The Ubuntu-ie folks are running a slightly tuned Ubuntu Global Jam here in Dublin on Saturday 27th March where basically everyone is welcome to drop by and slackwork on any project he wants. The event has been dubbed OpenJam and every Mono hacker/enthusiast/bystander is most welcome to register on the Mono Corner of the Signup [...]
Yet Another [À Compléter]
You are currently viewing the category archives of Programming
Category Archives: Programming
FOSDEM wrap up
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
WiFi power saving & kernel 2.6.31
As of Linux kernel 2.6.31 (currently available on Arch Linux for instance), due to a change in the iwl* drivers, the sysfs entries that were managing power saving on related WiFi chips was removed due to some power management-related bugs. As such, it’s impossible to manually set powersaving either using sysfs or via a command [...]
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 [...]
« Fundamentalist Functional Programming »
Erik Meijer, guru at MS Research, has recently given a talk at OSCON 2009 introducing functional programming in a funny way. Highly recommended if you have always wondered what all fuss about side effects and purity is about. Check it out : http://blip.tv/file/2402061/ He even cite Mono around 4:30 (btw Erik, Mono has supported C# [...]
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 [...]