LivePlasma – matching music, videos, articles and more I wrote about identifying music and faces earlier. Glancer is a sort of people discovery engine, so here’s one more related application. LivePlasma is a Rich Internet Application that helps you discover music and movies. You can search via a keyword and review the results. The results are linked to other relevant results. So you […]
Glancer source code available I have collected Glancer files and put them up for download. You can get the full source code from Glancer.net. Note that this is still beta, no documentation is available and no guranttees are given 🙂 For all the delegates of Foss.In who had trouble accessing Glancer on Foss.In, you should be able to access […]
Glancer BoF – Todo Just finished a BoF on Glancer. It was pretty good actually. About 5 people who are actually interested in contributing to Glancer right away – Vivek and Jatin from Hubli, Pradeepto and Karthick from Bangalore and of course; Tarique Sani. We discussed and here’s the todo: Put the code on SF – I am doing […]
Glancer Beta Available The new and improved Glancer beta is available. The beta version has the following additional features: Integration with Foss.In – registered delegates are already imported! Talk Schedules available Search and shortlist sessions you want to attend Print customized conference guide – with information on sessions you are attending Enhancements to People Finder Preferences – fine […]
Funny characters, Webservices and UTF8 I was importing the Foss.In speakers and talks data into Glancer, and it started giving me some strange errors. This is what I got in OpenLaszlo: error: java.io.UTFDataFormatException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence. And when I tried using PHP, this was the string: SOAP-ENV:Server SOAP-ERROR: Encoding: string ‘some string here’ is not a […]
