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Tag: Planet Wikimedia

Missing in PHP7: Named parameters

2016-02-01 Jeroen 8 Comments

This is the second post in my Missing in PHP7 series. The previous one is about function references. 2020 update: named parameters…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Functions, Named parameters, OOP, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Python, Software design

Missing in PHP7: function references

2016-01-30 Jeroen 3 Comments

This is the first post in my Missing in PHP7 series. Over time, PHP has improved its capabilities with regards…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Functions, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software design

Missing in PHP7

Jeroen 7 Comments

I’ve decided to start a series of short blog posts on how PHP gets in the way of creating of well…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Software Craftsmanship, Software design

Replicator: Wikidata import tool

2016-01-25 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the first release of Replicator, a CLI tool for importing entities from Wikidata. Replicator was created…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: EntityStore, JSON Dump Reader, Open Source, Planet Wikimedia, Plugins, QueryR, Release, Replicator, TermStore, Wikibase, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata, Wikidata dump

New Semantic MediaWiki wiki!

2015-12-25 Jeroen Leave a comment

The Semantic MediaWiki website/wiki has gotten a nice upgrade, consider this is Christmas present if you’re a SMW user 🙂…

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Posted in: News Filed under: MediaWiki, MediaWiki extensions, Planet Wikimedia, Semantic MediaWiki, SMW

EntityStore and TermStore for Wikibase/Wikidata

2015-11-14 Jeroen 1 Comment

I’m happy to announce the public release of two new PHP libraries that provide services around Wikibase, the software behind…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Components, composer, EntityStore, Library, Open Source, packagist, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, QueryR, TermStore, Wikibase, wikidata

Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader

2015-11-08 Jeroen 3 Comments

I’ve created a small PHP library to read from, and iterate through, Wikidata/Wikibase JSON dumps. Wikidata is the free knowledge…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Iterator, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata, Wikidata dump

Rewindable PHP Generators

Jeroen 2 Comments

Today I was refactoring some code in one of my libraries, and ended up replacing a named Iterator class with…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Adapter, Generators, Iterator, Library, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Rewindable Generator

Wikibase DataModel Services

2015-08-11 Jeroen 3 Comments

I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of a new Wikibase library: Wikibase DataModel Services (which I’ll in this blog…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Clean Code, Component design, Legacy code, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Release, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, Wikibase DataModel Services, wikidata, WMDE

PHPCS and PHPMD: my experiences

2015-02-20 Jeroen 1 Comment

PHPCS (PHP Code Sniffer) detects violations against a specified coding standard. PHPMD (PHP Mess Detector) is a similar tool, though…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Code Quality, composer, Continuous Integration, MediaWiki, Open Source, PHP, PHPCS, PHPMD, Planet Wikimedia, Quality Assurance, Refactoring, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, WMDE

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