Holsee's Blog

My housemate Stu Quin created and recently open sourced “Sourced”.

About

First release of Sourced Editor, my open source, cross platform source code editor. Sourced offers support for editing files on remote (SFTP and FTP) and local file systems.

Features:

• Support for SFTP and FTP(partial)
• Built in terminal for remote SFTP connections
• Open projects automatically saved and restored on next use
• Support for public key authentication
• Syntax highlighting and auto completion for range of languages (php, css, js, xml/html, ruby …)

More about Sourced here: Stu’s Blog Post on Sourced.

Porting to Mono

I’ve been looking for something interesting to do with Mono and Moonlight for a while now (that is not directly related to my work) and I decided an open source project would be the way to go.  While Stu is up to his neck with his final year studies, I decided I was going to port the app to Mono in my spare time.

Why Mono?

I love C#.. but not only that I am going to toy with the idea of implementing the UI with Moonlight.  Mono is something I am 100% behind and Miguel de Icaza and his Novellian army are legends, this is why.

It’s already written in Java what is the point?

Purely educational, experimental and to get another Mono app out there.  This port will be very much open source so it will be free for people to hack away with.

Time to Code!

Goodbye blogland!