eric’s extremeboredom

I wrote a very basic application to generate Glade# code from a glade xml file using CodeDOM. Its a good way for new users to get an idea of how to use Glade#, as well as a way for everyone else to save time. This tool generates stub classes (one class per top-level widget) that [...]

It was quite hot today. During lunch, we went down to the beach. Alki Beach (Seattle, WA) Does anyone know what these things are called? They were sticking up out of the sand all over. The (3) pictures are pretty bad, they looked like long worms or worm-like plants, or something. When we got back [...]

I noticed that my patch that makes Gtk.ListStore implement IEnumerable was commited to Gtk# SVN head (thanks!!) so I figured i’d just mention why it’s useful and how to use it. Preveously if you wanted to traverse all the rows in a ListStore (used for TreeView, ComboBox, etc.) you would have to do something like: [...]

Hi everyone, I put up a nice website for the Seattle Mono User’s Group (SMUG) today: http://www.mono-seattle.org/ The site is powered by Cuyahoga, a very nice (free) asp.net content management system that runs on mono. And as Chris mentioned, don’t forget that theres a meeting this weekend. Details here.

Last night I replaced Gentoo on my desktop with Ubuntu Hoary. This is something I should have done a *long* time ago. Everything .. just works. I still can’t get over how fast apt is. I’ve been compiling everything for way too long. I was thinking back about why I started using Gentoo. Before Gentoo [...]

The city had to do some sort of work on the power grid in our area today, so they shut off power form about 9:00am to 2:30pm. Before I left this morning I shut my server off so it could turn off properly. When I got back home and turned the server back on it [...]

Got basic Exif support implemented into QuickThumbs today. This allows QuickThumbs to display detailed information about photos written by your digital camera: For those of you who don’t know, QuickThumbs is a photo gallery that generates it’s self automatically from flat files on your drive, so you can just drag and drop photos from your [...]

Somebody with *way* too much free time created a sweet lego version of the music video for this song (O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei).     Several other people with the same “excess amounts of spare time” problem appear to have created other videos (kittens!), some quite obsurd.

Here are some fun things to try out: This page will freeze the latest Windows version of Internet Explorer (after loading the page, resize the window)http://eric.extremeboredom.net/Stuff/freeze_ie.html Visit this page using Firefox, then try it in Safari or Konqueror =).http://cflfm.com/ Thanks to Matt (who’s too “cool” to have a blog apparently) for both of these. Does [...]

So we had a very impressive turnout of three people last night. I guess everyone around here that uses .NET works at Microsoft, huh? Anyway we still had a good time, Chris was working on implementing a version control system into monodevelop, Andrew was working on refactoring the information management application he is developing, and [...]