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Earlier this month, I applied to the Mono Project (and the University of Washington, and Ubuntu, and Debian, and The Perl Foundation) requesting a mentor to get Perl6 hosted on the DLR.

Last Tuesday, Miguel contacted me and asked that I chat with Michael Hutchinson ( Read more... )

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Sorry for the inconvenience folks. I was annoyed by having to mark so many comments as spam, but the plugin interface was so klugy that I had no idea how to find the users who would contribute useful posts. So. Feel free to comment… Nao!

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We haven’t done much work on keeping the continuous integration (CI) machines online, and there haven’t been any new builds since November of ‘09. I should set Nagios to remind us when things get off track or something. The recent acceptance of the DLR into Debian ( Read more... )

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Ivan put up a hudson server on our winders box. Ankit helped me figure out the IronRuby xbuild build problems. I should probably try it on IronPython, too. I sent the ironruby-core list a patch to fix some case sensitivity issues. Some time in the near future, I’m ( Read more... )

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We had a visitor on #ironruby today asking for help getting IR running on his mac. I gave him the following directions, and they seemed to work aside from one glitch. I tested them on my wife’s mac, and it worked for me, too.
Install Mono

You can grab the Mono .dmg ( Read more... )

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I don’t know how long add-apt-repository has been around, but I’ve found it very useful for installing some of the bleeding edge stuff I want to test:

$ for ppa in do-core team-xbmc nvidia-vdpau chromium-daily directhex/monoxide ( Read more... )

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Hello, google. I would like to introduce you to our chat logs. Chat logs, google. Google, chat logs.

We will discuss things here such as Mono, GNOME and Debian. We may even use it to talk about work on the DLR project stuff.

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Hey all!

I’m sorry I haven’t been very active with my packages recently. I all-of-a-sudden started grad school and have been swamped with studying. I also started a contract and have been busy trying to learn a new codebase while contributing something other than ( Read more... )

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*whew* I did a bunch of things yesterday. We took our kindergärtner to her first Friday at her new school (and were about 10 minutes tardy. oops). We then took our toddler to a nearby playground with swings and slides and let her expend some energy. After she had ( Read more... )

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Thanks to Meebey!

Sorry for the being out of touch thing and the not posting anything recently thing. A vacation took me by surprise and clocked me right upside the head.

Next on the TODO list:

• Update the dlr-languages package to indicate dependence on the new release
• ( Read more... )