LB Technology Services Blog » mono http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 MonoTouch Preview http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/08/03/monotouch-preview/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/08/03/monotouch-preview/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:25:53 +0000 lorenb http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/?p=860 MonoTouch is now feature complete and the developers are looking for testers for a closed preview.

MonoTouch is a static compiler for C# and other static CIL languages that allows developers to use C# for developing iPhone applications while taking advantage of Apple’s native APIs for developing iPhone applications.

It’s supposed to released the first week of September. MonoTouch is a commercial product and will be licensed on a per-developer basis.

I’ll be watching to see what Novell is charging as I’m still interested in this project.

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/08/03/monotouch-preview/feed/ 1 MonoTouch http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/06/30/monotouch/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/06/30/monotouch/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:55:39 +0000 lorenb http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/?p=812 Found out some more details about Mono/iPhone. The Mono developers have created MonoTouch which will allow you to create C# / .NET based applications on the iPhone/iPod Touch and be able to use iPhone APIs. There is supposed to be a beta of this available in August.

Looks pretty interesting. I’ll definitely try it out.

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/06/30/monotouch/feed/ 1 Mono on the iPhone http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/06/29/mono-on-the-iphone/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2009/06/29/mono-on-the-iphone/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:57:14 +0000 lorenb http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/?p=810 I saw a blog post from Miguel de Icaza which seems to show a program written in C# being run on iPhone via Mono.

I know the Unity 3D guys use Mono on iPhone already.

Should be interesting to see where they are going with this. I prefer C# to Objective-C.

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It was looking like the project would just die and fade away but, Jeroen Asselman has stepped up and taken over development. He’s moved the source code over to SourceForge.

I’m sure Jeroen will do a good job of taking LAT forward.

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You can follow the work in my git repository: git clone git://www.lbtechservices.com/lat.git

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2008/03/24/lat-update/feed/ 1 Future of LAT http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:22:20 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/09/27/future-of-lat/ For the last few months I’ve been unable to do much in the way of developing LAT.

The first issue is MonoDevelop. In the 1.3 branch, I started to make more use of MonoDevelop features. I switched from building the interface in Glade to MonoDevelop’s Stetic UI builder.

This made development much easier and I was able to clean up a lot of interface issues. However, I found new MonoDevelop releases wouldn’t compile the project any more. I reported the bug and some things got fixed but overall it stopped development cold.

As of MonoDevelop 0.15 I can’t even open the project anymore. It just crashes try to load the solution file. Even with the stable 1.2 branch, I can open the project but it refuses to compile with some strange errors.

The second issue is Mono, specifically the Novell.Directory.Ldap assembly. It doesn’t support non-Latin characters as far as I can tell. TLS support is broken. There is no support for GSSAPI for Kerberos intergration.

I can’t implement the features I want with the way things currently are. I guess I could try and fix it myself but it took me months to get one SSL bugfix accepted and then I had to wait for the next two Mono releases before I could use it. The TLS bug I reported has been open for over a year now. It doesn’t inspire confidence.

I’m not really interested in re-doing all the UI work in Glade and then switching back to a Gedit/Terminal/Glade workflow. Overall LAT does what I need it for and my itch is basically scratched. So as it stands, I don’t think I will be doing any more releases of LAT past 1.2.3 which I just pushed out today. If someone is interested in taking over the project, let me know.

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  • BUGFIX [#90] Fix bug with samba SID being stripped during edits
  • BUGFIX [#88] Creating new POSIX user causes crash

Downloads: tar.gz

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We are getting closer to v1.0. The remaining items to do are to fix the remaining bugs in bugzilla, clean up the look/feel of the web console. The editor has been disabled for now, it won’t be ready in time for 1.0, but we’ll keep working on it for the 1.1/1.2 branch.

We are also working on setting up an OVAL repository so we can provide updated definitions in a more timely manner. I’ll have more details on that later.

Changes since 0.35:

  • editor: Disabled editor; will continue development in 1.1/1.2 branch
  • oval: Added initial support for OVAL 5.3
  • oval: API documentation updated
  • misc: Change license to GPL v3
  • www: Various improvements to web console
  • xml: Updated Ubuntu definitions for USNs 425-1 to 483-1
  • xml: Updated Windows definitions from oval.mitre.org

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 7) | .deb (Ubuntu 6.06) | .deb (Ubuntu 7.04) | .msi (Windows)

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  • editor: Fixed crash if definitions were selected and list was empty
  • misc: Improved i18n support in agent,applet and editor
  • misc: Updated build to use po/LINGUAS
  • oval: Added support for OVAL 5.1 and 5.2
  • oval: Fixed error in handling of check attribute on tests
  • oval: Fixed regression in handling of definitions on wrong platform
  • xml: Updated Ubuntu definitions for USNs 413-1 to 424-1
  • xml: Updated Windows definitions from oval.mitre.org

Downloads: tar.gz | .rpm (Fedora Core 6) | .deb (Ubuntu) | .msi (Windows)

]]> http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/22/sussen-035/feed/ 0 LAT 1.2.2 http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/22/lat-122/ http://www.lbtechservices.com/blog/2007/02/22/lat-122/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:07:19 +0000 lorenb http://dev.mmgsecurity.com/blogs/lorenb/2007/02/22/lat-122/ LDAP Administration Tool 1.2.2 has been released. This is a bugfix release. Changes since 1.2.1.1:

  • BUGFIX [#82] Password mandatory when creating a new user
  • Added it_IT translation from Danilo Ingami

Downloads: tar.gz | .deb (Ubuntu)

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