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http://www.rebol.com/article/0510.htmlfrom Carl    "Time to 
Talk about REBOL's Future'

As you might know, I wrote a R3 book in Chinese, trying to attract 
more people to the REBOL camp. It sells very well so far. But I would 
like to attract more than Just Chinese. So I decide to translate 
it into English and make the English Version free. It's a slide with 
320 Pages. This slide is colorful, beautiful, and easy to understand. 
I would like you guys to help me correct my English before I put 
it to the public. I would also like this gesture to make Carl feel 
the support and love from the community.

Today I fixed one issue with the chessboard with respect to the bookkeeping 
of the kings positions. This was the last remaining piece of this 
part of the puzzle. I am curious for remarks.

Jerry, I would like to help with the English editing. Please let 
me know the next step.

...sorry, should have posted this in ann-reply.

Hello, I'm writing a new version of Rebolide, with color syntax higlithing, 
using another rebol script (area-tc) with perfect syntax higlithing. 
I put the new rebolide on github: https://gist.github.com/3635812
, since github works great with Rebol.

However I'm not good as you and I can't understand how make this 
new rebolide similar to the old one, see  the old one on: http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebolide.r

My main concern at the moment is to create button to insert code 
in the main area, cut and copy works, but the functions button like 
the old one no.
May you help me?

OK, that link was just a gist,  the repository is https://github.com/angerangel/rebolide

Let's make it official: http://static.red-lang.org/birth.png:-)

There is a note from Carl on his blog!

Carl, 9-Sep-2012 15:46:54: "I need to apologize all of you for the 
lack of response to your comments. This was due to a funny incident 
that happened on my ranch.


Last week, a few heffalumps burst into my basement and turned over 
the last barrel of 1999 Châtemateloo. Unfortunately, the precious 
liquid flooded telecommunication cables and I lost network connection.

You know me, this is not a reason to give up.


Using a microwave oven, amateur radio, and 4 lines of code in REBOL 
I was able to construct a modem and here I am.


Well, I read very carefully your comments (the first two lines of 
each comment) and I noticed that most of them contain the phrase 
"Hi Carl". I was hoping that I'll find out from them what further 
steps should be taken to save the future of REBOL, but it seems that 
as usual I have to come up with a solution myself.

So, here it is.

I decided to open source REBOL.


Choice of license is very difficult because there are many kinds 
of them. I examined the majority of them, and none meets my needs. 
They are overloaded and too complicated. The only thing I can do 
in this situation is to write my own license. I name it ... Rebolense.

Creating a license is not an easy task, but is necessary.

I'll be working on it soon, so stay tuned. "

There's a growing consenus, Max, that that blog post may be better 
suited for the Humour group.

:))

Message from a yellow Carl

Did you find anything new on GitHub?

Probably a real blog post is the only way to know for sure.

Here's the Sherman REBOL compiler:

https://github.com/akavel/sherman

REBOL patches repository here: https://github.com/BrianHawley/rebol-patches

These are intended to implement pending improvements to R3, and eventually 
R2. Just R3 for now though.

To add to the idiocy, there's now a message from the real Carl, stating 
he agrees with the fake one

Win!

Hi, I have added two scripts today on rebol.org. one is how I plan 
using the mysql driver from Nenad, the other one is reproducing the 
php script on http://www.alistapart.com/articles/succeed/to get 
well formed URL/URI 's and get rid of the ?id=99&stuff='idea' kind 
of links. 

It is not yet really finished for I haven't tested/thought about 
how this works with requesting the indexfile in subdirectories. Also 
if there are ideas how to store and reproduce articles from a database 
using one two or more keywords feel free to put them up.

A first pass at accessing the Etsy API: http://reb4.me/r/etsy


Works similarly to my Twitter API script (a few OAuth differences 
here and there). You can download it, or run it in place (do/args 
... [...Settings...]). As with Twitter, you start with etsy/as and 
go through the authorization process.  It has a few example methods, 
and an open method - etsy/api-call - that can call (as far as I can 
tell) every api function. Will try to document at some point.

It's working beautifully!

Normally I do not announce my upload to rebol.org but this time is 
different. I have uploaded an upgraded version of  my interface to 
opengl: http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=opengl-glu-glut-h.r
and I am asking you to insert "GLX_DOUBLEBUFFER" in the block of 
the line: "attrList-def: reduce [GLX_USE_GL GLX_RGBA  GLX_DEPTH_SIZE 
16 GLX_RED_SIZE 4 GLX_GREEN_SIZE 4 GLX_BLUE_SIZE 4 0]"  to see if 
doublebuffer works since in my virtual machine it is not working 
(an empty window is opened and no gl rendering occurs)

Sorry, I mean you should try it on a X11 environment.

Normally I do not announce my upload to rebol.org but this time is 
different. I have uploaded an upgraded version of  my interface to 
opengl: http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=opengl-glu-glut-h.r
and I am asking you to insert "GLX_DOUBLEBUFFER" in the block of 
the line: "attrList-def: reduce [GLX_USE_GL GLX_RGBA  GLX_DEPTH_SIZE 
16 GLX_RED_SIZE 4 GLX_GREEN_SIZE 4 GLX_BLUE_SIZE 4 0]"  to see if 
doublebuffer works since in my virtual machine it is not working 
(an empty window is opened and no gl rendering occurs)

sorry that was completely unwanted

Bas published the videos of my Red presentation on Software Freedom 
Day at the Science Park in Amsterdam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLHl-Kpyyg&list=PLo1XY7fgXbYZkC5H38c7UhlVVHWz2gztd&index=1&feature=plpp_video

REBOL is also in there, because the Red and Red/System compilers 
are currently written in it

Chris, here's what I made with etsy.r:  http://guitarz.org/lessons/etsy_updater.jpg
  It works great - Danielle is really excited to be able to do batch 
updates :)

Nice Nick.

http://www.rebol.com/article/0511.html

Rebol will be open source 1st October 2012!!!!

...!!!

Announcing latest INCLUDE changes:

* the complete file now available through rebol.org using the

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


link. Note, however, that I use the %include.r script name here (should 
not be a problem, though).

* addition of the STANDARD-HEADER variable to INCLUDE-CTX
* script header processing added
* doc update

Doc and I created a bridge between Red and R3:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-REBOL-3

It allows to write R3 extensions in Red(/System), and there's some 
support for writing custom R3 hosts in Red

This solves the problem that it has turned out that hardly anyone 
wants to write R3 extensions in C. Extensions written in Red are 
also much easier to manage, because you can cross-compile them, instead 
of having to set up a development environment on each target platform

Currently it only works on Windows, and you need the dyn-lib-emitter 
branch of Red/System

It's not completely tested yet. The do-string call into R3 doesn't 
seem to work. We don't know yet whether this is a bug in Red/System 
or a bug in R3

It requires another repository where I'm splitting off common definitions:

http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-common

I'm also adapting my other Red bindings to use this common base, 
which was previously included in the C library binding

this is so cool

I wonder Carl would entertain the idea of reworking the extension 
mechanism in R3 to allow even lower overhead access to Red/System. 
Or is the overhead about as low as you can expect it given that R3 
is interpreted?

When the source is open, it's possible to do it without Carl ;)

RED FUNDING DRIVE, MATCHING FUNDS CHALLENGE:  to help ensure that 
Doc can continue to work on Red without disruption, I'll match funds 
donated to him by November 1, 2012, up to a total of $1000.

I wrote a tutorial that makes use of Chris Ross-Gill's Etsy.r module: 
 http://re-bol.com/etsy_api_tutorial.htmlThe focus of this one 
is all about helping the Etsy API developer team, but by necessity, 
it teaches all the REBOL basics, along with all the absolute beginner 
concepts.  I'm hoping the Etsy guys will write a blog post about 
it and help drive some more traffic toward REBOL :)