Miguel de IcazaMiguel de Icaza's web log23 May 2005: Dissent like its 2005- May 23, 2005 Check ChomskyTorrents for your dissenting needs in torrent form. Update: Fixed the previous link. Nina Simone Maria Laura just introduced me to Nina Simone, wonderful. Galloway's Transcriptn An transcript of the amazing declarations of George Galloway in the US Senate: here. Update: Even better, there is a video. Ex-UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter talks about the background of the hearing.http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-23.html 17 May 2005: Cross Language Integration- May 17, 2005 Lluis Snchez from the Mono team on his blog produced two screencasts: (first and second) which demostrate how Mono allows code written in C, Boo and Java to work transparently with each other. The demo shows: The latest MonoDevelop IDE in action: creating a project made up of components and libraries written in multiple languages. Three different languages consuming the Gtk API. The Mono Debugger in action. The debugger is a library and there are two front-ends that...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-17.html 13 May 2005- May 13, 2005 tStuttgart, Pilsen, Prague, Paris I will be doing two keynotes at Guadec in Stuttgart and at the .NET Technologies in Pilsen. I have strategically placed a few cities on this Eurotrip to visit some friends and meet with some developers in the way. If you want to join me for lunch, dinner to discuss Mono, .NET, Gnome, free software or Linux write me an email to my gmail account miguel.de.icazagmai.com. The dates are as follows: Germany: Stuttgart: May 27th to May 31st for...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-13.html 11 May 2005: Open Source Java, part 2- May 11, 2005 After my post on Apache's Harmony project I have been watching the fireworks on the blogs and the mailing lists. One thing is clear: nobody quite knows what Harmony is supposed to be. There are pros and cons. The main pro is that I discovered the BileBlog, a modern-age blog that reads like a good Jamie Zawinski opinion. In particular the flame about project Harmony is gem. Unlike Mono, open source Java faces a big problem: there are a number of free commercial Java runtimes...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-11.html 10 May 2005: Innovation- May 10, 2005 Jamie correctly points out that the idea of having the search functionality present at all times without popping up an annoying dialog box predates Firefox, it has been availble on Emacs and XEmacs forever: Emacs search functionality is also a bit more evolved at this point than Firefox (in an Emacs kind of way). Anyways, I can not wait for more desktop applications to use this model for searches. Mono's Performance Gonzalo has posted some details on the evolution of...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-10.html 09 May 2005: National ID card in the US- May 9, 2005 Some folks are opposing the national ID card in the US, for more details see the UnrealID.com web site. A FAQ is available from News.com. BoingBoing has a call for action. To get the law approved, legislators used a clever hack: the actual RealID thing is not being discussed or debated, instead it was just hidden inside another piece of legislation which will likely get approved (some military budget). Bruce Schneier, security and cryptography expert also has some negative things..http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-09.html 08 May 2005: Fafblog and the Medium Lobster on Revisionism- May 8, 2005 Very amusing: the Medium Lobster sets the record straight on the invasion of Iraq. Also from Fafblog: Great Moments in History: God Hides... Fun with abused Web Standards Some people fell in love with the idea of REST-based web services. But they mistakenly confused REST as encode the operation anywhere you want, send and parse the document in any way you feel, hey we can do whatever we want as long as we use http'. The problem was that they did not follow the directions in the...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-08.html 07 May 2005: Fork in the Open Source Java world- May 7, 2005 For quite some time there have been a number of open source Java virtual machines implementations, it could be easily understood that each project was trying out different ways of implementing the virtual machine or had different goals, milestones or requirements. All of these JVM efforts at least shared the class libraries (which is a large component of a Java VM) in the form of the GNU Classpath, and this certainly helped these communities collaborate. The Apache Foundation is now..http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-07.html 06 May 2005: The Genesis of a Free Software Hacker- May 6, 2005 Alex Graveley's story. An interesting readhttp://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-06.html 05 May 2005: Ajai Raj at University of Texas- May 5, 2005 Ajai Raj attended a presentation from Ann Coulter in Austin, was arrested for swearing and being lewd. A very articulate article: So yes, the Q&A session came around, and it was pathetic. Her slack-jawed fans got up and licked her face so she could pat them on the head--one schmuck offered to be her bodyguard, and she smiled, doubtlessly making a mental note that she wouldn't touch his nether regions if she were King Midas. Liberal protestors posed well-intentioned but...http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/archive/2005/May-05.html |