In this article, I’ll walk you through deploying Arbify on your computer using Docker and we’ll build a Hello World! Flutter application utilizing internationalized messages created in Arbify.

Deploying

Firstly, we have to clone the GitHub repository:

git clone git@github.com:Arbify/Arbify.git
cd Arbify

The next thing we need to do is copy the .env.example file into our brand new .env configuration file.

cp .env.example .env

We don’t need to change anything fancy here. We’ll leave it on defaults.

Defaults were meant for deploying your own Arbify using Docker without a hassle, to try it and play with it. …

After the moment I got interested in Flutter I was looking for ideas for a simple app that solves a problem.

This post is a retrospection, two weeks after writing first lines of code.

Problem

Firstly, we need a problem to solve.

I was on shopping with my mom in a market. We were buying some stuff for the incoming Christmas. She had a list of products to buy on a piece of paper. Everything was okay with it, with one exception. After getting a few products in the basket, I realized that we are going from one end of the market to another several times already. …

Hack Heroes is a polish online hackathon for high school students.

Idea

First step for any project is an idea. Especially, a good one.

At first, I didn’t plan on taking part in this year’s edition of this hackathon, but after my friend asked me about whether I’m participating, I visited its website and saw the subject of current edition.

The subject was the public data.

I visited dane.gov.pl which is our polish government website for public data, clicked on random category and my first glance focused my eyes on one dataset and it gave me an idea almost immidiately.

I came up with the idea for an app that tracks your life with medicines. That is, you can add those by scanning their EAN barcodes, read some basic stuff about them, set notification reminders when you should take them and make a medicine-taking journal where you’ll have the history of when you took the drug, when you skipped it and what were the side effects (if you had any). That can be pretty helpful for your ordinary doctor appointents, because you have all your experience with the given medicine in your pocket and you can give many details to your doc. …

This is my copy-paste from our Telegram group for GCI2017 winners:

once I was at my aunt’s place, my cousin (he was in medical university then) showed me his website, which was very basic stuff, simple navigation and content and animated GIF of human brain, but I was amazed by the fact that he’ s got his own website! it was like I thought that having a website is something not for every one, it’s not available for “normal” people etc. I asked him how did he manage to make it and he told me — HTML. I was 8 at the time but my dad was near and he wrote that four letters and when we were home I asked my dad if he maybe remember what my cousin said and he gave me this phrase which I’ve googled that time. little bit later I’ve found some kind of tutorial, you know, copy-pasting stuff etc. but I had my first, very very very basic website, of course accessible through file:// protocol. some time later I wanted to make thinks a little more dynamic, here comes *PHP*. But my website didn’t work, PHP code was printed in the browser :( from that point I don’t exactly remember how things went, but I had my time doing something in C# from videotutorials, if I recall correctly it was an email client, subject, from, to and content fields and send button. unfortunately it wasn’t working for me. I also tried to learn C++ but I was too young for that (~10yo iirc), I had a chapter with XNA in C# which was pretty nice, I learnt basics of gamedev and gamedev-oriented math. …

If you don’t know what is Google Code-in, you probably want to read my first post about it.

Today is 16th of January, 2018. On my Code-in dashboard there is a line saying that there’ s one day left from the competition’s end. Tomorrow is a deadline for submitting students’ work. The day after tomorrow is a deadline for mentors to review it. On the 24th organizations must have had chosen finalists and Grand Prize Winners of Google Code-in 2017. And finally, on 31st of January, winners will be announced officialy.

You’d think that this is the end, don’t you?

My answer is no. Actually, I was really hard working for the last fifty days. It was a headache for my school marks, for my biological clock, sometimes for me itself. Going to sleep at 4AM and waking up at 6.40AM to school so that after school I can sleep again for 2 to 5 hours was on my daily basis. Yes, I didn’t have to sweat myself so much in that time. But I wanted to. Worth noting is the fact that this was my third Code-in edition I took part of. Previous ones were on 2014 and 2015. …

If you don’t know what Google Code-in is, read my previous article.

Tuesday, second Christmas Day, 5:59. I can’t sleep since 2:00 so I decided to begin the day and I just had enough willingness to write second post about GCI.

Yes, I couldn’t sleep. I think that’s because my biological clock has been moved. Writing code or playing World of Tanks while waiting for Code Review to late night was on my daily basis in the previous three weeks, since the beginning of the contest.

Now, closer than farther to the end (22 days left) I can say that this contest is more demanding than I thought. And I’m not talking about the need of technical knowledge. It’s the need of patience and the proper time management, because some of the mentors aren’t available for the whole day or are from the timezone on the other end of the Earth. Because of that I was sometimes waiting in the late night (like 3:00 in the morning) for a person to join on IRC. Now, I’m trying to fix my internal clock so that I won’t be like a zombie in the middle of the day. …

Firstly, if you don’t know what’s Google Code-In — it’s an online contest for 13–17 year old pre-university students which aims to introduce open source software development to us by giving the opportunity to work with real open source organizations.

How does it work? There is 25 (for 2017 edition) organizations. Each organization creates tasks which students should work on. Everyone can choose what they like and claim the task. …