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Category: Programming

Clean Architecture + Bounded Contexts

2018-08-14 Jeroen 5 Comments

In this follow-up to Implementing the Clean Architecture I introduce you to a combination of The Clean Architecture and the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Bounded Contexts, Clean Architecture, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, Maintainability, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture

Bounded Contexts in the Wikimedia Fundraising Software

Jeroen 3 Comments

In this follow-up to rewriting the Wikimedia Deutschland fundraising I tell the story of how we reorganized our codebases along…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Bounded Contexts, Clean Architecture, Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, Fundraising, Legacy code, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software Architecture, WMDE

Clean Architecture: UseCase tests

2018-08-01 Jeroen 1 Comment

When creating an application that follows The Clean Architecture you end up with a number of UseCases that hold your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Architecture, Clean Code, Coupling, Design patterns, Maintainability, Mocks, PHP, PHPUnit, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Test Doubles, Testing, Unit testing

Guidelines for New Software Projects

2018-05-09 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I share the Guidelines for New Software Projects that we use at Wikimedia Deutschland. I wrote…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Wikimedia, WMDE

Collaboration Best Practices

2018-02-22 Jeroen 2 Comments

During 2016 and 2017 I worked in a small 3 people dev team at Wikimedia Deutschland, aptly named the FUN…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Agile, Extreme Programming, Planet Wikimedia, WMDE

PHP project template

2018-01-20 Jeroen 1 Comment

Want to start a new PHP project? Perhaps yet another library you are creating? Tired of doing the same lame…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Katas, Open Source, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia

Introduction to Iterators and Generators in PHP

2017-10-16 Jeroen 2 Comments

In this post I demonstrate an effective way to create iterators and generators in PHP and provide an example of…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Collections, Generators, Iterator, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Rewindable Generator

Yield in PHPUnit data providers

2017-10-09 Jeroen 1 Comment

Initially I started creating a general post about PHP Generators, a feature introduced in PHP 5.5. However since I keep…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Generators, Iterator, PHP, PHPUnit, Planet Wikimedia, Testing

The Fallacy of DRY

2017-09-06 Jeroen 13 Comments

DRY, standing for Don’t Repeat Yourself, is a well-known design principle in the software development world. It is not uncommon…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design patterns, Design principles, DRY, Planet Wikimedia, Software design

Generic Entity handling code

2017-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I outline my thinking on sharing code that deals with different types of Entities in your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Architecture, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Design patterns, Domain Driven Design, Entities, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design, Strategic Design, Wikibase, WMDE

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