Tag: PHP

• Reducing packet count to Statsd using Mediawiki

  Recently I have been spending lots of time looking at the Wikimedia graphite set-up due to working on Grafana dashboards. In exchange for what some people had been doing for me I decided to take a quick look down the list of open Graphite tickets and found T116031. Sometimes it is great when such a small […]

  December 17, 2015

  Posts, Tech

  graphite, mediawiki, PHP, statsd

• MediaWiki CRAP – The worst of it

  I don’t mean Mediawiki is crap! The Change Risk Anti-Patterns (CRAP) Index is calculated based on the cyclomatic complexity and code coverage of a unit of code. Complex code and untested code will have a higher CRAP index compared with simple well tested code. Over the last 2 years I have been tracking the CRAP index […]

  November 21, 2015

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  coverage, CRAP, mediawiki, PHP, testing

• Misled by PHPUnit at() method

  So it turns out the at() method doesn’t quite do what I had initially thought…. I have recently been working on some tests for the new Newsletter extension for Mediawiki, specifically to test the NewslettterTablePager class. This thing extends the TablePager class in Mediawiki which is designed to make displaying information from a database table on […]

  August 29, 2015

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  extension, mediawiki, newsletter, PHP, phpunit

• The importance of a strict comparison

  Now if you have ever come across issues caused by non strict comparisons before then this is going to seem like a piece of cake, but remember, everyone makes mistakes. Strict equality compares two values for equality where the values must also be the same type. Non strict or loose equality compares values while not caring […]

  April 2, 2015

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  comparison, Mediafire, PHP