Tag Archives: mono

A few updates from the farm

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Aaron Bockover

While Scott is working on all sorts of awesome, Gabriel and I are hard at work in mostly bug-fix mode to prepare for Banshee 1.4, to be released on November 10th. Tomorrow we will release Banshee 1.3.2, the third release … Continue reading →

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Banshee 1.0 Released!

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Aaron Bockover

It is my immense pleasure to formally announce the release of Banshee 1.0. After nearly eight months of vigorous, non-stop work (since the last major Banshee release), it’s here – and we couldn’t be happier! I’m not going to highlight … Continue reading →

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Mono.Zeroconf 0.7.4 and cross platform glory

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Aaron Bockover

I released Mono.Zeroconf 0.7.4 last night which is a minor bug fix release. Packages are available for openSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and Fedora. Sources and binaries are available for Linux, Windows and OS X. What I have found interesting about … Continue reading →

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Banshee 0.13.2 … at last!

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Aaron Bockover

Only a few months overdue, we’ve finally released a new stable Banshee. This release includes a slew of important bug fixes and a handful of new features. iPod On the iPod side of things, there have been some pretty heavy … Continue reading →

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Announcing Mono.Zeroconf

Posted on December 23, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

I started working on Mono/.NET bindings to Bonjour/mDNSResponder almost two years ago. The code was quite useful but we found ourselves adding a lot of nasty preprocessor directives — yes, in C# — and configure junk to support both Mono.Zeroconf … Continue reading →

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Plugins, Addins, Extensions, oh my!

Posted on November 14, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

We are hard at work on the next generation of Banshee, and I’ll be posting details and juicy screencasts and screenshots soon. What I’m curious about now is what we should call Plugins in our UI. We use Mono.Addins in … Continue reading →

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Introducing PodSleuth

Posted on October 20, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

PodSleuth is a new project I started last May that aims to probe, identify, and expose properties and metadata bound to iPods. It obsoletes libipoddevice, which had the same goals, but due to many reasons ended up being a mess … Continue reading →

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My Hack Week: The new Banshee

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

A couple of weeks ago I really started investing a lot of time into what will become the new Banshee. There are a few big goals for this effort, including a full client UI/services stack split, insane performance improvements, and … Continue reading →

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Surfing the Tubes

Posted on May 23, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

Novell and EFF team on patent reform – Awesomeness “I think it’s fair to say that we’ve been talking a lot about patents within Novell in the last twelve months. More than we have in the past,” he said. Novell … Continue reading →

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Banshee in Summer of Code (Not)

Posted on March 15, 2007 by Aaron Bockover

Banshee was rejected from the Summer of Code, as was GStreamer. I’ll just echo that having GStreamer rejected came as a bit of a surprise, and it would be nice to have some kind of justification. Some of the projects … Continue reading →

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