Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/2014 12:18 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Tkd v1.0.0-beta https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd http://code.dlang.org/packages/tkd Looks great, anxious to give this a try! BTW, on the main readme page, the links into the API docs don't appear to be working (although it might be a GitHub

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/2014 12:44 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/4/2014 12:18 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: Tkd v1.0.0-beta https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd http://code.dlang.org/packages/tkd Looks great, anxious to give this a try! BTW, on the main readme page, the links into the API docs don't appear

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/2014 3:11 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/4/2014 2:39 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 18:20:01 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I'm getting compile errors building the example (Win32 DMD 2.065.0): Those errors are from the DMD -property flag being passed somewhere,

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/4/2014 3:55 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 19:19:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Just updated to latest DUB release (v0.9.21), but now I'm getting this: That's building with the config 'library'. If you want to run the example build with: dub --config=example in the

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/5/2014 4:58 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 19:19:57 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: -Jsource/example/media: Use stringImportPaths to specify import paths in a compiler independent way Error: multiple definition of tcl_38_307: _Tcl_Main and Tcl_Main: _Tcl_Main These

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome!

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/8/2014 1:46 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote: If you're building the next Steam or Spotify use Qt/Gtk. Or better yet, don't. Steam's UI is terrible. Clicking search suggestions often does nothing, the search result paging is goofy as hell and very impractical, the whole thing's absurdly

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/8/2014 4:35 PM, Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 15:41:57 -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Or better yet, don't. Steam's UI is terrible. Clicking search suggestions often does nothing, the search result paging is goofy as hell

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/8/2014 4:51 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 08.05.2014 21:41, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: (...)my trackpad's scrolling gestures don't even fucking work on it (they work fine on nearly anything else). To be fair, some time ago I've had the joy to try and properly support scrolling gestures

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/9/2014 3:48 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming entails additional costs so we're

Re: Adam Simpkins replaces Manu Evans as speaker for DConf 2014

2014-05-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/14/2014 3:33 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sadly Manu couldn't make the trip to DConf this year. I'm both disappointed... Adam Simpkins will replace him as a speaker. Adam is a senior engineer at Facebook and will discuss opportunities and challenges using D at Facebook.

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

2014-05-15 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/15/2014 1:33 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 17:06:47 UTC, Joakim wrote: I demand a telehuman stream: http://youtube.com/watch?v=06tV60K-npw Facebook has one of those, right? ;) Haha, I'm disappointed they didn't go all the way back to landline. Would've ruined

Re: Gearing up for DConf 2014

2014-05-19 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/19/2014 1:54 PM, Brian Schott wrote: On Monday, 19 May 2014 at 17:18:27 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Would it be possible to have a separate space on the nametags for handles? -Steve Hello, my name is INIGO MONTOYA YOU KILLED MY FATHER, PREPARE TO DIE All of that on a name tag?

Re: D's timeline

2014-05-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/20/2014 4:19 AM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I'm working on my presentation for the conference and I'm running out of time. I'd like to ask you guys for some help locating a few dates: 1) When 0.x transitioned from alpha to beta 2) Was there a beta to release candidate

DAuth v0.6 - SHA-2 and Hash_DRBG

2014-05-22 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
DAuth is a low-level authentication library which provides a simple-yet-flexible API, so your software can easily incorporate secure, upgradable user authentication based on salted password hashes. By default, DAuth uses known-good hashing and randomization algorithms (currently SHA-512 and

Re: DConf 2014 publishes schedule, opens registration

2014-05-23 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/23/2014 2:51 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:13 PM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 03/03/2014 04:09 PM, Alessandro Stamatto wrote: Damn! No spoilers about the mysterious Scott Meyers talk, what is the last thing D needs?!?!?! Curious! 8-) Scott himself? ;) Ali It turns

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: thanks! Part of that was that I wanted to be deliberately counter-culture. I almost never see anyone in these tech videos wearing a tie, and while in the facebook building I think I was the only one there too. (the irony, a conservative business suit

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:41 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: And good old mode 13h! Real programmers used Mode X! (I mainly used 13h though ;) )

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: thanks! Part of that was that I wanted to be deliberately counter-culture. I almost never see anyone in these tech videos wearing a tie, and while in the facebook building I think I was the only one there too. (the irony, a conservative business suit

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/25/2014 1:18 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Similarly, mixed cussing is golly... s/golly/jolly/ Ugh...

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/26/2014 7:16 PM, Meta wrote: Even better, install with MPCHC and never need another video player again. Yes. This.

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/26/2014 9:57 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 01:42:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely. oh a fun addendum to this, I told a friend of mine (whom I haven't actually known that long) that I was trying to quit, and she was

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 12:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again)

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 6:10 PM, Johannes Totz wrote: On 27/05/2014 18:43, Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's D Cookbook now available!

2014-05-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/2014 8:45 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: One of the sections there talks about emulating random access on a structure that doesn't really support it (a linked list) and focuses on the hidden performance. That's the range-writer side of the same range-consumer rule: don't try to get fancy and

Re: [OT] Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/29/2014 9:14 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2014 04:57:14 -0400, Alix Pexton alix.dot.pex...@gmail.dot.com wrote: I couldn't resist looking up this debate, and its quite a fiery one with no clear winner! There is no clear origin to the phrase and equal arguments for and

Re: Real time captioning of D presentations

2014-06-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/2/2014 5:16 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 10:00:17 -0700 Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Captioning also helps people who aren't native english speakers. And native English speakers as

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/2014 2:33 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: But using function templates and the like you can still get fairly 'Python-like' code in D. I find dealing with types to be one of the areas that requires the 'least' amount of mental effort in software development. I don't understand why people see

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/4/2014 3:43 PM, bearophile wrote: Nick Sabalausky: In my experience, using heavy dynamic typing throughout a program creates far more work (mainly debugging) than it avoids. Even in tiny ~100 line programs, I've spent large amounts of time tracking down bugs a sane compiler would have

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 4:24 PM, Mattcoder wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 19:36:36 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere (like last year)? Andrei said on reedit they will. My connection is just too slow for streaming. But if you not want to

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 7:51 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: ... Sorry I know its annoying to have someone telling you guys what to do. Not at all, it's a fair point you raise. I would rather post a sticky thread, referencing Dicebot's channel, myself but I'm brand new here and don't have any credentials to

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 8:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/5/14, 11:15 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: I would love to spam my colleges here at Ubisoft Montreal with DConf 2014 talks ... but UStream is blocked studio wide. Is there any plans to mirror the talks somewhere else? We can stream from Vimeo and

Re: D Hackday this Friday

2014-06-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/6/2014 12:30 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 16:29:13 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: So is the plan to just comb over the issue tracker and fix easy issues and close resolved or invalid issues? I somehow mixed up comb through and pore over into a Trumpian conflation. :)

Re: Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)

2014-06-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/7/2014 12:21 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like! Too much work to write proper English words. Amirite? On those things, it *is* work! Even I've started giving up on proper grammar/capitalization/punctuation/spelling when

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/10/2014 7:08 PM, Chris Cain wrote: 3. I'd also REALLY like to see seed support ranges/values giving ANY type of integer and guarantee that few bytes are wasted (so, if it supplies 64-bit ints and the generator's internal state array only accepts 32-bit ints, it should spread the 64-bit int

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 2:41 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: 5. Another possible improvement would be something akin to a remix function. It should work identically to reseeding, but instead of setting the internal state to match the seed (as I see in

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 9:19 AM, Andrew Edwards wrote: On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: I'll be there to test and bug report ! Thank for being the release lieutenant. In my world a lieutenant is absolutely useless. Given the tutelage and guidance of solid staff non-commissioned officer, some day

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 12:35 PM, Kagamin wrote: In some scenarios impredictability is not enough. For example, when you generate a session id, an attacker doesn't have to predict it ahead of time, he can guess it at any time later. And if they listen to radio waves - that's an open protocol, an attacker

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/2014 4:49 AM, Chris Cain wrote: Also, it has suggestions for entropy on Windows (CryptGenRandom) which is something that will be necessary as well. It should be RtlGenRandom: It's used by CryptGenRandom, it loads/requires/involves far less unnecessary cruft, and it's

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/2014 8:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I don't think it's that important. And definitely there's no ignoring going on. There are plenty of things that are plenty more important, Wait, so now we're rejecting work that isn't at the right priority level? Some people did seem to find

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/12/2014 11:13 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/12/14, 7:26 PM, Daniel Murphy wrote: It 1. allows escaping final, which we can't do without it or an equivalent 2. does exactly what everybody expects 3. is already implemented 4. looks much nicer than your proposal Why not just leave it

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/13/2014 12:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Being able to negate the final: label is nice to have but not a must. Adding a keyword for that doesn't scale - it would mean we'd need to add one keyword to undo each label. No it doesn't mean that. virtual is very well established

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/13/2014 8:15 PM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Friday, 13 June 2014 at 11:31:10 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 13-Jun-2014 04:31, Walter Bright пишет: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/3655 Heh, I had been under the impression was already Boost. :P It's probably nice to have

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2014 3:58 AM, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 06:07:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I doubt it. First, it's the backend that's not technically OSI, frontend was (apparently) GPL. Second, I can't imagine any Linux distro rejecting GPL - they'd have to boot the kernel and core

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2014 10:18 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 14-Jun-2014 04:46, Walter Bright пишет: 3. Harmonization with usage of Boost in the runtime library In other words simplify licensing, but again compiler and runtime library do not have to have anything in common. There is no issue to begin

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2014 2:47 PM, David Nadlinger wrote: On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 18:43:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: And there's another advantage I neglected to mention - it allows DMDFE code to be moved into Phobos without issues. I don't think Nick's argument is particularly compelling, Granted,

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2014 2:52 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 14-Jun-2014 22:03, Nick Sabalausky пишет: Scenario A: -- Them: What license does D use? Me: WAT? Language is not a product in itself. While that's technically true, people often think of them as complete products

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/14/2014 5:49 PM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: and it becomes a question of whether the familiarity of using virtual instead of !final or final(false) (or whatever we come up with) is worth adding another keyword FWIW, I don't think virtual is all that valuable as a

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/16/2014 10:00 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote: Java, which dynamic language proponents like to bash for it's verbosity Static language proponents like to bash Java for its verbosity, too!

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/20/2014 4:37 AM, Kagamin wrote: On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 19:24:15 UTC, SomeRiz wrote: Visual Studio like editor for TkD :/ Hmm... visual designers can usually build pixel-oriented GUI, tk uses layouts, which work with code a little better. While it's been awhile since I've used

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-20 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/19/2014 5:27 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: I realized that it ought to be possible to allow a more direct drop-in replacement for std.random by adding static opCalls to the classes which were previously structs. Thoughts on this, in favour, against ... ? I'm on the fence: Pro:

Re: Smile, you're on Wired

2014-07-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/7/2014 12:06 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2a20h5/wired_magazine_discovers_d/ Excellent article! Best introduction to D I've ever seen. Not only that, but it also helps dissuade the misleading belief that Facebook is written in PHP, so I'm

Re: DConf 2014 Keynote: High Performance Code Using D by Walter Bright

2014-07-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 7/16/2014 5:15 AM, Jaroslav Hron wrote: On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 16:20:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2aruaf/dconf_2014_keynote_high_performance_code_using_d/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/885322668148082

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/7/2014 11:34 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: It's not because it's hard, it's because it's perceived as totally backwards, and it undermines the trust in the ecosystem. It's all about perception. The Windows/Visual Studio development culture is pretty immature, and expects

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/9/2014 10:57 AM, Dicebot wrote: actually avoided learning anything out of the default comfort zone and called that _professional attitude_. People have some truly bizarre ideas about what constitutes professionalism. At a previous job I had, at one particular developer's meeting with

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/11/2014 3:55 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: The sad reality is that your physical appearance - including your clothing - can have a big impact on how people perceive you, so in many situations, wearing nicer clothing can have a definite impact. This is particularly true when dealing with

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/7/2014 1:05 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I've never encountered anybody try and use MSC from the command line in about 15 years professionally. I've tried to. When using Marmalade. Marmalade's mandatory build system is very closed-off and VS-integrated, so when I needed to

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/2014 5:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I though that this might be important enough to share on the announce list: A pull request [1] by Rainer Schuetze which adds COFF support for Win32 has recently been merged by Walter. It seems to be enabled using the -m32mscoff flag. [1]

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/18/2014 7:07 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:48:00 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I don't see how infrequent, stable releases are more likely to provoke that reaction than frequent,

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/18/2014 7:14 PM, Dicebot wrote: I also propose to start 2.067 beta branch right now and declare it yet another bug-fixing release. Seconded.

Re: COFF support for Win32 merged

2014-08-18 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/17/2014 5:57 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I though that this might be important enough to share on the announce list: A pull request [1] by Rainer Schuetze which adds COFF support for Win32 has recently been merged by Walter. It seems to be enabled using the -m32mscoff flag. [1]

Re: D for the Win

2014-08-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/2014 5:39 PM, Peter Alexander wrote: Ha, that opDollar thing in the HTML generator is the nastiest D hack I've seen :-P Yea, this *statement* really made me go o_O link[$.rel = foobar, $.type = text/css]; That's a lot of syntax abuse there! Still, if it works for him, great, who

Re: D for the Win

2014-08-21 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/2014 6:57 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: Am 21.08.2014 00:02, schrieb anonymous: No, no, Dlang Dlang Über Alles is a take on Deutschland Deutschland über alles (Germany Germany over everything), the first verse of the national anthem as sung in Nazi times. I was actually worried if the author

DAuth v0.6.1 - Salted Hashed Password Library

2014-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
An update to DAuth is out: https://github.com/Abscissa/DAuth Main Changes: - Add support for DMD 2.066 (Now supports v2.064.2 through v2.066.0) - Supports crypt(3)-style hash strings for MS5, SHA-256 and SHA-512. - Improved README - Improved API Reference - now uses ddox. Full ChangeLog:

Re: DAuth v0.6.1 - Salted Hashed Password Library

2014-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/30/2014 6:29 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: An update to DAuth is out: https://github.com/Abscissa/DAuth Main Changes: - Add support for DMD 2.066 (Now supports v2.064.2 through v2.066.0) - Supports crypt(3)-style hash strings for MS5, SHA-256 and SHA-512. Would you believe *MD5*, not MS5.

Re: Blog post on hidden treasure in the D standard library.

2014-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/30/2014 5:38 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: ˙ǝƃɐnƃuɐן uʍo ɹıǝɥʇ ǝʇıɹʍ ɹo ʞɐǝds pןnoɥs ʎǝɥʇ ʍoɥ uo ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ ʇɔǝɹɹoɔ oʇ ƃuıʎɹʇ sʎɐʍןɐ ǝɹɐ ǝןdoǝd ɥsıןƃuƎ-uou ʇɐɥʇ snoıɹɐןıɥ ʇı puıɟ sʎɐʍןɐ I I'm a native English speaker. Uncapitalized I makes a writer come across like a common leet-speak

Re: DAuth v0.6.1 - Salted Hashed Password Library

2014-08-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/30/2014 10:19 AM, Casey wrote: Would it be possible to support bcrypt style password hashing? The one key feature of it is that it encrypts/hashes the password many times to slow down brute force attacks. Hash algorithms are too fast to prevent this. DAuth is designed for everything to

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/2/2014 3:46 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just released a new version of DVM, 0.4.3. [...] Version 0.4.3 New/Changed Features * Add support for Dub * Since issue 23 has been fixed this means that now both 32 and 64bit libraries are supported simultaneously Bugs Fixed * Fix

Re: String to binary conversion

2014-09-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/3/2014 8:32 AM, clearion wrote: I would like to write binary data to a file for an ancillary hash table operation and then read it back using stream.rawRead(). How would I go about converting a string to binary in D. I would prefer not to use any third party libraries if I can. Thank You

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/4/2014 3:50 PM, Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Debian testing: $ dvm install 2.065.0 Fetching: http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.065.0.zip [] 50581/49347 KB Installing: dmd-2.065.0 An unknown error occurred:

Re: DVM - D Version Manager 0.4.3

2014-09-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/4/2014 4:51 PM, Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: El 04/09/14 a les 22:17, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit: What I'm doing wrong? dvm install dvm On Debian testing (mate desktop) without ~/.dvm dir, dmd still not found: $ dvm install dvm $ dvm

[OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-09-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Don't mean to be alarmist, but I'm posting this in case anyone else is like me and hasn't been paying attention since this news broke (AIUI) about a week ago. Apparently bash has it's own heartbleed now, dubbed shellshock. Warm fuzzy flashbacks of TMNT: The Arcade Game aside, this appears to

Re: [OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-09-30 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/01/2014 01:09 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Debian 6: (Including setting up the LTS repos): $ sudo cat 'deb http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free' /etc/apt/sources.list $ sudo cat 'deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian squeeze-lts main contrib non-free'

Re: [OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-10-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/01/2014 03:19 PM, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 10/1/2014 6:41 AM, JN via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wednesday, 1 October 2014 at 05:09:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Other OSes/distros are likely equally easy. Please, reply with examples to help ensure other

Re: [OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-10-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/01/2014 02:42 PM, Kagamin wrote: A have linux mint 12 installation with mint4win (wubi), on linux mint forums I was told, that updating from the latest repository won't work. I sympathize:

Re: [OT Security PSA] Shellshock: Update your bash, now!

2014-10-01 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/01/2014 01:38 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: One nice thing about Ubuntu is that they even give you access to future kernel versions through what they call HWE. In short, I can run a 14.04 LTS kernel on a 12.04 server, so that I'm able to use modern hardware and take

Re: mysql-native: Update, Status and Plans

2014-10-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/04/2014 05:16 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: - Professionalism: It's time for mysql-native to graduate from a functional works for our purposes utility to a well-presented newcomer-friendly library. At this point, that means having clearly stated project purpose and goals, updated

Re: DUB 0.9.22 released

2014-10-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/06/2014 02:15 PM, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 06.10.2014 13:36, schrieb bioinfornatics: Thanks for your works, One question, what about makefile support ? Regards It's still in need for a volunteer. The implementation itself should be pretty straightforward (by inheriting from the

Re: D on TV - FLOSS Weekly 311

2014-10-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/08/2014 10:41 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/8/2014 6:25 PM, John wrote: I wish you had some lighting on you. You are hardly visible! It's to hide the scars where my head was sewed back on. Getting the brain out was the easy part. The hard part was getting the brain out! - Hubert

Re: Searching for a tool to use D for web development with Apache

2014-10-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 10/12/2014 12:46 PM, TSalm wrote: Hello, Does it exist a project to use D in web development with Apache; not for CGI scripts, but rather like what PHP does ? Not really sure exactly what you mean by like what PHP does, but yes, Vibe.d is generally considered fantastic: http://vibed.org/

Re: Heady House Hunting with D

2015-01-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 01/13/2015 10:56 PM, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 14/01/2015 4:46 p.m., Philpax wrote: Hey everyone, I recently wrote a blog post about how I used D/vibe.d to help find a new house. I haven't publicized it anywhere else yet, so I'm looking forward to what the D community has to say! You can

Re: SDLang-D v0.9.0

2015-03-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/16/2015 11:02 PM, Jay Norwood wrote: Very nice. I wonder about representation of references, and perhaps replication, inheritance. Does SDL just punt on those? SDL does not specifically address those. It's just left up to your own schema. (Which reminds me: I'd really like to see an

Another: SDLang-D v0.9.1

2015-03-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just tagged v0.9.1, a small but important update that fixes this issue: Access Violation when using the pull parser https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D/issues/16

SDLang-D v0.9.0

2015-03-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
SDLang-D update (v0.9.0) has now been tagged/released: https://github.com/Abscissa/SDLang-D It's a D lib to parse and generate the SDL data language (similar to XML/JSON, but more human-friendly, while still being very simple). Most of the big changes have been sitting in master for

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 04:44 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: I wrote the article in a rush last night (girlfriend calling me to bed) and as a result it has a few spelling/grammar errors which I've hopefully corrected. The article is a total rant about Go after using it over the last month or so for a

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 09:47 PM, Walter Bright wrote: It seems to me that every significant but one feature of Go has a pretty much direct analog in D I'm no Go expert, but AIUI, Go seems to be one of those languages that considers *lacking* certain features to *be* a feature. Ie the whole

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/25/2015 07:00 PM, bearophile wrote: Ola Fosheim Grøstad: Downplaying other languages makes the D crowd look desperate... That kind of articles are bad for the image of the D community No. Just...no. I'm honestly *really* tired of general society's (seemingly?) increasing

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/25/2015 11:11 PM, lobo wrote: Overall the blog post is a bit immature with little rigor and too much emotion. I can't comment on the accuracy of the comparisons, but FWIW, I'd take immature and emotional over dry, corporate and PC any day. :) Life's too short to be bland.

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 02:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: And seriously, the article in question barely mentions D at all. Sorry, what I meant is it doesn't rely on D, and D Go is very clearly NOT the point the article is trying to make. It's just used for contrast, to illustrate the points. It

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 02:04 PM, Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 18:00:29 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: So no, this is NOT some sort of D community piece attacking another language as some comments seem to imply. It is merely an

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 04:38 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I paraphrase the common theme thus: Go is successful in the market, D isn't, therefore Go is a better language than D. I love how Go's very own reasoning there naturally suggests that PHP, C++, and Java must all be

Re: Gary Willoughby: Why Go's design is a disservice to intelligent programmers

2015-03-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 03/26/2015 06:36 PM, ketmar wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:17:47 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Of course I'm not saying that makes trolling good (although I'm absolutely *amazed* that so many on reddit actually see your article as trolling - it obviously isn't, they clearly didn't even read

Re: This Week in D #15: hackathon, mem management, ARM, tip for C coders

2015-05-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/03/2015 11:23 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I covered two weeks this time, as I missed last week. http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-03.html The tip this week might be a bit controversial but I actually feel kinda strongly about this. So many times, I see people asking questions about how

Re: This Week in D 16: microcontroller, andoid, std.allocator, lazy import trick

2015-05-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 05/10/2015 11:09 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/may-10.html https://twitter.com/adamdruppe/status/597598994227924992 The tip could probably use a rewrite in editing, but I'm out of time again tonight and I hope I got the point across anyway. As someone who really

Tagged Scriptlike release: v0.7.0

2015-04-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
Scriptlike: A utility library to aid in writing script-like programs in D. https://github.com/Abscissa/scriptlike http://code.dlang.org/packages/scriptlike Two things in this v0.7.0 release: - Easy input-prompting module scriptlike.interact, by Jesse Phillips. This has actually been in master

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2015 10:59 PM, IgorStepanov wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 02:14:08 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 02:11:17 UTC, IgorStepanov wrote: Ok, why we use email/NNTP server instead of simple database/file storage? Do we use some free mail server, or we must

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-04 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/04/2015 03:41 PM, Mattcoder wrote: PS: I think you could increase the font size a bit on the top links( Index » Announce / Log in · Settings · Help) and the page numbers on the bottom, at least for mobile. Yea, they are hard to hit accurately on mobile (but then, I'm usually in the

safeArg: Little CLI util to pass null-delimited list of cmdline args to a program

2015-06-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://github.com/Abscissa/safeArg http://code.dlang.org/packages/safearg This is a small command line tool that was inspired by this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30720364/honoring-quoting-in-reading-shell-arguments-from-a-file To quote safeArg's readme:

Re: forum.dlang.org, version 2 (BETA)

2015-06-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 5 June 2015 at 01:45:58 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: It may be that we have lost potential participants because they clicked away from the page within seconds of realising there was no oauth (I definitely would). It's doable but just seems a little overkill to me. Every time I

Re: safeArg: Little CLI util to pass null-delimited list of cmdline args to a program

2015-06-09 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/09/2015 05:45 AM, Marc =?UTF-8?B?U2Now7x0eiI=?= schue...@gmx.net wrote: This sounds like xargs: http://linux.die.net/man/1/xargs Heh, Unix: The ORIGINAL There's an app for that. ;) In any case, FWIW, safearg is simpler (which I suppose could be good or bad depending on use-case), and

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