Fag On FOSS

Well, for this weekends hackery, I want to build a FileRoller clone in GTK#. Its a relatively small application in both use and code (alot of its code could be replaced with .NET’s existing frameworks, anyway). I guess I could steal the Glade files from the existing source and work from there.

Instead of using the common unix CLI utilities to create, append and open the files, SharpZipLib could be a viable replacement. Although, instead of using SharpZipLib directly, I could expose a loadable module interface so that other developers may write their own plugins for archival compression.

Also, I must note, that I have realised how many planets I am subscribed to and realise also that many people don’t feel comfortable with my gayboy ramblings (re: last post and some of my older ones). I’m going to hack WP at some stage so I can seperate RSS feeds by catagory (so planeters, you will get my technobabble. always.).

Also, Jeff and Pip, Its about time you two got hitched. Have a fab wedding!!

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Well its almost time for the weekend. I get to a thursday and try to have definate plans for what I’m hoping todo - Queer Prom on friday, clubbing on saturday and some hacking in the inbetween bits.

Yesterday, I went to the doctor to checkout this sickness I have - turns out its not Tonsillitis (which I seem to get every few months) and its just a common cold (yay for being able to eat and talk). I also did my regular blood testing, which is always a good idea if your a young gay man. They took three viles of blood from me and I felt quite lightheaded, so my mate gave me a lift home, which was a good idea because there is a massive incline of a hill near my house and its quite a cardiovascular excerise walking up it.

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Im totally sick at the moment and at work, trying to pushout some C# code like a 9 month pregnant woman. Its some kinda throat infection and its pretty damn sore. Sorry to hear about your problems with some developers Auxesis, they kind of remind me with some Gentoo developers I worked with. Anyway, seems BreakMyGentoo.Net has problems managing their project - its practically dead. For the way I was treated by a certain person, thank god its over.

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People have seem to be fucked by Intercosmos all over the Web

These people are profiteering pigs and deserve the flack that they get from the rest of us who want to use the web without hassle.

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You have no idea how much I miss my domain. “sauceage.org will be back… with 99% more toast”. You will be mine again one day.

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So whats been happening with me? Not much… I’ve been trying to get the Mono 1.1 runtime happening on my Ubuntu box (without gaving to sit down and learn dpkg… lazy). This means I can start writing some GTK# 2.0 Applications. I want to start replacing some of my “I use everyday” applications with some managed alternatives - which leads me into my research area for the next few months - how to develop CIL applications quickly for GNOME by developing frameworks for common application tasks. If you rock on down to Dot Net Rocks blogcast stuff, you will read and hear alot about Application Frameworks and the kind of skills you need to design them.

I also helped out a mate by totally pimping his resume at my place of employment. Hopefully all of the above works out awesome.

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Yet another prank phone call!

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I requested my personal domain back from some domain snipers for a _reasonable_ price. This is what they sent back…

Hello,

The domain sauceage.org is using our Domain Name Contact Services at NOLDC, Inc. We
have contacted the owners and apprised them of your interest. They have agreed to
sell you the domain name sauceage.org for US$350. There will be an escrow service
fee of US$30 that must be applied to the final price of the domain name. Total price
of the domain name will be US$380. If this is an acceptable price, please send wire,
money order or certified or cashiers check (international checks please add an
additional US$50 processing fee), which must be made payable to NOLDC, Inc., to:

NOLDC, Inc.
838 Camp St., 4th Floor
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130

Please set up an account with directNIC at http://www.directnic.com/signup/ and let
us know what your username is so that we can have the domain transferred into this
account. Thank-you for your interest.

(Note: Please include the domain name and your directNIC username when submitting
payment.)

Sincerely-
NOLDC, Inc.

$350 USD for my personal domain back? They can totally go to frucking hell.

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Last wednsday I left work a little early to get some retail therapy (Im a simple, expensive and really gay creature) to get my spirits up (one of my fav shirts got distroyed, thanks to the boyfriend) and I needed something to read/todo on the bus (besides BlogCasts). So I rocked up to Angus and Robinson in Pt Street mall to go buy a pretty new tech related book, when I stumbled across Mono: A Developers Notebook. It totally rocks! It covers the installation of the Mono 1.0 series, GTK# 1.0, introduction to the framework and some C# language features. I basically knew pretty much what was in the book (except for the GTK#, mind).

But I have to support people like Edd at Mono who have done some awesome work it getting things to happen and buying the book was my way of doing this. Also, thanks to Thom at Ubuntu, I have mono running on my Ubuntu Hoary/PPC macmini.

So what else is up? Well, I have a new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a Medic in the Aust. Navy. We have been together for about a month and we have just been going out clubbing and enjoying eachothers company.

Work: Increased responsibility. I was moved into a new “Team” called “Upgrade Assurance”, which is basically doing all the customised bits on our software for clients. Its a pretty important part of our software as it is mostly b2b data interfaces. I used to be that guy who always needed his hand held in development but now I hold peoples hands. Its great, although I get interupted all the damn time.

Im totally enjoying my new wordpress blog - its going to make me blog more often now as I don’t have to “blog around” the bugs I have not fixed in KBlog. The Guys At Kruel are changing heaps of things to focus on the new goals: Open Source Game Development. Check out what they are doing, they need your love and support.

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