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Install Party @ UTBM

Category : Linux, School, Ubuntu

Last Thursday, Lolut, a club which promote the free and open-source culture and of which I’m the (forced ;) ) manager, organized an install party at school where we put the latest release of Ubuntu on the students machine.

I must say that, as it’s my first action as a member of Lolut, I’m very happy with the outcome. Indeed, 3 days before the event we had only 4-5 people registered on the website and, suddenly, the last day before the party, this number jumped to 15. That number of persons for a little event like that was already a good achievement but in the end it was something like 20-25 people who came and returned at home at the end of the afternoon with a new shiny Ubuntu box :D . Moreover everybody was cool and Lolut’s members really rocked knowing how bad the organization was :-P . The only little bad point is that we didn’t have time to really teach everybody some Linux tips&trick apart from a bare how-to-install-package-with-synaptics.

Surprisingly there were almost no problems at all during each installations and, in a short amount of time, everybody was playing with his wobbly windows. As a matter of fact the tweaking of the apt mirror and the proxy was what took most of the time/problems (thanks nextgens for the hard work on that !).

D-Bus Explorer First (alpha) Release !

Category : C#, DBus Explorer, Mono

WTF ?

D-Bus Explorer is a Gtk# application written in C# which use Alp’s DBusSharp library to display the API of DBus services. For the big picture it’s a clone of dbus-viewer but with a Gtk interface.

A little screenie :

d-bus_explorer.png

Features and what is missing

Features :

  • Viewing of a D-Bus service’s methods
  • Selectable bus
  • Description of the method’s prototype with, both, a standard and a C#-ish syntax
  • A (what I hope to be) clean interface
  • Gtk# GUI

What is missing/buggy :

  • For the moment the parsing is still pretty slow so don’t get impatient for big services like Hal
  • Apparently some services aren’t showing up (bad introspection data ?)
  • Only methods are displayed in this release but signals and properties will be added soon
  • No way to call a method and see the result, this will be added later too

In short don’t expect too much from this release apart from a nice viewing of your DBus services API ;) .

Download

Grab the tarball here : http://netherilshade.free.fr/mono/dbusexplorer-0.1.tar.gz

Conclusion

ATM there is no website or such, so if you have a suggestion, a bug report or anything else catch me on #mono@GimpNET (look for Garuma).

Finally I would like to thanks Alp for all his suggestions and for writing a so cute D-Bus library ;) .

Super rough power

Category : C#, Mono, Quick note

Sitting in front of the school bar, hacking since 13h30, here is the crappy (as the title imply) result for the moment :

dbusviewersharp.png

Now it’s time to go to my next course (computer science, ugh).

EDIT : a little bit less rough,

dbusviewersharp-2.png

MD 1.0 beta1 (aka 0.16) released !

Category : C#, Monodevelop, Quick note

Just a quicknote for those lazy enough to not have noticed :P .

The announcement can be read here with the changelog there (particulary this ;) ). Believe me, to see my insignificant feature on such a big thing makes me very very happy :D .