More importantly, it's also the name of one of Jonathan Coulton's songs: "Chiron Beta Prime": http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Chiron%20Beta%20Prime
Because of this I knew how to pronounce the name :) On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Jimmy Schementi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, Ag is Silver … made pretty obvious by my little logo for it > http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/11/agdlr-silverlight-dlr-open-source.html > > > > As far as Chiron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2060_Chiron. It's a > planetoid between Saturn and Uranus. The port that Chiron.exe runs on by > default, 2060, is Chiron's "object" number. It was derived from the Cassini > ASP.NET Web server that Dmitry Robsman wrote. Cassini was a probe mission > to explore the moons of Saturn, and Chiron was initially thought to be a > moon of Saturn. > > > > Just a coincidence that a "Chiron" is also a mythological > half-man/half-horse =) > > > > ~js > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Mark Ryall > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:05 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [Ironruby-core] AgDLR: Silverlight + DLR + Open Source > > > > Well done - that's an awesome step forward. > > Pity about poor old mercurial though - doesn't get much of a look in these > days. > > I guess the 'Ag' refers to silver - out of interest, what is the origin of > 'chiron'? > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Jimmy Schementi < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IronRubites and IronPythonics, > > First and foremost, I want to thank anyone who has used the bits on > http://codeplex.com/sdlsdk, and accepting my bullshit version of > open-source. While getting monthly binaries/sources is nice, it should be > about working on the project together ... not just me throwing stuff over > the wall to you. That's changing, now ... > > Oh, and remember me complaining about the crappy "sdlsdk" name ... well, > I'm trying to get rid of that acronym ... > > http://github.com/jschementi/agdlr > > Above the public repository for the DLR integration in Silverlight. The > following post explains what's in there, what's not, what's git, and how to > contribute: > http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/11/agdlr-silverlight-dlr-open-source.html > > My first order of collaboration is this simple new feature, "console=true": > http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2008/11/repls-in-silverlight.html. If you > like this, please feel free to look at what's been done, and if you want to > fix something that doesn't yet work correctly, I won't stop you. > > Also, as I mentioned in a previous mail, I want to make the > filesystem->XAP/isolatedstorage metaphor stronger, so feel free to > experiment with that as well. Over the next week I'll get some > website-presence/wiki/etc, and we can run this project up and running. There > are still some hurdles I need to clear with getting contributed code back > into our internal codebase, and shipping on Codeplex, but there are no > problems with keeping things on GitHub for now. > > Let me know if there are any question. I know I've been a bit silent on the > Silverlight front, but take this as me making it up to you. ;) > > ~Jimmy > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ironruby-core mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ironruby-core > > -- Michael Letterle [Polymath Prokrammer] http://blog.prokrams.com
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