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Last month of OPW internship

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 […]

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Gnome internship – my experience so far

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 […]

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Building Geocode-glib

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 […]

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Gnome Outreach Program for Women 2013

Well, I applied for it and the result was to come out at 8 pm GMT on December 11. I am ahead of GMT by 5:30 hours. So I had to stay awake till 1:30 in the night to check the result. I decided to sleep. Had a very uncomfortable sleep towards the end. Had […]

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Contributing to Geocode-glib in Gnome

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 […]