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Nat Demos Dashboard

Posted by michael on from the test-drive dept.

pheared writes "Nat Friedman from Ximian gave a fairly in depth, quite hilarious (got embarrassing screensaver?), and somewhat impromptu, talk about his project "Dashboard" at OLS. From his blog: "The dashboard is a piece of software which performs a continous, automatic search of your personal information space to show you things in your life that are related to whatever you happen to be doing with your computer at the time." Neat stuff, but I don't think I will be warming up to Mono and C# any time soon."

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  1. Nice to see the sideswipe at .NET (not) by Burb · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Is there any subject on this site that is immune to reflex bashing-of-all-things-Microsoft? Stop the snide Mono remarks already.

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  2. Re:Personal Information Space? by ADOT+Troll · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Was this commentary in the article really necessary? This software looks like neat stuff, just as pheared said, so why the barb? Could you at least give a reason for your statement? What, if anything, does it have to do with the article, save that the software in question was written using C# via Mono?

    Editors, I know you've explained why you won't edit user submissions before, and I know it's a losing battle to suggest you change, but this is a perfect candidate for editing. That remark had no business being left on the submission, and removing it would not detract from the story one bit. If there has ever been a perfect example of why editors should take their jobs seriously, this is it. Was pheared so unsure of the quality of his submission that he needed to try to stir up debate over Mono and C#, rather than let the story stand on its own? Or worse, were there really no other submissions for this story, or did the editors purposely choose this one submission because of the added barb at the end?

  3. Warning! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Dashboard is based on MONO and Microsoft technology!

  4. Re:Unnecessary commentary? by espo812 · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Nobody ever said /. was a news site (least of all the editors).
    On every page I see the slashdot logo that includes the phrase "News for Nerds." News is on every single page (to reiterate)!
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  5. Forwarding by jpsowin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like Nat's page is just forwarding to slashdot now. Nice trick.

  6. Re:emacs: been there done that by Entropy_ah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    once again, lame technologies seek to imitate what the One True Editor has been able to do for years.
    What? I didn't realize that emacs could edit files. I've just been using it for e-mail, newsgroups, games, and web browser.

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