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7 months ago
in My decorators article is in top ten articles for the year on Linux Magazine on t+1
too bad you have to log in to read it. But cool for you!
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9 months ago
in Mono 2.0 is out! - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
I noticed a lot of the downloads for other platforms besides SuSE and Windows variants are no longer developed. Is that going to be continued?
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migueldeicaza
We are trying to work with other distribution maintainers to ensure that people get access to packages that have been fine-tuned for each distribution.
In the past our RPMs ended up conflicting with distribution-provided packages, or in the case of Debian, our packages had a very different partitioning than what they used.
We are now working early with distribution maintainers to ensure that relevant patches are applied upstream and that they get the source for their packages on time.
It is a transition period, but the end result will be a better distributed Mono fr everyone.
In the past our RPMs ended up conflicting with distribution-provided packages, or in the case of Debian, our packages had a very different partitioning than what they used.
We are now working early with distribution maintainers to ensure that relevant patches are applied upstream and that they get the source for their packages on time.
It is a transition period, but the end result will be a better distributed Mono fr everyone.
9 months ago
in Mono 2.0 is out! - Miguel de Icaza on Miguel de Icaza's blog
First programming language...
What is the best way to learn Mono?
What is the best way to learn Mono?
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Anthony
Get Charles Petzold's free .Net Zero book http://www.charlespetzold.com/dotnet/ and type in the c# examples starting from the beginning to the end of the book in your editor of choice on top of Mono. After that do the same with Jon Skeet's amazing http://csharpindepth.com/ for all the c#3.0 bits..
After that you will be there..
After that you will be there..
10 months ago
in Entertaining Documentation on jessenoller.com comments
I have always lamented the docs not having more examples. It could be my short coming in reading what is there and translating that to code...but I would like them anyway.
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tag
Robert, I've heard this complaint before. A couple of alternative references may help:
http://pbe.lightbird.net/
http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm
I also think that online reference documentation can easily incorporate examples and discussion, without becoming flabby: just link to it, or have some Javascript fold it away.
As it happens, I don't really suffer from any lack of examples. Whenever I'm writing Python I have an interpreted session running, and I just try the code out, so I'm learning by doing which is always the best way.
http://pbe.lightbird.net/
http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm
I also think that online reference documentation can easily incorporate examples and discussion, without becoming flabby: just link to it, or have some Javascript fold it away.
As it happens, I don't really suffer from any lack of examples. Whenever I'm writing Python I have an interpreted session running, and I just try the code out, so I'm learning by doing which is always the best way.
At some point I want to reformat the article and post it over here.