Tag Archives: C#

Sans-serif fonts for coding

After reading a post about colour schemes and font choices for use in an IDE, it seems I’m one of the only people on the planet that uses non-monospace fonts for coding. So, in the spirit of equal access, I’ve decided to try a couple of different fonts in MonoDevelop. While it doesn’t have the [...]

Toilets and Thread Synchronization in C#

It dates from 2003, but this is still the best explanation of thread synchronization using Monitors that I’ve read.

DBus, Mono, Rhythmbox, and Beagle, Oh My!

So I had this idea of writing a quick search plugin for Beagle to search Rhythmbox’s current playlist titles. They would show up in the search GUI and then you’d double-click on one and it’d handle this (probably through a pseudo-URL like playlist://rhythmbox/my-playlist-name which seems to be the de facto standard amongst Beagle plugins) by [...]