World: r3wp

Introducing QuarterMaster: Yet Another Web Framework that I'm probably 
going to have to take time to document properly: http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


In short, it is designed around the MVC pattern.  It is open source 
(license tbd).  Tries to be lightweight, but could use some work. 
 Tries to be as thin a wrapper to Rebol (/Core, /Base, whatever) 
while providing key functions for creating web sites/applications. 
 Includes a flat-file dbms out the box, which generally works.  Currently 
coded to work with Apache (needs mod-rewrite and 'request-uri' env 
variable), but should eventually be httpd agnostic.  Please try, 
please test.  I will answer all and every question (within reason). 
 All suggestions considered with an open mind...

Group: !QM

I created a new project in Qtask called "IT Think Tank"
The goal is to invite people that like fiddling with Servers.

I realized that I know a lot of people that do this, and they all 
have the same issues, so they might as well share knowledge.


If you would like to be invited to this project, shoot me a private 
message.


The advantage of a group here on Qtask over - lets say - some forum 
on the web is:


-	Knowing each other, or being only one degree of separation tends 
to mean one feels more comfortable asking deeper questions.

-	Being more than a Forum, people can share files, build Qwikis of 
common issues, etc.
-	The people I know tend to be a "click above."

Ever wanted well behaved dates and times, padded with leading zeroes? 
 Check out form-date.r

in the rebol.org library.  It just went in.  Closely compatible with 
strftime.  Thanks to Chris.

Using QM with Cheyenne -- instructions now included in the documentation:
http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/introduction.html


All mod-QM should do is intercept 404s and redirect the request to 
QM.  I don't think this affects existing setups (please tell me if 
I'm wrong).  QM 404s by default are handled in files://system/views/errors/notfound.rsp

MySQL Driver for REBOL version 1.1.0 released.


    Changes : http://softinnov.org/rebol/mysql-usage.html#sect2.1.
    Download: http://rebol.softinnov.org/mysql/

MySQL Driver for REBOL version 1.1.0 released.


    Changes : http://softinnov.org/rebol/mysql-usage.html#sect2.1.
    Download: http://rebol.softinnov.org/mysql/

AS A TEASER FOR DEVCON... HERE IS THE FIRST EVER PUBLIC SCREEN SHOT 
OF ELIXIR !


http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/steel/elixir/elixir_0_3_5.png

A new Cheyenne website just unparked.   http://peoplecards.caIt's 
in a state of flux

today, but it's unparked, so I could start real-world testing.  Many 
changes to come
over the next few hours.

After much consideration, we've decided provide a dual license for 
Redwerks technologies similar to MySQL's licensing policy..  

If you are developing and distributing open source applications under 
the GPL License, then you are free to use Redwerks Inc. software 
under the GPL License


For OEMs, ISVs, and VARs who distribute Redwerks with their products, 
and do not license and distribute their source code under the GPL, 
Redwerks Inc. provides a flexible OEM Commercial License.


The dual - license will apply to the following Redwerks Inc.  technologies

Eco  - Our Semantic Network DBMS
Framewerks- our website creation middleware built on Eco
LFReD - our natual language intelligent agent


For more information on this, and how it relates to Rebol, check 
out the Redwerks group.

http://www.fm.tul.cz/~ladislav/rebol/BEER-SDK.zipis a place where 
you can download the BEER1 SDK

First of our proposed source releases..  Rash 1.1  -- Now GPL

(Windows binary.. will post the Rebol source as soon as I find it 
;)


Rash is a Rebol / Flash Hybrid Personal Agent using some early Natural 
Language Processing prototypes

The technology has grown since this application, and is being incorporated 
into Framewerks, but it's a fun introduction.

I'll post an old description of what it does in the Redwerks group


Download here..  See the Redwerks group for instructions.. or posting 
questions.
http://alicefair.com/rash/rash1.1.zip

Source code for the HAL 4000 (windows) now available..

The HAL 4000 is an earlier prototype to RASH..  doesn't rely on Flash

http://alicefair.com/hal4000/hal4000.zip

See the Redwerks group for more info

A preamble document for the upcoming annoucement of the formation 
of a
Formalized REBOL User Association can be found here

http://peoplecards.ca/rebol/preamble.html


Note: As this is a prepatory document, there is no formation agenda 
yet posted.
That announcement will occur here on Saturday, May 26th, 2007

The formation of the International REBOL User Association...Open 
Invitation

26th of May, 2007, 20:00 UTC.  

First Meeting is about to be called to order in the new IRUA forum.

This forum is for formal IRUA messaging only.  IRUA Chat has also 
been created for

informal discussions.  The name is going to change.  Please see the 
agenda and motions
linked below.

Details at http://peoplecards.ca/rebol/formation.html

RebRings a new AGG/Draw based puzzle game can be downloaded here: 
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebrings.r

Rebrings updated - same download place.

Hokus Pokus!

This is a little fun script, I'm working on, that actually may be 
useful for someone. It can change something into something else. 
First version could transform bitset! back to it's original string!, 
then I added conversion between issue! and tuple!. Now it can also 
translate between many human languages, like in this example:

>> do http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/hokus-pokus.r
>> hokus-pokus/translate "Hello, how are you?" "en2es"
== "ÀHola, c—mo eres?"


Using the /translate refinement, and the extra argument can be any 
of:
ar2en

, "zh2en", "zh-CN2zh-TW", "zh-TW2zh-CN", "en2ar", "en2zh-CN", "en2zh-TW", 
"en2fr", "en2de", "en2it", "en2ja", "en2ko", "en2pt", "en2ru", "en2es", 
"fr2en", "fr2de", "de2en", "de2fr", "it2en", "ja2en", "ko2en", "pt2en", 
"ru2en", "es2en"

translating between languages like Arabic, English, Chinese, French, 
German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. 
 Yeah, it's a real Transmogrifier. Have fun!

(It may be hard to type in many of these languages with current REBOL, 
I don't know! :-))

RebRings updated with better default pattern solution - http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebrings.r

RebRings Mini now available!  two-thirds the pain of RebRings ;-) 
 http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebrings-mini.r

..and Re-released without the mix bug - version 0.0.2 now available

Mahjong Solitaire for rebol released.  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/mahjong.zip

Mahjong updated to include unlimited undo, right click match and 
hint helps and added a few warnings on things such as no moves, game 
completed etc.  If you already have the resources from the zip file 
then you can access the script at: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/mahjong.r

A dynDNS client written in Rebol.

Explanations on the homepage of the application: http://danielsz.freeshell.org/code/mine/dns-sync/

I don't know if this is useful to anyone or not, but a couple of 
weeks ago I wrote a xanga parser to save posts and comments in a 
wordpress xml format.  http://www.timwylie.com/xword.html

Reb Rings Mini (Mouse Gesture Version) has been released get it at 
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebrings-mini-mgv.r-- there are many 
changes PLEASE read the instructions in header.

CureCode : a web-based bugtracking tool released (beta). See !CureCode 
channel for more info.

UTF-8 Validator


check and validate UTF-8 files, convert from USC-2 to UTF-8, convert 
special characters to HTML-entities and vice versa (can ignore selected 
tags).


available from http://bolek.techno.cz/UTF8-Validator/as REBOL script 
and Windows executable.

RebTower (a Magic the Gathering style - strategy card game) has been 
released.  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.6.zipThis is 
the fully playable version (minus help :P )

RebTower 0.0.7 has been released.
- All art is now completed.

- Card Builder is included with this release so you can make/modify 
your own cards.

- Added turn pause mode so you can get a better look at the cards 
the computer plays.
Get it at: http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.7.zip(657kb)

RebTower 0.0.8 - bugfix for turn-pause on winning.

http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower-0.0.8.zip(0.0.7 removed from 
server).

Any "Get out of jail free" cards?

RebTower 0.1.0

 - added spacebar toggle to turn mode after accidentally turning it 
 off on 0.0.9 ;-)


From now on the latest versions will always be found below (its relatively 
stable now).
(Full version)  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.zip

(Update Only version)  http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/rebtower.r(for 
update from versions 0.0.7 and higher)

Wow.  really awesome.  I love the smooth scaling.  however, there's 
no text on linux.  Another special font?

for linux change the fonts inside builder.r and rebtower.r from verdana 
and tahoma to something similar :)

RebTower 0.1.3 released.
Changes:
# Fixed transparency issues with played cards
# Stacks now zoomable

# All new PLAYBACK MODE. (Press p to check out all the stages of 
a completed round)
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)

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.