Fooling around with Mono and C#

July 4, 2005 hacking Comments Off

I’ve been fooling around with C# some more. Microsoft sent me a copy of Visual Studio 2005 beta 2 on DVD recently, and I’ve been using Mono on Linux. I’m really interested in getting back to work on some music notation goodness, but this time using a better language. There’s no way I’m going to try to use C. That’s just stupid.

I’m totally cool with using C++, but everyone else I talk to thinks that’s completely insane. I have no interest at all in using Java, and I am wanting to avoid using something like Python as well. I don’t really know why that is. In every other language binding, GTK has really felt like just a “language binding” between C and whatever language it is. For some reason, Gtk# feels more integrated.

San Andreas

July 4, 2005 General Comments Off

Naturally, I got the new Grand Theft Auto game for PC when it came out. It’s been pretty fun, and I’ve been trying to play it whenever I can. I’m going through it really slowly so far, though. Cameron seems to be beating me pretty severely. It’s fun, and it’s by far the best GTA game yet.. but I’m not totally flipping out about it now the way I was with the previous two.