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Readable Functions: Do One Thing

2018-10-30 Jeroen 3 Comments

Several tricks and heuristics that I apply to write easy to understand functions keep coming up when I look at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functional Programming, Functions, Immutability, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

Review of Ayreon: The Source

2017-06-06 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this post I review the source code of the Ayreon software. Well, actually not. This is a review of…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Ayreon, Music

Quotes: Entropy, the final enemy of all things

2016-01-16 Jeroen Leave a comment

Recently I wrote about the books I read in 2015, and promised a post with quotes I particularly liked. These…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Entropy, EntropyWins, Literature, Quotes, Science fiction

(Hello Clojure)

2015-10-15 Jeroen Leave a comment

A few weeks ago I started learning Clojure. My experience so far has been fantastic. Why Clojure At SoCraTes 2015,…

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Posted in: Programming, Uncategorized Filed under: Clojure, Functional Programming, Katas, Lessons learned, LISP

Empower people around the world with microloans

2014-07-12 Jeroen Leave a comment

In 2011, I created on account on Kiva.org, a website that facilitates microloans. The basic idea being that you lend…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: kiva, microloans

I did not do it again!

2014-02-15 Jeroen 2 Comments

TL;DR: At some point I lost the database of this blog. I can’t recall the reason or the exact date,…

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MediaWiki extensions to define their MediaWiki compatibility

2014-01-02 Jeroen 5 Comments

Over the past year support for real dependency management has been gradually added to MediaWiki and selected extensions. This support…

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

PHP Framework Interoperability Group

2013-12-31 Jeroen 1 Comment

Those who have worked with me in recent history know that I’m rather passionate about reuse and interoperability. Holding that…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Interoperability, PHP, PHP-FIG, PSR, Semantic MediaWiki, SMW, Wikibase, wikidata

Funding for MediaWiki Markdown extension

2013-12-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

There currently appears to be no really solid markdown extension for MediaWiki. I have some ideas for one, which are…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Funding, Markdown, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, PHP

Wikibase DataModel released!

2013-12-23 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the 0.6 release of Wikibase DataModel. This is the first real release of this component. DataModel?…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Component, Open Source, PHP, Refactoring, Release, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

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