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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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This is a quick tutorial for getting a first gtk-sharp app up and going.
Install MonoDevelop

$ sudo apt-get install monodevelop libgtk2.0-cil-dev Start MonoDevelop

It’ll be in your GNOME application menu under Applications->Programming->MonoDevelop
Create a new Gtk# ( Read more... )

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Yay! The dlr-languages package has been migrated to testing, which means that it will be included in squeeze, the next release of Debian. Jo has uploaded the -2 version and it is now in sid. This version addresses the issues brought up in the Ubuntu Feature Freeze ( 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’m happy to announce that after the filing of an Intent to Package and nearly 2 years of work, IronRuby 0.9, IronPython 2.6b2, and the DLR are now in Debian. To my knowledge, this is the first package in Debian with direct and active upstream support from Microsoft.

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I was reminded this morning after a bit of chatter on #debian-cli that my previous write-up on setting one’s locale on Ubuntu is out-of-date. Instead of running dpkg-reconfigure locales and selecting your locale, the new incantation is as follows:
Magic

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We had a visitor on #mono today who needed help with his homework. It seems that Reggie is happy to have forgotten everything about using ODBC to connect to MySQL. I was curious and feeling helpful, so I figured it out.
Install the MySQL ODBC driver

$ sudo apt-get ( Read more... )