Jb in a nutshell

I’ve played with Lego today

Well, it was some kind of special Lego… I’ve taken bricks from :

• A nice tutorial about Tray Icons for GNOME
• An perfect and simple example
• An amazing Mono Live
• GPL icons from a nice project
• A simple ATOM feed

With those bricks, I’ve made a very simple and totally incomplete GMail Notification Icon for GNOME. It looks like that:

Yet, it’s no really usable. Username and password are hard-coded, and you just know if you have, or not, unread mails.

If someone is willing to use my code to produce a better applet, he would not have a lot of things to do. The list is simple:

• Use GConf to save username and password
• Write a really simple window to ask user whether or not username and password have to be stored
• Write another simple window to be shown when a new mail arrives, and then disappears

This nice person will find the code here: GMailTray

Meet Ximian folks

I’ve met Miguel, Nat and John when they were in Paris. It was very nice to meet those guys. Even if having four breakfast in two days is a little bit unusual to me, it was two really good days.

Me

If everything goes fine, i should leave paris and move to Mulhouse, near the German border. For curious peoples, here is the “Where i’ve lived in France” map:

• 1. Jouars-Pontchartrain (78), 14 years
• 2. Alissas (07), 5 years
• 3. Lyon (69), 2 years
• 4. Paris (75), 1 year
• 5. Mulhouse (68), will be there for at least 3 years

Mulhouse looks to be a crappy city, but i’ll be close to folks from Evaluant. I won’t miss Paris’s subway.

Google Summer Of Code & Cecil

I’ve applied for the Summer Of Code. This is the task i’ll work on! The previous roadmap is still up to date. I hope i’ll be selected, i’d be very disappointed to miss an opportunity of winning a T-shirt.

At least 3 projects from Mono are using Cecil. So I’m happy.

Guys from Mainsoft are interested in Cecil as well. Thanks to them, i’ve nice reports on Cecil’s bugs and API. This should accelerate Cecil’s development.

Ever wonder why I love Ruby so much? Even if not, and probably this is the case, go read the really Poignant Guide to Ruby. Go now. I’ve read the beginning a year ago, and some blog remind it to me today. Lasts chapters with the rabbit are a must read, go read it!

Cecil’s timeline

• Lazy and Aggressive loading of assemblies
• Both Reflection and Metadata level available
• .net 1.1 profile support
• Assembly round-triping
• modreq/modopt, pinned types, resource embedding, ...
• bugs

• .net 2.0 profile support
• Emit mdb debugging symbols (maybe pdb too)
• bugs correction I guess
• another few bugs

I’ve found something interesting. In SRE, you are able to emit assemblies in memory, then use them directly. I was afraid that with Cecil I had to write the assemblies on the disk before loading them, but it seems that I won’t have to, since there is a Assembly::Load(byte[]) method that should be usable. But i don’t think that it will be a very used feature, because in SRE2, you have almost everything you want to emit at runtime what you need.

Paris

The good thing when someone come to visit you, it’s that you go to places your not used to, even in the city you’re living in. So i’ve spend the last few days visiting Paris, and I have to admit that I love this city (expected the subway). Some pics taken in the “Museum d’histoire naturelle”.

The gallery
A whale