Monohttp://romain.blogreen.org/categories/mono/An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR.The state of Mono 2.6 on FreeBSDYou wight have seen that mono 2.6 has been released for a while and is still not available in FreeBSD ports. Here are a few reasons.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2010/02/the-state-of-mono-26-on-freebsd/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2010/02/the-state-of-mono-26-on-freebsd/Tue, 16 Feb 2010 15:57:00 GMTUnbreaking Mono on FreeBSD 6.4A few days ago ports/140916: lang/mono (2.4.2.3) installation fails was opened. The reported problem had already been reported a few time but with insufficient feedback so far and I was not able to diagnose the problem, not mentioning providing a fix. But this time, the reporter could spot that the problem was happening for him only with FreeBSD-6.4.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/12/unbreaking-mono-on-freebsd-64/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/12/unbreaking-mono-on-freebsd-64/Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:29:00 GMTBanshee: Like Frankenstein! It rips!A while ago (I mean when it landed in the FreeBSD ports tree), Banshee reacted when a music CD-ROM was in a CD-Drive: it crashed. Well, not so cool in fact, you had to double-check it was empty before launching the player...

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/11/banshee-like-frankenstein-it-rips/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/11/banshee-like-frankenstein-it-rips/Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:03:00 GMTPacking structures with Mono or how to fix alignment problems for P/InvokeI have just spent a while wondering why the size of some data structures in C# was wrong while writing bindings to the CD-ROM control features of the FreeBSD libc.

Considering the following code snippet…

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/11/packing-structures-with-mono-or-how-to-fix-alignment-problems-for-pinvoke/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/11/packing-structures-with-mono-or-how-to-fix-alignment-problems-for-pinvoke/Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:39:00 GMTLINQ, PostgreSQL and MonoLINQ to DB is planned for mono-2.6, however I wanted to access data from a PostgreSQL database, without spending much time playing with Npgsql, and using the stable version of mono: 2.4.2.3.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/linq-postgresql-and-mono/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/linq-postgresql-and-mono/Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:16:00 GMTMono on FreeBSDMono 2.4.2 has just been committed to the FreeBSD ports tree, after being available for a few days in the BSD# repository.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/mono-on-freebsd/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/07/mono-on-freebsd/Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:43:00 GMTMeta-note-taking with TomboyJust wrote a Tomboy add-in allowing the user to keep notes in Tomboy notes. The idea? If just like me you rely a lot on short tags such as TODO or FIXME, you find it convenient to have the editor highlight them. It is exactly what the add-in has been designed for.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/01/meta-note-taking-with-tomboy/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2009/01/meta-note-taking-with-tomboy/Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:55:00 GMTBSD#: Mono on FreeBSDA few weeks ago, I joined the BSD# project which aim to maintain Mono (an open source implementation of the Microsoft .NET framework) on FreeBSD. It was the occasion for giving svk a try.

]]>http://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2008/08/bsd-mono-on-freebsd/FreeBSDMonohttp://romain.blogreen.org/blog/2008/08/bsd-mono-on-freebsd/Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:15:00 GMT