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Microsoft Linking Silverlight, Ruby on Rails
CWmike writes "Friday Microsoft will demonstrate integration between its new Silverlight browser plug-in and Ruby on Rails. Microsoft's John Lam, a program manager in the dynamic language runtime team, said in a recent blog item: 'Running Rails shows that we are serious when we say that we are going to create a Ruby that runs real Ruby programs. And there isn't a more real Ruby program than Rails.' Also at the event, Microsoft officials will demonstrate IronRuby, a version of the Ruby programming language for Microsoft's .Net platform, running a Ruby on Rails application."
Since Silverlight isn't cross platform, why bother?
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And why do they need to be more transparent? These guys gave us windows. What can be more transparent than that?
...exaggerate?
Baddabump - tchsh.
That was the comic stylings of Gnavpot. He'll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.
Up next, Steve Balmer and his chair act.
Boss: were have a problem. how do we get a persistence API for our silverlight environment?
Young turk: I know! we could tie the rail and silverlight APIs
Crusty the Unix programmer: yes you could, but then you'd have two problems.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Yes, actually Slashdot has a learning algorithm where it uses the topic and thread to determine which word to use for the CAPTCHA and checks the post for references to the CAPTCHA to see if it guessed correctly. Eventually this will evolve into autotagging and the ability of Slashdot to respond to comments on its own followed shortly thereafter by the Slashdot webserver achieving sentience.
Centralization breaks the internet.
So, they'll do the open source world a favor and extinguish RoR?
I'll by six copies of Vista for that.