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Tips on subjects Rebolers have struggled with
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REBOL portal site Vive la Rebolution a revolution in Cyberspace  S links products interviews coding tips tutorials FAQ scripts discussion fora changes contact back links Counter Tips on subjects Rebolers have struggled with. Most of the coding tips are a compilation of what the friendly people of the REBOL mailing...
http://home.versatel.nl/rebolution/tips.html

With script examples.
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D2SET Presentation of Rebol  Rebol is a language younger than Sun Corp Java. In our opinion it is really promising. The interpreter Rebol 2.2 has been ported on more than 37 different platforms. The syntax doesn't derived from C; codes and data are mixed...
http://d2set.free.fr/en/projects...site/RebolSiteBuilder/Rebol.html

Information for programmers learning about the REBOL language and what it can do.
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Rebol Tips and Techniques  This page is a collection of bits of information that people may find useful. It reflects information that should be suitable for programmers learning about the Rebol language itself and what it can do. Language elements What is any-function? type...
http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/tips-and-techniques.html

Tips and techniques distilled from the REBOL mailing lists.
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Programming with REBOL  L projects and other sitesMailing ListDialects REBOL can be a very productive language but like all languages you will find it useful for some things but not others. Learning REBOL is a very worthwhile experience, the benefits of REBOL can...
http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/

REBOL Frequently Asked Questions.
http://www.rebol.com/faq.html

At Tucows. Step by Step REBOL tutorial for Beginners.
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REBOL How-To's  Go to BeOS Domain Direct Games HTML Java Kickoff Kids Linux LWN Macintosh Music News OpenSRS PDA Shop Themes Windows 95/98 Windows 2000 Windows 3.x Upload Contact Home R E S O U R C E S HTMLStuff: Home Artist...
http://html.tucows.com/programmer/rebolmaintut.html

Free, dW-exclusive tutorial introduces you to REBOL, a powerful Internet-enabled scripting language. [IBM developerWorks]
http://www-106.ibm.com/developer...linux/edu/l-dw-linuxrebol-i.html

More a cheat sheet than a beginners tutorial but worth a look, if only for the executive summary.
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 L is the cocaine of scripting languages. I love it and I can't stop, yet at the same time I hate what it's done to me and the depths I've gone to to get more of it. Home Lessons Learned:...
http://home.pacifier.com/~mcginty/rebol_cuddle.html

http://cliki.tunes.org/REBOL

Site teaches basic and advanced search techniques for those interested in web-searching: finding information on the Web: information, documents, and links.
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scan_reb.htm: Fravia's web-searching lore scan_reb.htm  Very slightly edited by fravia scan.r version 1 scan.r version 2] Yep, back to this work after my two months holyday I managed to fish this little jewel by Sp!ke among the ruins of my exploded mailbox exactly the kind...
http://www.searchlores.org/scan_reb.htm

REBOL code, mostly for the Amiga
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REBOL Tips and Tricks  Lets try and write something useful. How can I control a program ala Arexx shuffle shuffle of html files What No rexx port support! Aaarrrgghhh What this set of scripts lets you do is access Arexx ports from Rebol. PipeBridge.lha...
http://www.mindspring.com/~timrue/RebolTips.html

A list of REBOL tutorials maintained at CompKarori.
http://compkarori.com/vanilla/display/Rebol+Tutorials

Carl Sassenrath on creating agents with Rebol.
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New Architect: Script Junkie  Commentary and updates on current events and technologies CMP Media E-Book Download your copy today. Research Search for reports and white papers from industry vendors and analysts. This Week at NewArchitect.com Subscribe now to our free email newsletter and get...
http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1999/09/junk/

A cookbook of simple useful REBOL examples for users who don't want to read the manual.
http://www.rebol.net/cookbook/

Tips on subjects Rebolers have struggled with
http://home.zonnet.nl/rebolution/tips.html

How to make a web spider/search bot in REBOL
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sono_bot.htm: spider.r: a handy search tool and intro to REBOL  Ahah a new language for bot building seems pretty impressive as well Will we produce REBOL-bots to battle PERL-bots? There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in Rating (X)Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert REBOL is...
http://www.searchlores.org/sono_bot.htm

Carl Sassenrath's presentation to the Internet Developer Group Meeting gives an overview of the language and includes several examples.
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REBOL for Distributed Computing  Show a range of examples and demos Questions? Return to Top 3. What is REBOL? REBOL lightweight distributed computing Simpler, cheaper, smaller network applications Designed from the start for the Internet Programs and data span client and server Runs identically...
http://www.inetdevgrp.org/20010417/outlinee.html

Patrick Philipot's list of Q&A from his experience of learning REBOL.
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pat665 FAQ  I have collected while learning the basics of rebol. This material has been submitted, and validated, to and by the rebol-list. HTH.2. how to make this kind of document ?answer :This page has been generated with Robert M. Münch make-doc-pro.r....
http://www.pat665.free.fr/faq/pat665-faq.html

An article in the September 2003 issue of Australian Personal Computer demonstrates how REBOL brings powerful multi-platform scripting to the masses.
http://www.apcmag.com/apc/v3.nsf...693F14D10A0D6FF8CA256DA900101C8F

Article in the online edition of The Hindu, India's National Newspaper
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The Hindu Accessing Net services with REBOL  Speak explores the salient features of the easily comprehensible but powerful scripting language that can be used to build your own tools to access different Net services without any hassle. Net services such as Web, E-mail and NewsGroups are accessed...
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/bi.../19/stories/2003051900110200.htm

Very handy guide to using REBOL as a Unix shell script.
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Unix Review REBOL and the Shell  The volume was stuck at an obnoxiously high level, so Maida had taped a large wad of Kleenex over the speaker. To suit her esthetic sensibilities, she had also decorated the old TV with bright paint. We were so used...
http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1350/urm0009b/

A small collection of introductory articles.
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TechThemes: REBOL  This page no longer maintained Please go to the new location of Programming with REBOL at http www.thingoid.com The page you are currently reading will be removed at the end of 2005 please update your bookmarks and links. I think...
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~tgosbell/rebol/

REBOL introduction (mirror).
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REBOL introduction  I read in a computer magazine about a new product from the amiga people. I was really impressed by the ease of use in sending and receiving mails, files and checking websites for being updated every hour and the like....
http://npt.cc.rsu.ru/user/wander...20Intro/REBOL%20introduction.htm

Brian Wisti wants to keep REBOL as his own "secret weapon"...
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COOLNAMEHERE: REBOL  It has been very useful even in the limited roles that I have given it so far. The language is consistent and pleasant to work with. It has a richness of datatypes that just can't be matched by other languages....
http://coolnamehere.com/geekery/rebol/index.html

On line book (wiki-style) that covers areas of how to do basic programming in REBOL and what REBOL actually does.
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REBOL Programming Wikibooks  This book covers the basics of Rebol programming, what REBOL actually does and why it's designed the way it is. It's not a reference manual and therefore doesn't contain a complete overview of all functions, but aims to teach the...
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/REBOL_Programming