Colophon
Consider this a work-in-progress, as the application running on my server is such. Codename ‘Flyer’, it started out based on the excellent Wiki Vanilla, and is growing into a dynamic, lightweight web framework. More information and source will be forthcoming.
Design Concept
The current ross-gill.com design is pinched from an idea I had for desktop application design.
The imagery is based on photos taken one hazy summer’s day while walking in the mountains of Arran. The mountains are, left to right, Goatfell, Cir Mhor, Beinn a Chliabhain, A’ Chir and Beinn Tarsuinn.
Technical
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets are used extensively to not only make the design concept come to life, but to ensure faster page loading and ensure the integrity of the design. However, the main column can appear too short if not enough content is contained. This is due to limitations in CSS that are being investigated…
Xara X¹
- Xara Photo & Graphic Designer
- My graphics package of choice. Every element of this page design was conceived and produced within Xara.
Personal Paint
[describe Personal Paint here]
REBOL
Rebol- A highly expressive scripting language designed from the ground up to bind together disparate systems and protocols under one concise vocabulary - a.k.a. glue! (see also: Red and Ren-C)
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VID Layout Concepts
Various generic layout/colour schemes for Rebol/View.
Index of my Rebol Scripts
- QuarterMaster
- Build Web Applications in Rebol
My scripts on rebol.org.
- altjson.r
- Rebol to/from JSON - see JSON and Rebol (compatible with Rebol 3)
- altwebform.r
- Rebol to/from URL-Encoded Form Data - see Rebol and Web Forms
- altxml.r
- Rebol XML DOM Implementation - see XML and Rebol
- anim-style.r
- Animation style, alternative to animated GIFs (see sample - works in the browser if you have the plugin)
- arran.r
- My Original Rebol/View Demo
- arrow-RebGUI-port.r
- Arrow Style for RebGUI
- base58.r
- Encode/Decode Integers as Base58
- big-button.r
- Big Button Style
- big-check.r
- Big Check Style
- big-radio.r
- Big Radio Style
- blosxom.r
- Throwaway port of Blosxom from way back when
- brutal-delete.r
- Recursive Delete Function
- btn-style.r
- Button Style
- busy-style.r
- Busy Style (Mac-like)
- character-tables.r
- Character Tables for Text Conversion/Encoding
- color-code.r
- Color Coder, CSS Friendly (compatible with R3)
- colorize.r
- Colorise image! types
- database-port.r
- A database with a port interface
- daylight-map.r
- Attempt to do a daylight map, very primative
- desktop-test.r
- Throwaway concept for Rebol/View Desktop
- emit-rss.r
- Emits RSS, originally for Carl’s Blog Script
- extract-urls.r
- Extract URLs from Plain Text - see Beyond Regular Expressions
- field-style.r
- Nice looking field style, if not too practical
- google-charts.r
- Google Charts API URL generator - see Google Charts and Rebol (afaik. compatible with Rebol 3)
- google-search.r
- ‘I Am Lucky’ search simulator
- hsv-lab.r
- Functions to convert RGB colours to and from HSV with some example functions
- httpc.r
- Rudimentary HTTP console, inspired by htty. Experiments with colour.
- import.r
- Import and Validate User Input
- inflate.r
- Failed attempt to convert an Inflate algorithm.
- junk.r
- ‘Loads’ junk data, per suggestion from BTiffin
- link-up.r
- Add Links to a Face in Rebol/View - see Beyond Regular Expressions
- match.r
- Match dialect, alternate way of defining dialects
- pekr-btn.r
- Demonstration of some effects for Pekr
- q-plot.r
- An attempt to wrap %q-plot.r from the library as a VID style ‘plot
- r3metadb.r
- MetaDB for Rebol 3
- r3webform.r
- AltWebForm for Rebol 3 - see Rebol and Web Forms
- r3xml.r
- AltXML for Rebol 3 - see XML and Rebol
- rebcon-map.r
- Map application for virtual conference goers, not sure it still works
- recurse.r
- Throwaway Recursive functions
- rest.r
- REST protocol, first iteration — a bit rough, but getting there
- rsp.r
- See RSP Text Preprocessor
- s3.r
- Protocol for accessing resources on Amazon’s S3
- sandbox.r
- Control access to your filesystems
- sqlite.r
- Or ‘AltSQLite’? My take on an SQLite interface. Closely maps to the SQLite library access model, adds a port interface for more streamlined interaction
- switch.r
- A throwaway alternative to the ‘switch function
- test-port.r
- Test scheme used to explore port settings and capabilities.
- twitter.r
- Twitter API Client - see Twitter API and Rebol
- walk-vid.r
- Traverse a VID/face structure.
- xhtml-format.r
- Turns plain text to (X)HTML
- zoom-img.r
- Little zoom technique
- zoom-w-mag.r
- Updated little zoom technique with options, courtesy of Renaud