Well, a super quick blog-post about the progress so far.We've successfully added units to most of the modules now! The only remaining modules to have manual units attached are cassini.mag_hires, imp.mag15s and ulysses.fgm_hires.Initially, I was planning to add manual units to all the modules, until ...READ MORE...
As we all (probably) know now, our Plasma factory implementation got finished much sooner than expected. So, I’ve been mostly lurking around since my last blog post adding features in our plasma pie, discovering bugs under our plasma bed, reviewing plasma requests, gazing at stars made of plasma, et ...READ MORE...
In the last post, we discussed on how to integrate the CRTF file format in the regions package. The parser that I implemented seems to work and catches most of the syntax errors pretty well. The test cases that I have added seems to be proof of it. It has been merged to the master trunk now.Since th ...READ MORE...
Hello everyone!As I wrote in the previous post, the next thing to do was to add the 3rd body gravity account. The satellite is controlled not only by Earth gravity, but also by gravity of Moon, Jupiter, Sun, Venus et cetera. These effects might be considerable in some applications requiring high pre ...READ MORE...
Hello World!The first coding phase of GSoC 2018 ends tomorrow, and it will be followed by the first evaluation. The last two weeks were quite productive and had lots of interesting things happening in the tech world like Apple’s WWDC 2018 (I was really hoping for a new MacBook Air…sigh) and Microsof ...READ MORE...
Rounding off the Phase 1
As I’ve mentioned before that GSoC is divided into 3 phases with an addition of community bonding phase. These phases are a medium to keep a check on the project and tap on its progress. I already laid out a well planned and sequential structure for all the phases but the a ...READ MORE...
It’s exam time!The classes are off and all I have to do is prepare for my final exams. When I wake up, I have no idea whether it is weekday or weekend. All I can say is that the daily dose of morning coffee is working! “Study, eat, sleep repeat” has been my motto for the last one week.https://medium ...READ MORE...
It is has been said your article’s title is the most important thing. Let’s bring that cliche down. #NoMoreSensibleTitlesAll Terrain Armoured TransportSo I am through the first part of first phase of my first GSoC in my first year of college. Hooray!TL;DR:sunpy.time.parse_time (huge stuff) status : ...READ MORE...
Hey, it’s Sushobhana. Sushobhana Patra. That’s right. Don’t adjust your…whatever device you’re reading this on. It’s me, live and on medium. No return engagements, no encore, and this time, absolutely no requests. Get a snack. Settle in. Because I’m about to tell you the story of my summer. More spe ...READ MORE...
Hello World,I completed two weeks of coding with Astropy yesterday, which means we are already halfway through the first Coding Phase of GSoC! These two weeks began with me developing the landing page of Learn Astropy Website using bootstrap 3. This was not a functioning webpage, as it had many part ...READ MORE...