Howdy guys! We’re now in the final phase of coding for GSoC, I’ve been contributing to CircuitVerse since February and it’s been a wonderful experience. This whole period saw about 100+ commits, 7000+ lines of code merged, several awesome features executed and a lot more. Summary This summer my aim was to do several feature additions to i... Read more 20 Aug 2019 - 3 minute read
It’s been a great ride so far and we’re into the final phase of coding. So brace yourself, a lot of awesome work is underway. In the past week, I was working on checking items off my bucket list #412. The first task I checked off was mail subscription. During GSoC, there are a lot of features that we’ve worked on. These features need to be... Read more 05 Aug 2019 - 1 minute read
puts “Hello Folks!” This week, I was working on several small things. Firstly, I was working on perfecting the improvements PR #402 (awaiting feedback). The current structure that I’ve proposed follows the adapter design pattern. The basic idea is having two different adapters for solr and pg and doing dependency injection in the search module w... Read more 22 Jul 2019 - 2 minute read
This week, I was working on implementing search improvements #402 and SEO #406 to our website. In the previous blog, I had mentioned that we had decided to go with implementing search with both Postgres and sunspot. This week I was working on getting the Postgres part done. I extended pg_search support to the User model and did the required UI c... Read more 15 Jul 2019 - 3 minute read
In the previous phase, I had worked on adding the following features - restrict circuit elements #397 and grading #390. Apart from that I also worked on increasing the test coverage of backend #241. Turns out, it’s very easy to get started on a feature but a lot of work had to be done in order to get these features into production. All major PR’... Read more 07 Jul 2019 - 2 minute read