GSoC 2010 – finished! – general summary

Yesterday (16.08.2010) Google Summer of Code 2010 has finished. It was great experience for me and I’m very thankful for being allowed to participate. I’ve learned many new things and I definitely improved my programming skills. I’m also happy because part of my work will hopefully be present in a web application framework which I [...]

GSoC 2010 – week summary: August 9th – August 15th

I continued the code cleaning this week. My goal was to remove all “magic strings” – places where few different string values are accepted as parameter. I created bunch of constants in appropriate classes, and added value checking where needed, so it’s now clear what values can be passed to methods.
After that I returned to [...]

GSoC 2010 – week summary: August 2nd – August 8th

This week I decided to do the code cleaning. I reviewed each and every file and improved naming, comments, and other minor readability issues. I also largely modified some tests, mainly older ones where I’ve been using bad approach to test cases (named like “methodNameWorks()” ;-)). I also improved code coverage (it’s now way more [...]

GSoC 2010 – week summary: July 26th – August 1st

I started this week with various code improvements / cleaning (r4910). Then I moved the formatting functionality from classes NumbersReader and DatesReader to NumberFormatter and DatetimeFormatter accordingly (r4913, r4920). I didn’t do this earlier as I wanted to encapsulate all CLDR-specific code in Readers, but when I started to work on Parsers it came obvious [...]