Håvard Eide

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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The SplObserver class, together with SplSubject, provides a interface for implementing the Observer pattern.
To quote wikipedia: The essence of this pattern is that one or more objects (called observers or listeners) are registered (or register themselves) to observe an event which may be raised by the observed object (the subject). (The object which may raise an event generally maintains a collection of the observers.)
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PHP5.1 introduced a new file object, the SplFileObject, an object that can be used with any streams and implements RecursiveIterator & SeekableIterator for easy access to the stream iteself.

The documentation at php.net has the full API for the class, but to see how it behaves we will look at how this class can help us out with our day to day code.
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Welcome to eide.org!

I finally have updated the site with a new design and have started to update it with content, I will also, from now, blog here, and not on phpvolcano.com where I previously have kept a record of some sort. I will port some of the old stuff from phpvolcano.com and I will now keep a up-to-date blog here.

I have previously kept a wiki at wiki.cc, but will try to keep a list of those articles here instead ( too much spam and not enough time to manage a wiki ). So: I hope you will follow some of the articles I will write/port from the wiki here in the near future.