Blog du metabaron

Today, I launch my new website which enable augmented reality on business cards.

This site enable anyone to add to business cards a link to an augmented reality version of your Internet profile in the easiest possible way:

1. Create an account on our server.
2. Print the marker on the back of your business cards.
3. Add a link to your own flash applet:
4. # Your username is thisisatest?
5. # Your own flash applet link is thisisatest.visualcard.me
6. That's all!

Try it and let me know what you think about it.

Recently, I upgraded my weave client to version 0.6.
Weave is a client/serveur solution allowing you to save and synchronize all your firefox data to a server (more information about the client here and about the server here). You can use Mozilla servers (look here) or your own if you want to handle data locally.

That's the solution I choose: set up my own weave server

Setting up things was a real pain in the ass so I decided to share with you my configuration files:

• virtualhost configuration file:

<VirtualHost *>
        ServerAdmin webmaster@XXXX.net

        Alias /0.3/user /var/www/XXXX/server/index.php
        Alias /weave/admin /var/www/XXXX/server/admin.php
        Alias /0.5 /var/www/XXXX/server/0.5/index.php
        Alias /user/1 /var/www/XXXX/server/user/1/index.php
        Alias /misc/1/captcha_html /var/www/XXXX/server/misc/1/captcha.php

        ServerName XXXX.YYYYY.net
        DocumentRoot /var/www/XXXX/server/

        <Directory /var/www/XXXX/server/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride none
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AuthName "Weave Storage"
        AuthType Basic
        AuthUserFile /var/www/XXXX/users_pass
        require valid-user
        </Directory>

        ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/XXXX.YYYY.net-error.log

        # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
        # alert, emerg.
        LogLevel warn

        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/XXXX.YYYY.net-access.log combined
        ServerSignature On
</VirtualHost>

Download the latest version of Mozilla weave server. and install it (mine is stored at /var/www/XXXX/server)
Follow the instructions here and after here.

Something important is written in the documentation:

• Edit user/1/weave_user_constants.php and find line

if (!defined('WEAVE_REGISTER_STORAGE_LOCATION')) { define('WEAVE_REGISTER_STORAGE_LOCATION', null); }

Change "null" to your domain name such as "'XXXX.YYYY.net'" if you have only one server location

• If your server is HTTP based and not HTTPS based, don't forget to change all URL reference from https to http.

Hope this will help all of you.