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CPR paddles seem to be working. Blog showing peripheral signs of life. On the verge of entering beta testing on two different iPhone apps, one for the mothership and one for a contract gig.

More to follow soon.

Turns out it’s a snap to start developing with C# on Mac OS X. The hard work is already done for you. First, download and install the latest Mono framework binary for OS X.

This blog from Brian Ray gives a nice Hello World example. The gist is:

1. Compile with “/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/mcs hello.cs”
2. Run with “/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/mono hello.exe”

TextMate fans can have it even easier. This close-to-anonymous C# TextMate bundle gives us the basics, including syntax coloring and some handy tab-completions. Install it by unzipping it and opening the bundle file. TextMate will install it for you.

To add a Run command, open the TextMate Bundle Editor, select the crisp new C# bundle, and add a New Command to it.

EXE_FILE=`echo $TM_FILEPATH | sed -e 's/\..*$//'`.exe
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/mcs $TM_FILEPATH
/Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Commands/mono $EXE_FILE

Then, write your code and hit Cmd-R to compile and run the current source file. Snap!