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The Demo Ghost spares nobody – V8 miraculous surviver

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

It seems that these are the times where every day on JAOO must begin with the sad sound of Kresten Thorup sighing “… this is embarassing“. Tuesday morning at the keynote, when Google’s Lars Bak went on stage to present the V8 engine of Chrome, something made the laptop containing the slides for Lars’ talk [...]

Is JavaScript becoming a Ruby killer?

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

I love Ruby. I participate in the local Ruby user group. I am a member of the program committee of the RubyFools conference. Occasionally, I give presentations on the greatnesses of Ruby and my own spare-time Ruby projects. I feel free when I code Ruby. I love the creativity of the Ruby community developing new [...]

Google Chrome at JAOO – V8 and GUI

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

The hottest topic around these days is the beta launch of a new browser; Google Chrome. Some like it, some doesn’t. It’s free, open source, focuses on stability and speed, the GUI is clean and simple and the Javascript Engine V8 is made in Denmark.
The first technical presentation of Google Chrome at a conference [...]