Getting Started With a New Codebase

Developers spend more time reading and editing the code that others have written than whipping out new code. This becomes exponentially harder if the codebase you are working with is unfamiliar to you. Some codebases can be pretty huge and unwieldy. I have been working on my Google Summer of Code project for the past 3 months. But before I was selected for GSoC, I had to dig through the GSoC website for projects that suited me....

August 4, 2019 · 5 min · Aswin M Prabhu

Hacktoberfest - An invitation to Open Source

Its October again and that means its time to hack for swag as far as open-source enthusiasts are concerned. Hacktoberfest is back and this year it’s celebrating its fifth year !! What’s Hacktoberfest? 🤔 For those new to Hacktoberfest, it is a month-long festival of support and contributions to open-source. How it works is you need to signup, then make at least five pull requests to any public Github project in October....

October 11, 2018 · 3 min · Aswin M Prabhu