Merry Xmas and Happy New Year

I wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new Year.

I will not continue to publish on "The Rebol Week" blog.

I will concentrate on "Red Chronicle" brand and continue to support DocKimbel's project : Red programming language

Nicolas

News from Robert Muench about R3 project !

"I have some knews regarding R3.
In the last two days I had longer calls with Carl and decided how to move R3 forward.
This is how it will be done:
- The RMA team will help to get some burden from Carl's shoulder and work on open issues. This will be setup in that we get partial access to the necessary code parts and can work on these.
- We are going to extend our internal testing infrastructure etc on these new R3 releases and run it against our applications we crate
- Carl and I will have regular calls to discuss the status and things where we need his advise etc. So, to keep the loop closed and gain more speed
- I will meet with Carl in person on 23rd Juli to discuss further things
- Unitil that we want to get most administrative setup done, so that we are ready to go



We are going to drive the priorities by the things RMA needs. This shouldn't be a problem for anyone because if you are going to use R3 for serious development than you will need it as well.


The thing is, that we are not going to jump-start for every requested feature etc. We know there is a lot to do and we will work through it step-by-step. And, this is not because we don't care what you all state here. Definetly not. I want to move R3 forward as fast as possible. This needs concentration, focus and pushing to finally get it done. At the end of the day the only thing that counts is, if we make it to make R3 stable enough for prime time development.


So, stay tuned and I must say that this is the most promising development for a long time.


Let's see if Carl and RMA will make it to deliver on this. Which, still needs to be proofed but I'm not going to stop to push for it.


Some notes:
- We will have an NDA
- Carl didn't lost interest, he is full comitted to R3. His contract work is (still) / was very intense. Things get a bit more relaxed there now.

- I / RMA will be the main communication channel. I have access to Rebol-3 twitter and there exists a RMA twitter.- We will continue to work on the R3-GUI and release it as we did before (sometimes there might be longer periods of no-release, if we are doing massive changes)- The main focus will be: fixing bugs, defining and writing down how datatypes are handled WRT conversion, priority, sorting etc."

(Robert Muench)

-Nicolas

Cht'i RUG 2011 in France

A Rebol and Red Users Group took place in Lille, north of France : Cht'i RUG 2011.

DocKimbel presenting Cheyenne REBOL web server

During this event DocKimbel has presented his REBOL Web server called Cheyenne.

And of course, his new project called Red : a new programming language.

-Nicolas

ReBorCon 2011 : quick report

The Rebol & Boron Conference took place in the Netherlands the 26th of february.

Official site :

http://reborcon.esperconsultancy.nl/

During the conference, the most important things was the announce of new project of DocKimbel : Red language creation.

More information about Red later.

Here comes the video :

Video of the Boron and OpenGL :



Video of the presentation of Cheyenne :




Video of the presentation of Cheyenne's RSP :




Video of the presentation of Red language :




-Nicolas

ReBorCon 2011

REBOL & Boron Programming Language Conference

Date and Time
Saturday, 26 February 2011
11:00 - 16:00 hrs
Afterwards we will go for a drink and dinner in a local restaurant. If there is interest, we can arrange an extended programme for foreign visitors the Sunday after.

Programme
REBOL is an innovative programming language, especially suitable for Domain Specific Languages, Internet programming and semantic messaging. Boron is an open source language in the same family, a dialect of REBOL.
Presentations
- The new REBOL 3 Graphical User Interface under development
- REBOL 3 extensions: a binding with the cURL networking library
- Two commercial applications written in REBOL 3
- Introduction of a new Syllable Desktop live CD with REBOL 3 and Boron
- Cheyenne: a professional web server written in REBOL 2
- An OpenGL 3D demo in Boron
- Announcement of a new project
The time schedule will become available later on. Keep an eye on this web site.

Please visit conference site for more informations :

http://reborcon.esperconsultancy.nl/

Period ending 1-Feb-2011

REBOL.org

its been a busy january on REBOL org, with 18 new or updated scripts by a few prolific posters
Recent changes on rebol.org

R3 news

• Carl re-appears after a 3 month hiatus
  
• ALIAS function removed in the next R3 version;
  
• curecode reviewed by Carl, many bug fixes expected in A111 release.
  
• Also, curecode got a new project for R3GUI.
  

R3GUI

New RMA release of R3GUI is available on:

the full source version + docs
the 'classic' one file release

Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any feedback is appreciated.

NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. You can get it here

Release change notes:

• show-native recursive issue fixed
  
• enhancements to TEXT-LIST, TEXT-TABLE, TAB-BOX styles
  
• fixed DO reactor call
  
• fixed reactor actions handling
  
• optimized INIT-PANEL function
  
• added FOREACH-FACE function
  
• fixed internals of triggers subsystem
  
• optimized DRAW blocks handling
  
• optimized DO-STYLE and DO-TRIGGERS code
  
• added triggers handling to set/insert-panel-content
  
• lists.r3 code cleanup
  
• cleanup of unused/leaked variables
  

R3 cURL binding documentation!

This is a big deal, it means we can build standards compliant internet aware R3 applications ... right now!

Kaj de Vos:
It took a lot more time than I expected to create the documentation for the cURL binding; about as long as the binding itself. But here it is, together with the documentation for the example extension:

R3 cURL documentation

The binding is now officially released

R3 ODBC extension

Christian Ensel writes on Altme:

I've updated the R3 ODBC extension to R3A110, get it here
This is the first version which works with date values.

GLASS

Release 003 is here: glass-r003.zip
main changes:

• Editor style and associated text editor application
  
• Encap friendly single file version of ALL glass libs, usable just like if they where external files.
  
• The encap version of glass is all packaged within its own .zip file inside the root of the distro, to make it easier to get started.
  
• New Image style, it also has a pretty cool image style demo app.
  
• quite a few nuts and bolts worked on here and there.
  
• reworked the folder structure a bit to make it cleaner (it shouldn't change much from now on), tell me what you think?
  
• Added original SVG files used to create icons as part of distribution
  
• Added a few reference glass-related images for demos and tutorials.
  
• Windows title handling is now automatic when you fill their labels. (shown in text editor)
  
• Many libs have had their APIs improved.
  
• Extensive HISTORY AND RELEASE NOTES in docs folder.
  
• Screenshots: image style tutorial, RED - REBOL text editor
  

Please try it out and give some feedback here or on the GLASS group on REBOL3 Altme world. It's still R2 based.

Also, GLASS now has a very simple installer which will be updated at each release.

just:

    do http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/files/glass-installer.r

its a command line script, but uses a file requestor so you can setup where glass is downloaded and unpacked.

Syllable OS

Kaj de Vos writes on Altme:

This past Saturday we held our Winter Syllable Conference: web.syllable.org
We introduced and handed out a sneak preview of our new Syllable Desktop live CD, introduced the REBOL 3 cURL binding
and went through our planned demonstration of setting up a website provider on Syllable Server, running on Cheyenne,
making a website on Desktop with my REBOL CMS, building it with REBOL 3 and uploading it to Server with the cURL binding,
with a short demo of the graphical version of Syllable Server thrown in

Period ending 21-jan-2011

RMA R3 GUI

New RMA release of R3GUI is available on:

http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui-src.zip - this is the full source version + docs

http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/r3-gui.r3.zip - this is the 'classic' one file release

Feel free to try it and let us know in the R3GUI Altme group. Any feedback is appreciated.

NOTE: this version is compatible only with the RMA version of Rebol3. You can get it from: http://www.rm-asset.com/code/downloads/files/rma-r3-build.zip


Release change notes:

- added missing images to docs (thanks to Pekr)
- UNVIEW now works like in R2
- removed STYLE/FACED, now it is obsolete (use only STYLE/FACETS)
- improvements to facets creation
- fixed box-model border caclulation
- fixed binding of actors
- DO-STYLE code optimalization and fixes
- VIEW function cleanup, now it should work on block of faces as well
- fixed panel(container) names binding
- fixed 'load trigger calling
- fixed WHEN style
- misc smaller fixes
- old unused code cleanup


Glass
From Maxim :
This is probably the biggest announcement I've ever done, I've got a little tear in my eye ;-)

GLASS IS HERE!!!

http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/files/glass-r002.zip



Beer 2 released
Message from Graham:
I've uploaded beer2 to here just now in case I haven't done this before:

http://beer2.s3.amazonaws.com/beer2.tar

Jaime Vargas said:

"The license can be changed to BSD with attributions to the following people:

Jaime Vargas
Ladislav Mecir
Richard Smolak
Irfan Jamil
Monah Baki"

in an email to me 28/1/2010"


Facebook Hacker Cup 2011

From Facebook REBOL group MaxV:

Facebook relesed its “Hacker Cup Competition”, but it didn’t include Rebol language. However you may test your skills on Rebol Forum:
http://synapse-ehr.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?3-Rebol
Will Rebol be shorter or more efficient than other language?


End of Cave mode ? ;)

After release of REBOL View 2.7.8, Carl's has published 2 items on his blog :

Quick Tour of Useful 2.7.8 Features

http://www.rebol.com/article/0505.html

Introducing the SPEED? Function (PRELIMINARY)

http://www.rebol.com/article/0506.html


There's also an item about rebol.net and the mailing list :

http://www.rebol.com/article/0504.html

From Carl :

"And, while I'm on the topic, there's the old issue of the REBOL email list. Can we retire that old server... which has been limping along for many years, and the list has not been very active. The user community has moved most messaging to other methods, such as AltME, etc.

So, what's the general opinion of users regarding the email list? Time to retire it?
"

So what the people of the community think about that ?
Please feel free to send your opinion on Carl's blog, on Twitter Rebol Week or on gmail for Rebol Week...


Merchants' Village, Bingo, BJs Training ... any others?

Merchants' Village is now running on it's own and growing well, with more than 50,000 square feet rented to vendors. More than 12,000 sales transactions have been processed by REBOL so far :)

My fiance Corina decided to start a weekly bingo event at Merchants' Village. Commercial bingo boards cost $thousands, but aren't big enough to handle the size space she needed, so I wrote her a little REBOL bingo app (took less than an hour). We bought a 180" screen for $166 and use an inexpensive projector to handle the whole event: http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=bingo.r

For her day job, Corina manages Human Resources for 15 BJ's stores, and this week began using her Jeopardy program at http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=jeopardy.r to run training sessions in a fun way - the employees and her field support managers love it!

REBOL runs so many business operations in and around my life, and the solutions have always been so quick and easy to create :) Please feel free to share your stories about REBOL in corporate America (and elsewhere) too!

posted by: Nick 12-Jan-2011/16:44:14-8:00


From Nick's forum

-Nicolas