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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»
How to simply create a RSS Feed from a text file
If you need to generate a RSS Feed from scratch - for example for an html static website or a site which is not your own - you can of course download some softwares to do so but after trying many of them, I didn't find them as productive as ...more»
Tags: rss
Parsing Optional Html Tag Attributes using none keyword
You really hate Regular Expressions and discovered the power of Parse with our simple parse tutorials. Nevertheless after a while, you feel frustrated because even after reading the excellent manual, you're still lacking some real world examples. So here's an example for using none with Parse.
Let's say you want ...more»
How to extract Keywords for SEO or Search Engine Indexer in 2 lines.
SEO guys like to analyze keywords used by their competitors after first extracting the text content (see "Extract text on an html webpage WITHOUT using Regular Expression"). As for me, I need to do the same for feeding my Experimental Search Engine NotFoundOnSearchEngine.
So let's say I have this list of ...more»
HTML scaffolding - Create an HTML form by just writing its specification
Scaffolding is generally used for Database Persistence Framework, according to Wikipedia
Scaffolding is a meta-programming method of building database-backed software applications. It is a technique supported by some model-view-controller frameworks, in which the programmer may write a specification that describes how the application database may be used. The compiler uses this ...more»
Tags: Code Generation, HTML, Parse
How to create a Plug-In Architecture Application Framework - with a parallel comparison with C# (part I)
What is a Plug-In Architecture Application Framework? According to this C++ article on Code Guru about Plug-in Architecture Framework for Beginners:
Simply speaking, it is a framework that will allow a program to "look for" add-in functionality at startup, and then allow that plug-in to cooperate with itself.
Famous examples are Eclipse, ...more»
Tags: Architecture, C#, design patterns, ecosystem, framework, OOP, plugin, UML
Understanding Rebol’s Words: Beyond Numbers and Strings
When learning Rebol, one of the first thing you would learn is how to store a number or a string in a "variable" like this:
>> a: 5
== 5
>> b: "abc"
== "abc"
>>
I put the term variable between quotes because 'a and 'b are not exactly equivalent to variables in the same ...more»
Rebol for SEO/Marketing Guys
Jason Bartholme wrote on his blog:
I have been working on an internal tool for our sales and marketing departments. They wanted the ability to provide the URL of a company and return various information. One of the elements they wanted was the number of pages index in Google.
So he tried ...more»
Rebol CGI Form for the Rebtweeter Client Project (part II)
Previous time, we just tackled cgi form with an html mockup screen and a cgi skeleton for our Rebtweeter Client Project. This time, we will have a fully functional prototype (it's far from being the first release yet as per Project Vision Draft, just a demonstration of the core functionality) ...more»








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