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Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming  – 
This article provides an introduction to REBOl/View, and shows how to build the front end to a simple email survey system; both static and dynamic GUIs are explained.

Nano-Sheets: A Small But Mighty Spreadsheet Engine in REBOL (Part I)  – 
This article explores the design of a GUI spreadsheet, called Nano-Sheets. In its most basic form, the code for Nano-Sheets requires fewer than 1,500 bytes of code, which prints easily on a single sheet of paper. It is a very basic, but fully functional, spreadsheet engine with a working GUI.

Nano-Sheets: A Small But Mighty Spreadsheet Engine in REBOL (Part II)  – 
This artile follows Part I, extending the spreadsheet, with the ability to save the sheet as HTML, for display on web pages; adds keyboard navigation and macro support; and shows how to integrate it into REBOL/IOS as a multi-user collaboration tool.

Bigger than a pixel - working with sections of an image  – 
If you have an image, and you want to chop it up into little pieces, or paint part of another image over a section of it, there are no native functions to help you out. Rolling your own routines isn't difficult; this article shows you how.

Bigger than a pixel - speeding things up  – 
In the first part of this article, we picked and poked our way around an image one pixel at a time. That being a very slow process, this shows you how to speed things up.

There's nothing like a nice, juicy, pair (Part I)  – 
Investigates the pair! datatype and uses it in an OO context.

There's nothing like a nice, juicy, pair (Part II)  – 
Evaluates the use of the pair! datatype in a non-OO context.

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