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As interesting as it sounds, I'd never heard of Algodoo.  REBOL needs 
some support by groups with reach.

I'd urge you to just download it and try it. If you love Rebol, I 
guarantee you'll love Algodoo.

I imagine I probably would enjoy it, but me liking it isn't related 
to how much a relationship with them would help improve REBOL's reach.

My connection dropped...

I agree, promotion/evangelism of Rebol is what we want to pursue.

But having polished examples of apps in important fields, like education, 
is key.

Algodoo, is pretty slick. Both in what it does and in looks.

Anyhow, it's one possibility that I'll try to move along.

I think it's worth exploring.

And probably fun :)

The other reason I brough it up now is that community sharing is 
a pretty big part of Algodoo and so a chat/collaboration feature 
would be great to have.

So another reason they might want to consider Rebol vs others.

I'm reading and downloading right now :)

Get/install the version I linked in Languages - 2.1 beta8

http://www.algodoo.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=9381&sid=f4679db2c66c8d1a6a2241fb0ec44af7

The key is the app, not the language.  Regular old REBOL is all that 
needs to be underneath.  Apps can have dialects that control them 
AKA AREXX.  AppleScript is really a dialect for the Apple OS.

My daughter married John Resig's brother.  Long conversations.  John 
is a good guy, a human-centered technology sort of guy.  Saw the 
DOM and went yuk.  I've got to do something about this.

Enter JQuery.

Never heard of REBOL until I mentioned it.

Rochester Institute of Technology grad.

He's a young guy - I think it was a bit before their time, unfortunately. 
Hopefully they'll now take a good look.

29 almost 30.

Is R3 chat in github? It does not handle failing open a browser window 
very gracefully.

failing to open

I don't think it's there.

I wodner a bit, why Carl, releasing R3, did not publish also an R3 
chat? Is that so advanced, that he felt like keeping it private?

As for me, I can see it as a chat. I am not sure it scales well to 
replace Altme like product, but maybe I am wrong. I liked IOS model 
with pluggable handlers, and I would also probably made the back-end 
SQLite based ...

I'm guessing Carl designed the back end taking into account what 
he learned with AltME, so I would guess it's better designed.

Only the server part is private at least.

Well, maybe all we need to do is to ask Carl, if the Chat could be 
released too? Has anyone tried already?

Yes, a few times. I just mentioned to Nick earlier today how Carl 
seems to purposely avoid answering that question.

he was asking the same thing - see above in this group

Anything that Carl does not wish to answer .. he will ignore .. that's 
his past behviour

He would in the past however accept fixes to it, and posted a guide 
on how to extract the sources.

People on facebook seem to have trouble creating R3 chat accounts.

Yes, it doesn't work.

Congrats NickA on the nice and big work!

Thanks NickA.  Great work!

Nice, Nick!
Need to get that added to RebolBot!

Cool stuff Nick! You had to put lot of effort into it.

This tricked me to program again since long time

Did you notice that the updated date is 29-Feb-2013?  That date doesn't 
exist.

Yep - hehe, just changed that :)

Nick: in your business_programming.html page, I think your missing 
a % character in following code line:

    do mysql-107.rip

Shoot - yes - that section needs to be updated!  (copied it from 
the very old text from several years ago).

I wrote several hundred new pages for the "business" text.  I need 
to go through the previous material.  Any other corrections are welcom.

welcome

Thanks for posting Nick. I hope to get time to read them in the next 
few days.

Very nice, NickA!

You should publish it as a book someday Nick!