The Rebol Week

rebol.org Shout out for form-date.r and filtered-import.r Christopher Ross-Gill has added some nice scripts to the library. Sunanda updates the look of rebol.org http://rebol.org DevCon 2007 Videos posted... Work continues at making these videos more accessible. http://www.sahores-conseil.com/?q=node/2 Mailing List Rebolek announces a Work In Progress regex.r http://bolek.techno.cz/reb/regex.r Tim Johnson encounters and conquers difficulty with REBOL for 64 bit Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Altme REBOL3 Many discussions regarding REBOL 3 especially in the VID+ and gob! arenas Framewerks announces Hal4000 http://alicefair.com/hal4000/hal4000.zip Chris would like some input with QuarterMaster in !QM to make the framework bigger better stronger for all User Group Movements are afoot to form a formal user group. First Meeting held on Altme REBOL3 world under the guise of IRUA. Softinnov.org DocKimbel steams ahead, fixing hot things and releasing new stuff. Cheyenne beta 0.9.10 released to the few, th...

Devcon2007 Carl Sassenrath posted his Devcon 2007 presentation slides http://www.rebol.com/notes/devcon07-carl.zip RebGUI Ashley: "Build#94 uploaded to SVN. Contains minor tooltip, drop-list, request-menu, on-click and on-alt-click fixes." Redwerks Terry announced Rash1.1 Rebol/Flash hybrid Personal Agent. http://alicefair.com/rash/rash1.1.zip (RAMBO) Oldes' HTTP patch, adding 303 response Oldes "just found, that youtube do not respect HTTP1.0 protocol => sends HTTP1.1 303 response even if client require HTTP1.0 (which is Rebol case). As there is no response specified for 303 in Rebol's http handler, it can be fixed using:" use [tmp][ tmp: select second get in system/schemes/http/handler 'open to-set-word 'response-actions if none? find tmp 303 [ insert tmp reduce [303 select tmp 302] ] ] ; example test trace/net on p: open/direct http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=FVbf9tOGwno&t=OEgsToPDskKR0Ng6kANs3Z4VNG81T2tZ error? ...

Sometimes life just becomes too busy to try and keep to a weekly schedule, so here's a belated report on the last few weeks. Devcon 2007 Because of the time difference between Paris and Wellington, NZ, I didn't get to see much of the sessions broadcast. It seems each new Devcon brings its own technical challenges, and this year the difficulty was on focusing the camera on the screen. I guess we shall have to wait until the formal videos from the second camera are uploaded to youtube to see what the speakers were pointing to on screen! But the quality of the video stream was excellent. If anyone attended Devcon, and is able to write a report, we would be happy to post it here. MySQL driver 1.1.0 Nenad released his latest driver that adds a new preferred method of querying data ( send-sql ), named fields mode that returns recordsets with named fields (neat), and multiple statements separated by semi-colons . This allows you to initialize databases from a standard set of sql st...