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Maxim
is TCC being maintained by someone?

Kaj
Great work, Nick!

NickA
Thanks Kaj :)
Maxim, how is the development of your RDBS for Rebol coming.  Will it be released publicly?
Endo
You are god of tutorials Nick :) Great work!

Maxim
NickA, StoneDB (which is not an RDBMS ;-) is running better and better.  I've built official documentation for it, and it could fit into NoSQL and ADBMS. categories.
    -it now supports larger than RAM DB,
    -has a real graph querying engine (in the spirit of  SPARQL).
    -a TCP based DB management tool
For a few reasons, I've got no clue when it will become public.  Maybe when its R3 port is complete, maybe the public version will be the R2 version, right now I really don't know.  The fact I can't plug into the memory management of R2 is causing issues I can't solve on a long running-instance.
I want to release it, but in the end, I don't have the final word.
Endo
Maxim: Any future plan to port StoneDB to Red + Red/System?
james_nak
Nick, thank you. As usual your work is incredibly helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make the tutorial and for sharing it.

NickA
I'm glad to see the text got read :)  That little tool is becoming ever more useful to me - and breathing new life into Rebol for more and more of my needs.  It's amazing what gems are sitting out in the wild for free...
Max, thank you for the response.  I'm curious what approaches others are taking for high volume data storage, high traffic situations, etc.  RedDB, som RDBMS, custom Rebol solutions?
Gregg
Thanks for keeping us updated Max.
Reichart
StoneDB  :)

amacleod
@NickA : I had a look at jsLinB and I can see its useful but I feel the widgets are more desktop style. How well do they translate for use on mobile/phone?

NickA
The widgets have been functional for my needs on mobile, as long as attention is paid to screen size (keep layouts simple, avoid scrolling).   But yes, they do have a dated desktop look.  There is a skinning capability, and you can create your own 'appearance' files if you need to develop a more definitive mobile style.  The 3 built in skins are all traditional desktop oriented, but if you've got the design inclination, the capability is there.  The newest version of CrossUI has a wider variety of 12 default skins.  And of course, you can adjust the style of any individual widget if you want to change appearances on the fly directly in app code.  There are several code samples which demonstrate style adjustments, in the example applications.
NickA
I also rolled my own 'reactive' sidebar menu, for example, using the default layout and gallery widgets, which automatically opens, scrolls with a finger swipe, auto-hides after a selection, and generally looks a little more modern than, for example, the built in buttonviews widget.  It swaps panels in and out for each of the page views.  Doing that took very little custom code, in a single sitting.
NickA
You may also want to check out the built in animation features in CrossUI, to produce some more contempory effects and UI feel.  I stayed away from CrossUI initially and stuck with the older Sigma builder, because you need to use the packaged Node-Webkit CrossUI distribution, which only runs on desktop platforms (I love being able to run the Sigma development tools on a web server, and use them on any mobile device).  Also, Sigma's LGPL license is less restrictive than CrossUI's commercial requirements.
NickA
All that said, my brain pays very little attention to graphic style (heck, I'm still happy using VID ;) - so my feeling about the topic is not representative of the mainstream reaction.  I only care that it works well and is productive.
Gregg
I'm a patient man. By moving slowly there are periods where I seem behind the times, until fashion changes in its inevitable cycles and I can say "I've been doing that all along."
Kaj
:-)
I'm in exactly such a cycle now :-)

NickA
Thank you Chris

amacleod
Yes, thanks. AltJSON is a very useful script for me.

Endo
Same for me! I used AltJSON and AltXML in many projects.

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