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.
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.
This year we did a BIL in SF, Canada, Tunisia (it was AMAZING), and now............................... Paris!
Josh
I submitted the pull request that includes serial code for Win32 and POSIX. This is originally based on Carl's posix serial code (from ReCode) and I have extended it to Windows. There is still a little cleanup to do, but it should work if you need to use it!
For those who are serious about it, I have a prototype of STONE DB which I have been given the green light to share to a few people.
This release is not open source yet, its a business thing, but I have been confirmed by the company partners that later this year we will be opening up the source. on my one year old lenovo ideapad y580 (core i7) I am averaging 250'000 item insertion and 250'000 links per second.
basically, the db is able to run a speeds which flood the iteration rate of REBOL.
PM me for a download link.
Maxim
StoneDB now has a full DB index search. so you can search for any value in the db accross ALL non-infinite datasets.
fun fact is that the index is implemented using the db itself, its just another dataset which I am using as I would any other. (linking things to the index). so it doesn't require ANY extra code in the db back-end.
Bo
The June 2014 issue of ODROID Magazine is available for download! On page 6 is an article entitled "Programming Your ODROID-Show - Using the Rebol programming language to improve the hardware interface" by yours truly. It outlines a dialect I wrote to handle displaying information on the discrete display device called the ODROID-Show.
The ODROID-Show is a 2.2 inch display with 320x240 resolution and 64K colors controlled via USB through an Arduino microcontroller available through Hardkernel for $25. As the ODROID-Show works on any computer with a USB port, the Rebol dialect can also be used on any computer to display to it.
Lest https://github.com/rebolek/lest - HTML templating system - has been updated with structural logic (IF, EITHER, SWITCH, FOR). It's probably not Turing complete yet, but I guess it would be soon. Other improvements are for example /save refinenment for easier usage (write %file.html lest read %file.lest can be now replace with lest/save %file.lest) and numerous bugfixes.
TomBon
great news maxim -> PM
Kaj
I modified my Red bindings and codecs to work with the current Red development version, meaning an upgrade to Red 0.4.2 and beyond.
I'm experiencing regressions in the compiler and interpreter, though, so be careful
Kaj
I put Try REBOL behind a new, more reliable proxy server: