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In my overview of REBOL, I skimmed across the capabilities of the REBOL/Core package. In this article I will give you a quick tour of the graphical version: REBOL/View. Read the rest of this entry »

REBOL. I first heard of this new programming language several years ago. The name sent shudders down my spine - was it the “REturn of coBOL”? Visions of endless pages of data declarations crawled out of a dark place in my memory and I moved on to another web site while I still had the will to live.

What a shame - I should have had a closer look, because I couldn’t have been more wrong. I don’t know if REBOL (the purists insist it’s pronounced “reb-el”, but I just can’t seem to get past “re-bol”) is ever going to set the programming world on fire, but it is easy to learn, surprisingly powerful and a lot of fun to code. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m not sure who Molly Holzschlag and her contributors were targeting in her book “XML, HTML, XHTML Magic”. In the introduction it says that the reader will be “working on the web professionally or … interested in doing so”. If she means that the reader will be a professional web developer, then this book missed the mark. Read the rest of this entry »

Peopleware: Productive projects and teams is an essential manual for management of IT projects. In a light and entertaining style the authors outline what’s wrong and what’s right with modern software development projects. They also offer practical solutions and advice. Read the rest of this entry »

Got Linux, what now?

So you’ve got Linux running and you’ve tampered with your new Unix toy a bit. What now? Well, what’s the point of having Linux to play with if you can’t go out and muck around with it in the Internet playground? Read the rest of this entry »

Making webpages available offline - How to save websites to your hard disk for later viewing Read the rest of this entry »