The Rebol Week

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

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

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

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notes: - added missing images to docs (thanks to Pekr) - UNVIEW now works like in R2 - removed STYLE/FACED, now it is obsolete (use only STYLE/FACETS) - improvements to facets creation - fixed box-model border caclulation - fixed binding of actors - DO-STYLE code optimalization and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...

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 Antonac...

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' o...

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

"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... Officia...

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 prototyp...

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. ...

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...