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So, my IST 412 class is going to be working with Ruby on Rails this semester. I am pretty torn at the moment regarding this. On the one hand, it is a good opportunity to learn a very hot technology that seems pretty interesting. Ruby, I have heard, is a great language much like Python (in its greatness, not in its similarities), so that is encouraging. I also have wanted to have a better web development tool than PHP because of its lack of object orientation and the like. My first choice for this would have been Python or C# of course. On the downside of this, I am yet again doing web development. This is not all a bad thing but I am pretty tired of making web pages and things. I was really hoping this semester I would get a chance to do more gtk# work. I might email the professor to see what he thinks. Either way, I hope this will be a good last semester.