MonoApiSniffer

I have just updated MonoApiSniffer [http://software-libre.org/projects/monoapisniffer/]. now it is a Monodevelop project.

You can get it from: http://people.hazent.com/~jrp/soft/MonoApiSniffer-0.0.1.tar.bz2

Hazent in the North of Spain

Jaime and me are working in several projects using open source software in the North of Spain. Yesterday we were in Cantabria, and now we are in Vizcaya. We will back home tomorow.

Aspaldiko

Starting with wsdl in mono

Webservices allows us to call remote methods through HTTP, using XML. A web server will export the methdos usind WSDL, so it will be transparent for us.

A simple example could be the Google API, which can be found at http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl

You can use wsdl.exe to generate a proxy code to make use of these methods.

Implementing the API:
wsdl http://api.google.com/GoogleSearch.wsdl

Compiling the API:
mcs GoogleSearchService.cs -r:System.Web.Services -target:library

We can build a simple program using the Google API so:
mcs google.cs -r:GoogleSearchService.dll -r:System.Web.Services

Gnome SpellChecker - Proof of concept

Run monodevelop and open a new solution/project. Copy the GoogleSearchService.dll library into your project directory. Go to Solution->References->Edit references->.Net Assembly and select the GoogleSearchService.dll file.

Create a GUI with Glade with: a Label, an Entry and a Button in such a way that when you click the button, our GetSpellingSuggestion(string s) method be called with the s parameter as the Entry.Text content.

private void GetSpellingSuggestion(string s)
{
   try{
        GoogleSearchService svc=new GoogleSearchService();
        string result=svc.doSpellingSuggestion(this.key,s);
        label1.Text="Usted quiso decir: "+result;
   }catch(Exception ex){
        Console.WriteLine(ex.ToString());
   }
}        

The 'key' variable is a string containing the hascode provided by Google, which allows us to access its API. (More information is available at http://www.google.com/apis/)

Presentation

I live in Madrid and my favorite operating systems are Linux and OpenBSD. I can write code in C, C#, Java, and some Python. My favourite IDE is Eclipse, however I'm starting with Monodevelop for C#

For programing in C I prefer emacs. I had been working in several telco/manufacture companies (Vodafone, Ericsson,..) with mobile networks. I'm interested in *NIX kernel development, Linux Desktop (Ubuntu, Gnome, Mono ..), networking, phone systems, cryptography ...