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Applications as Frameworks

2019-02-28 Jeroen Leave a comment

What are the differences between building on top of a framework and building on top of an application? How does…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Architecture, Clean Code, Coupling, Frameworks, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design

Generic Entity handling code

2017-05-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

In this blog post I outline my thinking on sharing code that deals with different types of Entities in your…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Architecture, Bounded Contexts, Clean Code, Design patterns, Domain Driven Design, Entities, Planet Wikimedia, Software Architecture, Software design, Strategic Design, Wikibase, WMDE

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

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

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

Clean functions

2013-09-08 Jeroen 2 Comments

Last week I gave a presentation titled “Clean functions” to my Wikidata colleagues. As the title suggests, this presentation is…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Architecture, Clean Code, Functions, Presentation, Software Craftsmanship, SOLID

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