Xamarin: 温故而知新 (第一次的 Xamarin 聚會時間)

by Atsushi Eno

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Xamarin: 温故而知新 Atsushi Eno

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Xamarin: the Mono company ✣ Xamarin: 2011-2016 ✣ Mono: 2002-* Xamarin is a mobile-centric Mono company. Mono was NOT about mobile before.

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What were the Mono companies? ✣ Helix Code / Ximian: 1999-2003 Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman founded it for GNOME development ✣ Novell Linux desktop development

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1. Mono? It was just about open source .NET alternative, right?

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The Mono project has a clear goal: to become the first-choice platform for Linux software development.

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GNOME had always tried to have a good support for multiple programming languages, there was a large crowd of people out there that would like to use the GNOME libraries from their favorite programming language...

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Mono characteristics ✣ Mono was for better Linux (GNOME) desktop app development. ✣ Ximian chose .NET (ECMA C# and CLI) as the development framework. ✣ Nicely integrated with existing C libraries (P/Invokes) ✣ Mono was born from Linux/GNOME based Open culture.

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For Example... Many ADO.NET providers that worked with Mono

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.NET Bindings for Linux C library .NET library glib, pango, atk, gtk， cairo, glade... gtk-sharp gnome, gconf, gnome-vfs, ... gnome-sharp gtkembedmoz gecko-sharp (outdated) opengl OpenTK

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Embedded Mono ✣ C-based Runtime: easy to embed ✣ Mono on {Moblin, Maemo, Meego} mono on ARM ✣ iPhone ✣ Android ✣ PlayStation Vita

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Wherever Microsoft does not show up, there is mono

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2. Working With The MONO TEAM How, how and how?

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Working on Mono means... ✣ Complicated position: popular or not? ✣ Open source oriented ✣ In the global community ✣ In general at advanced (low-level) position among .NET devs.

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How I JOINED THE TEAM? Project website translator (2002-)

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How I JOINED THE TEAM? Patch contributor (2002-)

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How I JOINED THE TEAM? Maintainer (2002-)

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How I JOINED THE TEAM? ✣ Employee at Novell (2003-) ✣ joined Xamarin almost when launched but as an intl. contractor (no local office)

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How I WORK? ✣ Global hacker team: work only online all online: chat, emails, source code repos WFH, no reason to go to office No invasive activities from local office (you *can* still get involved, to some extent) ✣ Mostly working in the night... European from around 3-8pm (JST) East coast Americans from 11pm-ish West coast ... 2am-ish and DST changes

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Global actually means...

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ALL IN ENGLISH ✣ You will have to read and write it... ✣ But tech. English is different: simple Good specifications / docs are written in simple English Easier than Harry Potter! ✣ Better if you can speak and listen to, but not mandatory. I couldn't at all. "Can you write the details on email later?" ✣ You can survive!

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CAN I (YOU) DO THE SAME? ✣ Mono - maybe not as easy as before ✣ AOSP, dotnet: the `Cathedral` model ✣ Young Bazaar projects are easier to join getting job and/or making money is different matter. You judge them.