WordPress truncating rss feeds
WordPress 2.1 was truncating the <description> element of the RSS feed for my blog, so some readers would show truncated posts! Setting feed options to “Full Text” didn’t help. The solution i found : CompleteRSS plugin. Works perfectly fine now 
Some MonoDevelop hacking!
I’ve been hacking on MonoDevelop for some time now. Next release would be the first one for me Thanks to all the people who’ve been helping me out!
I mainly contributed (with lots of help from lluis) on two features for this release :
Native support for VS2005 Projects
MonoDevelop now has native support for Visual Studio 2005 solutions/projects in the prj2make addin. You can directly load VS2005 solutions/projects and work with them. Any changes made are written back to the project files. So you can effectively share the same project files between VS2005 and MonoDevelop. This has been in svn for a while now.
Thanks to all the people helping out with the testing Its not complete yet, needs more testing. Am eager to get feedback and bug reports on this 
Currently it supports loading C# (.csproj) and VB.NET (.vbproj) projects. The support is not msbuild based, so things like custom msbuild tasks won’t work. But Marek Sieradzki already has a draft patch to add support for using msbuild!
Integration with Makefiles
MonoDevelop now supports integration with Makefiles for projects. This integration covers the following features:
- Delegating build, clean and/or execute operations to Makefiles
- Keeping the monodevelop project in sync with the Makefile wrt:
- List of files (code, resources, deployable files and others).
- List of references (only for .NET projects).
MonoDevelop itself uses this for keeping its project files and Makefiles in sync.
The release notes for the next release will have more details
