Wynn and Gregg Pollack did a special LIVE episode at Red Dirt Ruby Conf where they sat down with Charles Lowell to talk about embedding JavaScript engines in Ruby.
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<li><a href="http://twitter.com/greggpollack">Gregg Pollack</a> from <a href="http://ruby5.envylabs.com/">Ruby5</a> co-hosted this episode!</li>
<li><a href="http://reddirtrubyconf.com/">Red Dirt Ruby Conf</a> - the awesome regional Ruby conference in OKC</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/cowboyd">Charles Lowell</a> from the <a href="http://thefrontside.net/">FrontSide</a></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/cowboyd/therubyracer">The Ruby Racer</a> Embed the V8 Javascript Interpreter into Ruby</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/cowboyd/therubyrhino">The Ruby Rhino</a> Embed the Mozilla Rhino Javascript interpreter into Ruby</li>
<li><a href="http://mustache.github.com/">Mustache</a> - logicless views from <a href="http://defunkt.github.com/">defunkt</a></li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/janl/mustache.js/">Mustache.js</a> - <a href="http://github.com/janl">Jan Lehnardt’s</a> awesome port of Mustache</li>
<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/v8/">Google V8</a> Google’s super fast JavaScript engine</li>
<li><a href="http://twitter.com/glv">Glenn Vanderburg</a> asks the question “Why send JSON over the wire and not HTML fragments”</li>
<li><a href="http://json-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/Introducing-JSON-Template.html">JSON templates</a> Precursor to Mustache</li>
<li><a href="http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/">Underscore.js</a> Also has some templating built into this utility JS framework</li>
<li><a href="http://github.com/jeresig/env-js">Env.js</a> A pure-JavaScript browser environment from <a href="http://twitter.com/jeresig">John Resig</a></li>
<li><a href="http://drunkandretired.com/">Drunk and Retired</a> Charles’ own podcast</li>
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