Archive for August, 2003

A site on the World Wide Reb

Friday, August 1st, 2003

The World Wide Reb is the tongue-in-cheek name given to the network of distributed REBOL applications accessible from the REBOL/View desktop - more formally it is known as the REBOL Distributed Desktop. Once you’ve setup a rebsite you can add it to distributed desktop and make it available to all REBOL/View users.

The REBOL folks reckon that setting up a rebsite is easier than setting up an ordinary HTML web page. Let’s put that claim to the test. (more…)

… Considered Harmful

Friday, August 1st, 2003

If you browse around the web or newsgroups long enough, especially on computer-related topics, you may soon get the impression that practically everything is “… Considered Harmful”. These two words crop up again and again. If “… Considered Harmful” appears in the subject line of a posting to a newsgroup or mailing list you know you’re in for a one-eyed diatribe. (more…)