Mono Uninstalled (for the moment)

In recognition that my old-ass version of VMware Workstation forces me to run an old-ass version of Ubuntu, I finally uninstalled Mono—mostly because MonoDevelop will not run on my old-ass platform (which a weak excuse for command-line pros). A new Ubuntu VM is (slowly) under development (with the latest version of VMware at the W2 gig) so Mono will be back relatively shortly.

My Linux Desktop-based development efforts are very ambitious and threaten (yet again) to make me a jack of all trades but master of none. Here is the intended coverage (in order of decreasing current activity):

• Adobe Flex under Eclipse Europa with flex2ant.

• PHP under Eclipse Europa (WTP).

• Yahoo! Astra with Adobe Flex under Eclipse Europa.

• Java with Apache tomcat under Eclipse Europa.

• Java with Glassfish under an aging copy of NetBeans.This is just too much for a self-described .NET developer to screw around with! So here are a few casualties of triage:

• I dropped Google’s flexlib in favor of Yahoo! Astra. The opinion here is that Yahoo! (for the moment) has a better “developer community” culture than Google. This is just another way of me saying that I like Yahoo! documentation—and Douglas Crockford (even though he despises XML).

• My Java Server Faces push is seriously stalled. My current employer’s sudden lack of interest in this technology (after a key evangelist of the technology quit) did not help matters.Mono still has the promise of allowing me to move the bulk of my development chores to the Linux environment. I am confident that my server-related .NET solutions can make the transition (even while still connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server). In fact, my heavy Adobe Flex push in recent weeks is actually more dependent on a proprietary platform until I am more comfortable with playing, say, audio on Linux with a virtual machine.

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