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23 Aug by admin in All, Automation, Hot, Protocol, Twitter, Web Services

[Hot] How to tweet from Rebol in One line (using Twitter API)!

[Hot] How to tweet from Rebol in One line (using Twitter API)!
Can't believe it? Launch Rebol's Console, and copy and paste this: do http://reboltutorial.com/source/rebol-twitter.r You can now tweet in one line by typing: tweet "Hello World!" Nevertheless do not forget the quote (you can also write a multiple-lines message using braces {}). The first time it will ask your login and password: The second and next time, ...more»

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27 Sep by admin in All, Concept, Functional Programming, Hot, Javascript

[Hot] Map Reduce Functions in Rebol: towards Massive Parallel Functional Programming (part I)

[Hot] Map Reduce Functions in Rebol: towards Massive Parallel Functional Programming (part I)
Joel on Software complained about CS students who are never taught anything but Java: Without understanding functional programming, you can't invent MapReduce, the algorithm that makes Google so massively scalable. The terms Map and Reduce come from Lisp and functional programming. MapReduce is, in retrospect, obvious to anyone who remembers from ...more»

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4 Jan by admin in All, Announcement, Internet

Prepare for the next Big Bang Release: ODBC (use Rebol with MS Access Wow !!!),SSL/HTTPS,…

Prepare for the next Big Bang Release: ODBC (use Rebol with MS Access Wow !!!),SSL/HTTPS,…
I know I've been a bit harsh lately ;) but you all know I'm well intentioned and that you should always take my critics positively. But when time comes when I see something great, well I won't restrain myself from telling it. And a few days ago, HostileFork has whispered ...more»

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17 Jul by admin in All, Internet, Network, Professional Programming, Tools

How to programmatically scan ports, get IP address and other quick TCP/IP Tips

How to programmatically scan ports, get IP address and other quick TCP/IP Tips
If you're a windows or linux server administrator, this is a few quick tcp/ip tips in Rebol. Since Rebol has embedded many network protocols, you can do in one or only a few lines what takes dozens of lines or is impossible with other scripting languages. First download Rebol (or Rebol ...more»

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17 Jul by admin in All

How to run Rebol in a restricted corporate environment (Making Rebol Portable App again)

How to run Rebol in a restricted corporate environment (Making Rebol Portable App again)
In big companies, all machines are normalized and restricted in admin and user rights (no access to registry,...). You may not even be able to write any file on your local pc except in Internet Explorer directory. Also Internet Access is protected with a proxy requiring a login and password. ...more»

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16 Jul by admin in All

Separating Presentation and Content: Exemple of a static Popurls or Alltop clone (part I)

Separating Presentation and Content: Exemple of a static Popurls or Alltop clone (part I)
In web development architecture, obsession has always been to separate Presentation from Content. This is hard because of hierarchical relations between html webparts and data insertion inside these webparts. As a solution, XML is often chosen as choice but XML is verbose and not human readable. Rebol format is much ...more»

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15 Jul by admin in All, VID

Rebol View Tutorial: Across and Return Keywords

Rebol View Tutorial: Across and Return Keywords
I will try to create a serie of tutorials on Rebol VID that will start from the basics and then in a few articles go further than that as far as I can as I cannot find any advanced tutorials anywhere to inspire from. Today, we'll just see the fundamentals of ...more»

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14 Jul by admin in All, Tools

Never forget your domain expiration date with MyWhois Tool (Rebol Plugin Tutorial)

Never forget your domain expiration date with MyWhois Tool (Rebol Plugin Tutorial)
In a past tutorial, you learnt how easy it was to make whois queries with Rebol because Rebol has all internet protocols embedded natively. Now it would be nice if I could instead just navigate to http://reboltutorial.com/mywhois and automatically show off the expiration date of my domain without executing any ...more»

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6 Jul by admin in Algorithm, All, Code Generation, Finance, Internet, Parsing

Financial Calculation with Rebol (part I)

Financial Calculation with Rebol (part I)
Rebol can be used as a good lighweight calculator used as companion or alternative to Excel. Part I concerns Future and Present Value as well as Equivalent rate calculation. Part II will concern Discounted Cash Flow and Internal Rate of Return. The code below uses funct instead of func, the difference ...more»

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29 May by admin in All, cgi, php

How to detect Rebol Referer in a PHP Script

How to detect Rebol Referer in a PHP Script
Let's say I want to return the rss feed when you connect to reboltutorial.com with rebol (typing in rebol console: read http://reboltutorial.com) and not with your browser. Let's see how to do this. This PHP Script returns an array which gives the elements of a request headers: If you test it with ...more»

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23 May by admin in All, Code Generation, Funny, Image

How to create Graphics Banner / Badge with Rebol

How to create Graphics Banner / Badge with Rebol
I wanted to experiment with Rebol Draw Dialect and see if it could compete with Flash nice Graphics. So I tried to create a rounded rectangular banner with a light effect, logo and text. After some help from Henrike and experiment the final source code and image result are below: view ...more»

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23 May by admin in All, Business, VID

Rebodex: free simple Contact Address Portable App

Rebodex: free simple Contact Address Portable App
Rebodex is a simple Contact Address App made in Rebol which is portable so that you can easily take it anywhere when travelling. You can create and delete contact of course but above all search them by just typing the first letters. You can find the original version by Carl Sassenrath ...more»

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24 Apr by admin in Funny, Tools

How to create a Quick Alarm Application with Sound Play

How to create a Quick Alarm Application with Sound Play
I was looking for a freeware for a quick sound alarm and surprisingly couldn't any that was really quick to use. Naturally I thought about using Rebol and happily this is going to be really easy with the wait and the open sound:// command. Put a wav file in your rebol ...more»

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