Martin's Activity Log

Bug fixing marathon

We're getting closer and closer to beta2 and I'm trying really hard to get the last bugs sorted out. Unfortunately, some things won't make it into the release and - since the tree will be frozen after it - not into Mono 1.

However, when I'm done fixing all the remaining MCS bugs on my list, I may actually have time to do some gmcs bug fixing tomorrow ....

For those of you who want to use the latest debugger release with the latest runtime from CVS, there's a patch available here.

Check guns here

It's early tuesday morning and Jackson proved again in his blog that he's coolest guy on the planet ;-)

Bug fixing is going really fine, but there's still a long way to go until beta 2. It also looks like people actually start using gmcs - at least, I start getting bug reports ....

However, at the moment, I'm concentrating on fixing as many mcs bugs as possible before beta2. The tree is freezing really soon, so this may be the last chance to fix some of the bad boys.

And now, I'm really happy that I'm back in my home town: when I went to Boston in the last week of February, I left from Terminal 2E in Paris - and I immediately recognized the building on the pictures in the news. So if I ever get to Peking, someone should remind me not to go to the Opera.

Merging fun

Spent the whole day merging all the latest changes from MCS into GMCS. It was really difficult this time since it has been a long time since I did that and there were plenty of changes in MCS - some of them were also really complex.

I hope I didn't break or forget anything, but I carefully looked at any patch, so it should be fine.

Tomorrow is a holiday here in Germany, so I'll have lunch with my parents and then hang around with friends, possibly go to the movies in the evening.

After reading Gonzalo's blog, I will switch to another blogging engine soon after Mono 1.0 - but for the moment, I just don't have the time to "touch a running system" .....

Back in my home town

After spending about two and a half months in Boston, I'm now finally back in my home town :-)

I had wonderful vacations in Florida, but after such a long time, I was really happy to see all my friends and my parents again. So now, back to real hacking life for the remaining 2.5 days of this week ....

Road Trip

At about 9pm on Friday, I finally hit the road and started driving south. I didn't make it very far since I was too tired. Didn't sleep much the night before since I went out drinking and needed to get up that early. So I stopped the first time in Providence, RI and took a short nap. About an hour later, I continued driving, but just until Conneticut where I finally stopped at a McDonald's and slept in the car.

Woke up really late the last morning, it was almost 8am when I hit the road again. The first couple of hours went really fine, but then I got into a really bad jam somewhere around Washington, DC. It was already getting dark when I reached Richmond, VA. And that was still far from Wilmington.

Luckily, I was alone on the I-95 and I-40, so I could speed a little bit. Finally reached Wilmington around 1am.

Yesterday was really great - the weather was excellent and Wilmington is really beautiful - I also took a lot of pictures :-)

Today, I'm staying a couple more hours here (I'm at Port City Java at the moment - they have coffee and free wireless internet) and then drive down a few hundred miles. I'll probably arrive in St Petersburg, FL somewhere tomorrow.

On the road again ....

It got a bit later that I wanted, but I went sailing on the Charles River this afternoon and had a lot of fun :-)

So this is the car I'm driving for the next two weeks: