Monthly Archives: October 2013

building geocode2 from source

So I've officially given up on figuring out how to get the right libraries installed for GTG so that I can test out its geolocalization features. But, if you've seen my previous posts, you know it's been a painful process since I just can't seem to get the right libraries installed to get things working. But I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that this might not be entirely my fault because, from what I can tell, it seems like this particular feature is a rather old project? So maybe…Read more …

geolocalization & gtg, take 2

OK, I'm trying to install GTG again. This time, I'm using Ubuntu 13.10 Desktop (64-bit). To get things started, I ran the same pre-steps as before: added myself to the sudo list, installed some basic tools, and set up bzr, and grabbed the code from launchpad. I tried running: sudo apt-get install python-liblarch python-liblarch-gtk But it turns out that this installs v1.0 and GTG is expecting v2.1. No worries. Just follow the instructions to do a git clone. The trick after that is to run ./gtg -l (instead of just ./gtg). To eliminate…Read more …

configuring 3rd party blogging software for blogger

In case anyone else had trouble searching for how to setup a 3rd party app (in my case, MarsEdit) to be used with Blogger, here's what you need to know: Blog ID: Follow these instructions to find your Blog ID. API Endpoint URL: http://www.blogger.com/feeds/[YourBlogID]/posts/default  Read more …

geolocalization & gtg, take 1

Came across the GTG project and was interested in possibly doing some development on it. The first major hurdle I encountered was getting a VM setup that worked with the right libraries. Since I was interested in working on the geolocalization features in GTG, I had to install the python modules for geoclue, clutter, and champlain. Turns out I was having a hard time getting python-clutter to install because it seemed that the apt sources were from an older version of Debian (squeeze) than what I was running (wheezy). Modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list, as…Read more …

git/github workflow

In the past, I've only used github for personal projects, so I didn't have to deal with collaborating with other folks. Now that I'm working on an open-source project, I'm starting to get more familiar with all the cool features of git and github. So here's the scenario: Project A is on github (aka the original repo). Alice has forked Project A on github and created a branch(/patch) off of that fork. (As a side note, the branch was already sent as a pull request to the original repo, but it hasn't been…Read more …
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