I had a session on tuesday night then went to a competition in Hyen on wednesday afternoon! Of course: I threw 45.5 meters on tuesday and only just over 43 on wednesday, but I was so sore after the tuesday night session that I was not able to throw any further ( note to self: don’t do that again… ). If my hand behaves ( I’ve had RSI for a long time that have prevented me from throwing ) I will try to get to the national championship next year, shouldn’t be too hard.
This leads to another question: am I the only programmer that also enjoys a good hammer throwing competition? Let me know!
Firebug is a tool I’m using on a daily basis, and the workgroup is now being built up. I was reading a post on ajaxian.com that John Resig will now spend 50% of his time on Firebug: Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team, he is also joined by Rob Campbell. With this team in place I think we will see a good improvement on Firebug and maybe even more extensions appearing in the near future.
As a programmer you will after a time start to recognize certain patterns, or things you have been doing in the past repeating itself over and over. You are not the first: a design pattern is a general reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem and will help you when it comes to solving your day-to-day programming.
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