Late last night (or early this morning), I submitted my first ever patch. Hopefully this is the start of a long line of contributions. It fixes a problem in Monodevelop with the Code Template drop-down in the options panel. It’s bug #78082.

Every day I work on my soon-to-be-announced project I get more confident in C#. For anybody learning C# on linux with Mono, I recommend you look at Banshee for an example to help you along. The ActionManager class is very helpfull. Here is another good resource for tutorials. And lastly, You can go to the Mono Project sight for a good intro to the Gtk Treeview widget. Treeview is a beast at first but is really nice once you get the hang of it.

I’m just getting finished with my taxes. I sent the forms for the last 3 years in in December and now I’m doing 2005. This year my taxes are a little more complicated due to trading stocks. I must say though, taxes aren’t as difficult to do as I once thought. The “worksheets” are pretty idiot proof. For those earning money abroad, don’t be scared. It’s really easy. Just do form 1040 (as always) and form 2555. There’s really not much to it.

One interesting thing I noticed was that for the years 2002 and 2003 the amount on line 22 was exactly the same, to the penny. That’s pretty amazing considering my income was very different in those years. Funny I didn’t notice that when sending it off earlier.

On a down note (as if taxes weren’t enough of one), the IRS sent me a letter saying they unfortunately lost my 2004 return. Great. So I call and ask about what I need to do exactly and the guy on the phone tells me that the 2002 return was the one that was missing. Now I get o wait a month or so for them to call me. This sucks because I’m trying to get all this tax stuff done because Annika is trying to get a Green Card and we wanted to have it by X-mas.