I wrote a program earlier, because I wanted to find out which songs in my iTunes library were bought from the iTunes Music Store.

Me being me (read: lazy) I didn’t want to have to trawl through all 2041 songs I have in there, just to find the purchased ones.

So I wrote a program, and I’m hosting it on my googlepage

So click here for the page, or here for the program.

I installed mono on my laptop earlier, and it installed a command prompt application to compile my C# programs.

The problem is; I use cygwin for my C compiling and ssh-ing into the University servers. SO obviously I wanted mono installed in cygwin.

Luckily I found a way to do it:

1. Download the mono for windows installer
2. Run the installer, and select your cygwin folder for the installation directory (in my case this was C:\cygwin)
3. Install
4. Open cygwin and type "mcs" without quotes, and if it’s installed correctly it should spit back a load of rubbish about no files at you.

Hope this helped anybody who was struggling to do this.

One of my modules at University is C Programming, which I have to say, I am quite enjoying, as I’ve always enjoyed programming.

However a friend of mine is starting doing C# (C Sharp), and asked if I’d do it, which I said I would.

So I might start learning that soon, just got to wait to see if we can have a proper lab session on it first. Though I might have a bash over the weekend, I’ll probably download Visual C# Express Edition or something to try it out.