At first, I thought that this logo was a stylized drawing of a round table with plates of spaghetti and one chopstick between each pair of plates.
And then I wondered where the philosophers were.
Computer Science has made me weird.
The Mono Project’s web site has been changed to use MediaWiki as its engine.
Myself having changed my own personal homepage to MediaWiki some months ago, now I can say that I’m a leader ;-)
Amaya, I have recently bought the plane tickets for the Debconf 5, too (actually, my brother did). Vigo - Paris - Helsinki and return, 320 euros via Air France. As the stops in the Charles de Gaulle airport will be very short (under 1 hour), I will have to do some stretching in the planes before exiting them, as I’ll have to run! ;)
BTW, when I finish reading the book on ADO.NET (database access) I will start with the web application that Matt Kraai suggested… so don’t despair! ;-) Some skeleton design is already made, I will implement it as it is pretty generic (CRUD operations mainly) and then you’ll have the opportunity to ask for features ;-)
I think I’m going to cry. I not only understand the words of what this blog entry says, I can even understand the code! My reading .NET books is paying off!
By the way, has anyone got an idea for a simple ASP.NET web application I could create? The idea would be:
I was thinking of an Internet pizza delivery service (a simple thing which would only collect orders, without the full back-end tracking pizzas, orders, drivers, etc), but if someone has thought of anything else…
On the Debian front, I’m still translating. I’m currently with d-i level 2 (applications which are not part of debian-installer itself but everyone interacts with), and when I have the iso-codes finished (country, region and language names), I will pass to level 3 :-)
A couple of years ago, Miguel de Icaza came to Spain, to the Congreso Hispalinux, to show Mono off; and show off he did!
A couple of months ago, Mono was brought to my attention again, and as time passed, I grew more and more interested in it, so I bought “Mono, a developer’s notebook” and found that Mono would make a very pleasant platform to write applications on. Of course, having Windows and MacOS X versions of the Mono framework makes it more interesting for developers…
So I did what just one year ago I would have considered unthinkable: I bought three books with “.NET” in their titles and “Microsoft” in the covers.
And I already have a request for a program — a remake of a program for managing insurance agencies I had written back in 1996 using Clipper, which I’ll rearchitect in the next weeks and will code in Mono. It will be desktop-oriented, multiplatform and database-driven. Very year 1998-ish :-)
Also, thanks to this I will add some more marketable skills to my curriculum vitae, which is always doubleplusgood.
