A few words from Carl Sassenrath, REBOL's inventor and leader of the X-Internet revolution.
Rebol website home page has been updated with a few announcements and a new Rebol Projects page has been added. Take a look if you have a chance. I'm also looking for help with some of it, mostly small tasks like better CSS or how to build OSX on cloud servers. (Hopefully that's a small task.)<br /> <br /> Having been away from Rebol for several years and working at a fantastic consumer…
I've noticed that various Rebol CGI website scripts hang. Apparently, HTTP POST on newer servers (or clients actually) keeps the socket open in such a way that the standard read-cgi function hangs.<br /> <br /> The fix I use in newer scripts is to use the CGI content-length field to terminate the read.<br /> <br /> If you have insights into this problem, please comment. I'd like to fix read-cgi in…
Released a preliminary (alpha test) version of Rebol/core for 64 bit Linux. This was built on a Ubuntu system, and I'm not entirely sure how portable it is, but maybe you can give it a try and post your comments here?<br /> <br /> Side note: motivation for this release was rebol.net moving to a 64 bit cloud server.
I've released ARM v7 versions of rebol/core and rebol/view in the download pages of this website. I use these mainly on Odroid boards, so I thought other rebolers might want to give them a try. They're pretty much untested; I don't have a lot of time for that. You'll need to watch for problems. Let me know how they do. I've not tried it with Raspi or Beaglebone yet.<br /> <br /> You can post…
The Rebol websites went down last week due a core dump in the new server software, and the most recent update failed to run CGI scripts.<br /> <br /> As a result we've changed our web server software again. For rebol.com, most features should be up again. Rebol.net still needs some work.
Tap tap tap. Does the Rebol blog work again? Let's see.<br /> <br /> Really, just kicking back on a holiday to have some fun bringing back rebol.com on a new web server. Amazingly, the old hosting site was good for more than a decade, and I take my hat off to them, but the cloud has become cheaper and more powerful when it comes self-operated websites.<br /> <br /> Anyway, there are quite a few…
Rebol.org website is back up. Credit card had expired, and Bo L. brought it to my attention. I wonder if it would make sense to move rebol.org to the same cloud server as rebol.net? What do you think?<br /> <br /> PS: If you see any other servers go down, don't hesitate to point them out. Thanks.
Last week I found a new Odroid C1 board under the Christmas tree. Curious about the performance of the new board, I decided to compare its speed to a few other embedded SoC boards I've got around the house, including the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, and Odroid XU3 Lite.<br /> <br /> I often use the Rebol speed? function to get a rough idea of the performance of desktop and server systems, and…