World: r3wp

but maybe I will not offer so much complicated solution, or I would 
have to implement whole calendaring facility, which surely is not 
trivial, or projects like Sunbird (Mozilla calendar) would be done 
in one day :-)

any references to calendaring api?

imo it should be extension of the 'now fuction ... e.g. for one project 
I needed to count week-of-year, so I created small function for it. 
Has anyone find usage/potential for such functionality?

hmm, http://www.caldav.org

http://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:Home_Page

look at the first sentence of Syncing chapeter :-)

Petr: IIRC Chris RG had a good calendar reblet with a dialect for 
repeating events etc

I believe eFishAnt has done some work on the calendar and scheduling 
functions for IOS.  I don't think he has released any of this code 
though.

Let me second what Peter Wood said. REBOL.org has a lot of potential 
and information that is not obvious, including a programmatic interface. 
The wealth of content and code at REBOL.org, and the valuable info 
in Sunanda's brain--if we can pick it, should be leveraged. At one 
time, we thought REBOL.org might be what you envision for RCentral, 
and it still could be. Anything that helps us organize all the information 
out there is a good thing. I still have a dream of a reb-ring of 
resources that is easy to share and aggregate, with both web and 
reb front ends (ala the original librarian).

Is it not true though that you are limited in what you can do with 
rebol.org ?  I.e.  there are some restrictions whereas if you had 
your own box, the library team could do more?  If this is the case, 
why not let the library team take over the new box and migrate the 
content from rebol.org to there?

The only limitation that I've noticed with rebol.org is a lack of 
skilled manpower.

Has anyone written a PHP to Rebol converter?

That works?

Reichart, they (PHP) have a huge amount of functions, you'd need 
to convert them too. OTOH, if you don't need that, the translation 
wouldn't be too hard.

Yeah, I took a quick look, and that seems to be the case.

It also seems that after the first 30 or so functions you have most 
of what people use...although one would need to take teh source to 
lint and modify it to confirm this.

many functions are also only available through extensions, such as 
mysql_xyz() functions.

hmmm... I was just browsing Stephen Hawking's website at http://www.hawking.co.uk
and noticed how well designed, simple and fast it is. Although lacking 
a search function, it's still very easy to get around.

sorry, http://www.hawking.org.ukis the correct link

Cute.

I'm working again on ReViewer, I'm going to buy a SDK and would like 
to add a library to read/write JPEGs. Did anybody work with such 
a library before? Any help appreciated, thanks.

try to look at http://www.xnview.com- they have something like 300+formats 
to read, 40+ to write. We even did some initial C wrapper with Cyphre 
for it ...

it is cross-platform. Dunno about license, but if ReViewer will be 
commercial, it will not be free probably. But I think you can talk 
to author.

ImageMagik does not work for you?

RV: http://www.ijg.org/files/may be a way to go

I have used their code along with the netpbm library to get by so 
far

ReViewer will remain free. Just actually wondering how the conversion 
is done from a lib to an image datatype. Will I have to set each 
pixel value of my image according to a raw decoding? Or is there 
ways to go directly from the lib to the image datatype?

Not sure where to post this. What is the best, easiest to learn and 
use, free C compiler?

I use dvcpp from http://www.bloodshed.net/dev/devcpp.html... just 
for few days :-)

Thanks, Pekr. That looks pretty good. I'll try it out.

A CHAT WITH NAUGHTY DOG ABOUT NEXT-GEN!


We chatted with Stephen White, co-president and programming manager 
of Santa Monica, CA-based videogame developer Naughty Dog about creating 
games for the next-generation consoles … and he offered some suggestions 
for dealing with next-gen hurdles.


Q. Naughty Dog is known for the “Crash Bandicoot” and “Jak and Daxter” 
franchises which have sold over 35 million units combined. What have 
been the fundamental keys to the success of your titles and how do 
you plan to apply those to your next-generation game development?


A. One of the biggest factors in the making of a successful game 
is hiring very talented people who are motivated and can get the 
job done without the need for extensive management and finely detailed 
schedules.

God yes!

We're shooting for a new rainfall record here in Vancouver, 29 consecutive 
days of rain.. only two more to go.

well when you bet Seattle, let me know :)

Still need 9 days to bit the "flood" length. Prepare your Arch M. 
Noe ;-)

Didn't rain on Sunday, so Vancouver was one day short of a new record.. 
of course, it's pouring today, and probably the rest of the week 
at least.

Volker, you did a diff function at one time (takes two bodies of 
text, and highlights the delta).  can you send me a pointer to that?

There's one in the library: http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/view-script.r?script=diff.r

Yeah, I think Volder did something more impressive.

("yeah" as in I saw that one)

Like Red is deleted stuff,, green is new stuff.  Of course I can 
write this, but I like to see how others have done stuff, and if 
it has any bells and wistles I did not think of

Speaking of which, RebGUI is pretty damn cool.

Thanks, while it's usable as is it's only 60% of where it needs to 
be - but that remaining 40% is some long, hard work and my priority 
at the moment is on commercial projects. I'm hoping to get some time 
to work on it again in about two weeks or so. I've also got my eye 
on the Qtask framework stuff to see where there are any synergies 
(I like the simple almost PDA-like look & feel it has).

I played with Graham's ERM program, and although he seems Tab-happy, 
it also shows off how cool RebGUI is (and fast)

Check out www.Qtask.com/M2 (for Cell phones.

Even more PDA like.

Got a link to Grahams ERM?

http://www.compkarori.com/emr/about.html

http://www.compkarori.com/emr/client.htmlspecific page.

Qtask M2 ... bad link?