World: r3wp

In Hackety Hack (an app that teaches Ruby programming to kids) one 
of the first examples was how to use Ruby to mash up YouTube with 
the iTunes Top 10 music titles. You ended up getting a list of music 
videos for those top ten songs. It was just 5 lines or so and was 
pretty cool. I wrote an article a year ago teaching Shoes (a Ruby 
GUI toolkit) that mashed up YouTube with Twitter to show you videos 
of the current buzz on the net. Something like that is pretty easy, 
takes just a few lines, but the results are actually usable and fun.

There is REBOL implementation of Brainfuck, if you wanna reconsider:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/language/bf.r

rebol tutorial has a twitter api under 10 lines IIRC

XD Is there also an implementation of lolcode? (lolcat like language, 
I can haz a hamburger?)

Yeah I skimmed over a few of the reboltutorial articles. Why are 
the code snippets there all on one line? Makes it really hard to 
read.

re reboltutorial.....it looks like a CSS typo rather than a (bad!) 
design decision.

(The site has just changed hosts, and had a complete makeover....there 
are some tweaks and bug fixesstill needed).

I've send him what I think is the fix, but  it looks like reboltutorial 
is having a short post-move break.

Looks like the code snippet formating at REBOLtutorial is fixed now.

Ah great, much better now :)

So... where's the "marketing discusson".... I want to read the comments 
on it.

There was a lot written in R3 Chat.

Thanks.... that's a good place for it.

Heading back to R3 Chat "world". Have a good weekend all.

Congratualtions to Maxim -- most prolific poster of 2009 in the [web-public] 
groups of this world. And to BrianH as a close runner up:
  http://www.rebol.org/aga-display-stats.r?world=r3wp&year=2009


Over 36,000 posts from just over 100 people.....It's an indication 
of the size of the active REBOL developers' community.

And of just how active we are - that's a lot of posts.

I'm not bad :-)

Who's Maxim ?

Possible nominee for user.r REBOL of the Year for 2010, if he keeps 
things up the way he's been going lately :)

This is bizarre .. he's hardly ever here.

Sunanda, I think you should exclude all the non-rebol groups ...

He's been posting a lot lately, especially in the R3 groups and his 
project groups.

oh well, I was top poster for 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 ... lol

Guess you've been busy this year :)

no stats for 2010

I'm aiming to get out of the top 3 for 2010

Stats start appearing after 500 or so posts.
Good luck, Graham!

Eh? I want out!!  Spend way too much time posting.

yay!!! it actually was a goal of mine for this year  ;-)

well, for the last year I guess.

A better measure might be words [or bytes] posted rather than total 
posts.....Some people post every new line (understandable given AltME's 
post-losing abilities) and that boosts their post count over those 
of us who....


....use multi-paragraph posts. [That's a hint for you and your 2010 
aspirations, Graham ;)]

Still, however it is measured, we have worthy champions.

then I'd have an even higher count  hehehe (I have a reputation for 
long posts ;-)

Is it only me wondering about IT security concepts in banks since 
every week new tax dodger CDs are sold to the government?

They use one fat Oracle server, that has some bugs and is not patched 
correctly so that everyone can grab some data, burn it and sell it.

true but another very interesting theme without any broad public 
notice is SWIFT. 

unbelievable what there is going on if you digg a little bit deeper.

you probably all are aware that there is a way to electronically 
divert funds without the originator or destination being aware of 
it while doing a xfer... the end result being that money has "disapeared" 
from both accounts.


you need to be on location, but still with a bit of access, its very 
easy to break the system.

Condolences to those rebols from Poland.  How do you deal with a 
loss that heavy?  Best of.

Excuse the lack of "and Russian" above, mistake.

Brian, I probably missed somethnig simple, but what happened in Poland?

you didn't hear about the president and top military brass dying 
in the plane crash?

a plane crashed, carrying the president and many top level govt. 
staff:


The fiery crash killed off a wide cross-section of Poland’s most 
important political, military and financial figures, many of them 
heroes of the anti-communist struggle.


http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/a-dramatic-end-to-a-divided-era-in-modern-polands-history/article1530957/

and reports are that its the president's direct fault, since he ordered 
the pilot to ignore requests by the control tower which told them 
to stop landing and go to another airport, because of heavy fog.

I see it as a security risk, to allow such many important ppl to 
have on one plane. Sad event, I live 5 km from Poland border, we 
have many ppl with polish nationality here, we bear with them. And 
also strange symbol - they travelled to Russia because of past Katyn 
event, where Stalin killed 20 thousands of polish nationality - top 
politicians, military ppl, teachers, etc. - simply they killed polish 
elite of that time ...

Yes, that illustrates, that Hitler was not the only one mass-murdering 
people during WW II.

(I heard, recently, that as far as Katyn goes, there were about 22 
thousands polish elites, and about 500 czechs too)

Yes, they simply eradicated all polish elite. This was an ultra-crime, 
and Poland will not forget it anytime soon. They were also first 
post-communistic country, who sacked russian army from their country 
IIRC.

It makes me sad that even in our days there are places on earth where 
22 thousands of deaths is 'drop in the sea' - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

Over the course of approximately 100 days, or more, from the assassination 
 of Juvénal Habyarimana on April 6 through mid-July, at least 800,000 
people were killed, according to the estimate of Human Rights Watch.

that was in 1994 year

They managed such terrible thing mostly only with machetes...at rate 
8000 murders per day...I still can't find any words when thinking 
about that :-/

I think I saw the movie, but dunno if it was related - Hotel Rwanda 
- terrible things ... but you know what? There's no oil, so why send 
a warfare there ...

Sad news indeed. And there are a number of movies about the Rwandan 
genocide. I've watched at least three.