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Category: Programming

Wikidata Code Review 2014

2014-04-04 Jeroen Leave a comment

One year ago we had the Qafoo guys come into the Wikimedia Deutschland office to review the software we had…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Code review, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, wikidata, WMDE

Big Ball of Mud

2014-03-17 Jeroen 3 Comments

A while back I somehow stumbled upon a little paper about the Big Ball of Mud patten. This was an…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Agile, Architecture, Big Ball of Mud, Clean Code, Legacy code, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software Craftmanship, Software Craftsmanship, Software design

DataValues library

2013-11-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

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

MediaWiki SubPageList rewrite

2013-09-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

How I ended up rewriting the MediaWiki SubPageList extension: At the beginning of this year, it was still somewhat controversial…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, MediaWiki, Refactoring, SubPageList

Profiling and logging in MediaWiki

2013-07-23 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this post I first describe the current approaches taken to logging and profiling in MediaWiki, then outline why these…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Logging, MediaWiki

Resolving a merge conflict on gerrit

2013-07-01 Jeroen 4 Comments

In this post I describe the solution I use to a common situation for people using gerrit. In other words,…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Gerrit, Git

New MediaWiki extension: Spark

2011-05-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

Yesterday I quickly wrote up a simple (but awesome) MediaWiki extension that allows you to make use of the Spark…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: JavaScript, MediaWiki, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, RDF, Semantic Web, Semantics, Spark, SPARQL, Wiki

New MediaWiki extension: Ratings

2011-05-07 Jeroen 6 Comments

A few weeks back I started work on a new MediaWiki extension to provide decent rating functionality. The reason: I…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: JavaScript, jQuery, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Open Source, PHP, Ratings

Some fun with Python

2011-05-05 Jeroen Leave a comment

Yesterday I for some reason decided to have some fun with Python by writing a simple script to Find Dead…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Aptana, Aptana Studio, GitHub, i18n, MediaWiki, Open Source, PyDev, Python

Pamela for Android

2011-05-03 Jeroen Leave a comment

A few days back I created my second ever Android application, basically a re-do of the first one that was…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: 0x20, Android, GitHub, Hackerspace, HSBXL, Java, Open Source, PAMELA

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