In November

REBOL Release 3

A94, the core edges start to smooth

REBOL release 3 continues apace. A fast pace. Yet a pace surrounded in a surreal cycle of molasses slowed temporal warp of expectations, flashes of brilliance and the coming downs. Mostly good and, as far as I see it, any negative feelings are brought on by wants. All in all, this can only be seen as a good thing. Most wants can and will be filled, and the longer it soaks, the cleaner the final REBOL 3 solution will be. I can't speak to other platforms, but the r3-a9x series of Debian GNU/Linux binaries are becoming more and more fun to use. The little things we rebols take for granted in R2 are starting to feel right again. With the bonus of the new programming language as a communications channel, (code slung together while chatting, browsing and chasing technical support) paradigm that is emerging. A nicer human machine interface. And this is without view.

Excuse the use of the term programming language, we all know REBOL is far more than a language...

Don't forget to type upgrade. For the last three months, Rebol Technologies has been posting an average of 1.5 new releases a week.

Recent updates

• stdio fixes
• parse evolves. Someone could and should write a book on this one.
• Unicode improves
• the wiki is updated just about everyday.
• so much more

In the Wild

REBOL Driven

You have to check out tryrebol!! Yes, those are exclamation marks.
This is frickin awesome!

REBOL in a website.

Hosted on a very REBOL friendly operating system, Syllable, with a REBOL web server, Cheyenne, and QuarterMaster, the REBOL web application framework, all together and running a web REBOL console with public access to testing expressions. Sweet!

Well done.

Some kudos

Name dropping

• Janko
• Pekr
• Robert
• Steeve

Why? Rising stars, old hands and all deserving of more credit for contributions. Thanks gentlemen.

Cheers from the Rebol Week crew.

Late in October

REBOL Release 3

Closing in...?

The alpha releases are approaching centenarian status. This seems like a good thing. A lot of refinements, revisions and REBOL. This seems like a bad thing well, not bad bad, funny bad, as we want REBOL/3 and we want it bad.

Activity

Things are happening both on the core front and the community front. For example, our good Christopher Ross-Gill is hard at it with XML handlers for R3. xml_rebol. Carl is just hard at it. Perhaps he wants it bad too.

Some kudos

user.r

The 2009 rebol Of The Year awards will be a contest. Three names currently stand nominated. Nenad Rakocevic (DocKimbel's alias), Brian Hawley and Henrik Mikael Kristensen. As it is with this kind of thing, they all deserve the nod, but may the best rebol win.

Details as they progress will mainly be on the Altme REBOL3 world in the user.r Formal channel.

In the Wild

REBOL gets some coverage at Stackoverflow: a nice collection of technical questions and answers:
stackoverflow.com

Meanwhile

REBOL release 2 seems to be slowly but surely increasing its user base. Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but it just seems that REBOL is showing up in more threads of the World Wide Web. Or is it the rose coloured googles?

Cheers from the Rebol Week crew.

Late in August update

REBOL Release 3

EXTENSIONS!

Be sure to check out the buzz around (what were REBOL plugins, now with REBOL flair) Extensions.
For Release A77 and up, Concepts: Extensions

R3 in the wild

Our good Maxim Olivier-Adlhoch (after three times fast, Mad Max is easier ;) ) has already posted images from his experiments that extend REBOL 3 into OpenGL for hardware accelerated graphics. See altme archive for a link to the image and the surrounding conversation.

That's it. Extensions. REBOL 3 yells Hello World.

Cheers from the Rebol Week crew.
Psst, words of BETA have started to float in the blogosphere.

Carl's influence recognized

Carl Sassenrath included in (a blogger's) Top 30 Influential list

Around the Net and back again

It might not be a Turing; but for us fans, it's nice to see Carl get some notice. Our good Sunanda, the humble nice guy behind almost all the great things at (the newly upgraded) rebol.org resource, noticed this one:

www.webdesigndev.com/programming/30-most-influential-people-in-programming

Cheers from the REBOL Week crew

A quick REBOL update, July 2009

REBOL Release 3

Excuses

It was a long week, since April, delays due to rain

R3 News

Following along from the July roadmap, it seems that the first entry in the plan, plugins, has Carl deep into it, and a little quieter than we have had the privilege to get used to of late.

Tweets

Carl now posts quips regarding REBOL 3 developments at rebol3

REBOL 3 Very exciting times indeed

In the Wild

If you haven't lately, do yourself a favour and refresh your "Doc". DocKimbel of Softinnov is still up to old and new tricks and donating copiously to the REBOL codescape. Cheyenne, Thee REBOL web server, source code snapshots, are now available using Subversion, with

svn checkout http://cheyenne-server.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ cheyenne-server-read-only

We really do owe Doc and the other REBOL superstars a nice big round of applause.

Excuses

There is so much more ...

• guru Ladislav spotted


• Ashley and RebGUI and OS/X native requestors


• New people in Altme rebol3 world


• Qtask


• ...

but it is still raining, details delayed

Cheers once again from the REBOL Week crew.

REBOL 3 news and other sundries. April 2009

REBOL Release 3

R3 really heats up

If you haven't been following the progress, you may be missing out. Recent developments include:

• GNU/Linux versions of the alpha releases. R3 alpha Releases


• DECODE and ENCODE functions. CODECs for PNG, GIF, BMP and JPEG included so far


• New Documentation wiki. REBOL 3 Documentation or type docs from a console


• A whole new REBOL chat environment. Just type chat from an alpha console


• Bug tracker accessible by typing bugs from the console


• Modules are getting a good duff over. R3 Modules


• ... so much more

REBOL Release 3 is FOR us, and it is partly reliant ON us. Opening up development for community involvement comes with some level of risk. REBOL developers will have to show that putting REBOL at that risk is worthwhile and become involved in productive and effective ways.

The alpha releases await your testing, input and betterments.
Dig in. The water is fine and getting better by the minute.

In the wild

REBOL Rock'n'Roll

Nick Antonaccio rocks out REBOL!
Ode to REBOL mp3

REBOL chats pass 100,000

The rebol.org archives of Altme traffic have surpassed 100,000 entries. There is a lot of life packed into the REBOL3 Altme world.

Cheers once again from the REBOL Week crew.

2008 user.r rebol Of The Year

2008 user.r rebol Of The Year

Ashley Trüter

Ashley Trüter of Dobeash Software has been named the first recipient of the user.r rebol Of The Year award.

Ashley's consistently kind professionalism is a testament to the REBOL way.

We all wish to congratulate Ashley and to thank him for his immeasurable contributions to REBOL development. user.r is proud to present the first annual roty to our good Mr. Trüter.

Cheers from the REBOL Week crew. It's going to be a good year.