| Lots of things interest me so it's hard to pick just one. So I am going to list a few. * WebKit - decidedly the web brick that should help with introducing new developments faster in order to keep things open and modern; * IronRuby - might take a while, but eventually it should make programming for the .net world much more pleasurable and help folks with bridging different worlds with the same interface, thing that's quite difficult to plan out; * Google JavaScript Engine, v8 - it's quite a beast of technology that deserves to take off outside of the browser as well. If Ruby is going to get its ass kicked, I hope it will be by Javascript that's quite dynamic and has closures and so on; * Canvas on the browser - graphics, widgets and games, all fully printable by the browser, all starting instantaneously; * Javascript on the browser - programming the dynamic way without having to compile, recompile, deploy, to test things... no, just a small change and a refresh and you get to develop the feature! * Misc: YUI 3, Bazaar VCS, Ubuntu, computer hardware, broadband, Google Chrome, Ruby implementations, Flash (I just tried to see some videos on Microsoft using Moonlight the Silverlight clone and it made me feel little sympathy for Microsoft and their technologies again)... * Wishful thinking: Microsoft coming to terms and creating their Windows on top of a Unix-like infrastructure; ;-) |