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Monodevelop 4.0 (or "Xamarin Studio" if you're one of the blessed Mac or Windows users) was released a fair while back with great fanfare as the new, awesome major re-designed version of Monodevelop. I think it's fair to say that I wasn't impressed.
Aside from the ever-present nightmare of building the damn thing (turns out you need to already have a version of monodevelop installed or the new version spews out a ton of errors when you build it), the folks behind Monodevelop managed to produce an...

Note to self:
If asynchronous HTTPS GETs from the same browser (in multiple tabs, say, or from an ajax site) seem slower than they should be - for example, if request roundtrip times get multiplied up by the number of tabs open - then it's very likely a bottleneck...

My current phone, a Samsung Galaxy S, is the first smartphone and by far the most expensive phone that I've owned. And sometimes it hacks me off far more than any past phone. Let me start by saying that smartphones are amazing devices. They're so far...

...because it leaks all over the place.
We've been working for a while now on an MVC (initially MVC2, now MVC3) application running on mono 2.10.2 with FluentNHibernate 1.2 sitting on NHibernate 3.1, built as a web app but also available via a kiosked browser on the server. This effectively...