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Simplify and Delete

2024-08-29 Jeroen Leave a comment

In his latest Lex Fridman appearance, Elon Musk makes some excellent points about the importance of simplification. Follow these steps:…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Decision Making, Prioritization, Software Craftsmanship

Advice for junior developers

2022-09-21 Jeroen 1 Comment

Over the 15+ years of my development career, I have learned several things that significantly increase my effectiveness. In this…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, OOP, Software Craftsmanship, Software design, SOLID, Testing

Using PSR-3 Monolog in MediaWiki

2022-02-08 Jeroen Leave a comment

Since a few years, you can use the PSR-3 LoggerInterface in MediaWiki to log messages. But how can you tell…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Logging, MediaWiki, PSR

Value Objects with PHP 8.1

2022-01-30 Jeroen Leave a comment

PHP has introduced a number of new features that allow you to write awesome Value Objects with PHP 8.1. In…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Domain Driven Design, OOP, PHP, PHP8, Planet Wikimedia, Software design, Value objects

New MediaWiki blog

2019-10-26 Jeroen Leave a comment

I’m happy to announce a brand new blog dedicated to MediaWiki and all things enterprise wiki related. Half a year…

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Posted in: News Filed under: MediaWiki, Planet Wikimedia, Professional Wiki

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

Readable Functions: Guard Clause

2019-01-14 Jeroen 3 Comments

Guard Clauses are one of my favorite little tricks that allow simplifying code. A guard clause is an if statement…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functions, Guard Clause, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

My year in books

2019-01-03 Jeroen Leave a comment

In 2018 I read more books than ever before. Here are some of my recommendations and thoughts. I read 21…

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Posted in: Life Filed under: Books, Literature, Psychology, Science fiction

Readable Functions: Do One Thing

2018-10-30 Jeroen 3 Comments

Several tricks and heuristics that I apply to write easy to understand functions keep coming up when I look at…

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Posted in: Uncategorized Filed under: Clean Code, Code Quality, Complexity, Design principles, Functional Programming, Functions, Immutability, Planet Wikimedia, Readable Functions, Software design

PHP Typed Properties

2018-10-28 Jeroen 3 Comments

Lately there has been a lot of hype around the typed properties that PHP 7.4 will bring. In this post…

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Posted in: Programming Filed under: Anti-patterns, Clean Code, Encapsulation, Immutability, PHP, PHP7, Planet Wikimedia, Type, Type hinting, Value objects

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