Yesterday marked the release of Novell’s MonoTouch. MonoTouch is essentially an iPhone SDK for .Net programmers and its purported claim is to be able to allow the developer to put C# code in one side – and have a fully functional, Apple approved, App Store ready iPhone app out on the other side. [...]

hope to be able to cut my list down a bit as far as quantities of tech go. I hate the idea of feeling too thin on something, but I’ve go so many interests, it’s hard to whittle them down sometimes.

I had to break out some perl skills today. I was little rusty as I haven’t used it in volume for 2-3 years. However, it was the right tool for the job today. One of our rainmakers needed a favor for building a conversion table from an old Chart of Accounts to the newest version. All they had was a spreadsheet of about 4000 items where column “A” housed a formula of seemingly random numbers from column “B”. The assignments from old to new were a mixture of single elements and cell ranges that made it difficult, if not impossible to handle in Excel.