World: r3wp

Curl NITRO is now beta at http://www.curl.comwill be welcoming languages 
other than just Curl.  Expect a relaxed RTE license soon. Like Rebol3, 
Curl is now on  track to only have the core remain proprietary.  
Pekr:  think Rebol on the Surge RTE  AKA Nitro !

Robert - Curl is our competition - why should we be happy about it, 
if noone from us here has any intention into using it? The good thing 
is, that I am chief of IT here, so I never let tools like that to 
let-in :-)

Version 1.1.0 of load-tga for TARGA (TGA) images:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/libs/gfx/tga.r

Added support for RLE (run-length encoded) images (can be produced 
with e.g. OS X Preview and most paint programs). The function can 
now load image type 2 (Uncompressed, True-color image) and image 
type 10 (Run-length encoded, True-color image).

<-QM-> Version 0.3.1

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


After much wrestling with what the Model (M-V-C) should be, I have 
settled on an extensible Model system designed as an intuitive implementation 
of persistent objects.  Also, pagination, some extra helpers and 
some tweaks here and there.  QM grows, but has not yet reached the 
point of optimisation.  More to follow in the !QM group...

This year's Rebol Library flash conference will be held on Monday, 
16th June.

The Eleventh ICFP Programming Contest, in a month:

http://icfpcontest.org/

< QM > Version 0.3.2

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


This release reworks the Controller engine, giving more flexibility 
in defining the Controller dialect.  The fruit of this is the 'protect 
directive that allows you to evaluate preconditions before executing 
an action.  More to follow in the !QM group...

Much simplifed way of contributing scripts to REBOL.org. And a better 
way of tagging them too:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlXBXC

I'm launching my new website. New design etc. and I'm adding a Blog. 
Not much content converted yet. But more to come soon.

http://www.robertmuench.de

The pre-release of Rebol for pros, Chapter 5 of Rebol - A programmer's 
guide is now available at http://www.lulu.com/content/2845102


It covers calling other programs and shared libraries, using MySQL 
from Rebol CGI scripts and how to manage source code with the free 
version of the Rebol pre-processor. All of these can be used from 
the latest free versions of Rebol.

The chapter also includes a really enthusiastic introduction to IOS 
and details of the data encryption features in Rebol/Command.

The Table of Contents of Rebol - A programmers guide can be downloaded 
from http://www.auverlot.fr/index_attachments/table.pdf

MySQL driver v1.2.1 released. See more at http://softinnov.org

I note with interest the efforts to translate the latest REBOL book 
 from French to English to be published via LuLu. Do you realize 
that LuLu are unable/unwilling to deliver to international P.O. Box 
addresses !!?!! -- they gave me some Bull Dust story about how The 
Australian Postal Service wont deliver to a P.O Box !!  Strange how 
AMAZON seems happy to deliver to a P.O. Box. and have done so for 
many years.  So getting the book might prove difficult for some people.

< QM > Version 0.3.5

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Additions: this release includes a crude search facility within RoughCut. 
 Also included are some minor changes related to the User Management 
and Blog (to be published) patterns.

HTML Dialect 0.0.5 uploaded:
http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/html-dialect/src/0.0.5/html.r

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/html-dialect/docs/0.0.5/html-dialect.html

Wrapper for the Google Charts API:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=charts-api.r

Because I needed something.  Crude but works...

< QM > Version 0.3.7

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


QuickTags overhaul: now uses 'match dialect parser (this may result 
in incompatibilities).  Also, the 'root' space is dropped in favour 
of 'support' to reference external modules.

New 'opt-in' group created for the Cheyenne - Framewerks Project


This FOSS project is a port of Redwerks CMS system (http://redwerks.org) 
to use Cheyenne rather than Apache. Continued exploration of AI / 
NLP using LFReD, AtomDB and other techs with Cheyenne to build the 
next generation of web servers.

Send me a request to me directly if you would like to join.

(send me a request to me?... sheesh :)

At last, the electronic pre-release of Chapter 6 of the translation 
of Olivier Auverlot's "Rebol - Guide du Programmer" (http://www.rebol.com/article/0324.html) 
is now available atÊ(Êhttp://www.lulu.com/content/4426599Ê) for EUR 
2.99.

This chapter starts with a short overview of how to configure 
and manage Rebol/View desktops to provide a "virtual office". It 
moves quickly into serious programming topics in a Unix environment 
covering console data display, handling keystrokes, command line 
arguments, file access rights, shell access, pipes, sockets, Unix 
signals and dynamic library calls. A thorough introduction to RebDB 
rounds out the chapter.

The preview of translation of the final chapter of Olivier Auverlot's 
Rebol - Guide du Programmeur is now available atÊhttp://www.lulu.com/content/4564589


 This final chapter consists of a number of workshops that bring together 
 much that has been covered in the book. These case studies focus 
 on the foundations to build a video game, on developing a chat program, 
 on writing a MySQL administration console, and finally on creating 
 a reblet for Rebol/IOS.


  There is still a little work left before the book can be published. 
  I hope that it won't take too long. Once the full book is published, 
  the individual preview chapters will be withdrawn from Lulu.com.


  One of the things still to be done is toÊangliciseÊthe sample scripts 
  which will then be made available for downloading.

< QM > Version 0.3.7

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Fixed some Cheyenne glitches, works now with .exe version (see QuickStart 
guide).

< QM > Version 0.3.8, that is

args.r  released on rebol.org...  pretty powerfull command-line argument 
management. 

*dialect driven
*typed arguments.  
*optional arg support (with default values)
*different flag modes
*automatic command-line error reporting
*and much more...


the idea is not to provide a rebol interface to the cli, but provide 
a cli interface to rebol.   so for example, to escape chars, we use 
"\"  not "^" .

the systems builds a parse rule out of your command-line spec and 
runs it against the  supplied string.


there is a preliminary demo which shows how to use it... full docs 
expected this week-end.  (they are drafted, but need to be revised 
and organised properly).

I am pleased to announce that the electronic version of "Rebol - 
A programmer's guide" is now available at http://www.lulu.com/content/5382304
priced at 15.99 Euros.


  The printed version will be available within the next two to three 
  weeks and will be priced at 25 Euros.



The book's introduction and table of contents can be freely downloaded 
from http://www.auverlot.fr/index.php?perma=1224333460

Good coverage. One thing, the TOC and Intro links are reversed ...

Also a bit confusing is the pricing.  When you click the link it 
takes you to a lower price but when you click to preview the book 
it states another price (these are all listed in dollars).

Rebolers- You have probably noticed we are trying to get together 
for a Rebcon on 12/27/08 @ 12:00 PM PST. We have some checklists 
started for both presenters and those who will attend. We need to 
get a specific headcount if possible due to the nature of the tools 
we are proposing to use so please sign up as soon as you can. Thanks. 
James

12:00 PM : assuming that's midday (not midnight), then (if my sums 
are right) that's 20:00 UTC.
Can someone confirm, please?

Count me in

Sunanda, it seems to be correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone

Thanks

< QM > Version 0.3.9

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Fixes a context issue with QuickTags (bug fix).  Minor change to 
the Cheyenne 'request/content' handling (bug fix).  And thanks to 
Ammon for giving it testdrive, helps greatly in sorting out priorities!

The anglicised source code of the book "Rebol - A programmer's guide" 
can now be downloaded from the book's page at http://auverlot.fr/index.php?perma=1224333460



It is quite possible that I may have introduced the odd bug during 
their translation. If you find any please let me know.

DevCon 2008 is about to start:
http://2008.rebolconf.info/

I am very pleased to announce that the printed version of "Rebol 
- A programmer's guide" is now available. The price is 25 Euros.Ê
The 
book can be purchased at http://www.lulu.com/content/5382304

It seems that Lulu.com has unfortunately recently increased its shipping 
charges especially to one or two countries. I have also heard that 
the shipping cost can be affected by the currency in which you buy 
the book. I believe that if you specify US Dollars to buy the book, 
it will be shipped from the US even if you live in Europe. It might 
be worth switching currencies if the shipping costs seems too high.

Is this the right place to announce commericial efforts?  Seem like 
Reichart is missing out on advertising fees.

Perhaps with the size of this forum, paid advertising would work 
against Peter.

uhm .... I would not put it that way ... still REBOL related and 
hence appreciated ... we should chat in ann-reply probably ...

(moving to Ann-Reply)

PeterWood, I had downloaded some single chapters and I liked what 
I read...

I'm going to order the printed version but I notice its black and 
white only? I was hoping the printed version would b ecolor but I 
guess that would increase costs...

Initial public version of REBOL BBCode implementation:
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/bbcode.html
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/bbcode.r

Updated:

http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/php-colorizer.html;to colorize 
PHP code

http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.html;to colorize 
REBOL code

Started writing a RebolLexer for pygments.org

Good Job Oldes!

So the REBOL lexer for Pygments syntax highlighter is here
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/rebolLexer.py
Let's see if the Python guys will add it into the distribution.

Oldes : I'm sure they'll do if you tell them.