In March 2018, Facebook began automatically rewriting links to use HTTPS using the HSTS preload list. Now all Wikimedia sites (including Wikipedia) do the same. If you're not familiar with it, the HSTS preload list tells browsers (and other clients) that the website should only be visited over HTTPS, not…
First performance production testing of PHP 7 vs HHVM: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T206341#4750994Looking good so far!#MediaWiki #HHVM #PHP
Tim is working on a new profiler for PHP, since there are issues with xhprof/tideways that really aren't worth dealing with...and that we can do better in profiling. He's written up some details on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205059, and there's some initial code in our Gerrit.I've done the initial Debian packaging at https://salsa.debian.org/mediawiki-team/php-excimer…
I've been using the JetBrains IDE PHPStorm ever since I really got started in MediaWiki development in 2013. Its symbol analysis and autocomplete is fantastic, and the built-in inspections generally caught most coding issues while you were still writing the code. But, it's also non-free software, which has always made…
Today I found a legitimate use for https://github.com/danielquinn/python-phpPython's default ConfigParser requires each ini file to have a [section]. PHP doesn't, so to read a PHP-formatted INI file in Python requires some kind of custom parser (maybe it would be possible to extend ConfigParser?), where the python-php project came in handy.…
I released clover-diff 1.1.2 today: https://gitlab.com/legoktm/clover-diff Support for PHPUnit clover.xml files if all the classes are in the same namespace. A proper test suite! More to come soon. I hope.
