I have been writing unit tests like crazy for my muse Flutter app, in my own TDD-like fashion. Writing meaningful tests and watch them go from red to green is a great feeling for real. If you aren’t doing that yet, I highly recommended. Flutter comes with an excellent testing library called — wait a […]
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Contributing to open source projects
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentIt’s high time for me to level up my developer mojo. Clearly, doing side projects isn’t the way to do so. They usually aren’t tough enough. Then what is? Why, of course, large enterprise projects. Based on this logic, I have decided to dedicate a couple of hours everyday to working on complex, large-scale open-source […]
The Exciting New Puppy
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 2 CommentsA couple of days back, I got myself a new puppy. Nope, not the dog sort. It’s a variant of Puppy Linux, and comes with LXDE. The most wonderful aspect of Lxpup is that it is a perfect fusion of an ultra-lightweight feel (of Puppy) and a more usable (and beautiful looking) desktop environment (LXDE). […]
OpenMandriva Association logo contest is live now
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentOpenMandriva, an association formed to create a community-based Linux distro sponsored by Mandriva SA and ROSA, is now a registered non-profit organization in France. The progress over at OM is going pretty well, and now they need a logo for the association. Yesterday a logo contest was launched by OM, which will accept user-submitted designs […]
The mighty impressive Slax 7
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — Leave a commentI was so impressed with the latest iteration of my oldest favorite mini distro, especially its KDE implementation, that I immediately wanted to make Granular’s next release look like and as fast as Slax. Slax 7 comes loaded with all the bare essentials that actually make sense. Plus its ability to run from a USB […]