This Friday afternoon, I will be taking another crack at "What has Mono done for .NET developers lately?" at the Dallas TechFest event in "lovely Frisco, TX". I'm trying to mix things up, so audience members who have been following the tour from city to city won't be disappointed. I think I'm going to...
Dallas TechFest (and Geek Gathering or Mono Meetup?)
Tuesday, June 16 2009 - Mono
Second Hartford CodeCamp
Tuesday, June 09 2009 - Mono
This Saturday at 3:00p, I’ll be presenting on Mono at the Second Hartford CodeCamp in Hartford, CT. The talk is titled “What has Mono done for .NET developers lately?”, and will be focused on new Mono developments relevant to .NET developers (including the recently announced Mono Tools for Visual...
Mono at Tech·Ed – Booth and BoF
Friday, May 08 2009 - Mono
Next week is Tech·Ed North America, in Los Angeles, CA. This time around, Mono is sporting a very stylish new booth design. Andrew , Thomas, Darren, Lee, and I will be hanging out at the booth all week. We’ve got a shiny new Mono kiosk (not pictured) to demonstrate the latest tools for working...
Beantown.NET User Group Tomorrow (May 7th)
Wednesday, May 06 2009 - Mono
I’m very excited to announce that tomorrow, Thursday, May 7th, I’m scheduled to present to the Beantown.NET User Group , at the Microsoft NERD (New England Research & Development) Center, in Cambridge. As an added bonus, I’ve convinced Miguel to come help out (or make fun of me…) While the title...
mod_mono Configurator
Tuesday, April 21 2009 - Mono
One of the primary stumbling blocks people encounter when using Mono’s ASP.NET implementation, even with our AutoHosting feature, continues to be issues with configuring Apache mod_mono . The recent introduction of ASP.NET MVC has only made matters worse, as MVC’s routing URLs avoid file name extensions...
ASP.NET MVC on Mono - Two options for the IDE crowd
Thursday, April 02 2009 - Mono
So, you want to get your ASP.NET MVC solution running on Mono? Here are some options: Visual Studio Since we’re not shipping ASP.NET MVC with Mono yet , you’ll need to supply your own MVC assembly with your application. 1) From within your MVC project in Visual Studio, find the System.Web.Mvc reference...
Mono and openSUSE at the MSDN Developer Conferences
Friday, January 09 2009 - Mono
In an interesting turn of events, we (at Novell) will be sponsoring the MSDN Developer Conferences in January and February this year. If you've not heard about these events yet, they are basically a mini- PDC roadshow, with a good cross-section of some of the best content from the conference. The remaining...
Winter Migration
Monday, January 05 2009 - Mono
Over the holidays, I did a bit of server housekeeping. A few upgrades here, a migration or two there, etc. The brunt of this effort was moving the last of my applications off of my very old leased server , and onto an openSUSE 11.0 Xen image hosted at Linode.com . Linode enables you to provision...
.NET Startup Opportunity in Dallas
Friday, December 05 2008 - Mono
Hey friends in Dallas: I have a good friend from back home who is asking me to recommend someone that can help him out at his very cool startup. They have an immediate need for someone to do server-side .NET development. As they're a startup with some tight deadlines, they probably have some flexibility...
Oh, what a difference three years makes!
Sunday, October 26 2008 - Mono
I am currently in transit to LA to attend PDC 08 . This is my first opportunity to attend a PDC, although I’ve been near one before . Circumstances are a bit different this time around, and I’m extremely excited. As Miguel mentioned , he will be giving an advanced talk on how Mono's runtime...
