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GSoC 2019: Progress Report 2
Its been two months since the starting of GSoC Coding Period. The past month has been really frustrating. All requests to the Firefox Token Servers(the server which provides the crypto keys for sync, and the url of storage server) are to be hawk authenticated with credentials obtained from the Firefox Accounts login page, namely, sessionToken and keyFetchToken. …
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GSoC 2019: Progress Report 1
It has been around three weeks since the starting of the coding period, and these three weeks have been crazy hectic. Coding, reading code, designing classes and implement them, then change them, reading articles, blogs, etc. are some of the few things I have been doing. But I am enjoying this. I have learnt about so many new stuffs that I didn’t know about earlier. …
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GSoC 2019: The journey begins...
Its around a month and a half since my last post. Finding out time for blogging between the semester exams was really tough, given that I had a lot of syllabus to cover and revise before the exams, and also going through the code of Falkon and communicating with my mentor. Yes, I finally got selected for Google Summer of Code 2019. I would be working for KDE Community on the application Falkon. …
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First Post using Jekyll
Creating my own blog was something that I was wishing to do for some time. But never got the time to actually write a lot of HTML, CSS, JS and deploy. Jekyll came to the rescue. Followed the Getting Started guide on Github-pages and Jekyll, searched for Jekyll themes on Google, found this one called jekyll-uno by Josh Gerdes, cloned it, modified some files, uploaded it to Github and voila!!! Here goes my first post using Jekyll… …
Prasenjit Kumar Shaw
Coder | Google Summer of Code 2019, KDE Community | BCSE 2017-2021, Jadavpur University