This is kinda late but better than never. This 10th edition of FOSDEM was a blast again. Got to see back good friends and meet new people. This year was a bit special too because we happened to have a dedicated room for Mono thanks to the work of Ruben and Stéphane. It was even [...]
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Working on Mono with git-svn
CC by-nd by W. T. L. I won’t go here in depth on how to use git, the official hub has already tutorials to get you started. I’m more interested here in the workflow you can apply and the tools you can use when working on Mono with git-svn (although it can be mostly used [...]
A FOSDEM talk primer
(Shamelessly inspired from Stéphane) Since image processing is both trendy and a good candidate for parallel optimizations, I took the time to implement a little program that compute a part of the Mandelbrot set (a well known fractal) in a fancy way : Now for the facts & numbers : Sequential generation : 26.5s Parallel [...]
Mono happening @ FOSDEM
Mono room So if you weren’t aware of it yet, Mono is going to have its own dedicated room at FOSDEM. In order to spread Mono awesomeness, submit talks here before the 20th. You can even decide yourself how much time you are going to use so don’t hesitate to speak about a cool software [...]
Wicd support patch for Banshee
Shameless plug to tell I’m alive . If you are using Wicd and usually stare at Banshee trying to download cover art or post to last.fm while you are disconnected, the following patch add just the support to fix this. Here is the associated bug report to get the patch integrated. In other news, school [...]
How to get the max out of your PLinq query
Here are some tips you should follow if you want to get the maximum performance out of a Linq query parallelized with PLinq (at least with upcoming Mono version) : Use an indexed data structure as your source like an array, a list or anything which implements the generic IList<T> interface. You can also use [...]
Follow-up on OpenVG support for Moonligh
Interested by the stuff I demonstrated some weeks ago ? Check out the following message on Moonlight mailing-list for instructions on how to get the same thing. Just to make you salivate : BubbleMark running at ~50 fps without too much visual glitches (direct link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekfb6jCyDmM)
Joining the Moonlight fun
Watching my teammate hacking on moonlight was sure to detain on me someday. So when Alan talked about making Moonlight run on top of OpenVG I got pretty hooked. Two hacking days later, I actually got something to « work ». At the moment it’s quite rough, hacky and it probably kills kitteh too (be careful, it [...]
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Talk is cheap. Show me the code.
— Torvalds, Linus
Zencomic 0.2.1 : OH HAI!
After fighting a bit with Gtk# widget styling and MonoDevelop tarball deployment, here is a new Zencomic.
Summary
Zencomic is the comic strip-driven productivity enhancer that periodically makes your day funnier by showing comic like Dilbert or XKCD in a bubble.
What’s new aka The Cool Stuff ™
New, window-based, popup
Tired of having some comic showing far too small ? This is for you !
Now, if you go to the preference dialog, you will be able to switch to a window-based popup which shows your comics in all their greatness at the expense of taking more window space and making your boss, who was incidentally passing by, angry at you (in that case, a quick click on the popup will close it).
Can I haz lolcats ?
Lolcat greatness is here with the addition of a new addin :
The remaining
- For the Gnome Do junkie, Zencomic now correctly comes with a .desktop file so that you can launch it from there
- Made the preference dialog show in a little saner way i.e. by coming up directly at the front (which apparently wasn’t the case with some WM).
- The traditional round of bugfixes (should you still spot one don’t hesitate to manifest in the comments)
Downloadz
Tarball : http://netherilshade.free.fr/mono/zencomic-0.2.1.tar.gz
If by any chance you feel this is an application that should come in your distribution, don’t hesitate to contribute some packages 
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