Matrix Switcher Control Appliance (In progress)

EDITING IN PROGRESS
STARTUPDATE (Sept 8.2006)
Some interesting things have happened.
1) A LIRC module was released for Ruby and this will let me accept the raw codes and get rid of the totalitarian lird.conf file! Hooray! Now I can allow people to, via a RIA app (Flex) remap arbitrary IR codes to switcher activities!
2) Ruby actually works [...]