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Month: November 2013

My adventures with autoloading in PHP

2013-11-28 Jeroen Leave a comment

This post has as audience developers and will provide readers with insights on how to cleanly autoload classes in PHP.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Autoloading, composer, Lessons learned, Library, MediaWiki, PHP, PHPUnit

Upgrading an extension that now uses Composer

2013-11-24 Jeroen 2 Comments

This blog post is aimed at users of the MediaWiki software that have extensions installed, and want to upgrade one…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: composer, Extension management, Maps, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Open Source, PHP, Semantic MediaWiki

Introduction to Composer for MediaWiki developers

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This post aims to be a quick start guide for MediaWiki extension developers that want to get their extension to…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: composer, Extension management, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, packagist, PHP, Planet Wikimedia

DataValues library

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Last week I released the first version of the DataValues library. This blog post serves as an introduction to that…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Component, composer, DataValues, Geo, Iri, Library, Maps, Number, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Release, Semantic MediaWiki, SMW, Software, Time, WikiData Posted in Programming

ParamProcessor 1.0 released

2013-11-22 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the first release of the ParamProcessor library. ParamProcessor is a parameter processing library that provides a…

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Ask 1.0 released!

2013-11-17 Jeroen 3 Comments

I’m very happy to announce the first release of the Ask library. The Ask library is a fresh PHP implementation…

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Presentation: The S in STUPID

2013-11-15 Jeroen Leave a comment

In about two weeks, I will be giving a presentation about static code at 0×20, the Gent hackerspace. This is…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Clean Code, Object Orientated, OOP, Presentation, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, SOLID

Maps moved to GitHub

2013-11-13 Jeroen Leave a comment

I just spend some time moving the Maps extension for MediaWiki to GitHub. The reason for this is that it…

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New database abstraction layer for MediaWiki

2013-11-01 Jeroen 1 Comment

Disclaimer: the views and opinions expressed in this blog post are my own, and do not reflect those of Wikmedia…

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