Man, I haven’t been posting as much as I used to.

I posted GtkSpell# into the Mono repository. Check it out at http://svn.myrealbox.com/viewcvs/trunk/gtkspell-sharp/ Seems to have some activity already too. One line of code and you can add it to any TextView. Multilingual support as well and something that Tomboy has been doing themselves. This should build on Win32 as well and you can get the gtkspell dlls from the default Gaim installer and the aspell dictionaries from http://aspell.net/win32/ if you don’t feel like building yourself. If you haven’t seen it yet: http://www.polystimulus.com/Screenshot-GtkSpellSharp.png

I went to meet with the guys at Telligent. They work on the popular CommunityServer software which is really neat stuff. CommunityServer is awesome, pardon the licence as its not normally what we consider open source in the Linux community, but it is still very flexible. :-) I recently had it working on Mono myself (sorry, no link anymore as it was more of an proof of concept at the time). It is used currently on channel9.msdn.com, www.asp.net, weblogs.asp.net, XBox forums, the MSDN blogs, and so many other places. I would say these guys are the most elite developers in the ASP.NET community I’ve seen. Very nice and very relaxed development environment as well. These guys were the most enthusiastic developers in a single company that I’ve ever seen and only comparable to the energy and drive that I see in people related to different open source projects. Maybe because it is a business made up of nearly the best developers in this field. They work hard and play hard as well as evident by the notorious XBox room. :-) I was very impressed with their setup and I hope I get to work with them very soon.

I’m working on a lot of little things I hope to release soon, but mostly its been pretty busy lately.

Also, my prayers go out to Paco and his family. I’m happy to see him again after what must of been the hardest week of his life loosing his son to the war in Iraq. Take care Paco.