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Archive for October, 2004

Mono on the Mac…. some success

Posted: Tuesday, October 12th, 2004 @ 7:35 am in Tech | No Comments »

Well, after the Nant frustration (still no luck there BTW), I dug in and tried to do something useful anyway getting this stuff running. NUnit works very well. The mono binaries can be used as-is, bypassing needing a NAnt build tool to assemble it. For some simple stuff that doesn’t need a big freaking build [...]

Mono on a Mac….. sort of

Posted: Thursday, October 7th, 2004 @ 7:25 pm in Tech | No Comments »

Well, I’ve been mucking with .NET at work for a while now, but on the Mac at home I’ve been Java and Objective-C for the fun stuff. I decided that it would be interesting and useful if I could try out at least SOME of the things at work on the Mac at home. Good [...]

Patently Absurd

Posted: Sunday, October 3rd, 2004 @ 10:37 pm in Commentary | No Comments »

Well the news of Kodak succeeding in patent litigation against Sun is burning around the web. Between this one, the Eolas plugin patent, and the simple fact that it is as much as impossible to do a patent search on software with any level of thoroughness, the industry is heading for rough seas in my [...]