Tag: MONO

Dropbox is a great little service (and app). Developer Hylke Bons seems to like it -- but he's got designs on building an alternative with a few improvements. As he writes on his blog, "Dropbox has a great user experience, but it has downsides as well: you can't host your own server; it's not open source and has some freaky things in its license agreement." Dubbed SparkleShare, Bons is ...

To say that Microsoft and Novell have a muddy history when it comes to open-source projects and the GPL would be an understatement. Things were looking up, with the release of the open-source implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2, last week, but today things took a turn for the worse: Novell has just cut all the open source code from MonoDevelop. The implications of this aren't ...

While the Apple App Store is without doubt the largest available medium for a mobile developer to get their app in the hands of the users, for developers new to development using C / Objective C, the barrier to entry can be quite significant. Many developers working with other platforms (particularly Windows / Windows Mobile) have made significant investment into products developed in the .net ...

The Download Squad team got really excited this morning. When we contemplated installing Paint-Mono, we pictured it and GIMP arming themselves with swords, screaming "There can be only one!" We thought there would be an epic battle, and the victor would lop off the other's head in a firestorm of light. Instead, we ended up compiling Mono. Paint-Mono is a Unix port of Paint.NET. To install, it ...

The open source Mono Project, which is sponsored in part by Novell, Inc. announced today that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler which allows software written in Microsoft's most widely used application programming language to be compiled and run on any platform which Mono supports. Until this announcement, Visual Basic applications could only be run on the Microsoft Windows family of ...

I've never used iCal, but I've never met a Mac owner who doesn't. Since iCal is Mac-only, Borja Sanchez Zamorano decided to create a clone in .NET that runs on Windows or Linux using Mono called MonoCalendar (get it?). "Clone" might not be entirely fair, since Zamorano says "MonoCalendar does not try to be a iCal substitute," but rather a substitute for the Macless. ...

Last week Microsoft released IronPython, a version of of the Python open source scripting language designed to interoperate with its .NET libraries on Windows or Mono, an open source .NET implementation for Linux. CNet News.com speculates that Microsoft will soon support IronPython in its Visual Studio development environment. IronPython's source code is available from Microsoft's under their ...