December 07, 2004
Three days away from returning to Fort Worth, Texas
I did a Mono/Gtk# presentation at the Bayamon campus of the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico. I created a simple application using the Glade# template for C# projects in Visual Studio .NET 2003. The demonstration then showcased step-by-step debugging, creation of Makefiles, creation of #Develop/MonoDevelop solution and project files and the packaging of the working project into a zip file. All of these steps performed in Visual Studio were done using the Prj2Make Visual Studio Add-in and Mono 1.0.2 for Win32.
Next, I fired-up #Develop and opened the project created in Visual Studio and complied it and ran it. I then rebooted the presentation machine in its SuSe 9.1 Pro personality and proceeded to demonstrate more editing, compilation and launching of the application using MonoDevelop. Although not a huge technical feat, I was very happy with the fact that it all worked and looked very easy. My only regret comes from doing a demo that relied on Glade, but once "Stetic" is brought closer to reality by the talented Dan Winship, I will reformat the demo accordingly.
A gentleman by the name of Rodrigo took a video of the presentation and may be producing a DVD. If I manage to get a hold of it, I will tell you if my participation is worthy of further consideration. :)
From left to right: Lenny, Christina, Carlos, PJ, Kevin, Paco, Zeb, James
Hi there, Paco!
Thank you very, very much for your presentation. It had a great impact on the students' impressions about Linux application development. I only saw you open a command-line once during the almost two hour presentation. :-)
Have a good safe trip back home.
Posted by: PJ Cabrera at December 8, 2004 10:28 PM