I’ve been a bit delayed in writing all this up. All in all the Developers’s Meetup in Berlin went very well. Wednesday. The first day was a little rough (I was jetlagged for most of it anyway) I thought. The large groups didn’t work out terribly well and weren’t conducive to getting work done. Although [...]
I really need to get off my bum and finish one or two of these. Some feedback from fellow devs would be fantastic on bug 19113, I’ve ported most of commandLine.inc to Maintenance.php (viewable here). Maybe the new job will get slightly less busy soon :-\
While working on the android-client for MediaWiki, I quickly hit a bottleneck. Remote calls are time-consuming, as are parsing raw JSON text into JSON objects. Like any good Mediawiki developer, I decided to throw some caching on it. However, Android lacks an object cache. There’s a more specialized CacheManager, but it’s specific to network requests [...]
