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Status of the new Wikibase (de)serialization code

2014-03-20 Jeroen 1 Comment

A quick update on the status of the new serialization and deserialization code for Wikibase, the software behind Wikidata. For…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Component, deserialization, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, serialization, Wikibase, wikidata

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

Semantic Extra Special Properties 1.0 released!

2014-03-01 Jeroen Leave a comment

I am happy to announce the 1.0 release of the Semantic Extra Special Properties extension! This release fixes various issues…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: MediaWiki, Open Source, PHP, Release, Semantic MediaWiki, SESP, SMW

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

DataValues Geo 0.1.1 released

2013-12-01 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the release of DataValues Geo 0.1.1. DataValues Geo is a library containing value objects to represent…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: DataValues, Geo, Maps, Refactoring, Release, Semantic Maps, Semantic MediaWiki, Validator, wikidata

My adventures with autoloading in PHP

2013-11-28 Jeroen Leave a comment

This post has as audience developers and will provide readers with insights on how to cleanly autoload classes in PHP.…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Autoloading, composer, Lessons learned, Library, MediaWiki, PHP, PHPUnit

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