19November2006
Posted by Christopher under: Family & Friends; House.
In trying to fix a shelf it managed to convince me it never should have been in the wall anyway and it now sits leaning against the wall with books stacked up around me. I did manage to get wall plugs to replace the run-of-the-mill ones that had come out however a combination of Serenity(7/10) and laziness got the better of me. Harumph!
I leave tomorrow for Cornwall as work takes me out of the office for a week for fresh air and excercise - its a good thing. On the way down I hope to be stopping at Clifton and Sara’s to catch up before the weekend when we celebrate their upcoming wedding. I’ll try and take some of the office with me but we shall see what comes of it.
19November2006
Posted by Christopher under: Linux & Open Source.
Off to see “The Prestige” tonight. Found myself thumb-twiddling at several points so 6/10. Did some Christmas shopping and spoke to les crumblies as well as a colleague from work who rang with - quell surprise - a computer problem. Felt dirty and used afterwards.
Excellent Linux format edition which had a tutorial on Mono programming which I ran through - the usual Hello World example however it was for programming newbies so it will be interesting to see the similarities to Java (its main competitor in the OOP world) and whether I find it any easier or more enjoyable - certainly it is well supported under FC6 and I had downloaded all the libraries required using Pirut in no time at all. Here then, is Hello World in Mono.
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
class MainClass
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine(”Hello World!”);
}
}
}
Mono is the open source implementation of Microsoft’s .Net and it was not so long back that it was listed (along with NTFS, my-my, how things change) on Fedora’s Forbidden Items list.
