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PHP Unconference Europe 2016

2016-06-01 Jeroen Leave a comment

Last week I attended the 2016 edition of the PHP Unconference Europe, taking place in Palma De Mallorca. This post…

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Posted in: Events, Programming Filed under: Application architecture, Clean Code, Code analysis, Code Quality, Event, Metrics, Performance, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Testing, unconference

Maps 3.6 for MediaWiki released

2016-05-26 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.6. This feature release brings marker clustering enhancements and a number…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Google Maps, Mapping, Maps, MediaWiki, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia, Release

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

Name All The Things!

2016-04-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’ve created a new release of the “NameStuff” mod for Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, now titled “Name All The Things“.…

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Posted in: Gaming, Software Filed under: FAF, Forged Alliance, Mods, RTS, Strategy, Supreme Commander

Semantic MediaWiki now has a YouTube channel!

2016-04-04 Jeroen Leave a comment

For many years, the talks at SMWCon, the biyearly Semantic MediaWiki conference, have been recorded. These recordings have ended up…

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Posted in: News Filed under: MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Planet Wikimedia, Presentation, Semantic MediaWiki, SMW, SMWCon, Wiki, Youtube

Maps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3

2016-04-02 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of Maps 3.5 and Semantic Maps 3.3. Both of these are feature releases…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Maps, MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Planet Wikimedia, Release, Semantic Maps, SMW

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

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