Mono
Using Linq to Sqlite Providers: Updated
So, I still get hundreds of hits each day looking for my linq to sqlite provider, which is quite outdated. To prevent anyone else from falling prey to bitrotten code, I have taken down the link, and created this brief walkthrough. For starters, you need to download sqlite for ADO.Net here: http://sqlite.phxsoftware.com/ You will also need [...]
Mono GSOC Projects: Linq to SQLite
So I noticed that one of the accepted proposals for the Mono project is to create a LINQ provider for SQLite. Major props to this (its something I totally want to see!) and I’m glad to see that LINQ in Mono is going to be its own beast, I love it when the FOSS community [...]
Tomboy Hackfest: Part 2
Alright! Some cool news! The Mono Hackfest at the Novell OSTC in Provo, Utah was a success ( I would say, people showed up and we talked about features ) And while I took several photos in the hope that I might have another photo-riffic blog post, but alas, my flash wasn’t on, and they [...]
Tomboy Hackfest Tonight at the Novell OSTC
Well be hacking it up tonight at 6:00PM MST at the Novell Open Source Technology Center. The rough TODO for the night seems to be Tags, Tasks and maybe even a backend to query Beagle. Anyways, if your in the greater Salt Lake City area, come on down! If your a little further away [...]
Mono 1.2.6 Memory Usage
So, I’ve heard a lot of hype about the upcoming 1.2.6 release of Mono being faster, leaner, and more stable then ever before (due largely to Novell’s acquisition of a QA team dedicated to Mono). Beagle has always gotten flack over memory use, and as a result, we are relentless in our hunt for abused [...]
Google: How do you do it?
So its not a big surprise that an oft-requested feature for Beagle is the ability to index a users Gmail messages (like Google Desktop Search). Today we (the Beagle developers) started to investigate just how this is done. While POP3 (and now IMAP) are available, downloading all of a users mail, indexing it, and then [...]
SqlLite Linq Provider
Ok, so as many of you may have noticed in my last post I’ve taken a real interest in C# 3.0 and its new nifty features. Now, I’m mostly just excited for the simple collection manipulations, but the whole Linq to SQL thing is nagging in the back of my mind. Now while complete CRUD [...]
The Changing Face of High-Level Programming
Ok, so I’m sure most MS .Net dev’s have already seen these posts far too many times, for the Mono users out there, I have a little treat. While Moonlight and WPF get tons of hype, I think the biggest and most exciting change coming soon to a C# compiler near you is support for [...]
Waking Up In the Middle of the Night
It happens.. even running on so little sleep, I still find myself waking. Fortunately, this time I awoke with an awesome realization. I’ve been pounding my brain against the wall for a week now on how to further refine/increase the accuracy of my original relation-based ranking system. My initial results had been less than stellar [...]
Banshee Ipod Playlist Support
It looks like the monster might finally start to lay itself to rest. After almost 2 years, one of the most basic feature requests for Banshee looks like it will finally be fulfilled. I’m talking about playlist syncing to iPods. While there have been a plethora of patches in varying states of readiness always floating [...]