The Rebol Week

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...

REBOL2 JIT Compiler bitchfest fallout Cyphre reports that this has been closed to private testing only, and a public release will now only happen at the RC1 stage. Contact him directly on the Rebol3 world if you wish to join the private beta testing group. Hostkit Madness Carl has been making frenzied releases of the hostkit, and we are now up to a release of 107. There is a 108 not released to the public yet. He has even built a R3 107? core for Amiga OS4.1. Don't even ask why! Try REBOL3 Kaj has updated his Try REBOL3 in browser site. You can execute the Rebol expression in Rebol2, Rebol3 and in Boron. Eg, try this "make string! 1000'000'000" and see what happens in each. More S3 tools Check out Chris' REBOL tools page where he has taken the S3 work and built a protocol from it. He even has a fledging rest:// protocol, and ... a twitter client which uses OAuth. Chris has also promised a GUI for the latter ... but apparently his footie is keeping hi...

REBOL Gateway Want to join the REBOL3 world? Well, this is a very involved way but apparently it works http://www.rebol.org/aga-join.r A100 Hostkit for Windows Released I can't tell you where to download it ... but if you look at Tuesday's posting by Carl in the private !REBOL3 Extensions channel on REBOL3 ALTME, you can find it. This hostkit is memorable in that the graphics is now inside the hostkit. Bounties The bounty for a /Library interface for R3 currently stands at US$600. It is not entirely clear if Ladislav is working on it or not. A bounty for OpenDBX REBOL2 bindings was picked up by yours truly and the code is here . What does it mean? It means that you now have access to all the databases supported by OpenDBX including access to binary blobs which never worked for me under ODBC. JIRA Tracker for REBOL open source I have setup a JIRA tracker for open source projects. JIRA is probably the best tracker out there, and normally comes with a hefty license fee bu...

2009 user.r rebol Of The Year Brian Hawley Brian Hawley has been voted the second recipient of the user.r rebol Of The Year award. Brian is always busy supporting the REBOL community and a vote on Altme world REBOL 3 led to this proud presentation. We all wish to congratulate Brian and to thank him for his many contributions to REBOL releases. user.r is proud to present the second annual roty to our good Mr. Hawley. Congratulations to our 2009 rebol Of The Year. We'd also like to thank Ashley Trüter of Dobeash Software , roty 2008 for past and present contributions. And thanks to the other 2009 nominees, Nenad and Henrik, their efforts being greatly appreciated. Cheers from the REBOL Week crew. It's going to be another good year.

RebDB 3 Dobeash meets REBOL/3 Just yay. To try Ashley Trüter's shiny new take on databasing: From an r3 console (tested under a96) import http://idisk.me.com/dobeash/Public/rebdb.r help db- test: db-load http://idisk.me.com/dobeash/Public/test.bin help test sql select test More soon. Docs pending ... and Dobeash does docs Just yay. REBOL Technologies Alpha 97 A97 released, with the announcement at http://www.rebol.com/r3/changes.html which will eventually be archived through docs/changes.html Feeling the love. In the Wild BrianH A link to some handy 2.7.8 source code tidbits via rebol.org/aga-display-posts.r thanks to our good Brian, nominee in the 2009 rebol Of The Year awards and all round REBOL heavy lifter . Short week Cheers from the Rebol Week crew P.S. Thanks to our good Graham, The Rebol Week has been going for four years now.

Communication Breakdown Only this blog posting to explain his absence ... Power Mezzanines Gabriele has released his power mezzanine pack licensed under the MIT license. Lots of good stuff here .. and he has a mercurial repository at Sourceforge . It appears the licence is owned by Qtask. BEER 2 Jaime Vargas has agreed to relicense BEER from GPL to BSD. A download link will be available soon. RebBBS Graham has written a small BBS loosely based on RebelBB . It was written to test some Amazon functions and uses S3 to store messages as JSON objects, and Amazon SDB to store the user data and message index. The early documentation is here .

Communication Breakdown Well, not Led Zeppelin, but seems Carl has disappeared into his cave again apparently spending all his time on redoing the rebol.com website. Meanwhile developers are chomping at the bit (terrible pun) for bugs to be fixed. What we need is a hero as depicted here but can Carl really do everything by himself? The R3 chat system, his own source code repository, and now the website redesign seems just another distraction as though he does not want to finish R3. Altme A long awaited upgrade took place ... and now you can no longer lose messages. Instead you get to stare at a blocking gray box ... On the bright side, you can now set all the posts as "read" so that they are no longer "red". Schemes On the network schemes side, Graham ( yes, speaking of myself in the 3rd person ), has created a new fax:// scheme to interact with hylaFAX, and also a imap4 protocol. Since he doesn't use Imap, it would be nice if someone tested these scheme...

New Schemes - WIP More progress has made so that we now have partially working dns://, daytime://, pop3://, smtp://, ftp://, and as a present fax:// ! This last protocol allows a user to communicate with a HylaFAX server. Here is a rudimentary R3 GUI script using the fax:// protocol Sendfax.r All of this is a work in progress of course, and we do need some guidance from RT so that the schemes are consistent. ARM?? Carl has agreed to port R3 to ARM. The new plug computers use the Marvell ARM processors, and will make great REBOL appliances. The latest Plug 3 announced at CES 2010 this month have a sleek sexy form . And of course there's some talk of Android also running on ARM processors ... so this gives the expression REBOL in your face a whole new meaning! REBOL web forum Reboltalk has been down for months. I have started a new forum to replace it using vbulletin. You can sign up here . R3 Extensions Jocko has posted some sample extensions at his site . These include TTS ...

REBOL 3 New Schemes - WIP Some users have decided to make start on some network schemes for R3. I expect they will eventually be re-written to conform to a consistent style and functionality. A few can be found http://rebol.wik.is/Rebol3/Schemes New old console The current R3 alpha console in windows is very painful to work with. Carl on request has agreed to at least restore the console functionality from that of REBOL2. Documentation Although documentation is partly a community burden, the lower level documentation for words where there is no source still lies with RT. Carl has agreed to restart the lower level documentation for the wiki, Ps: Altme has apparently been updated for the first time in 1.7 years.

REBOL 3 Freeing of REBOL/Command Carl has decided to free up SSL, encryption ports, ODBC etc with the release of version of Rebol/View that no longer requires a license for these features to work. A 2.7.7 build has been released for testing. I can not disclose the download site .. but if you hop onto qtask or Rebol3 altme world .. you'll see it. Rebol 2.7.7 And redevelopment has started on Rebol2 with a 2.7.7 release by years end ... with a view to fixing a few bugs ... perhaps in the installer, a memory leak in view ( which was reported by yours truly 5 years ago ), some VID fixes and any other low hanging fruit. The idea is to start monthly releases similar to the Rebol3 release schedule. PS: http://www.rebol.com/downloads/v277/rebview.exe 1 Jan 2010: Windows only so far. Cheyenne and Web Sockets Dockimbel has updated Cheyenne to include limited support for web sockets. Checkout the SVN

REBOL 3 Host Kits Alpha release of GNU/Linux POSIX Host Kits announcement . It's been a long, exciting, long wait. Woohoo! Alpha 96, a fine vintage. Good initial reviews From what I've come to understand, Kaj had a Syllable Desktop version of the host kit compiled and alpha running, not many minutes after the announcements. A decade of patient planning and I think I could see the grin beams in the chat post. Let me in Snag a copy of REBOL 3 alpha, chat . Short post excuses A short post for a big week, mainly a verbose web link republish, but it had to be said. Cheers from The Rebol Week crew.

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 kn...

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...

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 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

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 ... bu...

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 Ant...

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.