Category Archives: Mono Project

Discussions/work on the Mono Project, which aims to bring an implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure (ECMA 335, aka Microsoft’s .NET Framework) to non-Microsoft OSes.

If Miguel de Icaza Did Not Exist, We Would Have To Invent Him

I said so to Miguel tonight, and I’ll say so to you, too. The man never ceases to amaze me.
A couple days ago, Miguel blogged about the Interactive C# Shell, a piece of minor awesome–a read-eval-print shell for C#, using chunks of Mono’s gmcs compiler. Not a lot of use to me, but very cool [...]

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Cloverleaf GSoC 2008 Final Report

Well, this is somewhat (and by “somewhat” I mean “really, really”) late, but I figured I had to get it out the door, since Miguel has a blog post chatting about it and I want to mooch some hits off him. (Hey, at least I’m honest.)
As mentioned in my original post on the topic, my [...]

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Fixing Linux, Part Two: Bridging the Gap

In my last blog post, I discussed a few issues I see with Linux as an operating system (as opposed to the higher-level stuff; eventually I’ll put a few words into that, but right now I’m still running with an interesting idea drawn out of a question from a friend of mine: “how do you [...]

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Paging Dr. Frankenstein…

This is an old post from my previous Joomla!-powered site; sorry for the retread.
The title’s pretty apt, I think–Cloverleaf is far less my code than anyone else’s at this point, made of bolting together all sorts of stuff. Open Source in action, yo.
A few quick updates regarding Cloverleaf, as some folks have expressed [...]

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So I’ve Got A Summer Project…

This is an old post from my previous Joomla!-powered site; sorry for the retread.
I’m not really much of a blogger. I’m pretty wordy when I write, but for me at least there’s this unshakable stigma attached to blogs, the kind of thing that makes you question if you really want to be the kind of [...]

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