Gnome 3.10 is released and it has some cool features. It feels good that Geolocation and Maps application are part of it. I wrote the client and server for GeoIP based GeoLocation when I was doing my OPW internship with Gnome Foundation. Initially the libraries were part of geocode-glib, but the code for GeoIP has […]
More than 2 months have passed since I started working on GeoIP server and client libraries. The libraries are now ready to use. They provide IP address based Geolocation information. To use the client library, all you have to do is – create a GeocodeIpclient object and perform a search for Geolocation information. The search […]
I am 22 days old as a Gnome OPW intern and it has been a very nice experience so far. I was supposed to write at least one blog post in every two weeks. But, sometimes I get this writer’s block when words simply fail me. Besides,in the last few weeks, I really enjoyed writing code […]
I was trying to build Geocode-glib on Ubuntu 12.04. But I was getting the following error while running ./configure – [sourcecode language=”text” gutter=”false”] configure: error: Package requirements (gio-2.0 >= 2.34 json-glib-1.0 >= 0.14 libsoup-2.4) were not met: Requested ‘gio-2.0 >= 2.34’ but version of GIO is 2.32.3 Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable […]
I recently to contributed a small patch to Geocode-glib library. It was my first patch and it was definitely thrilling to see my name as the author in the repository. So, let me give you a walk through on what is Geocode-glib and what I did in it. What is Geocode-glib? It’s a convenience library for […]