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.



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

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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.

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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)."

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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

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The REBOL demo programming contest is now official

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

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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.

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