Category Archives: Mono

A good new years gift…

Posted on January 9, 2011 by spgennard

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used … Continue reading →

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Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion

Posted on November 23, 2010 by spgennard

Over the last decade I have gained quite a lot of respect for Novell mainly due to their SUSE Linux platform and Mono. Strangely one of the companies involved in the acquisition is “Golden Gate” from San Fran, looks like … Continue reading →

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Java… does it have a future? Well not for me..

Posted on October 22, 2010 by spgennard

As someone who has used Java for my own development needs for years, I find it sad the Java platform appears to be falling apart or at the very least getting some bad press. Lets consider the recent events, we … Continue reading →

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Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

Posted on November 17, 2009 by spgennard

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put … Continue reading →

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