Book memes for a monday morning

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"I was chewing on the peculiar fact that both these photographs were pointing outwards from the desk, when a connecting door opened, and I was suddenly in the presence of Spencer."

Note to self: when I eventually get down to writing a book, remember to collect all the memes flying around and place interestingly exotic and/or misterious phrases in all the right spots.

Extra cookies if anyone can guess what book it is.

Update: No cookies for all you guys looking up the book on Google! As penitence you now have to go and read the book! Tssk tssk

Gtk# on Windows - now with more Tomboy flavour!

If anyone missed it, a new shiny Gtk# 2.12.8 installer for Windows is available. As Miguel noted yesterday, it's a nice small package with the full stack so you have everything you need to develop in an awesome cross-platform way.

And speaking of cross-platform development, in case you missed that one as well, a new version of Tomboy is out now, with full Windows and Mac OSX support, for your note-taking pleasure! I've been using Tomboy forever, and it's one of those little apps that you just can't go without once you have it!

Google Summer of Code with Mono!

Calling all students!

Google Summer of Code is here, and this is the week where you do your proposals to spend the next few months working on awesome projects on Mono!

Our ideas page is here, and the soc page is here. There is a #monosoc channel on irc.gimpnet.org dedicated to everything Soc, do don't delay, do it now!

RIP Mário Gamito

Nem sei o que dizer...

Moonlight shining on Ubuntu

This morning the first thing on the channel was the following excellent news, that I shall now reproduce directly as-read:

<directhex> it's official, moon binaries are now trivially installable on any ubuntu 9.04 system
<directhex> the 1-click url is apt:moonlight-plugin-mozilla

Awesome stuff directhex, many thanks ot you and everyone else that helped shine a bit of moonlight on jaunty!

PS: directhex also noted that the build servers are busy building, so not all architectures might be available right now, just give it a bit of time :)

A little browser sample

By popular demand, here is the sample that I used at the ENEI presentation - a browser in 12 lines of code.

Some busy days ahead

As Mono 2.0.1 is rolling out, I'll be having a few busy days ahead talking about it.

First, at ENEI'08 in Aveiro this sunday October 26, where I'll be doing a presentation on Mono and integrating a roundtable on mobility and convergence.

On November 8th, it's back to Aveiro for the GLUA TechSessions, where besides me talking about Mono, there's going to be talks about Gnome, WebKit and much more.

This one is organized by the excellent guys at the University of Aveiro's Linux user group, which brought you such great hits as the OpenSuse meetup last September. That one went so well that they decided they just had to organize something more technical this time around - apparently, me talking for more than an hour last time was not enough :)

Finally, on November 13 it's time for Codebits in Lisbon and another Mono talk by yours truly. This is the second year of this event, a sort of 3-day hackday with talks and competitions and a chance to network, always fun.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta go make sure the laptop actually works with a projector...