BSD#: Mono on FreeBSD
A few weeks ago, I joined the BSD# project which aim to maintain Mono (an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework) on FreeBSD. It was the occasion for giving svk a try.svk is a...
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Meta-note-taking with Tomboy
Just wrote a Tomboy add-in allowing the user to keep notes in Tomboy notes. The idea? If just like me you rely a lot on short tags such as TODO or FIXME, you find it convenient to have the editor...
View ArticleMono on FreeBSD
Mono 2.4.2 has just been committed to the FreeBSD ports tree, after being available for a few days in the BSD# repository.The lang/mono port still has many patches to make mono build and run on...
View ArticleLINQ, PostgreSQL and Mono
LINQ to DB is planned for mono-2.6, however I wanted to access data from a PostgreSQL database, without spending much time playing with Npgsql, and using the stable version of mono: 2.4.2.3.Here comes...
View ArticlePacking structures with Mono or how to fix alignment problems for P/Invoke
This is basically a[nother] note for myself.I have just spent a while wondering why the size of some data structures in C# was wrong while writing bindings to the CD-ROM control features of the FreeBSD...
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Banshee: Like Frankenstein! It rips!
A while ago (I mean when it landed in the FreeBSD ports tree), Banshee reacted when a music CD-ROM was in a CD-Drive: it crashed. Well, not so cool in fact, you had to double-check it was empty before...
View ArticleUnbreaking Mono on FreeBSD 6.4
A few days ago ports/140916: lang/mono (2.4.2.3) installation fails was opened. The reported problem had already been reported a few time but with insufficient feedback so far and I was not able to...
View ArticleThe state of Mono 2.6 on FreeBSD
Long time no post... Well, I an writing a serie of articles about NFC and it takes me a lot of time, not mentioning I still do many other things in parallel. If you are interested in this area, stay...
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