Category Archives: Rebol

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 [...]

Markdown (we called it MakeDoc)

They called it Markdown which is originally for Perl.
And there is a PHP port

We called it MakeDoc in the Rebol community.
Chris, had a Make-Doc Anywhere , Robert have Make-Doc-Pro

No, I am not here to say which is better. Rather, to highlight why this approach (either Markdown or MakeDoc) of [...]

Rebol 3.0 : Building from the Group Up

Rebol, after 8 years of insight, is poised to be rebuild from the ground up.

Programmer’s Work Time Preferences

I really like reading Bernard’s blog.
Maybe, it’s because of some common traits we share. We love Mac (maybe he > me). And from his latest post, it seems he likes to work at night.
We probably share some similar routines as well.
My day starts with me (and my wife) sending Alexis to school. 2 - 3 [...]

Alan Kay’s talk at Creative Think Seminar, 1982

I came across some notes of Alan Kay’s talk at Folklore’s site
In particular, one thing that caught my eye was his statement on Smalltalk.
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Alan Kay’s talk at Creative Think seminar, July 20, 1982
Outline of talk: Metaphors, Magnetic Fields, Snobbery and Slogans
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Humans like fantasy and [...]