I posted the second part of Miguel’s introduction and also the presentation by Lluis Sanchez on MonoDevelop and Stetic - Mono’s IDE.
Head over to MonoCast to check them out.
It was extremely cool. Boston was amazing. Novell was fun. Google was gracious. And everyone who attended the conference was spectacular.
I want to go into more detail but I just got home and I’m totally beat. 10 hours of flying and lay overs just takes it outta me… and my ass.
But, check www.mono-cast.com for information, including the keynote. And Monologue for info as well.
I meant to blog this when rtyler and I found it the other night. He come into #Mono complaining that NAnt - delivered with Mono - wasn’t working at ALL on OS X. We spent a lot of time looking around and it came down to pkg-config.
The pkg-config shipped with mono isn’t the one being run by default. So it can’t find the .pc files in a relative path. It took a bit longer than it should’ve to find the solution, partly because I wasn’t overly verbose about the man page referencing PKG_CONFIG_PATH and I wasn’t setting it properly.
Anywho, it’s all over on his blog here.
Looks like work is going to be sending me to the Mono Developer’s Conference in Boston on Oct 23rd and 24th. I’m really looking forward to my first out of state dev conference. Should be fun. My brother-in-law may take the train down from New York to hang out. Stacia may even come along if we can find someone to sit the kids.
Well, I was on vacation for 3 weeks and then playing catch up for another week. Finally I return.
The first week we had to take the little one to the doctor for his yearly check up. When I stepped out of the elevator I glanced at the placard that listed the businesses on the floor before returning to ushering the kids into the lobby. My brain siezed on the word “Penny”. Hrmm I did a double take and sure enough, Penny Arcade.
Turns out that Penny Arcade is in the same building at my kid’s pediatrician. I resisted the urge to be a Fan boy and simply snapped a picture of the plaque outside the door. The receptionist at the clinic said that they met the guys in the hallway all the time and they were really nice. Funny.
Then we spent two nights at the Westin - without kids - for our anniversary. We just parked the car and spent the whole weekend either walking around downtown seattle or lit up and laying in bed watching bad television. That’s an incredible time, especially when you have kids.
Lots happened but it’s late and I can’t fully remember it all.
Last Sunday Stacia gave me my anniversary present. I went online and we ordered my new MacBook!
I got the black, of course. But I passed on the 2Gig of preconfigured ram for $500 bucks! I’m getting a rebate for the iPod we picked out for Stacia and that should cover the 2Gigs of Patriot ram I want to put in here. I’m so amazed at how well this system runs. The commercials are right, “It just works”. I’ve installed a number of apps already from iAlertU to Parallels and of course Firefox and Adium.
With the default 512mb of RAM Parallels is almost worthless. I setup a win2k system and patched it up the other night. But I really can’t run anything. Soon though. I’m just so impressed with this thing. Though Vito says that after so long with the crapy systems I’ve had that anything would look like magic in comparison. That might be true. But this little laptop is amazing.
I got the DVI adapter and hooked it up to my 2005FPW. Firstly. The screen on the MacBook blows the 2005FPW away. So bright and so crisp. I was able to adjust the layout of my monitors so I went to the other screen not just by move to the mouse to the right edge but rather to the top. Not really all that impressive I guess. But there’s so much more about this laptop and OS that makes me say with certainty that I’m not buying a “PC” again. It’s Macs from here on out.
Stacia loved her iBook and she really loves my MacBook. I keep finding more fun and cool stuff this thing can do. I’ve already got the Terminal on the dock and can zip around through bash just like I was at home on linux. I grabbed up Stacia’s old BlueTooth mouse that she dropped because it used up the batteries a lot and failed to associate again after the mouse or the iBook went to sleep. So far it reassociates flawlessly after I click one of the mouse buttons. (And since we quit WoW the batteries seem to be lasting a bit longer =) )
It quickly and easily picks up my AP and it’s smoking fast. Reconnecting the instant I wake it up.
But yes, enough with the gush fest. I love this thing!!
Also, I might be getting my company to send me to the Mono Dev Conference in Boston on October 23rd & 24th, I find out this week.
Oh well.. until next time.
Okay, I’m back in the blog game. Been up to a lot of real life business for the last month or so. Let’s get back into the action with some updates.
Got an iPod Nano for Christmas. I’m loving this thing. I don’t know why I EVER got that waste of space XM radio. I’ve got it filled up with all kinds of podcasts. I’m going to add some of my favorites to the links list here.
Speaking of podcasts I’ve got the podcast bug. I’ve found the linux showing for podcasts really lacking. There is LUG Radio which is pretty funny and I think perhaps the best. But I’m not going to do one on linux per say. I’m thinking more along the lines of Mono. I’m tired of hearing interviews with Miguel basically boil down to “Aren’t you afraid of Microsoft” and “You’re ruining linux”.
Since all podcasts apparently need a forum I’ve setup them up and you can reach them here and through the link at the top of the page. The forums aren’t just about the proposed podcast so even if you could careless about Mono head on over and.. well I’d tell you to take a look around.. but honestly there isn’t anything there at the moment. So start something, punk.
I’ve started a post on the proposed general format of the show and I’d be interested in peoples input on that. Have a look to get a general idea for what the shows going to be about.
Let’s see. At work Justin and I gave a big presentation on WiX to the engineers at the company. Justin covered our companies install history and WiX history and I did a demo, talked about how we came to use WiX, and then our plans for using WiX in the future. How it could become part of our bigger plan of CruiseControl.net/WiX/SubVersion/NaNT. I think it went over really well. While we don’t have dev’s banging down our doors to start using it (They take a ‘That’s a good idea we’ll get to it soon’ approach, which is why I had to just start using WiX in the first place) but we had good comments.
Remaining true to my strategy from school days I put together my OpenOffice.org slide show about 30 minutes before the presentation. Justin asked if I wanted to do a walk through but I passed. If you think too hard about how you should say something you can sometimes forget what it is you want to say. I think i did pretty good.. maybe I should get a speaking gig… like David from Office Space (UK). =) It’d probably go pretty much the same way. *SIMPLY THE BEST.. daah daah dahh BETTER THAN ALL THE REST daah daah da da*
I also got some of those cool pocket handwarmers that Nat posted about on his blog. The reusable ones I posted about them earlier as well. I felt like Mr. Wizard showing those off to people and doing the whole speal about what was happening. Where did I put those things?
Someone in #Mono posted about a game company using C#. (Updated to add the link)
cj pointed me to the Everett Wireless site which he apparently setup. I’m eager to get to a meeting. I’ve got dish I’m not using here and it would be fun to mod it for that 10 mile line of site wireless you’re supposed to be able to get. Any local geek thing is nice. When I was going ot the Seattle Mono Users Group (SMUG) I’d be gone all Sunday driving back and forth to Seattle and coding all night. Makes it a bit hard on the family.
And speaking of wireless. Seattle Wireless got a new node and a new maps site, which Eric had a hand in setting up.
And Eric has grown increasingly annoyed that I haven’t been working on Meshwork since he decided to switch to GTK#. He’s since decided to switch back to Forms but is loath to touch the code. Eric holds a special place in hell for Windows Forms. =) But I hear idan has been doing some pretty kick ass work.
This is a pretty long post - I took time to setup flash on my son’s laptop and show him Thomas the Thank engine - so I’m going to end it here. But I’ll be back. Let me hear about MonoCast. I’m hoping to get the first episode out soon.
Here’s a nice interview with Miguel the playboy of the Mono world.
Miguel Posts here about Second Life’s preperation to move to using Mono. Looks like my dream of being able to code a world in C# in real time is going to come true without my even having to do it myself. =)
Pardon the pun, but this is so hot.
Miguel announced that there will be a Mono meeting at PDC this year. I urge any and all to attend. Looks like Microsoft won’t be putting this in their event programs though:
Background: As some of you know, Microsoft for the second time in a row blocked the Mono Birds-of-a-feathers (BOF) meeting from being held at their Professional Developers Conference. It is their conference, and I understand that a cross-platform .NET implementation might make them nervous (we are creating lots of new applications with it, and we are helping people reuse their existing skills on Linux).
Wish I could be there. Looks like it’s going to be great fun. I’ve printed and hung up the poster on my door at work. =)
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