DerelictSteamworks

2015-08-18 Thread extrawurst via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi everyone, during my development of a little game engine in my spare time with D I created a couple of libs and wanted to announce one of them that I find particularly useful. A Dynamic binding for the Steam API: dub: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-steamworks github:

Re: perpetual: new module for mapping file into memory

2015-08-18 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 18-Aug-2015 07:45, Rikki Cattermole wrote: What I don't like: - Does not allow for calling the constructor on the type should it have one Hm it depends - one thing is that after mmaping a file the type may already be constructed, if it wasn't then emplacement should be the right thing to

Re: DerelictSteamworks

2015-08-18 Thread xky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 08:47:27 UTC, extrawurst wrote: Hi everyone, during my development of a little game engine in my spare time with D I created a couple of libs and wanted to announce one of them that I find particularly useful. [...] NICEE WORK! :)

Re: mood : simple vibe.d based blog implementation

2015-08-18 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 17 August 2015 at 20:00:34 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/17/2015 10:00 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Tried to submit this, someone already did: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hbvrb/mood_simple_vibed_based_blog/ -- Andrei Dicebot, please post something there

Re: ∅MQD messaging library v1.0 released

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/16/2015 2:22 AM, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote: I am happy to announce the (somewhat overdue) release of ∅MQD v1.0! https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hgg00/mqd_d_library_for_zeromq_v10_released/ Lars, please post an AMA there.

Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need to tell them why! Here's the frustrating

Re: ∅MQD messaging library v1.0 released

2015-08-18 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
Lars, did you thought about full port? I read post of etcimon about his Botan lib. He eventual decided to rewrite original lib from C++ to D to make code more easier maintainable.

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-18 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce
This is fantastic! Congratulations! -- Paul O'Neil Github / IRC: todayman

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 19/08/2015 7:35 a.m., Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need to

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-18 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 19/08/2015 12:57 p.m., Ali Çehreli wrote: I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128 This revision has many corrections

Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-18 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
I am very happy! :) It will be available on many other distribution channels like Amazon in a few days as well but the following is the link that pays me the most royalty: https://www.createspace.com/5618128 This revision has many corrections and improvements over the one on the web

Re: Programming in D paper book is available for purchase

2015-08-18 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 08/18/2015 09:33 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Out of interest, why did you choose createspace over e.g. lulu? I looked at various options about a year ago. I eliminated Lulu because my book already had way too many pages over their limit. I think their limit was something around 600 pages.

Re: perpetual: new module for mapping file into memory

2015-08-18 Thread Sergei Degtiarev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 06:52:47 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: What I don't like is perpetual being a class - too bad as it won't honor scoping and destructor may or may not be called. Just make it a struct. Why do you think the destructor may not be called? It is, and it syncs memory and

Re: perpetual: new module for mapping file into memory

2015-08-18 Thread Sergei Degtiarev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 04:46:10 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: - Does not allow for calling the constructor on the type should it have one I plan to implement arguments forwarding to constructor, just decided that the concept would be more clear with minimal code. Technically, the object

Re: perpetual: new module for mapping file into memory

2015-08-18 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 18-Aug-2015 17:32, Sergei Degtiarev wrote: On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 06:52:47 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: What I don't like is perpetual being a class - too bad as it won't honor scoping and destructor may or may not be called. Just make it a struct. Why do you think the destructor may

Re: perpetual: new module for mapping file into memory

2015-08-18 Thread Sergei Degtiarev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 14:16:30 UTC, Sergei Degtiarev wrote: Right, just forgot. Will do, thanks. I added helper functions with argument forwarding for initialization.

Re: Looking for part-time developer for app back-end and webviews in D

2015-08-18 Thread David Gill via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 17:41:52 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I've added this to the wiki http://wiki.dlang.org/Jobs @bachmeier could you remove our job offer from the wiki? We've had a tremendous response, but the position has been filled. Just don't want to waste anyone's time :).

Re: Looking for part-time developer for app back-end and webviews in D

2015-08-18 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 15:26:23 UTC, David Gill wrote: On Thursday, 2 July 2015 at 17:41:52 UTC, bachmeier wrote: I've added this to the wiki http://wiki.dlang.org/Jobs @bachmeier could you remove our job offer from the wiki? We've had a tremendous response, but the position has