Into the Season of KDE
I am elated to tell you all that I have been selected for Season of KDE. I’ll be working on improving baloo. I will be analyzing xapian (the currently used search engine library) and try to find a...
View ArticleSoK Status Report part-1
As mentioned in my previous post I’d be writing about my journey through SoK in upcoming posts, here I am with my first status report. So far what I’ve learnt/done: Skimmed through xapian’s ‘getting...
View ArticleSoK Status Report part-2
Been a while since my last post. Exams came in and threw my momentum off. But now I’m back on track. I’ve been working on porting Baloo to use lucene instead of Xapain using Lucene++. Lucene++ is a C++...
View ArticleSoK conclusion
My SoK journey has come to an end. It was the best learning experience ever. As the say no better way to learn than to get your hands dirty. My project, even though it was more oriented towards...
View Articleconf.kde.in 2015 - The Initiation
So I finally have something blog worthy after a long time or at least writing this post will be a decent way to make it through the last 5 hours of journey back from Kerala. I feel a bit of context is...
View ArticleGSoC with KDE
Guess whose GSoC project proposal got accepted? I am so excited, to tell you all that I’ll be working on Baloo along with amazingly experienced KDE developers, this summer, getting to learn loads of...
View ArticleGSoC 2015 Week - 1
As I mentioned before my GSoC proposal titled Better Tooling for Baloo has been accepted. For the uninitiated, The Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is an international annual program in which Google awards...
View ArticleGSoC 2015 - update 2
It has been a while since my last post, been busy working on my project :p. I must say it has been a great learning experience. With the refactoring done as mentioned in my previous post I began...
View ArticleAkademy 2015
So, I had the opportunity to attend my first Akademy this year :). For those who don’t know what Akademy is here is a short description: It is the annual world summit of KDE. It includes a 2 day...
View ArticleGSoC 2015 - Wrap Up
How time flies by when you’re having fun. Still remember the day my GSoC proposal was selected, like it was yesterday. Now, here we are at the end of the awesome journey. So what exactly was my project...
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