MS is getting some sense...

See the Novell/Microsoft cooperation/patent-protection agreements news, from Mono's perspective, of course:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2006/Nov-02.html

Some days you wake up an year older, but old problems still surround you...

Yeah, today I turned 45.

But I can't get past an uncompleted years-old Java project, that is keeping my hands contractually tied, and making it really hard not to go bankrupt.

Mild depression over the issue is probably the cause of a very large drop on my productivity as a developer, that only adds to the problem, making it harder to solve.

Even the projects I do really enjoy, like Mono and MonoDevelop, are suffering from this situation, as I can't get the inner peace I need to really contribute to them.

My loving wife and those two beautiful kids we have, are the only reason I really have to not give up on everything...

Happy birthday to me!

C#-scripting of Firefox, looks like something interesting

Vladimir Vukićević's post (Missing Pieces) opens up a nice prospect, of being able to script client-side with C#, and perhaps, Boo, and other CLR languages.

I think Mono fits the bill nicely on how to integrate with Firefox in Linux and elsewhere it is available, the same way it will be possible to do with the CLR in Windows Vista.

In truth, Mono's embedding API is a proven solution that, AFAIK, predates any MS disclosure of such a thing for .NET.

We just need to understand that this IE7-born integration, that is being "opened" to Firefox, isn't just some basic embedding API, but surely comes with a HUGE Object-Model attached of what is available in the browser to be scripted, and also some Security-Model which the central piece may be a list of running-time limitations and general assumptions.

Lots of fun, I foresee

Blogger Beta is Cool!!!

Much improved, specially template configuration. Anyway I had to edit the template xml-extended html by hand to suit my auto-width-behaviour needs.

Smart Software: Symbolic Links in Vista

Well, it looks like MS is recognizing some *nix strengths, and giving Vista some more 'unixability':

Smart Software: Symbolic Links in Vista


Funny, :)