This week I’ve been at Monospace in my home town of Austin, Texas. It’s been an excellent deep-dive – with much code on screen – into the Mono world, the open source .Net implementation. Thanks to Scott Bellware (@bellware) and the other organizers, I was able to record the keynote given by Miguel de Icaza. I’m not sure what the title was, but I thought it was an excellent history of Mono capped off with a “state of Mono” end. It’s worth the listen if you’re in the Mono, .Net, or even open source development world – there’s lots of good background and history laced throughout.

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Also, check out Tim Anderson’s excellent run-down and summary of the keynote from afar and Abel Avram’s overview over at InfoQ.

Disclosure: Microsoft is a client.

Today’s debriefing (download directly here or subscribe to the feed for auto-downloads) goes over:

• Pandora free, streaming music is now available on Chumby (see pic above). I rarely get the amount of use I should from the Chumby – it’s a shelf-gadget – but I’ve liked Pandora on it so far, today.
• Mono 2.0 – I’ve gotten several press inquires about Mono 2.0. It’s an interesting language because you’ve got multi-platform support on both developer and deployment side with C#. People like MindTouch use this, and we’ll see how Moonlight helps out with Silverlight in the RIA-wars.
• Follow-up on the Splunk customer numbers of yesterday: Splunk confirms that, yes, it is 750 paying customers and they have 250,000 downloads/users of the free stuff as well.
• Bouncing off an IBM Tivoli Predictive Analytics analyst teleconference earlier this week I talk cover what that is exactly, compare it to BMC’s ProactiveNet, and have a happy coincidental connection to an interview on capacity planning for web-ops people.
• Finally, after fiddling around with the FriendFeed-like features in Facebook, I ask if anyone (in this audience) uses Facebook.

Also, thanks to John for pointing out the Debriefing podcasts: I’m glad he likes them

Disclosure: Adobe, Splunk, Microsoft, IBM, BMC, and MindTouch are clients. See the RedMonk client list for other clients mentioned.