A summary of what's happening in the REBOL community.

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

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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

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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

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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- removed STYLE/FACED, now it is obsolete (use only STYLE/FACETS)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

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Period ending 14-jan-2011


Most influencing programmers
Our Carl, Carl Sassenrath, creator of REBOL is rank 13 of "Most influencing programmers"

http://www.hyenalabs.com/?p=717

The creators or main contributors of PERL, Visal Basic, C++ and even Python are behind Carl !






Facebook Hacker Cup 2011
Message from REBOL Facebook group, Maximiliano

Dear Rebels,

During these days there is the Facebook Hacker Cup 2011, and Rebol isn't in the possible programming language admitted.
Why don't you show that Rebol is an excellent language? Below there is the first puzzle to solve, try to post your solution.

Qualification round 1

Qualification round 2

Qualification round 3


Ynot script

A new scripting language that runs on JVM that could have been inspired by REBOL but in fact not.

Site of Ynot script

Very interesting. REBOL community must take a lesson of marketing.


ROTY 2010... the details...
Nominees:
Robert Muench
Nenad Rakocevic
Nick Antonaccio
Henrik Kristensen
Sunanda
Brian Hawley

Results:
Nick Antonaccio 3 votes
Nenad Rakocevic 3 votes
Sunanda 2 votes
Henrik Kristensen 2 votes
Brian Hawley 1 vote
Robert Muench 1 vote

Ballots
Votes cast by 12 people: [nve, BrianH, Dockimbel, Robert, Gregg, james_nak, Sunanda, PeterWood, DideC, PatrickP61, Maxim, btiffin]

Congrats to Nick and Nenad !


The Rebol Week needs YOU !

Yes, you can contribute to Rebol Week by sending us testimonies, articles, news related to REBOL.

You can send us feedback over AltME or by email

rebolweek at g m a i l dot c o m


REBOL IDE for beginners

Maximiliano have created a REBOL IDE for beginner.
Take a look at rebol.org

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebolide.r



Great work Max !


And don't forget REBOL Facebook group...

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=99459740077


And don't forget to follow us on twitter ! ! ! ;)
http://twitter.com/rebolweek


-Nicolas

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Period ending 7-jan-2011


R2 reaches 2.7.8

New year and new release for REBOL R2. Not official on rebol.com but you can download Core and View version.

Go to download section of rebol.com

Waiting for the official fix log.


How big is the active REBOL community ?

One metric is the number of people posting to the public groups on the flagship AltME world, REBOL3:

In 2010, 105 people posted over 35,000 public messages.
http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2010

That's pretty consistent with previous years too

sunanda


Help wanted to contribute to Rebol Week !

We have writters for this blog but we need young blood :)
I doesn't take necessary a lots of time... Feel free to contribute.
Appointment on Altme R3 world - group rebolweek

REBOL needs YOU !


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


-Nicolas

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Merry Christmas 2010

The Rebol Week team wish you a merry Christmas !

The team takes some days off in order to start 2011 with lots of enthousiasm and energy.

Don't forget REBOL :
small but robust !
with REBOL there's always a solution for that !

"Big Business Running On Rebol" the details

A very good story for Christmas...
Nick has detailled his Rebol application for his Merchants village...
He puts some screenshots.


And don't forget Rebol's book... ;)

-Nicolas


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Period ending 17-dec-2010


"Big Business Running On REBOL"

Nick has posted a very interesting news on rebolforum.
He has made all the IT in REBOL for his merchant village.

Here comes the story



Kaj's CMS ported to Syllabe Desktop

Kaj has ported his CMS to REBOL 3.
It runs on both REBOL 3 and REBOL 2 now, with a set of compatibility functions.
It's around 130 KB, approaching 4000 lines, and it builds websites around 35% faster than R2
The Unicode support has nicely fixed a few problems in Syllabe for the Russian version. Of course it would be more interesting if he releases the source ...





OSNews talks about the port.



TGD Consulting

Have you seen the products from this German company ?
They look very nice. Especially the visual webserver log viewer.
They also have a Webserver with VID management interface.

You can find all the products on this page






Graphics : OpenGL, R3 GUI

The R3GUI team continue to make progress on the GUI. On AltME, check the !REBOL3 GUI group.

Here is a preview...

Official distribution point announced by Robert for REBOL 3's GUI: here




-Nicolas

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Period ending 10-dec-2010


Don't forget your letter to Santa Claus !

A new release of R2, see the Change Logs page.
A official release of R3, and not alpha or beta release.
A wake-up of the community as relayed in the preceding Rebol Week edition.
A marketing team to promote Rebol.
A developper team to help Carl in the developpement of REBOL.
A better communication inside and outside the community...

May Santa Claus grant all my wish...



Idea of gift for Christmas

Little chauvinisme, but don't forget the book written by Peter Wood and Olivier Auverlot.



And for french speaking people, the original...



Tile the end of december, there's 20% of discount for the french version !

You can buy them on lulu.com


Excel dialect

As suggested by Reichart on AltME, let's discover the Excel dialect written by Robert Muench' & Gregg Irwin's.
Here comes the documentation.



Carl at Amiwest

Carl was at the AmiWest at the end of october.
He clean his basement and sell some Commodore suff : Amiga prototypes, etc.
He show a Amiga based version of R3 and talk about REBOL.

Link to the video : Carl's talk about R3
Don't forget part 1 of Carl's talk Link

-Nicolas 11-dec-10: correct link to part 1, thx rebtut



New home for Rebol.wik.is

On Rebol.wik.is losing its home, we have to find a new free hosting.
Maybe wikispaces ?

See U on AltME to discuss about solutions...



R3 alpha host-kit on GitHub

Host-Kit is now on GitHub. Carl made a little documentation about GIT.
Page can be found here.


-Nicolas

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Period ending 3-Dec-2010


GoogleVoice

Graham released a small VID app to send SMS using Googlevoice in August.
Get it while the site is still up.



Rebol.wik.is going down ...

Mindtouch are removing their free hosting so this site is going down on the 1st Jan 2011.
Not sure where if anywhere it will be moved to.



REBOL.net is down
Since the week-end of thanksgiving, rebol.net is not avaible. It was maybe turkey powered ;-)
RebolTechnology is on the problem since 1st december 2010.
Follows the item on Carl's blog here.

Update 3-dec : rebol.net is now available



REBOL Community wake up !

Community is important for a language.
The REBOL community is small but must show it's power : small but robust.
So Wake Up Reboler !
Help is required for :
- marketing solutions to promote REBOL,
- R3 implementation of professional database access like Oracle, Sybase,
- cleaning web sites with dead link : it is important to show good sites, even if there is few sites, than a index with a lot of websites with dead links.
- professional testimonies
- worldwide section with local support
- REBOL IDE !



REBOL resources

Here is a little usefull script on rebol.org.
Either you are on Windows, Linux or MacOS, you can download all important programs and scripts for REBOL.



Block builder

A tiny text based CMS written in REBOL. Less than 10 Kb program.
Article from reboltutorial on Dzone here.
Home page of the site :

http://reboltester.altervista.org/index.html



Vote for 2010's ROTY

Vote on AltME for 2010's ROTY.
See you on user.r sections of AltME world Rebol3.



-Nicolas

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Period ending 26-Nov-2010

French webzine talks about Carl and REBOL 3

2 French programming sites announce REBOL 3 alpha:

Developez.com
Programmez.com

And one IT webzine talks about Carl
and his project around REBOL 3 :

silicon.fr

It is infrequent to have such news on the French board. So spread it on the web !


LDAP protocol released !

Softinnov has released a first version of his LDAP protocol.
This protocol was long-awaited in the professional world.
Thank a lot to the french company Softinnov (also author of Cheyenne webserver, MySQL and PostgresQL driver).
You can find the protocol on softinnov.org here
Try it with your LDAP.


Cheyenne 0.9.20 released

The REBOL webserver Cheyenne has reached the 0.9.20 version at the end of October.
There are a lot of fixes for this version.
For complete information, please visit the Cheyenne blog :

http://cheyenne-server.org/blog.rsp

Some cool Cheyenne "Powered by" banners have also been made.
Please feel to grab them here and put them on your Cheyenne powered web site !
as Carl did it rebol.com


R3 on Amiga

Carl built a R3 release for Amiga (A109) for AmiWest.
You can read more news on all the Amiga's webzines.
And here is the article on Carl's blog :

http://www.rebol.net/r3blogs/0345.html


Webservice protocol needed

Writing your own protocol in REBOL is a powerfull feature of REBOL.
In R2, we have internet based protocols like http:// pop:// dns:// ...
Softinnov writes protocols for MySQL mysql:// PosGresQL LDAP ldap:// ...
But what about webservices ?
REBOL needs to talk with other systems.
Webservice is a solution : Calling a webservice but also expose a REBOL program as a Webservice.
We need some volunteers to write tutorials and protocols around REBOL and Webservices.
Put your script and tutorial on rebol.org


Try REBOL3 - Updated with A110

Kaj has updated his Try REBOL3.
in browser site with the last alpha release of REBOL : A110.
Try to promote this site and make it popular !


Syllabe and R3

"The latest version of the REBOL 3 open host kit, alpha 110, enables Syllable Desktop for the first time to run the REBOL 3 client/server RebDev collaboration application for chat and development files sharing"

See the complete article here.



-Nicolas

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