CURL6 in the RIA news

There has been good news lately at the CURL.com site with Curl winning the InfoWorld 2008 RIA development platform award and with Richard Monson-Haefel coming on-board to replace the late Marc Orchant.
I continue to try to create the urban legend that CURL stands for {url

My latest enthusiasm is to see features of ICON and UNICON appear in CURL 7 as an alternative to regexp - an extension which would also see back-tracking added to CURL. There must be a way to start that rumor ...

Some other sites seem noticably quiet, such as VistaScript.net but I continue to watch the DLR site of IronPython.

It was also great to see a new Win32 package for IO available at iolanguage.com

And of course there is a lot of activity via the ALTME link of REBOL.net with the alpha-release of REBOL3 ... and that page has a link to Carl Sassenrath's Rebol3 Frontline blog.

Curl and Occasionally Connected Computing

I have added a page on OCC at wikipedia. What is really interesting to me is the use of a custom URI scheme in Curl. Such a scheme might be

curl://occ/this-redirects-as-needed

which could be used to redirect to a resource depending on whether the user is connected.
If you have experience with OCC, please do contribute to the article. When I have some experience with Curl OCC I will add a page at eclectic-pencil with details and caveats.
To complement the article, I also opened one on CSPD. There are trolls at en.wikipedia.org who delight in suggesting page deletions so your contributions to articles to maintain NPOV or to suggest sensible article merging and separation are much appreciated. No edit wars, please. Solid references for articles are usually the key to survival of any given contribution in my experience.