The ramblings of a yorkshire tyke » Mono

A good new years gift…

spgennard — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 23:44:08 +0000

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used …

Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion

spgennard — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:31:26 +0000

Over the last decade I have gained quite a lot of respect for Novell mainly due to their SUSE Linux platform and Mono. Strangely one of the companies involved in the acquisition is “Golden Gate” from San Fran, looks like …

Java… does it have a future? Well not for me..

spgennard — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:20:34 +0000

As someone who has used Java for my own development needs for years, I find it sad the Java platform appears to be falling apart or at the very least getting some bad press. Lets consider the recent events, we …

Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

spgennard — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:25:16 +0000

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put …