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Mono @ FOSDEM 2012: Slides

Posted on Tuesday February 28, 2012 by Ruben

Slightly overdue, but here they are, the slides from the 2012 Mono Developer Room @ FOSDEM: Enough Debian packaging knowledge to hurt yourselves slightly less than you do already (Jo Shields) [ODP] Mono – State of the Union (Miguel De Icaza) [PDF] Gluon (Federico Di … Continue reading →

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Awesome details

Posted on Monday January 30, 2012 by Ruben

I like small details in software. Here’s a nice one I spotted the other day: The Amazon Kindle app for iPad changes its background depending on the hour of the day. It even has some very nice effects, for instance, … Continue reading →

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Mono at FOSDEM 2012: Schedule announced!

Posted on Wednesday January 18, 2012 by Ruben

The schedule for the Mono devroom at FOSDEM 2012 has been finalized: (11:00 – 11:45) Enough Debian packaging knowledge to hurt yourselves slightly less than you do already (Jo Shields) (12:00 – 13:00) Mono – State of the Union (Miguel … Continue reading →

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Mono @ FOSDEM 2012: we still need talks!

Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011 by Ruben

Mono hackers of the world, if you are planning on attending FOSDEM 2012, be aware that there is still a call for presentations up for the Mono Devroom. Go submit your talks now, you have until the end of the … Continue reading →

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On F-Spot maintainership

Posted on Thursday December 22, 2011 by Ruben

From the category of news I’ve been planning to send out for months, yet never got round to doing: With life work getting in the way, it’s been impossible for me to further maintain F-Spot. Fortunately, Stephen Shaw has offered … Continue reading →

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As seen in an Amsterdam bar

Posted on Monday December 12, 2011 by Ruben

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Mono Developer Room at FOSDEM 2012: CFP

Posted on Thursday November 24, 2011 by Ruben

Great news! There will be a third edition of the Mono devroom @ FOSDEM. The event will take place on Feb 4 and Feb 5. We have the devroom the entire afternoon, for 6 hours (from 13:00 till 19:00). As … Continue reading →

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Surviving on OS X when you’re used to the terminal

Posted on Sunday September 18, 2011 by Ruben

If you’ve spent some portion of your life with Linux on your computer, you’ve undoubtably discovered the usefulness of the Linux command line. Sometimes it’s just quicker to get something done by pulling up a terminal and entering a one-liner. … Continue reading →

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Zipper, an insanely simple zipfile creator for node.js.

Posted on Friday September 16, 2011 by Ruben

Earlier this week I needed a way to create zip files with node.js. I was shocked to find out that no such thing exists (prove me wrong interwebs!). Some hacks later, zipper was born: Zipper, an insanely simple zipfile creator … Continue reading →

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Student session tomorrow

Posted on Friday August 5, 2011 by Ruben

As a reminder, the GNOME and KDE Interns Showcase at the Desktop Summit is on tomorrow at 17:15, which is in 24 hours from now (at the time of publishing). It’ll take place in the Audimax room. The main goal … Continue reading →

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