Mono 2.6.7 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

Last evening I packaged a parallel environment of the new Mono 2.6.7 release, which was published on July 19th.
In this release the mono team fixed around 70 bug fixes. Other highlights are:

• Asp.Net Mvc2 is included
• Latest Version of
  • Soft-Debugger
  • Mono’s xBuild Tool
  • Linq to SQL Binding

Parallel-Environments are really great, as you can use two or more completely separate and  independent Mono stacks running at the same time, for development purposes or even for running unstable applications without compromising existing installed stable versions.
We mainly use it for development purposes of our .NET related projects, as it often takes a long time till the newest version is in the ubuntu repositories and I like to hack on the most recent base.

The parallel environment includes the following dependencies:

• Mono 2.6.7
• libgdiplus 2.6.7
• xsp-2.6.7
• mod_mono 2.6.3
• mono-tools 2.6.2
• gecko-sharp 2.0-0.13
• gtk-sharp 2.12.10
• gnome-sharp 2.24.1
• gnome-desktop-sharp 2.24.0
• mono-addins 0.5

Once downloaded the package installs to “/opt/mono-2.6″.

You can activate the environment by typing the following command in your terminal:

droth@ubuntu04:/var/dev/mono$ source mono-2.6-environment
Toward this step your terminal looks like this:
[mono] /var/dev/mono @

If you now enter “mono –version” the console should print the following lines:

Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (tarball Thu Jul 29 21:42:44 CEST 2010)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS:           __thread
GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
SIGSEGV:       altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture:  x86
Disabled:      none

Now you can build and run all your mono related stuff (e.x. build and run monodevelop from trunk) on the latest 2.6.7 version.

You can download the package directly via my ubuntu one link:

Download mono-2-6-7-parallel-environment.deb

I’m running the parallel environment on my Ubuntu 10.4 but I haven’t tested it on older ubuntu versions.
It is obvious that I can not give ANY warranty for the package.

Happy mono hacking!

dfMVC2 is now included
Latest versions of:
* Soft Debugger
* Mono's xbuild tool
* LINQ to SQL binding

Chive 0.3 released

It has been quite a while since Chive 0.2.0 has been released and with over 3,000 downloads we have taken a big leap to become the next generation web-based MySQL database management tool. With the release of Chive 0.3.0 we take another step towards this goal.

About 20 bugfixes and a bunch of important improvements later, we release Chive 0.3.0 on April 1st 2010. For a list of fixed bugs see the Launchpad project page (https://launchpad.net/chive). These are the most important improvements:

mod_rewrite
———–
To run Chive 0.2.0 you had to have mod_rewrite enabled in your Apache installation. This is no longer required! Once you connect to Chive, it automatically detects wether mod_rewrite is enabled or not and chooses the right mode for your system setup.

Handling of blob values
———————–
Downloading of blob values should work with every supported browser from now. But there are still some issues with blob values in tables without primary key.

Import
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The import script has been recoded and should work with larger dump files from now. Errors while executing an import sql file will not stop the import. In exchange all errors are shown as a list below the progress bar.

Translations
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With 6 new translations we are looking forward to reach a broader user audience. Thanks to all people working on the translations in Launchpad:
- Brazilian Portuguese (Patrick Kaminski)
- French (Jonathan, Olivier, David Soyez, lbstephane)
- German (Patrick Scheips, Sven Leichsenring)
- Italian (Gho5t, Giacomo Mirabassi, Giampaolo Bozzali, ciko, d3vilkiss, ramin)
- Polish (Jacek Kowalski, Konrad Kałowski, MiSHu, czepol)
- Spanish (Diegoj, Kaos32Black)

New library versions
——————–
As every version of Chive, 0.3.0 ships with the latest versions for Yii Framework, jQuery, jQuery UI and all the other libraries to improve performance and security.

We hope that you will enjoy using Chive 0.3.0 and we are looking forward to receive your feedback in Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/chive).

Chive 0.2.0 released

Chive 0.2.0 has just been released. This version of the new MySQL database administration tool is ready for use in production and aims to be a replacement for phpMyAdmin.

Read the announcement on Launchpad

Fluster2 0.1.1 with significant performance improvements

It’s five days since Fluster2 was released and I had the chance to use it in production the first time. When working on this I realized that it was quite slow, the map didn’t work properly when using >1000 markers (changing zoom mode or dragging the map was very slow, even in Google Chrome). So I tried out some things and found a solution. This is Fluster2 0.1.1 now.

Two things changed:

• Markers must not be added to the map, only to Fluster. Then Fluster only assigns markers to the map which have to be displayed. This speeds up the whole map (when changing zoom mode or dragging the map) and makes it about 15 times faster (measured with the 200 markers example included in the download package).
• Fluster only calculates markers and clusters which are in the viewport of the map. When increasing zoom mode, fewer markers/clusters have to be processed. When dragging the map, calculation of the needed markers is triggered.

Download

From now you can download Fluster2 from SourceForge.

Clustering for Google Maps v3 with Fluster2

Everyone knows the pain of displaying a lot of markers in a Google Map. For this problem there is MarkerClusterer which merges multiple markers to one cluster marker if there are a lot of markers at one place – as long as you use Google Maps v2. We used MarkerClusterer in our applications too but wanted to migrate to Google Maps v3. So we had to write our own clusterer logic or adapt MarkerClusterer to work for v3. The result is Fluster2, a new clusterer built from scratch but based on the same logic as MarkerClusterer.

Read more …

Chive – the new solution for advanced mysql management

We are proud to announce the release of Chive 0.1.1, which is primary a bug-fix release. With this release chive also works on windows servers, as we had some problems in our first preview version. Read more …

AmCharts-PHP 0.2.0: bubble and radar charts

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Export spreadsheet data in ODS/CSV format with PHP5

The second LGPL library this week is a PHP5 class to export spreadsheet data in different formats. Currently supported are CSV (Comma Separated Values) and ODS (OpenDocument Spreadsheet). While CSV exports are quite ordinary, ODS functionality is something special for your project. Read more …

AmCharts-PHP Class Library

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure to integrate the very nice AmCharts into one of our products. After a few tests in general (my colleague Stefan wrote about it – German) we decided to build a PHP5 library around the AmCharts Flash objects to create and configure charts in a more convenient way. Read more …

[DE] Online Flash Charts mit AmCharts

Dem ein oder anderen Webentwickler ist sicher schon aufgefallen, dass in der heutigen Zeit nicht nur Funktionsumfang, sondern auch Präsentationsstil einer Webanwendung einiges zu deren Popularität beitragen. Eine dieser Präsentationsmöglichkeiten sind z.B. aufwändige Linien-, Balken- und Kreisdiagramme um große Mengen an Daten übersichtlicher darzustellen bzw. auch mit deren Effekten und Funktionen User anzulocken.

Nun gibt es dafür mehrere gute wie auch schlechte Möglichkeiten, beginnend mit der schlechtesten: Read more …