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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»
17 Jul by admin in All
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)
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»
Tags: alias, alltop clone, popurls clone, set, static html
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»
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»
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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Tags: Excel
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»
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»
Tags: Contact Address, Freeware, Portable, VID
How to write software specifications documents fast with Makedoc2 (part1)
In all Fortune 500 companies you are required to write software specifications documents. Even when not a process obligation, writing specs is a good practice according to Joelonsoftware.
But it's usually time consuming. There are some heavy-weighted $$$$ softwares from IBM, Borland and others which can do so, but they are ...more»










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