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DocKimbel
FYI, I have upgraded my server to a safe openssl version, so CureCode and other web apps I am operating are protected for the infamous heartbleed vulnerability.
Maxim
Concerning Heartbleed:
If you are running commercial apps and have used OpenSSL for the last two years, you should force people to use new SSL certificates if the site contains sensitive information, even if you have patched your server.   the keys it contains may have already been breached and no one would know.

NickA

Bo
April 2014 issue of ODROID Magazine is now available for download (Rebol article starts on p22).
http://magazine.odroid.com/assets/201404/pdf/ODROID-Magazine-201404.pdf

GrahamC
Version 0 of Rebol3 interpreter for SL4A is out http://giuliolunati.altervista.org/Rebol3/Rebol3ForAndroid.apk courtesy of Giulio Lunati.  Once you install it from the apk, you start up SL4a and there will be a demo.reb script.  If you don't have sl4a, you'll need to install it first.

GrahamC
GrahamC
I have the StackOverflow chat client now able to grab your StackExchange cookies if you provide the credentials.  Windows only as linux/https not working it seems.  See https://github.com/gchiu/RSOChat

Luis
Excelent !  but  the page http://giuliolunati.altervista.org/Rebol3/rebol_scripts_r0.zip was not found on this server.
Andreas
Thanks to Barry Walsh (draegtun), Github now should have significantly improved detection of Rebol code when using the .r suffix. For example, red/red is now more correctly identified to consist of ~99% Rebol code.
Further, the .reb suffix is now also supported to unambiguously identify (and thus: syntax highlight) Rebol code. For example:
https://github.com/rebol/projects/blob/master/tcp/basic/tcp-serve.reb
Finally, some changes I pushed to Pygments a while ago seem to now be live on Github as well. That means that most Rebol files were syntax highlighting was previously somewhat broken should now be more properly highlighted. One case I can remember which was previously broken is prot-http.r from the R3 sources:
https://github.com/rebol/rebol/blob/master/src/mezz/prot-http.r

DocKimbel

GrahamC
Andrea G has released his rebol3 mysql driver for testing.  https://github.com/kronwiz/r3-mysql
Oldes
If anybody has account on Bitbucket, please vote for this issue so it has some priority to be merged into next version:
https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/pygments-main/issue/985/rebol-formatting-fails-after-a-multiline
Maxim
done

Andreas
Shixin Zeng has reminded us of his port of Nenad's MySQL driver to Rebol 3 :
https://github.com/zsx/mysql-r3
Just as Nenad's original, this is a pure-Rebol implementation of the MySQL protocol.
Together with Andrea G's mysql binding written as a R3 extension (mentioned by Graham above), there are now have at least two MySQL drivers publically available for Rebol 3.
ddharing
The send-sql function of the new R3 MySQL driver supports both the classic blocking and new non-blocking by using the /async refinement.
For example: send-sql/async db sql result.
I will be providing a link for this driver from the Atronix download page as well.
The /async refinement is very useful for GUIs because your query can return a large result set without freezing the screen.

Oldes
You can be the first to try this: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Red

Oldes
Sublime's Red language package reviewed: https://github.com/Oldes/Sublime-Red
Any improvement requests are welcome. I will add REBOL package soon.

Oldes
So REBOL is finally there as well: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/REBOL

Bo
Nothing specifically Rebol or Red related in this month's issue of ODROID Magazine, but it is still an interesting read as it may give some of the Rebol/Red community ideas for improving on something presented using a different language.
http://magazine.odroid.com
Next month, however, I'm publishing an article on the ODROID Show serial/USB-controlled LCD screen - I wrote a dialect for controlling it with Rebol 3.  If anyone wants the dialect before the issue comes out, PM me here.

Maxim
Just thought I'd share that I've done a few releases of Glass and many of the slim libs in the last weeks. many goodie in there.

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