{"id":141,"date":"2007-01-06T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.colliertech.org\/cj\/?p=141"},"modified":"2007-01-06T21:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T05:40:00","slug":"cocoa-is-getting-attention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa# is getting attention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My inbox overflows with mail from <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.ximian.com\/mailman\/listinfo\/cocoa-sharp\">the cocoa# list<\/a>.  If you&#8217;ve been wondering about the status of the project, you should check out the list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mono-project.com\/CocoaSharp\">Cocoa#<\/a> was my first <a href=\"http:\/\/mono-project.com\/\">Mono<\/a>-related project.  I started working on it while I was an SDET\/SysAdmin for a Microsoft vendor in Seattle.  Matt Westervelt and Rob Flickinger of Seattle Wireless Network fame convinced me that buying a Powerbook would be good for my personal growth.  It turned out to be true.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the folks at the MS vendor used C# and I read a bit of their code and played with a few of their development tools.  They were really exciting, and the industry was spending a lot of money on getting .NET to be the most easy-to-use Rapid Application Development (RAD) environment available.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t getting much attention on the mac platform, and I had just bought one.  So I joined Kangaroo, Urs, Dru, Iaian and the rest of the folks to hack on the first Cocoa<->.NET bridge.<\/p>\n<p>But then Scarlet was born and I stopped doing anything other than raising my little Boo for a while.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m thinking about tonight.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=cjamescollier\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My inbox overflows with mail from the cocoa# list. If you&#8217;ve been wondering about the status of the project, you should check out the list. Cocoa# was my first Mono-related project. I started working on it while I was an SDET\/SysAdmin for a Microsoft vendor in Seattle. Matt Westervelt and Rob Flickinger of Seattle Wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,38,160,79,116,161,37,7,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-159","category-c","category-cocoa","category-free-software","category-language","category-mac","category-microsoft","category-mono","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YDIB-2h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.c9h.org\/cj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}