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The script is using %stream-io.r script which I use more and more 
for binary manipulations.

And if someone would like to know, what is inside AVI files (without 
need to use xMB of dlls or binary utils)... here is another experimental 
script:  http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/avi_latest.r

Not much... just goes thru avi file and prints it's structure. I 
just wanted to know how looks the AVI inside. But if you add part 
for decoding the video chunks, you can for example extract images. 
Or you can easily extract all audio chunks.

<-QM-> Version 0.2.1 -- new controllers; file upload; reorganised 
for better console-running mode; (hopefully) better namespace handling; 
user and session handling ready

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/

Tested on Apache.  Tested briefly on Cheyenne.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Carl Sassenrath of REBOL Technologies would 
like to announce that all R3 development has been cancelled and that 
you should all go home and play with Perl instead. Or Python.

Wait a minute. Let me rephrase that:



REBOL3.0 Alpha 1 for Windows is out

You can download it here:


http://www.rebol.net/builds/rebol3/alpha/rebol29904031.zip


Carl has made a blog entry about it here:


http://www.rebol.com/article/0347.html


  Please note that this is alpha software and represents a work in 
  progress! Be nice to the developers. There's no support for you yet, 
  but it will come later. Now play with it and be good.

geomol,

interesting concept. It will also be interesting to see the performance 
and behavior with
different filesystems like: ZFS,REISER, NFS XFS, CFS, GFS etc.

in mysql you can choose the database engine, with nicomDB you choose 
the filesystem 

for different features. (e.g. REISER for speed, NFS for distributed 
networking, CFS/EncFS 
for crypto, GFS for cluster etc. :-) 
any aprox. date when it will be available?

I'm confident, we talk weeks, not months. The first part of the code 
probably in days. From experience, I know, time estimates on software 
projects are very hard to do, but in this case, all the old code 
is there, I would just like to review it, test and optimize a little 
before release.

Geomol,

Just read your NicomDB thesis and thought it was well done.  Just 
a quick note about a mis-spelling on page 36 toward the bottom.

If we think back to the four basic operations on a data record, they 
are Read, White, Rewrite and Delete.
I think you mean "Write" instead of "White".

REBOL postscript dialect version 0.4.2 is out, BSD license.
http://home.tiscali.dk/john.niclasen/postscript/postscript.r

Documentation here: http://home.tiscali.dk/john.niclasen/postscript/postscript.html
Added PageSize with support for A4, A5 and US Letter for now.
Added images. Example of use:

do http://home.tiscali.dk/john.niclasen/postscript/postscript.r

write %palms.ps postscript [DeviceRGB page [translate 100x400 scale 
72x72 image http://www.rebol.com/view/palms.jpg]]


The file palms.ps is now a PostScript file describing a page with 
an image on. Try view or print it.

In March 2007, Olivier Auverlot published his second major book on 
ÒREBOL Ð Guide du programmeurÓ.  Written in his native French the 
book has been well received, not least by Carl Sassenrath:  ÒYes, 
Olivier has done it again with another good book on REBOL.Ó



Olivier and I have been working on an English translation, "REBOL 
- a programmer's guide" for a little while now. The book will eventually 
be published in both printed and electronic form on lulu.com. The 
prices are likely to be Euro 25.00 for the printed edition and Euro 
16.99 for the portable document format version (pdf) version. (For 
those of you outside the Euro zone, Lulu also provides prices in 
Pounds Sterling and US Dollars.)


  As the translation is likely to take some time to complete, we are 
  providing exclusive previews of each chapter for those who don't 
  want to wait until the whole book has been translated. The previews 
  will only be available until the complete book is ready. Each chapter 
  will be published as a pdf once it is available and will cost Euro 
  2.99.


  The first chapter "Discover Rebol in an hour" is a hands-on introduction 
  to Rebol for programmers following the development of an automated 
  File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client. It covers many facets of this 
  highly productive language. It is available today at http://www.lulu.com/content/2092020



The next three chapters, "The Rebol Language", "GUI, graphics and 
sound" and "Networking and the Internet" will be available within 
the next few days.


  Olivier is the author of the book; I am the author of any mistakes 
  that have crept in during the translation.

Chapter 2 of  "Rebol - a programmer's guide" is a thorough grounding 
in the basics of the language covering variables, datatypes, lists, 
control structures, functions, objects, parsing and dialects.


The preview is now available at http://www.lulu.com/content/2160570

Chapter 4 of  "Rebol - a programmer's guide" describes Rebol's advanced 
network programming features. Using TCP/IP protocols (including client/server 
programming), creating network protocols, CGI scripts, producing 
dynamic web documents, handling XML documents, using Web Services 
and the Rebol//View browser plug-in are all explained.

The preview is now available at 
http://www.lulu.com/content/2160633

Rebol-code-colorizer 0.9.1 (just a small bug fix and added own color 
class for issue! datatype) http://box.lebeda.ws/~hmm/rebol/code-colorizer.r

Chapter 3 of  "Rebol - a programmer's guide"  is an exposé of Rebol/View 
the graphical version of Rebol explaining the Visual Interface Dialect 
(VID), the DRAW dialect, handling events with
VID, managing styles, and Rebol’s sound capabilities.

The preview is now online at http://www.lulu.com/content/2175653

This year's LibFlashCon will be held during the second half of June 
and for the first time will be open to all Library members.

See LibFlashCon2008 group for details.

NicomDB index and relative layers version 1.0.0 is released.
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/nicomdb/
See group !NicomDB

Electronic Arts IFF ILBM loader:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/libs/gfx/iff.r

Can handle 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 color images, HAM6 images (4096 colors) 
and HALFBRITE (64 colors). HALFBRITE hasn't been tested yet, as I 
couldn't find such an image easily. Handle both compressed and non-compressed 
images. This is an example, where rebcode would help a lot, as a 
320x200 image can take several seconds to uncompress.
Usage:

iff-image: load-iff %some_picture.iff
img: iff-image/as-image

img now is a REBOL image!, than can be viewed like:
view layout [image img]

NTLM support library for REBOL v1.0.3 released. Download here : http://softinnov.org/rebol/ntlm.shtml


If you've had issue using this library before with a MS (NTLM) proxy, 
please give it a new try. It fixes a major issue with NTLM proxy 
and has been updated to work with 2.7.6.

Version 1.1.0 of load-tga for TARGA (TGA) images:
http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebol/libs/gfx/tga.r

Added support for RLE (run-length encoded) images (can be produced 
with e.g. OS X Preview and most paint programs). The function can 
now load image type 2 (Uncompressed, True-color image) and image 
type 10 (Run-length encoded, True-color image).

<-QM-> Version 0.3.1

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


After much wrestling with what the Model (M-V-C) should be, I have 
settled on an extensible Model system designed as an intuitive implementation 
of persistent objects.  Also, pagination, some extra helpers and 
some tweaks here and there.  QM grows, but has not yet reached the 
point of optimisation.  More to follow in the !QM group...

Much simplifed way of contributing scripts to REBOL.org. And a better 
way of tagging them too:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-message.r?m=rmlXBXC

I'm launching my new website. New design etc. and I'm adding a Blog. 
Not much content converted yet. But more to come soon.

http://www.robertmuench.de

The pre-release of Rebol for pros, Chapter 5 of Rebol - A programmer's 
guide is now available at http://www.lulu.com/content/2845102


It covers calling other programs and shared libraries, using MySQL 
from Rebol CGI scripts and how to manage source code with the free 
version of the Rebol pre-processor. All of these can be used from 
the latest free versions of Rebol.

The chapter also includes a really enthusiastic introduction to IOS 
and details of the data encryption features in Rebol/Command.

I note with interest the efforts to translate the latest REBOL book 
 from French to English to be published via LuLu. Do you realize 
that LuLu are unable/unwilling to deliver to international P.O. Box 
addresses !!?!! -- they gave me some Bull Dust story about how The 
Australian Postal Service wont deliver to a P.O Box !!  Strange how 
AMAZON seems happy to deliver to a P.O. Box. and have done so for 
many years.  So getting the book might prove difficult for some people.

< QM > Version 0.3.5

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Additions: this release includes a crude search facility within RoughCut. 
 Also included are some minor changes related to the User Management 
and Blog (to be published) patterns.

New 'opt-in' group created for the Cheyenne - Framewerks Project


This FOSS project is a port of Redwerks CMS system (http://redwerks.org) 
to use Cheyenne rather than Apache. Continued exploration of AI / 
NLP using LFReD, AtomDB and other techs with Cheyenne to build the 
next generation of web servers.

Send me a request to me directly if you would like to join.

At last, the electronic pre-release of Chapter 6 of the translation 
of Olivier Auverlot's "Rebol - Guide du Programmer" (http://www.rebol.com/article/0324.html) 
is now available atÊ(Êhttp://www.lulu.com/content/4426599Ê) for EUR 
2.99.

This chapter starts with a short overview of how to configure 
and manage Rebol/View desktops to provide a "virtual office". It 
moves quickly into serious programming topics in a Unix environment 
covering console data display, handling keystrokes, command line 
arguments, file access rights, shell access, pipes, sockets, Unix 
signals and dynamic library calls. A thorough introduction to RebDB 
rounds out the chapter.

The preview of translation of the final chapter of Olivier Auverlot's 
Rebol - Guide du Programmeur is now available atÊhttp://www.lulu.com/content/4564589


 This final chapter consists of a number of workshops that bring together 
 much that has been covered in the book. These case studies focus 
 on the foundations to build a video game, on developing a chat program, 
 on writing a MySQL administration console, and finally on creating 
 a reblet for Rebol/IOS.


  There is still a little work left before the book can be published. 
  I hope that it won't take too long. Once the full book is published, 
  the individual preview chapters will be withdrawn from Lulu.com.


  One of the things still to be done is toÊangliciseÊthe sample scripts 
  which will then be made available for downloading.

args.r  released on rebol.org...  pretty powerfull command-line argument 
management. 

*dialect driven
*typed arguments.  
*optional arg support (with default values)
*different flag modes
*automatic command-line error reporting
*and much more...


the idea is not to provide a rebol interface to the cli, but provide 
a cli interface to rebol.   so for example, to escape chars, we use 
"\"  not "^" .

the systems builds a parse rule out of your command-line spec and 
runs it against the  supplied string.


there is a preliminary demo which shows how to use it... full docs 
expected this week-end.  (they are drafted, but need to be revised 
and organised properly).

I am pleased to announce that the electronic version of "Rebol - 
A programmer's guide" is now available at http://www.lulu.com/content/5382304
priced at 15.99 Euros.


  The printed version will be available within the next two to three 
  weeks and will be priced at 25 Euros.



The book's introduction and table of contents can be freely downloaded 
from http://www.auverlot.fr/index.php?perma=1224333460

Good coverage. One thing, the TOC and Intro links are reversed ...

Rebolers- You have probably noticed we are trying to get together 
for a Rebcon on 12/27/08 @ 12:00 PM PST. We have some checklists 
started for both presenters and those who will attend. We need to 
get a specific headcount if possible due to the nature of the tools 
we are proposing to use so please sign up as soon as you can. Thanks. 
James

< QM > Version 0.3.9

http://www.ross-gill.com/QM/


Fixes a context issue with QuickTags (bug fix).  Minor change to 
the Cheyenne 'request/content' handling (bug fix).  And thanks to 
Ammon for giving it testdrive, helps greatly in sorting out priorities!

uhm .... I would not put it that way ... still REBOL related and 
hence appreciated ... we should chat in ann-reply probably ...

PeterWood, I had downloaded some single chapters and I liked what 
I read...

I'm going to order the printed version but I notice its black and 
white only? I was hoping the printed version would b ecolor but I 
guess that would increase costs...

Oldes: cool.  Let us know if they don't add it and we can bombard 
them with requests

There is almost no difference in syntax between R2 and R3, but the 
predefined words are different (and getting moreso).

And range! ?

At this point just percent and the prefix being dropped from money, 
hence the "almost". No range.

Ive updated my old pastebin (sorry for its name) so that you can 
test Oldes's Pygment lexer (and you can have html,latex,svg,etc outputs) 
: http://clojurepastebin.appspot.com/

Going to give a speech about Rebol in May/June at a university in 
Germany. Hopefully showing the potential to a lot of professors and 
students. Spread the word!

NicomDoc v. 2.2 released: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/nicomdoc/

- Added output for TeX (LaTeX).
- New way to specify fonts by font family.
- New way to resize fonts relative -4 ... +5.
- Scaling of images.

- Math engine had big overhaul to not be focused on semantics, but 
on presentation (less errors in practise).
- Text in code examples will be wrapped at 77 chars per line.
- Added vertical space by simply doing more newlines in a row.
- Updated all documentation and examples.

Updated RebXML scripts found at http://www.rebol.org
(Bug fixes and improvements.)

RebXML spec: http://www.fys.ku.dk/~niclasen/rebxml/rebxml-spec.html

R2-Forward has been released! Now you don't necessarily have to wait 
for R3 to get finished - use the new functions in R2 now :)

Released to DevBase (aka R3 chat) in Community/Libraries/R2-Forward 
(837). Tested in 2.6.2, 2.7.5 and 2.7.6. Take a look!

Stats: 72 words exported, 49999 chars, 41522 LM, 29730 LMF, 8379 
LMFC.


Obviously, there are whole categories of stuff that won't be backported; 
the notes say what is supported. You'd be surprised what I *have* 
managed to backport though - even some datatypes are spoofed :)


Discussions in R3 chat #837, or the Core group here. More testing 
is welcome - I'd like to push my tested platforms back as far as 
2.5.0 if I can. My todo list for R2-Forward is pretty extensive...

type 837 to get into the folder and then: get r2-forward.r

Uploaded liquid v0.7.0 to rebol.org,  

first production ready candidate to be released.  


extensively tested and ultra stable so far (even in real-time graphicaly-oriented 
several thousand node applications).

liquid v0.7.1 released.


-adds freeze functionality to !plug, which allows you to basically 
turn "off" processing and messaging of a node, while still keeping 
all of its functionality.  this allows you prevent uneccessary processing 
while setting up a liquid-network by switching off nodes until they 
are properly setup, for example.

-fixes a minor bug, and a regression.

Today my son "Max Robin" was born. Mother and baby are fit and well 
up.

Thx. Mom and son come home in 5 days. So trying to sleep as much 
as possible now :-))

Great news Robert. Congratulations  .. and there is no such thing 
as "enough sleep".

Working on a R2 virtual piano/synth with sheet music display etc. 
 Currently reads in a song+timings and has the ability to play and 
write in Windows/etc RIFF/wav format.
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/synth2.rfor those interested.

Synth 0.0.3 released.
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/synth2.r

0.0.3	lots of bugfixes
	added safety error trap to play-song

 added ability to put chords inside song block as a block [C4 [C4 
 E4 G4] [E4 G4] G4...]

 please note that this still uses a single entry in the timing block
	sheet music now displays chords
	added multi-channel support (really 1 or 2 channels atm)
	8bit and 16bit sound added 
	added a new song to show chords/multi-note in operation

synth updated.
0.0.4	added bars into song format for better readability
	totally rewrote multi-note handling

 fixed endian issue with 16bit samples - 16bit chords still sound 
 horrible..
	added progress indicator when building songs
	added status info on sample size / play time
	added more note symbols to cater for different timings and rests
http://rebol.mustard.co.nz/synth2.r

Site Assistant, which is fully made in REBOL, has been released as 
public beta. This means you can all sign-up (for free) and try it 
 -- and report me the bugs :)

I am trying to get the core system stable and tested, features will 
still be added. S-A frontend runs on Cheyenne, and backend bots are 
also written in REBOL.
http://www.site-assistant.com

I have published the string encoding utlilties that I wrote for rebol.org 
in the script library. They no doubt pale in comparison to those 
Gabriele has written but may help until his are finally released 
for publication.


The script package includes a minimal set of unit tests and some 
rudimentary documentation.

http://www.rebol.org/documentation.r?script=str-enc-utils.r

Identity, Bindology and Parse versus RE articles


the above articles have been revamped and moved to: http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Identity
, http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Bindology, http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Parse_versus_RE
. When checking, do not forget to read and comment the http://www.rebol.net/wiki/Decimals-64#Rounding
section in DevBase.

I will look at it .. but I don't know much about this yet .. I haven't 
yet used PREREBOL  and I use do in only the basic way

I looked at the docs and it seems really cool ..

INCLUDE is very nice. What I think it still missing from the wiki 
are cons about the lower level alternatives with regard to higher 
level "standards". e.g. with LOAD and custom scripts you can do anything, 
sure, but there is no standard model, so each system is ad hoc.

I'll try to make time to give it some more thought and update the 
wiki.

I have a utility that I am testing that will login to hotmail, download 
all the messages, and then detach alll attachments

I have made a screencast of "the other" REBOL/Cheyenne/JS project 
besides Site Assistant that I have been developing. It's in my language 
(Slovene) only for now and so is the screencast but I hope images 
will also give some feeling what it's about.  http://screencast.com/t/HxfFGtg9r

Hi all,


After learning a lot from you all I feel like I should contribute 
a bit.

On http://alain.goye.free.fr/rebol/or on Rebol Desktop's "AGReb" 
Reb site,
you can find:


- an updated version of %NoteReb.r, a REBOL tree-like notes organizer,
similar to and compatible with http://www.treepad.com/.

This new version of NoteReb.r has quite more functionalities; I use 
it to

work. A major bug seems to remain when intensively using the "undo" 
function
of Romano's edit-text-undo.r , which is quite nice despite that.


- a simple todo list, %todo-ag.r, which orders tasks by priority 
based on
their importance, workload and deadline...


If anyone likes these please drop me a line, and if you improve them, 
all
the better!

Alain.

Hi... we are going to finish with the Machinarium game I'm working 
on using my Rebol/Flash dialect. Last level left to do, adding sounds 
and of course some bug fixing and optimizations must be done now.
Here is the newest trailer (contains a few game spoilers!):
http://www.amanita-design.net/blog/2009/08/05/new-trailer/

http://www.fm.vslib.cz/~ladislav/rebol/include.rand http://www.fm.vslib.cz/~ladislav/rebol/include3.r
upgraded (only FILE! and URL! accepted in INCLUDE-PATH, other values 
cause an error)

A hackerspace was created here in Ljubljana and I got accepted to 
work there . I suspect I got in because I code in weird languages 
like REBOL and one of  founders is a Linux hacker with a affinity 
to these more interesting languages.  He also mentioned he would 
like to organise talks in local cybercenter and that iti would be 
cool if I could present REBOL ..

The author behind http://reboltutorial.comasked me to let you know 
about his site. I found the tutorial on Parsing quite helpful. Check 
it out. The Testimonials and the links like http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/rebol/index.html
are interesting.

Jobs scheduler library for REBOL (1st beta) : http://softinnov.org/dl/scheduler-r090.zip
- see %scheduler.r header for quick doc & samples

- please use [All] channel for replies and discussions about this 
library

OK, Carl asked me to announce this, so this will be quick and dirty:

The VID Extension Kit for R2:


This is a library that overhauls VID and the styles to improve the 
experience in using it and creating bigger programs with it. This 
is very much a work in progress, but if I continue to keep it under 
wraps, I'll never get it out. :-)

Quick feature list:

- Full tab navigation
- Field validation and autoformatting
- Full resizing
- Many new flags

- Much better face control: disabling/enabling faces, different setting 
and getting of panels, complex face navigation

- Many new styles: Selectors, balancers, lists, fields, panels, scrollers, 
iterators

- Many VID bugs are fixed, although the impossible ones still remain

- Many new VID bugs are introduced as well :-) Some styles are not 
working.

Try it out at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/src/vid-ext-kit.r

A simple style browser is available at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/tools/style-browser.r

Very preliminary docs at:

http://www.hmkdesign.dk/rebol/vid/docs/vid-extension-kit.html


I'll release the full sources later, but have a look and see what 
you think. Remember to ask questions.

I asked Cyphre to add some examples, he will do it as time permits. 
This new released version should be more stable and should work both 
with VID and RebGUI ....

I've finally released my App for Beta testing..over a years work 
and much more to go before all the features are implemented that 
will make it a sellable product.


I wanted to take a moment to thank this community as I would not 
have been able to get this far without the Rebol language and even 
more so the Rebol Community. Thank you all for your patient guidance, 
and helpful hints and example code.


I would like to thank some personally as they have been super helpful 
(I hope I do not leave anyone out)
In no special order:
Dockimbel
Graham
Pekr
Henrik
Gabriele
Sunanda
oldes
Paul
Maxim
btiffin
Nick
Reichart
I'm sure I missed a few that helped considerably…sorry if I did.

Anyway, about the App...

It's a study tool for the FDNY Promotional Exams. It incorporates 
all the FDNY Manuals into a special format (Similar to Make-doc) 
and allows you to hi-lite, "attach" notes, search the entire catalogue, 
bookmark your place, track "buzz words" Future versions will incorporate 
thousands of test questions all of which are linked to the material 
by book, chapter, and section, and also the ability to add tour own 
questions. Curriculums will be added to guide study of only pertinent 
materials for and test and the ability to form your own curriculums.


Updates to the program and the study material is automatic as well 
as synchronization of a users hi-lites, notes etc. ( this allows 
for a user to use from multiple locations, home/work etc., and also 
serves as a back-up method for what could be months of work for the 
user.

Many more plans...


If you are interested, my site is still alpha and looks like crap 
but it has some screen shots and a video of the program in action. 
I'm using Cheyenne (Thanks Doc) and there is a cute (but ugly) RSP 
page that handles my FAQs page... http://firecaptainnyc.com


If you are really interested, feel free to contact me and I can give 
you the link to download it....

There is a guest mode and demo mode built in...

I welcome any feedback!

I did a few tests loading up OpenGL/GLut and it worked without a 
hitch... waiting for Carl to add a few features before I can continue.


screen shot of a rotating cube http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/steel/R3-OGL.png

Chris:I tried color-code.r with Rebol3 and did not work ?

I just released what I think is very the first R3 specific script 
on rebol.org  :-)


A BNF grammar converter for rebol:  http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=bnf-compiler.r

Fully documented within the source (more than 4kb of text).

It has a few little cool grammar processing features and some interesting 
things it *can't* do.

We need to update R2, however, I do not want to make this a complicated, 
time consuming release... because I do not have extra time (between 
R3 and Website changes.)


The top goals are to remove the restrictions on the special features 
in View, and also to add SSL, if at all possible in a short period 
of time.


The goal IS NOT to fix every little bug... because that would delay 
the release for a year... or more.

However, if we can manage to get a new R2 out, then I suggest we 
start scheduling regular monthly releases, if only just to fix a 
few bugs or for BrianH and other pending enhancements.

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=metadb.r- Quick and dirty 
associative database (R2 only):

	write meta/Chris/first "Christopher"
	read meta/Chris/last
	person: [user "Chris" first "Christopher" last "Ross-Gill"]
	write meta/(person/user)/last person/last
	write meta/Chris/added now
	read meta/(person/user)

R3 version: http://ross-gill.com/r/r3metadb.r


Only caveat is that you are limited to writing strings, blocks and 
binary, so you can do the following in R2 but not R3:

	write meta/Chris/home http://www.ross-gill.com/

From a suggestion by Christopher Ross-Gill (thanks Chris!):


-- REBOL.org's RSS feed now has the most recent posts from the AltME 
REBOL3 world

-- You can also see the most recent posts on the website, via this 
link:
    http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent


By default, both show the most recent 100 posts. You can set your 
own value between 0 and 255 -- more details below.


RSS FEED INFO
=============
See the RSS help page for more details:
   http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=rss-help


WEB PAGE
=========

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent==> most recent 
100 posts by default

http://www.rebol.org/aga-search.r?q=//recent:200   ==> most recent 
200 posts

Slightly more information here:
    http://www.rebol.org/boiler.r?display=aga-search-help#toc-3

Please let me know the problems!

I'm curious as just implement the most flexible and advanced, yet 
simple to use event stream system I've ever used.

Since there is a lot of silence in recent days on this AltME world 
Pekr persaded me to put one announce here:


I'd like to announce important milestone in my personal(occasional 
weekend hobby ;)) JITteR project developement that has just been 
achieved yesterday.


JITteR is lightweight REBOL dialect that enables running JIT compiled 
functions directly from REBOL interpreter.

Such JIT compiled functions can be tens to hundreds times faster 
than REBOL equivalent code.

Usage of JITter is aimed on graphics routines, compressors, codecs, 
generators, number crunching algorithms and various other time-critical 
programming tasks.

The main idea of this project is not to clone all REBOL functionality 
but maintain compatibility in sense of JITteR -> REBOL way so any 
code written in JITteR can be executed(fallback) as plain REBOL function! 
without the need of touching the code.


Currently only REBOL2 version is being tested and x86 CPUs are supported. 
But R3 and other CPUs will be added in later stages of the developement.

Licensing is not yet decided (until the project reach full Alpha 
stage). But the code will be definitely free for non-commercial usage.


Since this release is only 'internal' I hope this announces doesn't 
sound to much 'vaporwarish' :-)


Alpha release is planned to be released to closed group of developers 
in ~2 months.
Feel free to leave any feedback in the Ann-Reply group or PM me.

project features log:


JITteR v0.1.23.3.1 (pre-Alpha version internal release) - 16-May-2010

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- currently only x86 32-bit CPU assembly supported (other CPUs planned 
in Beta stage)

- datatype support: image!, binary!, string!, integer!, decimal!, 
char!, logic! 
- path! lookup support on binary!, image!, string! byte arrays
- math operations: +,-,*,/,<,>,<=,>=,=
- boolean operations: NOT, AND, OR, XOR
- parens support: REBOL-like code evaluation precedence

- supported keywords (REBOL compatible): APPLY(currently on JITTer 
functions only), LOOP, REPEAT, WHILE, UNTIL, BREAK, IF, EITHER, PICK, 
POKE

And it works too. :-) That's really nice :-).

I updated the http://www.fm.tul.cz/~ladislav/rebol/peekpoke.rfile.

Changes:

- SIZEOF function

- both CONVERT as well as REVERSE-CONVERT function handling blocks 
now
- comments and examples enhanced

And, how to best deal with the community so everyone can see that 
things move on.

The rebol3 twitter acount will be used for update and progress postings. 
So, if you want to know what's up follow it.

Ashley: that site looks very clean and light in positive way.


Maxim: cool front page and menus (I got 404 on clicks, i suppose 
that is not yet done). Who makes such cool graphics

AltJSON 0.2.2 - Warning: adds behaviour designed to tame large integers 
and potentially breaks existing serialisation of issue!

http://bit.ly/AltJSON| http://www.ross-gill.com/r/altjson.html

Please let me know of any problems.

S3 access turned R2 protocol: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3.html
- and a version using Graham's adapted HTTP protocol: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/s3http.r

Crud, brief synopsis:

	write s3://<bucket>/my-file.txt "My File"

 write/custom/binary s3://<bucket>/my-png.png read/binary %my-png.png 
 [read]
	editor s3://<bucket>/my-file.txt
	layout [image load s3://<bucket>/my-png.png]

Requires AWS key and secret.

That's the other crud.  U is the same as R on S3 (as near as I can 
tell) and D is a little way off.

Brief article on parse vs. regex for pattern matching.  Includes 
script for matching urls in plain text, and one for overlaying a 
text face with links (adapted from, I think, Allen K's work): http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Beyond_Regular_Expressions

Allen and Gabriele from memory

Almost there: Twitter API client using OAuth (Basic Auth is being 
turned off).  Only thing I can't get working is signing a POST request 
with a body (which sucks for sending updates):

	http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL


I've tried using my rest:// protocol and the currently published 
version uses Graham's HTTP modifications (regular HTTP does not work 
as you can't use custom headers with a GET request).


Aside from that, the GET requests work, as does the authorization 
process.  Any observations welcome.

Precise timing for R2 using kernel32.dll functions on Windows

http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=windows-chrono.r


there is a 'TIME-LAPSE function, and a 'CRONO-TIME function.   the 
later isn't completely aligned with the NOW function (a few milliseconds 
off IIRC), but it is very precise from one call to the next.


some might also find the 'i64-TO-FLOAT function (and related i64-struct) 
usefull for converting 64bit integers (stored as structs of two integers) 
into decimal! values.


many window functions use 8 byte long unions (64 bits) as arguments 
for return values and they are very complicated to use because REBOL 
only supports signed ints.  this makes it much easier to implement 
routines for those functions.

and with the system32 it worked?

windows-chrono.r updated on rebol.org with better windows dll path 
resolution and bug fixes

'tweet function for posting to Twitter: http://www.ross-gill.com/r/tweet.html

Usage:


 do/args http://www.ross-gill.com/r/tweet.r[... keys/secrets per 
 settings ...]
	tweet "Status Update"


You can either do/args, or download the script and modify the header. 
 Caveat: you'll need the Application Key/Secret (obtained from the 
Twitter Dev Site) and the User Key/Secret (you'd have to do the handshake 
to get these, see my %twitter.r page: http://www.ross-gill.com/page/Twitter_API_and_REBOL).


Use at your own risk, you would not want to share any of the keys/secrets.