So I started a amanged wrapper for Pocket Excel some time ago - probably a year and a half now.  I made good progress - got it so you can real and write workbooks, worksheets, cells - just no support for the formulas yet.  Then I got sidetracked with one thing after another. 

Initially I was going to use it as a commercial product to get revenue to support OpenNETCF, but I honestly don't have the time for it.  If I can find someone, or a group of someones willing to put in a final push to finish it (maybe an industrious student looking for thesis material?) I'll donate it to the community at large as an OpenNETCF namespace.

Any takers?

Pop quiz, what does this code do?

DS1307 d = new DS1307(Cpu.Pin.GPIO20_VTU_TIO1A, Cpu.Pin.GPIO21_VTU_TIO2A);
d.SetRTC(new DateTime(2005, 2, 2, 21, 22, 0, 0));
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
    DateTime dt = d.ReadRTC();
    Debug.Print(dt.Hour + ":" + dt.Minute + ":" + dt.Second);
    System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
}

We've got a lot of cool new things - many of which are attempts to get your code “prepped” for CF 2.0 before it's even here.  A Serial wrapper, FTP classes...and some other stuff that will excite the hell out of a lot of people.  Just take a look at the top level folders in the OpenNETCF Vault and you'll see what I mean....

A fairly common complaint from the CF community is the time gap between SDF source releases.  Well with the generous donation from SourceGear of Vault, we're now able to give the community direct read-only access to the source in real time.  Of course this added access means that what you get out of source control may not work properly, but there's no more complaining about not being able to get the latest code.

To get the source, navigate over to http://vault.netcf.tv/VaultService/VaultWeb/login.aspx and login with a username and password of 'guest'

Oh, and keep in mind that we now accept donations, so if you'd like to support us it's quick and simple.

If you're a CF developer READ THIS ARTICLE.  Once done, read it again. 

So I finally ordered Halo II.  I put it off becasue I've had an unbelievably busy month and I knew that if I ordered it, productivity in getting the new house unpacked and all the other work I need to do would suffer, But I finally opened it up Friday night.  I finished the game last night - not bad considering I put in about 10 hours of coding on Sunday and didn't play at all.

Best part of the game?  Laura Prepon does the voiceover for a Marine and when she called one of the Covenant a jackass after shooting him I just about fell out of my chair.  I had no idea she had done a voice in the game, but it was unmistakably her.

Following Mike and Neil, I took the “What OS Am I” online quiz and found that I'm Slackware Linux.

Interesting.  I used to be a diehard Slackware user in '93-'94, in fact in my recent move I found the old distribution CDs.