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Category: Programming

Is Pair Programming worth it?

2016-05-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

Every now and then I get asked how to convince ones team members that Pair Programming is worthwhile. Often the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Agile, Extreme Programming, Pair Programming, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship

I T.A.K.E. 2016

2016-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

Last week I attended the I T.A.K.E. unconference in Bucharest. This unconference is about software development, and has tracks such…

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Posted in: Events, Programming, Software Filed under: Agile, Architecture, Clean Code, Conference, itake, Leadership, Metrics, Mocks, Pair Programming, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, Teams, Testing, unconference

5 ways to write better mocks

2016-05-13 Jeroen 5 Comments

In this post I share 5 easy ways to write better mocks that I picked up over the years. These…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Encapsulation, Maintainability, Mocks, PHP, PHPUnit, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Test Doubles, Testing

Missing in PHP7: Nullable return types

2016-03-05 Jeroen 2 Comments

This is the fifth post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about Collections. This is a…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Nullability, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Type hinting

Missing in PHP7: Collections

2016-02-22 Jeroen 2 Comments

This is the fourth post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about Value Objects. In this…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Collections, OOP, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Type hinting

Missing in PHP7: Value objects

2016-02-03 Jeroen 5 Comments

This is the third post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about named parameters. A Value Object…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, OOP, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Value objects

Missing in PHP7: Named parameters

2016-02-01 Jeroen 8 Comments

This is the second post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about function references. 2020 update: named parameters…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Functions, Named parameters, OOP, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Python, Software design

Missing in PHP7: function references

2016-01-30 Jeroen 3 Comments

This is the first post in my Missing in PHP7 series. Over time, PHP has improved its capabilities with regards…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Functions, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software design

Missing in PHP7

Jeroen 7 Comments

I’ve decided to start a series of short blog posts on how PHP gets in the way of creating of well…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Software design

Replicator: Wikidata import tool

2016-01-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the first release of Replicator, a CLI tool for importing entities from Wikidata. Replicator was created…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: EntityStore, JSON Dump Reader, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia, Plugins, QueryR, Release, Replicator, TermStore, Wikibase, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata, Wikidata dump

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