New features had been added to MonoUML:

• Comments allowed for elements and nested comments for comments.
• Command line arguments, for opening projects from shell.
• The toolbar icons now work.
• A lot of EC bug had been fixed.
• The GUI had changed, now uses Paned widgets, like in the early beginning.
• Support for Use Cases almost complete (ALMOST).
• Some other…

Look the newest screenshot, you are encourage to do cvs update -dp to our CVS.

All the features were done by the current MonoUML team (Mario Fuentes, Rodolfo Campero and Mario Carrión), the other part of the team had not done anything yet, I hope to get some help from some other people sooner.

I learned today: ‘UML Rule so does MonoUML’

This days I haven’t slept too much, I feel tired and I want to sleep NOW!. I have not enough time for coding MonoUML neither for writing some good articles, I’ve been reading and trying to solve some issues (now are already solved) and improving some features to my school projects, adding security and performance as main goals.

I’ve been answering some emails at monohispano list, trying to solve problems which aren’t mine, but it doesn’t matter I care about the mono community. And I’ve found a nice project about mono bassed on the Knoppix release, it is called Monoppix, it is a knoppix-based live-cd which ships mono including monodevelop, monodoc and xsp. Look this page for watching some nice screenshots.

I haven’t done too much (recently) about MonoUML, I’ll work with it sooner. Have fun with Monoppix.

I learned today: ‘I need to rest and I need a laptop and I need one new desktop computer and I need some money and I need more free time’

After been (this weekend) working on my Database project, I did

$ cvs update -dP && make run

for updating the MonoUML’s code, the code is working, thanks to Rodolfo for his help, due to I’m too busy for coding, he is developing some new nice features and I’m trying to solve my school’s problems. There is a new screenshot sample for MonoUML. I’m thinking to travel for seeing her. I might travel in the next month: October 23th/24th for celebrating the first anniversary. .

I learned today: ‘I will travel to see her’

By the way: ‘I’m a new monohispano‘s commiter, thanks to Alvaro del Castillo and Fabian Seoane for their help, I will update some tutorials sooner.. I hope so’

I spent this weekend setting up all the necessary for using PostgreSQL through MS’ .NET (using the ODBC provided by GBorg, that team is also developing some .NET Data Provider, but it is too unstable, and I don’t to fail my DataBase subject at school =P).

Yes!! I know, I’M USING MS’ .NET, What about your Mono Project?, BUT WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?, neither of my fellow workers use Linux/Mono, they neither program with C#, and Mono/GTK# is still too much unstable for using it as core framework (sorry fellows but it is the truth), my mates used to develop with Java (some time ago), they like dragging and dropping components from toolbar filled with icons. Anyway, I also set up my Linux box for being used as Primary Domain Controller, you know for authentifying some MS Windows NT based OS, I like SAMBA I’ve learned a lot this two days but I’ve been to busy and I couldn’t work with MonoUML but it didn’t matter because SourceForge is in maintenance (look, I’m running MS Windows 2000 Server, with a lot of patches, but I’m still running Mozilla Firefox!!, did you think I was using MS Internet Explorer?) look at the newest screenshot.

SAMBA had changed a lot since I used for sharing files all along my network, there are a lot of new features, I did:


# apt-get install samba smbclient


then I set up the /etc/samba/smb.conf, adding some variable names; there isn’t too much information about Samba3, I found this good articles, they might be useful for someone else:

1. How to Create a PDC on CC using Samba 3
2. The Samba 2.2 PDC HowTo
3. Samba PDC mini-HOWTO

And what about PostgreSQL?? We know postgres is the better open sourced database, better than Oracle, better than MySQL (obvious), better than MS SQL Server (OBVIOUS); if you use PostgreSQL by the first time, you won’t change it EVER!, it has a lot of features, I encourage to give it a try. I just:


# apt-get install postgresql postgresql-client


then I modified the /etc/postgresql/hba_pg.conf for allowing TCP/IP connections, that’s all I need… for now .

I learned today: ‘(and the day before today), we need more companies for supporting open sourced technologies; Open Source is cheaper, better, stabler, what else do you need?’

By the way: ‘I will go the see her SOONER! I promise. I found a nice image look it:’