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Paul
Hi Ashley, that is kinda what I was doing with the original concept behind my first Tretbase db.  It was to allow someone to do that.  I think the scope is a great idea.  Keep up the great work!

Oldes
We are between finalists on IGF 2014 with our new game we are working on (using REBOL as an important  building tool) http://igf.com/2014/01/2014_independen.html

Ashley
munge.r updated. Now supports reading from and saving to Excel*.
    munge/save ["a" 1 "b" 2] 2 %test.xml
    munge %test.xlsx
* on windows with R2 and Office installed
Split off block loading into a separate function for those requiring more options when loading from file:
        write %test.csv "Name,Age^/Bob,33^/Joe,55^/Joe,55"
        load-block %test.csv
        load-block/skip %test.csv 1                         ; ignore header row
        load-block/skip/coerce %test.csv 1 [2 integer!]     ; ignore header and coerce 2nd column to integer
        write %test.csv "Name^-Age^/Bob^-33^/Joe^-55^/Joe^-55"
        load-block/delimit %test.csv #"^-"                  ; use tab as a delimiter
        load-block %test.xlsx                               ; read 1st worksheet of an Excel spreadsheet
        load-block/sheet %test.xlsx 2                       ; read 2nd worksheet
and same for Excel options when creating workbooks / sheets:
        open-workbook
        add-worksheet/sheet [String Number] ["Name" "Age" "Bob" 33 "Joe" 44] "My Sheet"
        add-worksheet/footer [String Number Number Number] [
            "Name" "A" "B" "Total"
            "Bob" 1 2 "=RC[-1]+RC[-2]"
            "Joe" 3 4 "=RC[-1]+RC[-2]"
        ] [none none "Grand Total" "=SUM(R[-?]C:R[-1]C)"]
        save-workbook %test.xml

Ashley
Munge released (and documented) at http://dobeash.com/munge.html
Notable additions include support for reading from and writing to SQL Server tables (without the need for any temporary files) and the inclusion of a flip refinement to swap columns and rows. Enjoy!

Kaj
I updated Red on Try REBOL with the latest Red fixes and the latest versions of my extensions:
http://tryrebol.esperconsultancy.nl
Kaj
I upgraded my binary downloads to the current development version of Red and the latest versions of my extensions:
http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-test/dir?ci=tip
That means they now include Red 0.4.1, and both PARSE and objects in the interpreter. Further, I added my JSON converter.
The */Red/red-core-message interpreter for your platform should be directly usable to write application servers for the Mongrel 2 webserver, using the 0MQ binding and the TNetStrings converter.
The */Red/red-core interpreter for your platform can for example be used to communicate with JSON servers such as Fossil and the Bitcoin daemon, using the cURL binding and the JSON converter.
The MSDOS/Red/red-base.exe interpreter can be used directly on Windows, without downloading any extra dependencies.

Arnold
The Red development document I started is here https://github.com/iArnold/reddevdoc
It needs a lot of extra info to be added. Please join the effort to make this a valuable intro in how the internals of Red are working together so more people can join and actually produce some code.
Reichart
As all these Red docs and projects get started, is there an easy way to "register" or submit it to some centralized location yourself (perhaps with tags)

Arnold
Today I forked the learnXinYminutes project on Github. I started a LearnRedinYminutes document. You can find it here:
https://github.com/iArnold/learnxinyminutes-docs
I will leave a couple of days time before I submit a pull request.
Switch to branch red to see the red.html.markdown document

Bo
Since it's rather quiet here, I thought I'd post an announcement saying that I have a prototype of the next version of my camera software up and running on my camera hardware! Now, all processing is handled on the camera itself without the need for an external server, including the advanced motion detection. The camera can automatically transfer files for long term storage to one or more fileshare locations on the network. :-)

Oh, and almost all of the camera software is now running on R3 ARM and Red/System!  I've removed most of the software that was written in other languages, like bash, except where absolutely necessary. :-)
In addition, the camera can now serve MJPEG images while simultaneously recording 1920x1080 30fps video. This allows the camera to act like a legacy IP camera so it can be used with software like iSpy, but still have even higher quality recordings to go along with the lower quality ones that legacy IP camera software can capture.
I still have some optimizations to do, but it looks very promising.

Robert
Since we had a server crash before x-mas, we had to move all our infrastructure to different services etc. Anyway, that was the cause why some documents of http://development.saphirion.com didn't work. The R3-GUI stuff is now fixed. Since our code is now located at beanstalkapp, and we read the docs and images directly from SVN and create the output, please give it a bit of time for long documents (especially layouts take time).
The Saphir stuff is not yet done. That's next. Expect it to be fixed in the next 24 hours.
Arnold
The Red document has been accepted on http://learnxinyminutes.com/ !!

Bo
Again, as it is a little quiet in the Announce group, I just finished rolling out my new camera software to the first three cameras at one of my clients with an 18 camera installation.
Of course, the updater is written in Rebol 3. :-)
Not only is all the software now running on the camera, but there are still free CPU cycles left on the camera processor.

Ashley
Munge 1.0.4 released with following changes:
- Added clean-path to load-dsv and worksheet
- Added /where integer! support (i.e. RowID)
- Added lookup, index funcs
- Added /merge
The /merge refinement enables you to easily "join" 2 blocks, as in:
>> staff: ["Joe" 0 "Bob" 1 "Ben" 0]
>> type: [0 "Permanent" 1 "Contractor"]
>> munge/merge staff 2 type 2 [1 4] [2 1]
== ["Joe" "Permanent" "Bob" "Contractor" "Ben" "Permanent"]
Full documentation available at http://dobeash.com/munge.html
Robert
We have published a complete sourcec-code reference for Saphir. You can browse it here:
http://development.saphirion.com/rebol/saphir/src-xref/

Bo
The February 2014 issue of ODROID Magazine has an article on Rebol 3 running on Android, starting on Page 28, plus an edited version of the beginning of NickA's excellent LearnRebol tutorial.  Check it out here:  http://magazine.odroid.com

Bo
My cameras (Smoothcam) now serve H264 (via SMB) and MJPEG (via HTTP port 8080) simultaneously, and can also simultaneously serve individual JPEG stills through HTTP port 80. It can serve the H264 at one resolution and frame rate and the MJPEG stream and JPEGs at a different resolution and framerate. And I still have up to 35% of the CPU idle.
I just got word from HardKernel that the ODROID Magazine PDF for January 2014 has been downloaded ~8000 times. That's pretty good readership for a new magazine, I'd say. We're expecting a larger number than that for the February issue.  The March issue is due out in three weeks. :-)

ddharing
We have published our REBOL 3 View builds for Linux and Windows at http://atronixengineering.com/downloads.html. There is full Linux support for graphics and the clipboard as well as a number of bug fixes in the core interpreter.
This is the result of our collaboration with Saphirion since last summer. Our source code has also been pushed to the Saphirion repository to be tested and included in their own future releases.
Please note that we are preparing REBOL 3 for commercial use later this year, so we have removed all Alpha badging, cleaned up the splash screen and pointed the upgrade and demo functions to the Atronix website. The upgrade function is the best way to check for and download the latest Atronix release.
Please send comments and bug reports to email@withheld4.me.

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