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Tag: Software design

Missing in PHP7

2016-01-30 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

The Liskov Substitution Principle

2016-01-24 Jeroen Leave a comment

I have a number of web-based presentations online on the software craftsmanship topic. You can find these on the software…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Inheritance, Liskov Substitution Principle, Object Orientated, OOP, Software design, SOLID

Some fun with iterators

2014-07-14 Jeroen 5 Comments

Sometimes you need to loop over a big pile of stuff and execute an action for each item. In the…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Batching, Iterator, Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Wikibase, wikidata

Component design

2014-07-12 Jeroen 1 Comment

This week I gave a presentation titled “Component design: Getting cohesion and coupling right” at Wikimedia Deutschland. Components are a…

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Posted in: Software Filed under: Clean Code, Component, Component design, Components, Planet Wikimedia, Presentation, Software design, wikidata, WMDE

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

The Wikidata phase3 software components

Jeroen 2 Comments

Work on the long awaited query functionality for the Wikidata project has already happened during a period of several months.…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Ask, Components, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase Query, Wikibase QueryEngine, wikidata

Wikibase DataModel: Entity v2

2014-04-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

In a recent blog post I introduced the new Term classes introduced in Wikibase DataModel 0.7.3. It also outlined plans…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Components, Free software, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, wikidata

Wikibase DataModel 0.7.3 released

2014-04-14 Jeroen 1 Comment

I am happy to announce the 0.7.3 release of Wikibase DataModel. Wikibase DataModel is the canonical PHP implementation of the…

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Posted in: Programming, Software Filed under: Open Source, PHP, Planet Wikimedia, Refactoring, Release, Software design, Wikibase, Wikibase DataModel, 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

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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