I'd like to point out Steven's space. He's a beginner in REBOL and has only been working with it for a week, but he's doing tremendous progress, already building a To-do application with VID.

And oh, hey, he's using my LIST-VIEW as well. He says it's faster and easier to use than the list views that can be found in Java Swing and what's possible with Visual Basic. It's a nice think to know that VID isn't all bad.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Carl Sassenrath of REBOL Technologies would like to announce that all R3 development has been cancelled and that you should all go home and play with Perl instead. Or Python.

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Wait a minute. Let me rephrase that:

REBOL 3.0 Alpha 1 for Windows is out! You can download it here:

http://www.rebol.net/builds/rebol3/alpha/rebol29904031.zip

Carl has made a blog entry about it here:

http://www.rebol.com/article/0347.html

Please note that this is alpha software and represents a work in progress! Be nice to the developers. There's no support for you yet, but it will come later. Now play with it and be good.

After 6 months of laziness LIST-VIEW 0.0.52 is finally out with numerous bug fixes and additions.

You can check it out in the Downloads area.

Happy New Year!

And now for something more serious: As it turned out, turning off the spinning terminal indicator is not only important in the console. It's also important, if you are launching your process as a service using Launchd, the standard way to handle background services under MacOSX, because Launchd logs all output from a process in /var/log/system.log. Read More...