Well I have been working pretty diligantly today on my mono presentation for next monday. I must say though if I pull this off by some miracle it will be awesome. I am really likeing what has come together. I will also have a nice treat for the people attending the presentation on the 30th from a new friend in Dallas Joseph Hill.

I have used several live distrobutions of linux in the past to play with mono the first one I used was monoppix. Well since it was a great resource that had video tutorials, woot, then I wanted to add it so I doubled checked the site the old fashion way I tried to go there. Well guess what it isn’t there anymore. Hmm, that stinks it was good, but I have good news I save a bunch of… I mean there is Mono-Live which is the official live cd for mono. Now I must say this thing is awesome. Every mono program works like a charm. Usually I have to tweak and play and massage things to work, but not on Mono-Live it just worked which impressed me.

So go check it out. Mono-Live.

That is pretty much it for now need to get back to work I have a lot to do hope to see anyone local reading this at the next meeting.

Personal issues resolved:
Well I found out that inorder for me to run monodevelop I was going ot have to run that export command everytime right before I open up monodevelop.

Well I sent out an e-mail to the mail list and a guy told me to put it in the /etc/profile and voila it worked. Apparently, looking out it, that is where quite a few Envrionment varaibles are stored. I need to remember that.

Little bug:
I found out that the version 0.7 issue is just an accident. So no real big deal there.

Can’t wait to try:
Also the database stuff looks awesome in monodevelop. I am going to install mysql on my laptop temporarily to test it out then see about opening the ports up to my server and play with remote mysql adminstration. I can’t wait to test this little thing out.

Interesting:
From what I have read on the monodevelop roadmap they are going to incorporate stetic into it as the gui form editor. Which IMO will be awesome stetic from what I have seen look awesome. On the stetic site there is a flash video of how to use it. And I must say that it is nice.

Monnopix:
If you want to just jump into doing some development in mono I suggest you do two things at Monoppix.com
a) Downlaod the ISO burn it and get ready to do some development as soon as you reboot with the cd in like knoppix.
b) Watch the Video tutorials on the site they are quite good and can really get you started.

woohoo. I finally got monodevelop installed on my laptop in crux.

What a bear of a job. I spent a few days wondering why in the world it wouldn’t start. Then mircoulusly(sp ?) I tried to start it through console and it spit out that it needed MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME variable set to Mozilla installation directory. Well that sucked because I had not idea what program it was refereing to. Whether it meant a specific one or the whole freaking package.

So after a day of griping and complaining and google searches I finally decided to just download the 13 meg mozilla file and untar it. Well once I finally did that I set the envritonment variable like so:

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME="path/to/mozilla/"

After that it worked. Now I need to figure out why it says Version .8 and not version .7. Oh, well at least I have it installed now and can play with it.

Until next time happy coding.

I am working on creating ports for everything mono. I have several things done so far, but have a few scripts to write to finish it.

I finally got ASP.NET running in linux using mod_mono. It didn’t really take as long as I thought it would. Once I figured out a few basic things about installing applications from scratch in crux things are flying. I am really picking up a lot, and really likeing this distro more and more.

Also, you something I find quite funny is that as a computer person when you see something different at a kiosk that is very limiting you tend to try to do as much as you can to see what all is possible on the computer. For example I am at a coffe shop called Kaffe Bona. They have a highly customized version of IE with a lot of limitaions, mostly done in active directory i am sure. Anyway the first thing I do when I see it is start to see what all is closed off in it. Like i can’t control click to finish urls. I can’t minimize it in anyway ctrl+d doesn’t work. It is very interesting indeed.

But it just says something. When restircited one of the first things people do is see what they can do to get around it. Usually, like in my case, so they can do something incase they need to fix a problem. Like if I the browser crashed most people would just give up, but a computer person would do what they can to reopen the browser.

Anyway enough of my rambling.