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How to pass Arguments from PHP to Rebol CGI (PHP/REBOL RPC)

How to pass Arguments from PHP to Rebol CGI (PHP/REBOL RPC)
PHP is everywhere, it has a huge Ecosystem of Libraries (like User's Session Management, Security, ...) which are still lacking in REBOL (though Rebol has all the network protocols and the very nice Parse to process strings, building a well-organised reusable framework takes time), so it makes sense to use ...more»

Why Carl Sassenrath was and still is one of the 30 Most Influential People In Programming

Why Carl Sassenrath was and still is one of the 30 Most Influential People In Programming
Webdesigndev listed Carl Sassenrath as "one of the 30 Most Influential People In Programming" but does the young generation ever heard of him as he did enter the Legend of History of Personal Computing in the ninety eighties nearly 25 years ago ? So let's travel back to the past. According ...more»

Hey a Cup of UML Please!

Hey a Cup of UML Please!
AskUML.com will be an online "UML Café" where people will be able to draw UML Diagrams in plain English. It will be based on yUML and the easy yUML Dialect presented here. The UML Café is not opened yet so the Submit Button will not work, please be patient! ...more»
26 Aug by admin in All, Internet, Project, Twitter, Web Services

Rebtweeter - next Generation Twitter Client: first Project Vision Draft

Rebtweeter - next Generation Twitter Client: first Project Vision Draft
As I've announced the RebTweeter Project yesterday, I will now give the first Project Vision Draft below: Will be a client/server application The server can be local or remote The client can be desktop or web in any platform/language  (not limited to PHP, Java, C#,...) For local access, non-rebol client will have to download ...more»

Protect access to your Rebol Script with PHP (kind of Easy Distributed Web Service)

Protect access to your Rebol Script with PHP (kind of Easy Distributed Web Service)
As we have seen since the very beginning, Rebol has the amazing power of being able to execute code remotely. Behind the scene, it will transparently load the script from the server and execute it on your machine as if the web storage was an extension of your disk space. Since ...more»
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»
21 Aug by admin in All, Automation, Internet, Web Services

Call a Thumbnail REST Web Service from REBOL (with GMT Date and MD5 hash code)

Call a Thumbnail REST Web Service from REBOL (with GMT Date and MD5 hash code)
Webthumb Bluga.net is a great reliable online thumbnail webservice (I tried some others and find they were frequently disconnected). I have used this service to create these thumbnails on the Companies Page. They above all offer a free web service up to 100 request per month for any registered ...more»
17 Aug by admin in All, Automation, Twitter, Web Services

How to use Twitter Search API (Rebol Rest/Json Web Services)

How to use Twitter Search API (Rebol Rest/Json Web Services)
Twitter Search API can return JSON format (as well as the rest of Twitter API). Happily Parsing JSON is very easy in REBOL thanks to Romano Paolo Tenca who wrote this json library during a coffee break according to the legendary story :). Nevertheless, Douglas Crockford, the creator of Json, ...more»