Rebol 2.7.7 released

ODBC, SSL has been freed finally. See Rebol.net for release notes.

This release also includes the R2/Forward mezzanine package from Brian Hawley which is to help ease the migration from R2 to R3. However, documentation is marginal at present.



9 comments (by Gibbs27Lila, StevensKristina28, FAYCombs, Mueller21Olive, MableWATTS23, DeborahFulton29, Frieda29Oconnor, SuarezAlexis20, LINDSAY28Kenya)

The 5th weekly http://rebolweek.blogspot.com/ is now available with a new great looking layout.

7 comments (by Dominique21Roth, EMILYYORK32, RaymondMarva30, xiaobao5200, HUBERMatilda32, Brady32Aileen, Jodi19Mosley)

An alpha version of the Rebol plugin for Firefox is now available for testing.

The URL for download is: www.rebol.net/plugin/moz-1/
Installation instructions: Download all the files. Copy them to your plugins directory (except test.html). Open test.html and it should work.

7 comments (by Finch19Frankie, SearsSheri, JamiHancock35, LauraMorales31, ChristinaCunningham20, TalleyCANDACE28, Church24Marquita)

Graham has now made available Synapse-EMR as a hosted Electronic Medical Records system for those that do not wish to maintain their own servers. Check it out at www.synapsedirect.com

7 comments (by JEWELLDalton, Toni20WOOTEN, AlysonBuchanan23, Briana26Stevenson, Shaffer32Cynthia, Rivera35PEARL, LancasterERNESTINE28)

Anton has an impressive demo of a skewed layout responding to user interface events. The source is home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/gui/demo-virtual-face.r and an AVI can be viewed home.wilddsl.net.au/anton/rebol/virtual-face_xvid.avi

8 comments (by CarterCorrine, HutchinsonMadelyn26, POLLY28Ratliff, JOHNSTONSusanne, MelendezAlisa24, Fannie28Miles, TrinaFreeman19, LandryMarion33)

RT has released their vision for Rebol 3 as a roadmap document at www.rebol.com/notes/rebol3roadmap.html

9 comments (by PEARLIENielsen, RamonaMcneil33, AngelitaWright, SchroederCorrine18, LaurelValentine, KelleyKatharine26, ShariCOHEN, JoniBlair18, Dolores32Snyder)

Graham's chat server has been released for testing.

www.compkarori.com/reb/chat-server.exe

Windows only so far.

It provides multi-user chat, archived chat, remote administration, and file transfer.

The client is available from

www.compkarori.com/reb/synapse-chat.r for Rebol clients, and for windows clients www.compkarori.com/reb/synapsechat.exe

6 comments (by MarcieMann26, Tyler30Yvette, WaltonBeverley24, SoniaSWEET26, AlmaMercer33, GaleGoff33)

Confused about what you can do with the SDK in terms of executing arbitrary REBOL code? I was. Hence this conversation with Carl SDK and exporting the API

8 comments (by Mai34Travis, GilmoreJodi34, McfarlandApril31, Michael24Adkins, SophiaOneill, Blackburn28Jeannette, YvetteHurley22, THOMASLatisha)

Dockimbel says

"New MySQL driver version 1.0.0 supporting servers v4.1.1+ : softinnov.org/tmp/mysql-protocol.r . This is a beta release, please report in MySQL channel any bugs. This release has not been tested with servers v3.x (but should work)."

6 comments (by FloraDillard, SextonMarcia, EarlineJefferson33, NellDAVID22, BelindaWashington, AlyceBranch)

Graham has created an online demo of BEER chat. It utilizes the Internet Explorer plugin

www.compkarori.com/reb/

and if you can't run the plugin, you can try running the script directly from

www.compkarori.com/reb/pluginchat.r

12 comments (by SearsJohanna18, PENA22Vicky, HURLEYLucinda, Raquel32AYERS, BrianaWiley26, Abigail22DOMINGUEZ, THOMASLatisha, HelgaWarner32, AmyMunoz31, KaraMorton32, MasseyEnid32, ANNMARIEVelasquez)

The REBOL demo programming contest is now official

www.rebol.net/demos/demo-contest.html

9 comments (by TillmanAmalia, ShepherdMeagan20, GRACEHughes, CallieMays, AngelaMacias30, MERCERAlisha32, WYATTTania22, BRUCEDee32, SharpeGraciela25)

Benjamin has been working on an experimental COM library for MS Windows. Check it out www.geocities.com/benjaminmaggi/data/COMLib.zip Note that you need a minimum of Rebol/Pro.

7 comments (by JOSEFINARichardson, Julianne18Banks, PotterFlorine30, SHELIALANG22, Wells32WANDA, FarleyDeloris, KirklandAlana26)