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Category: Programming

PHPCS and PHPMD: my experiences

2015-02-20 Jeroen 1 Comment

PHPCS (PHP Code Sniffer) detects violations against a specified coding standard. PHPMD (PHP Mess Detector) is a similar tool, though…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Code Quality, composer, Continuous Integration, MediaWiki, Open Source, PHP, PHPCS, PHPMD, Planet Wikimedia, Quality Assurance, Refactoring, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, WMDE

Wikibase DataModel 1.0

2014-09-02 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the 1.0 release of Wikibase DataModel. Wikibase DataModel is the canonical PHP implementation of the Data Model…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Release, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

SoCraTes 2014

2014-08-11 Jeroen Leave a comment

Last week I attended SoCraTes 2014, the 4th International Software Craftsmanship and Testing Conference in Germany. Since this was the…

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Posted in: Events, Programming Filed under: Conference, Event, Planet Wikimedia, SoCraTes, Software Craftmanship

Doctrine QueryBuilder table alias

2014-08-02 Jeroen 2 Comments

The Doctrine project, best known for its Object Relational Mapper, also includes a database abstraction layer, used by the ORM.…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Database, DBAL, Doctrine, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia

Some fun with iterators

2014-07-14 Jeroen 5 Comments

Sometimes you need to loop over a big pile of stuff and execute an action for each item. In the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Batching, Iterator, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Wikibase, wikidata

Wikibase and Doctrine DBAL

2014-05-06 Jeroen 2 Comments

When I started writing this blog post, I realized some introduction to the query components was first due. You can…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Architecture, DBAL, Doctrine, MediaWiki, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software design, SQLStore, Wikibase, Wikibase Query, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata

The Wikidata phase3 software components

Jeroen 2 Comments

Work on the long awaited query functionality for the Wikidata project has already happened during a period of several months.…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Ask, Components, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase Query, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata

Nyan review

2014-05-04 Jeroen Leave a comment

Code review is fun!

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Code review, NyanCat, NyanData, PHPUnit, Planet Wikimedia, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

Wikibase DataModel: Entity v2

2014-04-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

In a recent blog post I introduced the new Term classes introduced in Wikibase DataModel 0.7.3. It also outlined plans…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Components, Free software, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

Wikibase DataModel 0.7.3 released

2014-04-14 Jeroen 1 Comment

I am happy to announce the 0.7.3 release of Wikibase DataModel. Wikibase DataModel is the canonical PHP implementation of the…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Release, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

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