Recently I have been spending time creating a batch application for SQL Server Reporting Services. During the day, I work for a third-party administrator (TPA). Part of the business involves the payment of medical, vision and dental claims on the behalf of our clients. Periodically we need to print the check registers on the accounts [...]
After playing around with BlogEngine.NET for the last couple of months, I have decided to retire it and go back to WordPress. The bottom line is the software is not quite ready for Mono and Linux. There always seemed to be some minor issue to overcome whether it was installing a plugin or figuring out [...]
The past month has been an in depth investigation of developing .NET applications on Ubuntu using Mono. The experiment was quite simple, use Mono and MonoDevelop to create a simple ASP.NET application. The test application was built using Mono 1.9.1 and MonoDevelop 2.0 from the SVN repository (trunk). The application makes use of master pages [...]
Two years later and a lot of work by dedicated developers, Mono’s .NET 1.1 support is essentially 100% complete. The prospect of cross-platform .NET while exciting, brought back memories of the progress made by the Wine project. Wine has been around longer than Mono and still cannot run most Windows applications in a stable fashion. [...]