World: r4wp

Andreas noticed Carl just merged something three hours ago. Is he 
back for 5 min or more, this time?

In Carl's defense, just because someone is a genius with code architecture 
and development doesn't mean they are perfect in other areas, like 
finding time to work on free projects.


As an example, look at Albert Einstein.  An absolute genius in many 
things, but absolutely horrible in others.  I guess it's a trade-off. 
 If you're going to be really good at something, you have to be really 
bad at something else, or at least below average in a bunch of things. 
 I guess that's better than being average at everything.

I must be pretty good at something, because I can think of a lot 
of things where I am below average, and some I'm WAY below average. 
;-)

There's no disputing Carl's genius, but his delegation skills, ummm...

-> Ann-Reply

Kaj, 

the problem, that the console window closed, was caused by my wong 
assumption, that the convention for file names is the same as in 
Rebol.
i.e.
read   -> crash
read %test -- > crash
write %test -- > crash
read "test"   --> works

sorry, never mind

I think this is the best introduction to REBOL that I can come up 
with.  Many dozens of tiny application examples that should turn 
some heads, especially for newbies, kids, and the non-programmer 
crowd:  http://easiestprogramminglanguage.com

There are a bunch of 5-10 liners in there that should appeal to just 
about anyone.

I'm pitching the much bigger text at http://business-programming.com
to some colleges, as a business school (entrepreneur) course.

Need some Rebol optimization on this ... the Rebol stackoverflow 
chat bot 
https://github.com/gchiu/Rebol3/blob/master/scripts/rebolbot.r3

The R2/Forward project has been moved to Github, including an import 
of the DevBase change history by Andreas.
Go here: https://github.com/BrianHawley/r2-forward


No issues or wiki yet, and it needs a lot of work. Still, it's a 
start! Discuss stuff in !REBOL2 here until we have something better. 
I have some improvements to make right away, not the least of which 
is making sure that the license is compatible with R3 and Red.

At a request, I upgraded R3 on Try REBOL from 2.99.111, the last 
official RT version, to Andreas' current build, the ongoing 2.101 
series. Not many changes, but some bug fixes.

http://tryrebol.esperconsultancy.nl


Graham programmed a nice bot for Stack Overflow chat that is able 
to call the Try REBOL web service to execute code examples and post 
the result.

Yes it is nice, and you're avoiding trying it out. I thought you 
were going to drop by the SO chat at some point. Or have you been 
in there under a different name?

PBKDF2 in R2 -- please check if I did anything stoopid ... I needed 
this function for AGES at the end it was very simple to implement 
(when I found a nice implementation to copy) https://github.com/refaktor/Rebol2-PBKDF2

Just in case nobody saw, Carl wrote in R3 github the following:

Been busy. Will check-in more frequently in March.


Sorry folks, Dec-Feb is the "crazy crazy busy" time for new product 
development. Yes, I know, I'm bad. But, I'm quite addicted to making 
new products... especially cute little electronic ones that sell 
in all the major stores in the US. Each one presents special new 
challenges that I just can't resist.


Starting in March I'll break away for a few hours a week to take 
care of things here.


Also... I really want to try using R3 with graphics running on DirectFB. 
It would be quite cool.


One other thing... has anyone got R3 running graphics on Raspberry 
Pi yet? If not, let's talk about how we can make that happen. What 
do we need?

I fixed the bug that was breaking cURL networking on Windows:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-cURL/dir?ci=tip


I've updated the binaries. This fixes READ in common/input-output, 
console-pro, GTK-text-editor, GTK-browser and RedSystem/read-web-page:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip&name=MSDOS


The binaries for all platforms include the latest Red enhancements, 
particularly support in the interpreter for function creation at 
runtime and execution of those functions that are not compiled and 
thus only have source available. This enhances console-pro, GTK-IDE 
and GTK-browser:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip

I fixed #1969 (pull request submitted), which is one of the R3 bugs 
most plaguing R3GUI.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rebol/6MMlv-E3j-E/fUudREMX-HYJ

thx, Ladislav!

I missed making a donation to Red last month, so I will make up for 
it by doing a matching challenge this month. I will match donations 
to Red, up to USD$200, for donations made between now and the end 
of the month.

I'm fairly sure I fixed the bug that was breaking audio playback 
with SDL on Windows with DirectSound, but I haven't been able to 
test it yet:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-SDL/dir?ci=tip&name=examples


I've updated the binaries. If anyone could test it, that would be 
nice:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip&name=MSDOS/RedSystem

The audio example is now forced to open a small borderless window 
on Windows. It shouldn't be visible, but there will be an icon on 
the task bar now, and it will probably appear in the window switcher

Then again, maybe not with the MSDOS version, that is compiled to 
not be a GUI program

I've updated the Red test binaries with the latest Red features, 
including the new support for the file! type:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


As a reminder, here are instructions for downloading them in one 
go:


http://web.syllable.org/news/2012-11-18-20-47-Red-high-level-programming-language-first-alpha.html


All programs for Syllable, Linux and Windows are supposed to work 
now. If you want to help improve the quality of the upcoming Red 
release, please test them and report bugs you find.

I updated our Redsite for the latest Red features, specifically runtime 
function creation in the interpreter (which executes the Redpages):

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/index.red

I added a simple IDE example to the list of apps:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/examples/IDE.red


It's a cross between the standalone GTK-IDE example and Try REBOL; 
basically Try Red written in Red itself. There are two main areas: 
one for editing your code and one for showing the result. Since it 
runs on your computer, unlike Try REBOL, it keeps state between execution 
of code snippets.


To browse the site and the apps you need the latest binary version 
of the GTK-browser. See above.

Thanks to a build machine provided by HostileFork, OSX PPC ("2.4") 
builds of R3 (from mainline Git) are now available for your convenience:

http://www.rebolsource.net/

(Look for "OSX PPC" under the "experimental builds" section.)

On that page there is a broken link: the small "2" note.

Sorry, I just noted where it point, I thought a broken link since 
page remained still.

Just donated 50 EUR to Red, so that Gregg might match the donation. 
Hopefully you don't mind using this channel, it has low noise ratio 
and might inspire others to follow :-)

I have a very early sl4a protocol at https://github.com/gchiu/Rebol3/blob/master/protocols/prot-sl4a.r3


Needs altjson loaded first.  Not sure why I have to do the wait in 
the write actor.  Steve?

Oops I meant Steeve

Cool - so many new things to try.

This one's getting moved to the top of the list.

Nice job, GrahamC!

Announcing update to

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

Changes:

* INCLUDE/only update
** to help Cyphre use it for encapping purposes

** returns the REBOL header spec part in the result block if available

I've updated my Scite repository to the latest Scite/Scintilla version 
with enabled REBOL-RED lexer https://github.com/Oldes/Scite

The Red console-pro supports OS X now:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-common/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

Thanks to Oldes for testing.

I've added a Red interpreter to the Try REBOL site:

http://tryrebol.esperconsultancy.nl


Also reorganised many outdated REBOL links. The Red functionality 
is also available on StackOverflow through Graham's bot.

In case you did not find it in the other group:

New release of Red is here! 0.3.2: REPL release on http://www.red-lang.org/

Some people have wanted to do timing with Red. That was already possible 
with wall clock time, but I've added a new function get-process-seconds 
to both Red and Red/System to get the CPU time used by the process. 
Be aware that on Windows, this still uses wall clock time:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-C-library/dir?ci=tip

I've included examples in the Red Fibonacci examples.

The resolution is only one second, because there is no floating point 
at the Red level yet

I have written a primer on how to wriite a network scheme in Rebol 
3 .. http://www.r3gui.com/Writing_a_Network_Scheme.html

Let me know if you spot any errors so that I may correct them

This is great Graham - will read it in detail.

Nice layout, btw.

I accepted the first batch of pull requests to "community r3" at 
https://github.com/rebolsource/r3.The purpose of the fork is to 
accept new requests when there is a consensus they shall be accepted 
to inform Carl that such a consensus exists.

To support the OpenCV binding, I've split the C library binding for 
Red into an ANSI standard base and a BSD extensions part:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-C-library/dir?ci=tip


Instead of %C-library/C-library.red and %C-library/C-library.reds 
you should now #include %C-library/ANSI.red and %C-library/ANSI.reds.


%C-library/BSD.reds includes %C-library/ANSI.reds automatically and 
provides new functions NaN?, finite?, infinite? and infinity-sign-of. 
It can only be used on platforms that have them.

Kaj: I forwarded your above message to Francois, the author of the 
OpenCV binding.

Thanks!

Because the Red compiler doesn't support preprocessor conditionals, 
I have split console-pro into red, red-core and red-base, to be able 
to supply different functionality per platform:


http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-common/dir?ci=tip&name=examples

They each include different extra bindings:
red-base: ANSI C library, cURL
red-core: red-base + SQLite
red: red-core + GTK+


I've updated the test binaries. Different versions of the red console 
are supplied for different platforms:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip


I rewrote the multi-line parsing in the console to be more accurate 
and straightforward.