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30 Jun by admin in Beginner, Database, GUI

Rebol Mini-Text Database - Part 2: binding to a Visual Form

Rebol Mini-Text Database - Part 2: binding to a Visual Form
In previous installments, we learnt how to create a Visual GUI in Rebol and how to create a Mini-Text Database, now we'll combine the two: How to bind a Text Database to a Visual Form. I have much difficulty as newbie to find any tutorial for the absolute beginner, that's ...more»

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27 Jun by admin in All, Beginner, Database, GUI

Rebol Mini-Text Database - Part 1

Rebol Mini-Text Database - Part 1
Sometimes you just need a simple text database on your small Pocket PC or eeePC (either Windows or Linux as Rebol is fully multi-platforms) or don't want to install a full-blown database like MySQL (see How to connect to MySQL with Rebol). Rebol's blocks can be easily persisted on disk ...more»

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27 Jun by admin in All, Beginner, Database, Internet, MySQL, Protocol

How to connect to your remote Wordpress Database from the comfort of your Desktop

How to connect to your remote Wordpress Database from the comfort of your Desktop
Have you ever dreamed to access your MySQL Database from your Desktop without having to connect to your webhosting control panel, launch your PHPMyadmin, etc. ? Now your dream comes true. But as pre-requisite, you'll need to activate remote access for MySQL. Usually your webhosting control panel has an ...more»

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27 Jun by admin in All, Automation, C#, Code Generation, Domain Specific Language, Hot, OOP, Parsing, Professional Programming

Create your own C# Code Generator with DSL in 15 minutes [part 2]

Create your own C# Code Generator with DSL in 15 minutes [part 2]
Code Generation is a big trend from Code Snippet Generators to Full-Blown Software Factories. Our idea here is to use Domain Specific Language to generate Code Snippets like Visual Studio can do but more flexibly and more agnostically (you are not stuck with .NET languages or obliged to buy Visual ...more»

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25 Jun by admin in Automation, Beginner, Code Generation, Domain Specific Language, Hot, Parsing

[Hot!] Create your own Domain Specific Language [DSL] in 15 minutes [part 1]

[Hot!] Create your own Domain Specific Language [DSL] in 15 minutes [part 1]
What is a Domain Specific Language (DSL) ? According to Wikipedia: A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation technique, and/or a particular solution technique. The concept isn't newbut the term has become more popular due to the rise of domain-specific ...more»

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24 Jun by admin in All, Automation, Finance, Parsing

How to parse google finance csv file

How to parse google finance csv file
Do you need to retrieve stock market historical data from Google Finance (for example http://www.google.com/finance/historical?q=goog&output=csv) to do some calculation (for example calculate the average of last 20 days) ? So, in this lesson, you will learn how to: 1. Parse a CSV file to a Rebol's block (similar to other's programming ...more»

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23 Jun by admin in All, Automation, Hot, Internet, Protocol

[Hot!] How to create a dzone:// protocol (like http://) or an Asynchronous Protocol Handler

[Hot!] How to create a dzone:// protocol (like http://) or an Asynchronous Protocol Handler
Would you like to create your own protocol similar to http:// ? Why would you like to do so ? Because you will save a lot of time by implementing it the way you really want as the protocol is just an interface and the rest is up to you. So ...more»

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21 Jun by admin in All, Automation, Internet

Monitor your Website for FREE with Rebol

Monitor your Website for FREE with Rebol
Do you need to monitor your website ? Of course you could pay some services for that but you can also do it yourself. Maybe you tried doing yourself with Autoit but found it was hard. In Rebol it's easy and it's a great example of its powerfull concision in ...more»

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20 Jun by admin in Beginner, OOP, Syntax

Rebol is a Prototype-Based OOP Language

Rebol is a Prototype-Based OOP Language
Some Purists would say Rebol is not a "true" OOP language because it lacks the concept of class. I remind that in OOP "oriented" actually means "just oriented" so that even traditional OOP languages like Java, C# etc. are themselves not true Object Languages. Rather, one can consider two types of ...more»

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20 Jun by admin in All, Beginner, Syntax

Rebol with Style

Rebol with Style
Coming from other languages you may have some habits but Rebol has its own style to do things the shortest way. Rebol's shortcuts may not be obvious for the absolute beginner so you may need some time to get accustomed but you will gain tremendous productivity by making the effort ...more»

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