Mono Used to Scale Up imeem .NET Application to Linux
Joint Novell/Imeem news brief on Imeem's use of Mono:
Imeem, a free desktop service that allows users to create personal private networks, has tapped Mono to quickly scale up its application from a simple technology demo running on .NET to an industrial strength server infrastructure to support its rapidly growing user base. The imeem development team also used Mono to develop client software that runs on both Windows and Mac OS X, two critical platforms in the consumer Internet market.
"Developing with Mono" class now available
Novell Developer services has started to offer the new Mono
application development for Linux class as instructor led training. The
class covers:
- Installing and configuring Mono
- Mono compilers (C#, VB.NET, Java, Boo)
- the Mono tool chain
- GUI development with Gtk#
- Web applications and web services with ASP.NET
- Database connectivity with ADO.NET and MySQL
- LDAP development with Mono
Race to Linux Results
CodeProject today announced the winners. In one case an application was rewritten line-by-line with PHP, which took twenty three hours. The press release is here
In the remaining cases Mono or GrassHopper were used to port the software in a matter of hours.
The Reports Starter Kit and TimeTracker were ported to Linux using Mono and the database replaced with Firebird SQL.