Today I wanted to install MonoDevelop 0.7 on my new laptop. Mono has a quite big codebase now and a lot of packages is involved. Gentoo Linux are not good at keeping up with Mono and provide stable packages in portage so I decided to write my own little bash script to install everything from source. Since I'm a developer I want to keep up with the latest releases but still want a convenient way to upgrade and don't waste time on manually compile everything by hand. The script is called go-mono.sh and can be downloaded here.

If you want to try it out yourself you can do the following:

It will install everything under your /usr/local so ensure you have that in your PATH. Please note that this is a "It works for me" kind of script, you have been warned ;)

mp3 support is not enabled by default in Ubuntu. This is how to enable it:

Yesterday I found a pretty funny tutorial on creating the smallest ELF executable possible on Linux. Brian Raiter provide a tutorial on how to hack together a tiny little piece of useless software. For me it was interesting to see in more detail what's going on under the hood of a C program. After having gone through the tutorial it hits me how well written it is in terms of a tutorial, since I actually completed it ;) You start out with a standard example, provide optimization discussion to target the goal as you go along, always editing the code so you use more senses if you are following along in your terminal.

This is the day. Please give Live 8 your name here.

Apple has released iTunes 4.9. The greatest new feature in this version is the addition of free podcast subscriptions through iTunes Music Store. Apple has gathered over 3 000 so called podcast's (online radio shows) to their repository. It's fairly easy to browse and search for something of your interest.

By this addition podcasting is more available than before and people listening to this type of radio shows has increased explosively. A lot of commercial stuff is now also being published through podcasting. A good question is how this will affect podcasting in the long run?