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What’s in the Mac OS X version of Silverlight 1.1 Alpha?

I downloaded Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and poked around until I found out where the .NET stuff lives. Here’s what’s in the bundle: $ cd /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin/Contents/MacOS/ $ ls CoreCLR.bundle System.Core.dll IronPython.Modules.dll System.SilverLight.dll IronPython.dll System.Xml.Core.dll Microsoft.JScript.Compiler.dll System.dll Microsoft.JScript.Runtime.dll agclr.dll Microsoft.Scripting.SilverLight.dll agcore … Continue reading

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Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7

Liza Daly: “If you are a COBOL fan, you will love this language, and if you are not, the main thing you should know is that Inform 7 does not suck. It can do real work in a novel way.”

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Not an attack, just some observations

Tom Hoffman: Test-Driven Development: What a Pain in the Ass!

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The Mandelbrot Set in JavaScript

Want to bring your browser to a grinding halt for anywhere between a few seconds and a minute? If you do, be sure to click here. (On my Mac, Opera is much faster than Firefox or Safari.) I drew on … Continue reading

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Food for Thought on Mono and Patents

Miguel de Icaza: “…take a step back, and for every instance of the word `Mono’ replace it with every major open source project today `gnu libc’, `linux kernel’, `Open Office’, `samba’, `x11′, `cairo’, `gtk+’, `qt’, `binutils’, `gcc’, gnome’, `qt’, `mozilla’, … Continue reading

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MonoDevelop on Mac OS X

These are rough notes, and due to the the moving target nature of everything, very likely to stop working at some point in the future. Install Fink. Configure Fink to use the unstable repository. Install mono, gtk-sharp, gecko-sharp, gtksourceview-sharp, and … Continue reading

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SafariBox

Jon Udell shows how to embed Safari search results in a web page.

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Best of Both Worlds

Ted Neward: “it’s dual citizenship!”

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Changes at Sun

Daniel Steinberg: “This could be a huge moment for Sun.”

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Mozilla as Killer Cross-Platform Component Platform

Jon Udell: “Could InfoPath have been built on a Mozilla foundation instead? You bet. And the result wouldn’t just be a great Windows application. It would be a great application, period.” See also The Firefox Opportunity.

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