Miguel de Icaza

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06 Apr 2005: Scripting OpenOffice with Mono - April 6, 2005

Progress on the OpenOfficeMono front, here is a screenshot from the OOoMono team: Sample C program running in OOo.
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Apr-06.html

05 Apr 2005: On Release Dates - April 5, 2005

Loved the article of Joel on Picking a Ship Date. As usual, he has various entertaining stories to make his point. Both Red Hat and SUSE have their Linux distributions shipping every six months (Fedora Core and SUSE Professional) which in my opinion burns too many developer cycles on testing, quality assurance and documentation. Except for a few fairly obscure developer features each distribution is hardly distinguishable from the previous version. Maybe its a good thing that these.
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Apr-05.html

03 Apr 2005: West Bank - April 3, 2005

From the Electronic Intifada diaries: International peace observers report on the militas attacks on palestinians on the West Bank and poisoning of their flocks. A more comprehensive article is available on Zmag. Iraq and the case of the missing WMDs The report is out. The culprit for the war was "Curveball" for feeding bad intelligence. Everyone else can now go and get a raise.
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Apr-03.html

02 Apr 2005: SharpMusique - April 2, 2005

Jon has authored SharpMusique: a port of PyMusique to C on Gtk. SharpMusique SharpMusique is a very useful tool, but in addition Jon is shipping a C binding ("VLC.cs") to the VideoLan library. VideoLan is a cross platform media framework, so this is quite convenient for folks developing cross-plaform media apps with Mono. The only mistake of the afternoon was allowing Nat to test drive SharpMusique while I was logged in. Interviews An interview I did while in Turkey:...
http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/Apr-02.html