Category Archives: Programming

Should REBOL be renamed?

Carl posted an interesting question on his blog.
Should REBOL be renamed?
This arise from a commercial deployment of REBOL where corporate IT staffs not familiar with REBOL start thinking that it is some kind of rogue processes.
I posted my thoughts on the blog.
To me, the million dollar question is not “Should we change the name?”. Rather, [...]

Is Tcl/Tk Dying?

A recent discussion on whether Tcl/Tk is dying leads to a humourous writeup of a not too distant future by Mark Roseman.
Snips :
“Scene: A run down shop at the end of a long, mostly deserted street. A cracked and weather-beaten sign, obviously from the mid-90’s, hangs over a large boarded up window. It [...]

Open Source Dealer Management System (DMS)

We issued a press release today, outlining that B.Synchronized, our dealer management system (DMS), will be open sourced.
A huge portion of the decision is tie back to what I want Neusteps to be ; helping companies be efficient.
We believe, with this approach, more car dealerships can benefit from lower cost implementation. And this is especially [...]

REBOL Week - A summary of what’s happening in the Rebol community.

Graham had started a blog, rebolweek,  to summarise what’s happening within the REBOL community.
Expect more to come.
The initial phase will see us focusing on keeping it simple and updating the blog with discussions that have took place in AltMe, ML and probably links to new articles .
A good way to stay in touch with the [...]

Running Lighttpd on windows

For some reasons, Apache2 on my windows seems to be getting sluggish. A huge part of it is due to the number of services running on my machine.
I took the opportunity to make a switch from Apache to Lighttpd .
Kevin Worthington has compiled a windows build that allow one to easily install it on [...]