Kickstarting my blog
Starting a blog has been on my mind for a long time now and as with a lot of other things, I always found a reason to postpone it until now. I have been selected for Google Summer of Code 2014 and I am...
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Selected for Google Summer of Code 2014
I have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code, popularly known as GSoC, program to work on GNOME Photos, a photo organising and sharing app. My heartfelt gratitude to Google, for providing this...
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Photos - PicasaWeb integration: Start coding
I don't have much to say since I had been busy with my university exams for the past couple of weeks and hence could not devote much time to my GSoC project.Nevertheless, there are some updates which I...
View ArticlePhotos - PicasaWeb integration: Add the Miner (Update 1)
After adding support for PicasaWeb in GNOME Online Accounts (which I covered in my last blog post), I moved on to GNOME Online Miners. This one took some time because I had to dig deeper into the stuff...
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I have made some progress with respect to coding the miner. There were a few issues with libgdata which had to be resolved before making further progress. I thank Philip Withnall for his help in...
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Majority of the work for adding the miner is complete. The RefreshDB DBus API has been extended to include an array of strings, denoting the content types we are interested in indexing, as its...
View ArticlePhotos - Picasa Web Integration: Add the miner to GNOME Photos
This update has been due for some time since I was away for the last week.I have completed the code for integrating the Picasa Web miner into GNOME Photos. The patches[1][2] have been submitted for...
View ArticleGNOME Photos: Picasa Web/Google+ support is here
After more than 2 months of working on adding Picasa Web/Google+ support to Photos as part of Google Summer of Code '14, it gives me tremendous satisfaction to say that my work has been finally...
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