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Last week was my second Hack Week at Novell. Massi and I had been intending to hack on a demo for embedding Mono in games, but realised that the overhead of bootstrapping a stable working environment would most likely frustrate our efforts to get something within the week.

Instead, I decided to package some game libraries for Mono on the openSUSE Build Service. I planned to package Axiom, OpenTK and OGRE.NET, and write some MonoDevelop templates for them, but got rather tied up in the details of packaging OGRE.NET and its unmanaged dependencies (I now know far more about packaging SONAMEd libraries than I wanted to!). As a result, I only completed the packaging for OGRE.NET, though I will get around to packaging the others sometime.

I apologise for not having updated my blog more often. Things have been quite hectic recently...

A month ago (as announced by Miguel de Icaza) I joined the fantastic Mono team at Novell, working on the MonoDevelop IDE. Since then I've been busy getting the ASP.NET Project features ready for MonoDevelop 1.0 Beta 1, which we finally released on Monday. It's essentially feature complete for 1.0, except for the "Web Deploy" feature that didn't quite make it into the beta but is currently in SVN trunk.

My "free" time has been taken up with preparing for my upcoming move to Boston, MA, USA this weekend. I'll soon be working with the cool people in the Novell offices in Cambridge! This move is a little daunting, as I've never been outside of Europe before, but I'm really excited about it.