I came to Eriks advanced presentation to see what else I could pick up
on Mono and where its going. I ended up entering a completely
dark room … except for the projector. Miguel was here writing a
quick “mini-web browser” using Mono, Glade, and a Mozilla
component. It was very cool to see him work, and how quickly he
got it close to working. I say “close to working” since he was
pressed for time and had to run to a meeting … the app ran, however
the Mozilla component was not showing in the window … Miguel left.

Erik got going and presented the “What is Mono?” pitch. It
was going for a while, and then one of the other attendees asked the
question … “Is this the Advanced Mono or not?” Erik expressed
that due to the fact that Miguel had to leave it was going to be an
“evolved intro” … bummer.

He again touched on where Mono is doing better than .NET … besides
the breadth of language support, Mono has a wide range of platform
support. He then went into MonoDevelop
… an IDE for Mono. It looks pretty good and has project
support, integrated debugging, project templates, code completion,
etc.  I’ll still be interested to see if they might choose to move
this to Eclipse in the future.  I could see where they might not
… although they ought to find a way to integrate it …

Erik then went into MonoDoc … the documentation engine.  He was
talking about how it’s like a Wiki … and then I realized what time it
is.

It sucks … today I am being interrupted for all kinds of calls. I had to leave. ;-(