World: r3wp

RebTower 0.1.5 - small fix to stop player/ai loops using 100% cpu 
- thanks doc ;)
Full version: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.zip(661kb)

Update version (from 0.0.7 upwards): http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.r
(34kb)

DRAW-based visual Captcha Library : http://softinnov.org/rebol/captcha.shtml

I'm pleased to announce the REBOL user group now has a name.

World meet   user.r


Details in IRUA and IRUA Chat.  Those forums will be retired and 
renamed to  user.r  shortly.

14th August 2007 is the day of release of R3. btiffin is 44 that 
day, so it nice fits. Congratulations!

Draw a surface with 3-D Perspective and allow roation - 
http://peoplecards.ca/rebol/philb/utils/3D-surface.r
& in the Rebol Library

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

New version (2.0.0) of Rebol/Flash dialect (RSWF) is available here: 
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/

- this version uses completly new actions parser (thanks to Ladislav 
for his help)

String based Rebol Code colorizer --> http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.r
using it, Rebol source can look like:
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.html
http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf-main-rules.html
or http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf-main-rules-full-code.html


There is still a lot of things to improve, but it's already quite 
useful.

(at least it does not  suffer with recursion parse limits which I 
reached with good old Carl's %color-code.r script)

Nice, Oldes!

Rebsync - http://www.easybraine.com/index.cfm?content_id=40if anyone 
knows french, perhaps they could explain what it does!

It syncs directories, and apparently also MySQL and SQLite databases 
- or it needs them for functioning

It detects conflicts. But it only seems to work on Windows

Rebol/Flash dialect (RSWF) version 2.5.0 is available!
compressed: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_latest.r(89kB)

uncompressed: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_2.5.0.r(331kB) 

as colorized HTML: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/rswf_2.5.0.html
 (885kB) 

What's new:

- New swf-parser included which replaces old exam-swf function (useful 
for importing foreign SWF files)

- Added implementation of Class definitions for SWF versions 6 and 
higher (I have to create some examples)

- Added new 'trace function into actions (which can be use to compile 
swf files with or without trace calls easily)

- 'require and 'include now accepts block of files or urls (I should 
modify my rswf code colorizer to show included files as well)


Here is also new example how to include first of GUI elements: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/example/swf8-cliphandler

In the future I would like to create something like mini Layout dialect 
which will be used for better positioning of the new GUIs I'm working 
on.

GIF parser. At this moment it just prints info and or inserts comment.

do http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/gif_latest.r

        gif/parse http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/bitmaps/chinese.gif

        write/binary %test.gif gif/add-comment http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rswf/bitmaps/chinese.gif
        "test" 
        gif/parse %test.gif

The script is using %stream-io.r script which I use more and more 
for binary manipulations.

To test it with animatedGif you may try:  gif/parse http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Headloss.gif

And if someone would like to know, what is inside AVI files (without 
need to use xMB of dlls or binary utils)... here is another experimental 
script:  http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/avi_latest.r

What does it do?

coffee ?

Not much... just goes thru avi file and prints it's structure. I 
just wanted to know how looks the AVI inside. But if you add part 
for decoding the video chunks, you can for example extract images. 
Or you can easily extract all audio chunks.

String based Rebol's PHP Code Colorizer: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/php-colorizer.r

Here is test ouput of some colorized PHP code: http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/test/test-php.html

<-QM-> Version 0.2.1 -- new controllers; file upload; reorganised 
for better console-running mode; (hopefully) better namespace handling; 
user and session handling ready

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

Tested on Apache.  Tested briefly on Cheyenne.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Carl Sassenrath of REBOL Technologies would 
like to announce that all R3 development has been cancelled and that 
you should all go home and play with Perl instead. Or Python.

Or Ruby

Or Erlang

Or....

Wait a minute. Let me rephrase that:



REBOL3.0 Alpha 1 for Windows is out

You can download it here:


http://www.rebol.net/builds/rebol3/alpha/rebol29904031.zip


Carl has made a blog entry about it here:


http://www.rebol.com/article/0347.html


  Please note that this is alpha software and represents a work in 
  progress! Be nice to the developers. There's no support for you yet, 
  but it will come later. Now play with it and be good.

any chance for a linux alpha?

Not at this time. The Windows version runs well in Wine, though.

From Announce
TimW: any chance for a linux alpha?

Anton: Not at this time. The Windows version runs well in Wine, though.


I may have the version wrong...not at home.  You need Wine 9.14? 
 or greater - released from winehq a few months ago or  REBOL wait 
 will not function properly, pretty much hosing VID.  It was a timer 
call bug in Wine that's been fixed.  It was not an R3 problem, but 
Wine.

Sorry, supposed to be in Ann-Reply.  My bad.

The REBOL 3 public alpha announcement has made PLNews (a programming 
language news wire service).
http://plnews.org/

Windows services support library for REBOL 1.0.0 released. Download 
: http://softinnov.org/rebol/nt-services.shtml

Looks excellent, Doc. (Nice small DLL you have there.)

Very cool Doc!

6502 assembler v. 1.0.0: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/language/asm6502.r

Released under GPL license!

Very cool!  Talk about a flashback...

Geomol, nice work !

My database NicomDB, created with my friend Martin Nyberg, is going 
open source under GPL license. The plan is to release the source 
a little at a time, so we can make sure, everything is working with 
as many versions of REBOL as possible incl. the coming R3. For now, 
my original thesis for an education, I ended some years ago, is available 
at:

http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/nicomdb/thesis.pdf


It describes much of the unique concepts of this relational database.

GPL with commercial closed-source option?

Yes.

Good business model :)

geomol,

interesting concept. It will also be interesting to see the performance 
and behavior with
different filesystems like: ZFS,REISER, NFS XFS, CFS, GFS etc.

in mysql you can choose the database engine, with nicomDB you choose 
the filesystem 

for different features. (e.g. REISER for speed, NFS for distributed 
networking, CFS/EncFS 
for crypto, GFS for cluster etc. :-) 
any aprox. date when it will be available?

Geomol, so why GPL instead of BSD?

I'm confident, we talk weeks, not months. The first part of the code 
probably in days. From experience, I know, time estimates on software 
projects are very hard to do, but in this case, all the old code 
is there, I would just like to review it, test and optimize a little 
before release.

should movve to ann-reply...

Henrik, as I understand those licenses, with GPL, you can only use 
the code for free in GPL projects. With BSD, you can use the code 
for free in not-open-source projects too. This way we hope ot finance 
further development by close-source licenses.

yes, sorry

The first version of the database, NicomDB, is released. See group 
!NicomDB