The Rebol Week

DevCon 2007 You can now register for this year's DevCon. Follow the instructions on the DevCon 2007 web site. Information on places to stay will be forthcoming shortly. This year's conference will be held in Paris, France on May 10-11. In the Wild Brian Tiffin produces an rich, interactive Periodic Table of Elements . Great application of View features here. Tim Johnson revises Andrew Martin's 'map function , used to apply a function to all values in a block. Maarten Koopmans , inspired by the consolidation of his Rugby sources, embarks on building mod_rebol. Collaboration continues on the ‘REBOL3’ AltME world. Mailing List Sunanda introduces a Coding Challenge , engaging Rebollers in pursuit of the perfect compression algorithm. Plenty of submissions, but there's still time to displace the current leaders. REBOL 3 RT present the composition of R3: “REBOL 3.0 Component Architecture” “This document describes the REBOL 3.0 component architecture from th...

OSX A new beta SDK was announced incorporating some of the 2.7 tools. Still missing some features but good enough to do development on. The news that Apple's iPhone ( one would think that they would lock down the copyright first on the name before announcing it! ) will be running OSX could mean that a future non-locked down incarnation of the iPhone could be running Rebol apps. Tester Henrik's case test tool is now at version 0.0.10. Henrik says it is not quite a unit testing tool, but does sequential testing tracking the results. Mailing List A bug in the round function was discovered. Looks like some automated tool messed up! Rebol3 According to the priority list posted last week, this is due to be released at DevCon 2007 in Paris, May 2007. However, there is not much available information on DevCon in English yet ... and as many developers need to plan months in advance, it may well turn out to be a purely French Connection. Linux There appears to be a lack of synch...