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| | dvratil.cz
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| | Following the post about what happened in KDE PIM in January and February let's look into what the KDE PIM community has been up to in March and April. In total 38 contributors have made almost 1700 changes. Big thanks to everyone who helped us make Kontact better! April 2020 Release A new bundle of KDE applications has been released in April, including Kontact with its many bugfixes and improvements. KDE PIM Sprint Every year in April the PIM team meets in Toulouse in France for a weekend of discussions and hacking. This year due to the coronavirus it wasn't possible for us to meet so instead we held a virtual KDE PIM Sprint. You can read the sprint agenda as well as Volker's report from the sprint.
| | www.progdan.cz
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| | The KDE PIM Sprint is over (unfortunately...I could do this every day :-)), so now it's time for some recap of what has been done. I'll try to cover the Akonadi side, and leave the rest up to others to cover their projects ;-) Akonadi Server optimizations We finished and reviewed Volker's old branch with a big optimization of the database schema. On my computer it reduces size of the file with the largest table by 30% and it speeds up all queries on that database, because the WHERE condition now has to perform only integer comparision, instead of string.
| | veskoiliev.com
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| | Every once in a while you might encounter a flaky unit test. I know, unit tests can't be flaky by definition ... but also life comes in the way, so sometimes it happens. Such a test will ...
| | hiltmon.com
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| [AI summary] The article discusses the effectiveness of Test-Driven Development (TDD) in improving software quality, reducing defects, and enhancing developer confidence through empirical evidence and personal experience.