On 6/19/13 6:56 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
Andrew -- thanks for the detailed explanation. I have to say that I'm extremely
impressed by this kind of dedication to D given the long term constraints you've
experienced in being able to use it for yourself.
Not a problem. When I find something that I believe worthy of my
attention, I am not against putting in the time. Just wish I had more of
it. But then again... don't we all?
When you _do_ get the time, I can assure you that you will have huge amounts of
fun mastering D -- something that I don't doubt you will achieve.
Something I look forward to dearly.
I'm sorry to hear about your troubles with dtutor.org. That said if you want to
speed things up there are a number of things I think you could consider.
Minor setback. It mostly have to do with timing. As it stands the server
is back online. I still need to finish the configurations but at least
there is a static "under construction" page now.
The first would be to build the first generation of the site using a more
standard CMS of some kind -- MediaWiki springs to mind. You could even as a
first iteration have dtutor.org forward to a location on wiki.dlang.org (e.g.
the already-existing wiki.dlang.org/Tutorials) to avoid the hosting issues.
Alternatively you could at first maintain tutorials on GitHub using Ddoc or some
other markup.
I'll be taking a look at vibelog soon for use as the interim solution.
I know full well that this would be much less than you want -- it would lack all
the interactive features that you're looking to develop, and doesn't offer you
the learning opportunities of developing a site in D -- but it does get you to
the point of being already able to solicit and maintain tutorials which could
later be extended to work with the second, fully-functional version of the site.
Point taken. I should be ready to start soliciting tutorials within the
next week or two at the most.
Basically, don't let perfect be the enemy of good -- biting off more than you
can chew doesn't stop you returning it to the plate and slicing it up into
smaller pieces!
I don't really feel confident offering you help with the development of the site
itself -- I'm not experienced with web development and in the short term I'm not
in a position to correct that -- but I'll happily contribute some writing :-)
Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes,
-- Joe
Thanks,
--
Andrew Edwards
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