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Mono stuff
1) A.J. is writing unit tests against Microsoft.Xna. We’ll use these unit tests as a sort of specification for Mono.Xna. Same as the perl6 smoke tests. 2) Speaking of perl6, I saw Audrey Tang at work the other day. She’s traveling around working on the bits. She’s planning to visit Boston and Ximian on May…
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Etch is nearly done
Unlike another major operating system planned to release in the next couple of months, Debian is no longer in the development phase and is floating gently through QA. From debian.org: Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 July 24th, 2006 The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution…
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My former CEO answers questions on Slashdot
It was my pleasure to work with MÃ¥rten Mickos, CEO of MySQL for about a year during 2005 and 2006. I was astounded by how involved he is with the employees and how well he keeps abreast of the goings-on in the company. He seems to be of the rare set who are not only…
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Monocast II
This week’s monocast features a charming and debonaire, sophisticated and well spoken guest. With great hair. You should really listen. Hi, mom. MonoCast Forums Subscribe: MonoCast AAC MonoCast MP3 MonoCast OGG
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Prims XSD alpha, pre-release
The libsecondlife (libsl) team is putting together an XML schema doc to describe the format of the 3d objects it will use to present the second life world to its users. This XSD will enable libsl to have a hardened API to create and manipulate 3d objects, whether they are presented to the user via…
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Thunderbird is good.
I just got a notification from Thunderbird telling me that it’s upgrading itself. Those of you paying attention to current events in the information security world just found out why Free/open source software is teh l33t. Were you watching, Eric?