Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:38:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: (A slight typo: 2017 in the header) oops. fixed. One thing I did this time that I'm not sure if I want to commit to was writing a very brief summary of a couple of the threads. (It had to be very brief tbh because I didn't actually read them all myself, I had just been skimming) I think it would be too much to do that for everything, but I do like the idea and might do it for at least a few when I can going forward. One thing I don't want this to ever be is *just* a list of links.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:15:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time to compile another issue! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss This week's tip goes into the import statement which many people use but not everyone realizes what all it can do. D.announce seemed a bit less active this week too (my criteria for inclusion there is simply a new thread made since last time, so new posts in an existing thread don't count), but there were a lot of bug and pull request action this week (mostly related to the style tweaks)! Thanks for your work. Good luck with the search for your dog! Craig
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
Nice and focused summary of last week. Every issue so far has to be an improvement over the last one. :-) (A slight typo: 2017 in the header)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 15:15:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:42:18 UTC, weaselcat wrote: At first I feared there wouldn't be enough content for you to do this weekly but I'm glad I was wrong. D seems more popular than ever. Yea, and besides, worst case scenario, there's plenty of backlog tips or projects I can talk about to fill it in. A single support email/SO question/IRC comment can lead to enough material to make it look somewhat substantial, even if the forums are pretty dead in a week. I have noticed that email interviews often generate a lot of discussion in programming-oriented social media. I guess there are many people who have used D in a project you could do an email interview with if you feel like having a bit of variety (or someone else could perhaps submit an interview conducted on a meetup?). Interviews also don´t have to be fresh, they just have to be unpublished so you can buffer them as carrots and push it when people have time to read and discuss (easter?)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On 26.01.15 14:37, Nick Treleaven wrote: On 26/01/2015 05:15, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss Much appreciated - now works with my Thunderbird, thanks :) Double :)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:01:02 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Good luck with the search for your dog! Thank. I'm especially worried now because the weather took a turn for the worse in Watertown, with sub-zero wind chills and snowfall coming. She's been out since Thursday night, and spotted yesterday morning by someone, so apparently she has made it through the cold nights so far, but it keeps getting worse and she's gotta be wearing down... with any luck though, she'll stop running from people trying to help her, then she can get inside.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:48:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: One thing I did this time that I'm not sure if I want to commit to was writing a very brief summary of a couple of the threads. (It had to be very brief tbh because I didn't actually read them all myself, I had just been skimming) I think it would be too much to do that for everything, but I do like the idea and might do it for at least a few when I can going forward. One thing I don't want this to ever be is *just* a list of links. Yes, if there is too much trivia on the top of the newsletter people might loose interest and miss out on the Tip of the week, which could be an important channel for incremental education. I guess forum summaries are most interesting if there is: 1. a sense of movement/change of direction 2. new directions (new framework or compiler) 3. encouragement to participate if there is contention around an important issue before implementation (like before improving the GC). An acid test would be asking yourself will this discussion topic be notable after a month?. I think the usual hot today forum topics ought be profiled on dlang.org front page using heuristics. I think dlang.org could list more than 8 threads, with a more link that goes to the forum page. (I doubt most people will use the scroll bar, and it looks ugly :-). If a forum announcement acts as an official blog news announcement then a snippet ought to be present on the front page and in the This Week in D, with a read more link? Anyway, keep up the good work. I like where you are going with this! :-)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:42:18 UTC, weaselcat wrote: At first I feared there wouldn't be enough content for you to do this weekly but I'm glad I was wrong. D seems more popular than ever. Yea, and besides, worst case scenario, there's plenty of backlog tips or projects I can talk about to fill it in. A single support email/SO question/IRC comment can lead to enough material to make it look somewhat substantial, even if the forums are pretty dead in a week.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 15:07:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Yes, if there is too much trivia on the top of the newsletter people might loose interest and miss out on the Tip of the week, which could be an important channel for incremental education. Right. I thought about putting the tip (etc.) sections on the top too, but then I felt pressured to shorten them so the links aren't too far away and that felt wrong. This week's turned out pretty good though, I'm happy with this length and order I guess forum summaries are most interesting if there is: Right. Sometimes that is hard to tell though - long threads have often seemed significant, but ended up going nowhere in the past. But that's also the difference between significant threads and major changes - the threads are just talk, the major changes are based on some concrete step. If a forum announcement acts as an official blog news announcement then a snippet ought to be present on the front page and in the This Week in D, with a read more link? The subject of announce posts is often pretty good IMO. I haven't felt the need to summarize them much. Anyway, keep up the good work. I like where you are going with this! :-) thanks
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 06:47:35 UTC, ketmar wrote: great. and i never realised that the trick with Aye, static imports I think are a bit underused. The tip section (and project spotlight, which takes longer to write but I have a few plans for that too) is something I hope can keep active, experienced users interested in these newsletters each week too. This one was inspired by a real life problem I helped an emailer though this week, so I was pretty sure it would be worth writing up.
DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened
http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! Andrei
Re: DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 04:45:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! Andrei well, it's $800 flight (from istanbul to utah), $250 hotel and then dconf only for $250 :-)
NEW asm.dlang.org site
Hi, It is my pleasure to release a new site onto the community. An Interactive DMD compiler. http://asm.dlang.org/ Inspired by Matt Godbolt's GCC Explorer[1], and my own hosted version that uses GDC[2]. I was asked by Andrei to fork and make a working protoype that uses DMD. All work is hosted on Github[3], and we are planning on moving it to part of the D-Programming-Language repositories. Please share, contribute, and destroy! Regards Iain. [1]: http://gcc.godbolt.org/ [2]: http://explore.dgnu.org/ [3]: https://github.com/ibuclaw/gcc-explorer/
Re: NEW asm.dlang.org site
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 23:46:24 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi, It is my pleasure to release a new site onto the community. An Interactive DMD compiler. Cool, but I think we ought to improve Dpaste instead, as right now we have two services with overlapping roles. nazriel seems to have been busy with other things lately. I host dpaste currently, so let me know if you want to contribute improvements.
Re: DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened
On 2015-01-27 05:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! It says: Your name and email address will be shared with Facebook since Facebook is hosting the event. Facebook isn't hosting, is it? -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened
On 1/26/15 10:55 PM, Mengu wrote: On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 04:45:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! Andrei well, it's $800 flight (from istanbul to utah), $250 hotel and then dconf only for $250 :-) Yah, we priced things so conference proper won't be a dominating cost. -- Andrei
Re: DConf 2015 early bird registration just opened
On 1/26/15 11:22 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-27 05:45, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://dconf.org/2015/registration.html https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/559934412335218688 You know the program will be great. Only $250 gets you there! It says: Your name and email address will be shared with Facebook since Facebook is hosting the event. Facebook isn't hosting, is it? Fixed, thanks. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/commit/84704b359f48c85682156b3e6ab8264c70a066e5 Andrei
Re: DlangUI project update
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 20:24:54 UTC, Suliman wrote: Vadim, I can't understand why if I adding to dub.json dlangui: =0.4.4 On dub build I am getting: OPTLINK (R) for Win32 Release 8.00.15 Copyright (C) Digital Mars 1989-2013 All rights reserved. http://www.digitalmars.com/ctg/optlink.html .dub\build\application-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2066-DB440D76262575D36BFB1E2999272A 0D\geodataloader.obj Error 2: File Not Found .dub\build\application-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2066-DB440 D76262575D36BFB1E2999272A0D\geodataloader.obj --- errorlevel 1 FAIL .dub\build\application-debug-windows-x86-dmd_2066-DB440D76262575D36BFB1E299 9272A0D\ geodataloader executable Error executing command run: dmd failed with exit code 1. If remove. All build. Found why your build is failed. Use dependency dlangui:dlanguilib: =0.4.5 instead of dlangui: =0.4.5
Re: DlangUI project update
On Friday, 26 December 2014 at 12:33:04 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: Hello! DlangUI project is alive and under active development. https://github.com/buggins/dlangui Update: Resources are now being embedded into executable by default. (External resources files are still available - useful for resource/theme development). For better fonts quality, subpixel antialiasing (aka ClearType) was implemented. Working ok for non-OpenGL rendering of FreeType and Win32 fonts. Still cannot get it working of OpenGL rendering (trying to play with shaders and glBlendFunc).
Re: DirectX bindings
On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 20:35:23 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 5/27/14, evilrat via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 05:27:24 UTC, evilrat wrote: https://github.com/evilrat666/directx-d this is it. i think i can't continue on this one anymore, nor do i have time, nor passion. Hey, sorry you didn't find an audience for this, thanks for your work nevertheless! But do you by any chance know how up to date your bindings are compared to these other ones: https://github.com/auroragraphics/directx If you don't know I'll try to diff my way and find out. it is very sparse comparing to what i've done, but DirectX itself is stable so there shouldn't be any problems. though my version is targeted for same usage as if in C++, and contains most of helper functions, so one could easily rewrite C++ arrows as dots and thats all - everything should work(most times at least). This is very useful and convenient since there are very few learning resources about D and especially DirectX with D(if any). maybe i'll update it to DirectX 12 as soon it is released. but still i would merge peoples PR's if there be any commits.
Re: NEW asm.dlang.org site
On 27/01/2015 12:46 p.m., Iain Buclaw wrote: Hi, It is my pleasure to release a new site onto the community. An Interactive DMD compiler. http://asm.dlang.org/ Inspired by Matt Godbolt's GCC Explorer[1], and my own hosted version that uses GDC[2]. I was asked by Andrei to fork and make a working protoype that uses DMD. All work is hosted on Github[3], and we are planning on moving it to part of the D-Programming-Language repositories. Please share, contribute, and destroy! Regards Iain. [1]: http://gcc.godbolt.org/ [2]: http://explore.dgnu.org/ [3]: https://github.com/ibuclaw/gcc-explorer/ 1) can we get e.g. ldc ext. on there as well? 2) can it be renamed e.g. paste/pastebin? 3) login ext. integrated with code.dlang.org would be nice for full pastebin features
