1st evaluation knocks!

It’s a month now, since the coding period has begun, and here comes the week of evaluation. My mentors will be evaluating me on the work that has been done till now, and I wish I pass this.There has been a little change in my plan, and last week, I stopped with writing tests for drms, and started do ...READ MORE...

During the 1st evaluation

So I have been writing tests for a few days and correcting all the broken methods and functions of cube repository, because my recent PR have completely broken the code of cube :P. I am sure there must be something that is broken, which I have not yet discovered that’s my fear. So writing unit tests ...READ MORE...

Jargon, Jargon, sigh

My much awaited DUE blog post is here fellas (FINALLY). I must say that it gives me grave sadness that this post is going to be only about jargons and I am going to have to curb my humour to do so (which I believe I have, okay?). If I dont, then the length of Continue reading Jargon, Jargon, sigh ...READ MORE...

Has it been a month already?

Note — The following post has been spiced up by a sleep-drunk author with a bit of colourful imagery and slight exaggeration for artistic needs, please be advised.If you compare this post’s GSoC progress footnote (at the bottom) with the one in the previous fortnight’s blog, you will find a marked d ...READ MORE...

HiPS tile drawing

One of the major part of the hips project is being able to draw HiPS tiles onto a larger sky image. The most important part in this is using projective transformation for computing and drawing a HiPS tile at the correct location. The discussion below is for the tile containing the galactic center pi ...READ MORE...

So close to first evaluation

Had quite a few PR’s to be made and issues that had to be discussed in this two weeks. The archives of IRIS don’t seem to account the rotation of the sun when saving the WCS data. So we are at a crossroad whether to compromise on speed or go along without bothering for now and give a 2.0 release lat ...READ MORE...

2 weeks of GSoC Coding period

Well, to be honest, 2 weeks of coding period is already past, and I haven’t yet started the main challenge — mocking! Though, the test coverage has reached to 64% already, but there are a lots of important tests to be written.My internship period is finally over, and from now on, I can devote 8 hrs ...READ MORE...

2nd Week of GSoC

Hello World! It’s the completion of the 2nd week of GSoC. And as I mentioned in my last post, I have covered the tables module by now. Let me give a quick intro of what tables module does .tables module is by far the most important part of python-casacore. Radio Antenna and radio receiver use to rec ...READ MORE...