Mar 4, 2010
Oct 28, 2009
MonoBrasil's new site is live!!!
For those Monoers able to read Brazilian Portuguese, rejoice (just kidding): our brand new MonoBrasil site is up and running.
We are still trying to fill it up with content we already had at the older site, while revising it in the process, and creating some new content, with the many, many, many new things spinning in the Mono world.
Content contributions are welcome, preferably in Portuguese (of the Brazilian variety or not), but also English/Spanish content that we may be able to translate will also be accounted as "Good Deeds" by MonoBrasil's demigods (currently that means me and my good fellow Binhara).
We are still trying to fill it up with content we already had at the older site, while revising it in the process, and creating some new content, with the many, many, many new things spinning in the Mono world.
Content contributions are welcome, preferably in Portuguese (of the Brazilian variety or not), but also English/Spanish content that we may be able to translate will also be accounted as "Good Deeds" by MonoBrasil's demigods (currently that means me and my good fellow Binhara).
<pt-BR>Vejo vocês lá!!!</pt-BR>
<en>See you there</en>
<en>See you there</en>
Oct 21, 2009
We've upgraded to a Enterprise Licensed Monotouch
First thing to try (while waiting Apple bureaucracy to process our requests):
Build our prototype to the iPhone target... result: the binary of the program grows from 5MB to more than 7MB.
But I still think it is fairly sized for what it is carrying inside...
Build our prototype to the iPhone target... result: the binary of the program grows from 5MB to more than 7MB.
But I still think it is fairly sized for what it is carrying inside...
Sep 18, 2009
Developing for IPhone with MonoTouch
I'm developing my first app for the iPhone using Mono, MonoTouch and MonoDevelop in a Mac Mini. Never used seriously a Mac before, and last time I've developed something professionally for an Apple platform was for the Apple II, back in the 1970s (yes, I'm that old...).
Anyway, it is awesome to be able to leverage my skills with Mono and C#, instead of having to resort to Objective-C, to get the job done.
So far, I'm tackling the still steep learning curve over Cocoa, Interface Builder, and the limitations imposed over Mono by the AOT compiling the iPhone platform mandates.
My app has just a Login View, so far, that already interacts and validates against a hard-coded password, and Monodevelop generates an executable with some 4.7 Megabytes to be deployed to the iPhone Simulator.
When you think that all the Mono native runtime and huge parts of the basic class library already in native binary format is in there, I think it is a reasonable size, that won't grow much until I add loads and loads of functionality to the application.
I've been using the evaluation version of Monotouch so far, but I think it is proving itself worth the price, and my boss already said the investment on buying one or two (if we buy a second mac) enterprise licenses has a green.
Now I'm going to move more code from our J2ME version of the app to C#, while also trying to build an usable interface on top of it along the Apple guidelines.
Anyway, it is awesome to be able to leverage my skills with Mono and C#, instead of having to resort to Objective-C, to get the job done.
So far, I'm tackling the still steep learning curve over Cocoa, Interface Builder, and the limitations imposed over Mono by the AOT compiling the iPhone platform mandates.
My app has just a Login View, so far, that already interacts and validates against a hard-coded password, and Monodevelop generates an executable with some 4.7 Megabytes to be deployed to the iPhone Simulator.
When you think that all the Mono native runtime and huge parts of the basic class library already in native binary format is in there, I think it is a reasonable size, that won't grow much until I add loads and loads of functionality to the application.
I've been using the evaluation version of Monotouch so far, but I think it is proving itself worth the price, and my boss already said the investment on buying one or two (if we buy a second mac) enterprise licenses has a green.
Now I'm going to move more code from our J2ME version of the app to C#, while also trying to build an usable interface on top of it along the Apple guidelines.
Sep 16, 2009
Trying to change a background image on this blog
First insert it here to upload to blogger (in truth blogspot):
I've obtained it from PatternCooler
After I save it I'll try to change the template CSS to refer to it.
I've obtained it from PatternCooler
After I save it I'll try to change the template CSS to refer to it.
Aug 26, 2009
PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services
Well that is an interesting crossover: Having your data served by .NET on a REST way, being easily consumed by a PHP web app.
See A new bridge for PHP developers to .NET through REST: PHP Toolkit for ADO.NET Data Services which I've found via Julie Lerman's Blog , which I've found out via Google after receiving an email from O'Reilly inviting to a free webcast with her: Entity Framework Tips & Tricks.
This is the nature of the Internet, it provides a continuous stream of connections (links) popping up every second that allow us to thread our way through many interesting subjects.
For a curious mind like mine, this is both a blessing and a curse, as it allows me to grow my knowledge and renew my stock of questions, but surely steal out lots of my time, thus playing havoc with my personal planning... :)
This is the nature of the Internet, it provides a continuous stream of connections (links) popping up every second that allow us to thread our way through many interesting subjects.
For a curious mind like mine, this is both a blessing and a curse, as it allows me to grow my knowledge and renew my stock of questions, but surely steal out lots of my time, thus playing havoc with my personal planning... :)
Jul 7, 2009
Carnitas Recipe
Thanks Jonathan for directing me to it (through Twitter):
http://food.rlove.org/2008/09/slow-braised-carnitas.html
http://food.rlove.org/2008/09/slow-braised-carnitas.html
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