I've spent a few hours recently investigating Mono for work. The intent is so that we (all right, I) can talk intelligently about what it would take to get DevExpress' controls working with Mono, rather than just say, no dunna work, or something equally as illiterate and uninformative. To make this easy for the likes of me, the Mono team have set up a virtual machine (VM) running SUSE Linux and containing a complete Mono install. Piece of cake you might say, and so it is. It was the matter of a few minutes to download the VM and to run it in VMware Workstation. […]
READ MOREThis incident just goes to show I'm the type that's always late to the party. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a few months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. I bought October's when I was in England at the beginning of the month, so here's October 2008's article. […]
READ MOREIt almost goes without saying that, when I'm on holiday in England, I pick up a bunch of books to bring back and read. All right, all right, I not only pick them up, but also pay for them. […]
READ MOREI write a monthly column for PCPlus, a computer news-views-n-reviews magazine in the UK (actually there are 13 issues a year — there's an Xmas issue as well — so it's a bit more than monthly). The column is called Theory Workshop and appears in the back of every issue. When I signed up, my editor and the magazine were gracious enough to allow me to reprint the articles here after say a year or so. After all, the PDFs do appear on each issue's DVD after a few months. When I buy the current issue, I'll publish the article from the issue a year ago. Since I've now got September's issue (and have had it for a couple of weeks), here's September 2008's article. […]
READ MORENick Hodges noticed this Amazon ad on Stack Overflow. To which, although suitably impressed, I could only say WTF? The "#1 Delphi book on Amazon"? […]
READ MOREAt the end of the last month, the FCC jumped all over the news that Apple (or was it AT&T?) had nixed Google Voice. It asked various questions of all three companies, to be replied to by return of post or thereabouts. […]
READ MOREI use the Now Playing plug-in for Windows Live Writer to give those quick sections at the bottom of a post to show what I'm listening to as I write the post. I just realized with the previous post that the plug-in is now failing to retrieve the data from Amazon so the embedded URLs in the generated HTML are broken. Sorry about that. […]
READ MOREYou'd have thought producers would have realized by now that their film or television episode is going to make it onto DVD or, lately, Blu-Ray. In fact they want it to be on DVD; if only for the extra revenues. But suddenly their audience is no longer just sitting there watching it "live", unable to interact, but now have the remote control in hand ready to freeze the action so that they can take a break or answer the phone. […]
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