Just catching up on a few odds and ends (mainly Mono related) that don’t really warrant their own post.
How BitTorrent Works
Ever wondered how BitTorrent works?
Go check out this simulator (Java required).
Pretty cool watching empty nodes fill up and start seeding others.
Mono/Cygwin CD
Paco has released the ISO of his Mono / Cygwin CD.
This CD contains, multimedia tutorials tarballs with Mono source code, installers ready to use and most important, a very comprehensive Cygwin installation specially configured to work in tandem with the Mono 1.1.4 Win32 installer for building Mono, XSP, Gtk# and others from source code as described in the Oâ??Reilly article (also included in the CD) here
Limited time offer only, so I won’t link directly to the torrent – check out his announcement instead.
Mono Presentation
Paco has also released video of the talk Mono Development for Windows .NET Programmers presented by various Mono team members at the Plano .NET User Group meeting.
Again, it’s only available for a limited time, so go here to see if it’s still available.
Introduction To Mono articles
Brian Delahunty has a couple of good articles introducing Mono up on The Code Project:
I look forward to seeing what he produces in future installments…
Open Source Software in C#
Via The Daily Grind.
A site attempting to catalogue various Open Source Software projects written in C#.
Regular Expression Library
Welcome to RegExLib.com, the Internet’s first Regular Expression Library. Currently we have indexed 913 expressions from contributors around the world. We hope you’ll find this site useful and come back whenever you’re looking for an expression for a particular task, or have just figured out a new expression that does something useful. Thanks!
The regexes are written with .NET in mind, but should be portable to other languages (particularly Perl). I’ve not yet tested any of them, so I can’t comment on the quality.
How to setup a .NET Development Tree
Mike Roberts has wrapped up his excellent series on creating a .NET development tree into a single article.
This can be supplemented with his Tree Surgeon tool which does the manual work for you.
I’ve used both his articles and the tool to setup a tree for a project I recently started, and I thoroughly recommend you check them out.