Re: DConf 2018 Call for Submissions

2017-11-16 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 16 November 2017 at 00:45:58 UTC, codephantom wrote: On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 at 23:53:40 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: I would like to see Chuck Allison talk about the experiences of students approaching D. I think that would be really worthwhile - or even yourself for that

Re: DMD now has colorized syntax highlighting in error messages

2017-05-16 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 14 May 2017 at 14:07:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6777 It turned out to be unexpectedly easy to implement. The only downside is now we have to rather tediously tweak the error message texts so they use backticks. The next step is Color D...

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-11 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 03:13:18 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Tuesday, 10 November 2015 at 14:17:28 UTC, Mike James wrote: The x64 sub-directory does not exist on my system. We found the bug and I build a new installer with the fix. https://dlang.dawg.eu/downloads/dmd.2.069.0

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-10 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 13:44:59 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/09/2015 09:46 AM, Mike James wrote: Hi Martin, I've tried the new install with Windows Vista and Windows 7 and the problem is the same as before. Regards, -=mike=- Can you try again, I updated the installer and tried

Re: 2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-09 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 8 November 2015 at 23:33:31 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 11/04/2015 10:05 AM, Mike James wrote: Copied here for extra visibility... Hi. There seems to be an install problem with the .exe version for Windows. The installer removes the old DMD then doesn't install the 2.069.0

2.069.0 Installation problem with .exe for Windows

2015-11-04 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
Copied here for extra visibility... Hi. There seems to be an install problem with the .exe version for Windows. The installer removes the old DMD then doesn't install the 2.069.0 version. In the task manager it's still running at 50% CPU time. It fails on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Regards,

Re: Release D 2.069.0

2015-11-04 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 November 2015 at 01:50:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.069.0. http://dlang.org/download.html http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.069.0/ This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes with even more rangified phobos functions,

Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

2015-09-03 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 15:20:13 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 03/09/15 2:41 AM, GrandAxe wrote: [...] To save time maybe I should send my bank details right now... Western Union anyone? -- [...] That's quite a large set of features, considering the site still says 2014 for

Re: DMD 2.067.0 Programming Language Specifications

2015-04-09 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 April 2015 at 12:04:40 UTC, Jordi Sayol wrote: D Programming Language Specifications for dmd 2.067.0 in several formats, available at: http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ dlangspec-2.067.0.chm -- (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) dlangspec-2.067.0.epub -- (Electronic

Re: DlangUI

2015-03-26 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 18:13:36 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - SNIP Hi Vadim, I have just installed the latest D 2.067.0, ran the git install and the build now fails. The errors are as follows: C:\D\dmd2\gui\dlanguidub run

Re: DlangUI

2015-03-26 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 11:47:59 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 11:41:17 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 18:13:36 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote: Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - SNIP Hi Vadim, I have just installed

Re: DlangUI

2015-02-02 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Vadim, When I follow the Build and Run Demo App using DUB I get the following... C:\D\dmd2\srcgit clone https://github.com/buggins/dlangui.git Cloning into 'dlangui'... remote: Counting objects: 13291, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (186/186), done. remote: Total 13291 (delta

Re: DlangUI project update

2015-01-07 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
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 Recent changes: - new controls: ScrollWidget, TreeView, ComboBox, ... - new dialogs: FileOpenDialog, MessageBox - a lot of

Re: Mono-D v2.4.9 - Parser fixes

2014-09-25 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
Alexander Bothe i...@alexanderbothe.com wrote in message news:clmyaoqgxizsicodj...@forum.dlang.org... Hi everyone, just wanted to announce a further small version bump of Mono-D. And yeah, despite my 2 week-break, development still continues! Cheers, Alex Great. Any news of an integrated

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

2014-06-07 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 7 June 2014 at 04:21:15 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:27:35 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 6/4/14, 3:19 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27911b/conversation_with_andrei_alexandrescu_all_things/ Andrei This

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
Vadim Lopatin coolreader@gmail.com wrote in message news:fylchhowgmwmqhkew...@forum.dlang.org... Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - cross-platform GUI for D. https://github.com/buggins/dlangui License: Boost License 1.0 Native library written in D (not a

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 15:15:48 UTC, Casper Færgemand wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 14:22:46 UTC, Mike James wrote: I am having problems running (debugging) the example1 program. When loading the resources it gets to tab_up_background.9.png (line 579 in file resources.d

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

2014-05-30 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:lm5924$7r8$1...@digitalmars.com... http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book http://www.amazon.com/D-Cookbook-Adam-D-Ruppe/dp/1783287217

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website. I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the errata

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-28 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote: On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already

Re: DFL can be used by D2.065

2014-03-28 Thread Mike James
On Wednesday, 26 March 2014 at 06:35:56 UTC, FrankLike wrote: If you are programming on win32,now,DFL can be used by D2.065. Please git clone http://github.com/FrankLike/dfl Open the folder w32 -dflexe double click the 'makedflexe.bat' file,after some seconds ,press the 'Enter key' ,after some

Re: DFL can be used by D2.065

2014-03-28 Thread Mike James
FrankLike 1150015...@qq.com wrote in message news:btajmssaimcexmnvg...@forum.dlang.org... I've had a look at DFL and it looks quite good but, looking thru the API, I can't see anywhere to draw a filled ellipse - Am I missing something? Regards, -=mike=-

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-03-07 Thread Mike James
Iain Buclaw ibuc...@gdcproject.org wrote in message news:mailman.10.1394132086.25740.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... On 6 March 2014 14:17, Dejan Lekic dejan.le...@gmail.com wrote: I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;) Hurry up! :) Cut the reviewers some lack! :) Some lack of

Re: So, You Want To Write Your Own Programming Language?

2014-01-24 Thread Mike James
On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 10:24:23 UTC, Chris wrote: On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 at 18:46:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/22/2014 3:40 AM, Chris wrote: Syntax is getting simplified due to the fact that the listener knows what we mean, e.g. buy one get one free. I wonder to what

Re: dmd 2.063 released with 260 bugfixes and enhancements

2013-05-31 Thread Mike James
Damn you D - I'm using up a large chunk of my free time reading the improved and very-readable Change Log. A great update to D and Log. -=mike=-

Re: GtkD 2.2 released, GTK+ with D.

2013-05-16 Thread Mike James
Hi Mike, I've installed GtkD 2.2.0 and Gtk+. When building the cairo clock app I get the following error... Error 1 Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D7gobject7ObjectG7ObjectG11addOnNotifyMFDFC7gobject9ParamSpec9ParamSpecC7gobject7ObjectG7ObjectGZvE4gtkc12gobjecttypes13GConnectFlagsZv (void

Re: GtkD 2.0 released, Gtk+ 3 with D.

2012-09-26 Thread Mike James
Mike Wey wrote in message news:k2isv4$2r67$1...@digitalmars.com... GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL license. With 2.0 GtkD will wrap Gtk+ version 3, if you need Gtk+ 2 you can use the latest version from the Gtk2 branch, version 1.6. GtkD 2.0 and 1.6 are

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-19 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright wrote in message news:k0rhp5$2fud$2...@digitalmars.com... On 8/19/2012 4:48 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: Yes, I got this impression as well. What a sad state of affairs. Yup. NaNs just don't get no respect, I tell ya! No respect at all! NaNs are the Rodney Dangerfield of

Re: dmd 1.075 and 2.060 release

2012-08-03 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:jvejr8$2s31$1...@digitalmars.com... Another big pile of bug fixes. More contributors than ever! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.075.zip

Re: dmd 1.071 and 2.056 release

2011-10-28 Thread Mike James
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:j8c7gj$2ctn$2...@digitalmars.com... On 10/27/2011 7:00 AM, Mike James wrote: Yeh, a simple app I've written has gone from 514k to 1098k in release. Where has all the extra 'goodness' come from :-O Take a look at the .map file

Re: dmd 1.071 and 2.056 release

2011-10-27 Thread Mike James
John Chapman j...@ch.com wrote in message news:j8a00m$176m$1...@digitalmars.com... Anyone else experience slow compiles? Seems about 2-3 times slower than 2.055. Also, resulting executables are nearly twice as large on Windows. John. Yeh, a simple app I've written has gone from 514k to

Re: GtkD 1.5 is released.

2011-09-01 Thread Mike James
Mike Wey mike-...@example.com wrote in message news:j3b2gr$1f6k$1...@digitalmars.com... GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL license. New in this Release: * wraps GTK+ 2.22.x series api (and relative libraries: glib, cairo, pango, etc.) * Improved memory

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-11 Thread Mike James
Dmitry Olshansky dmitry.o...@gmail.com wrote in message news:ivce6f$kjj$1...@digitalmars.com... On 09.07.2011 8:59, Jordi Sayol wrote: Al 09/07/11 06:20, En/na Walter Bright ha escrit: Amazon has a kindle app for Windows which will display it, there's probably one for Linux too. 'fbreader'

Re: Programming Windows D Examples are now Online!

2011-06-24 Thread Mike James
Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:op.vxjw48ereav7ka@localhost.localdomain... On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:42:45 -0400, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote: On 2011-06-23 15:10, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:02:02 -0400, Jonathan M Davis

Re: Phobos unit testing uncovers a CPU bug

2010-11-28 Thread Mike James
If it happens once its a bug, if its repeatable its a feature ;-) -=mike=- Kagamin s...@here.lot wrote in message news:icth6h$1nq...@digitalmars.com... Don Wrote: The Intel CPU gives the correct answer, but AMD's is wrong. They should both give the correct result. Really? I think, the

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-08-04 Thread Mike James
Serg Kovrov %lastna...@gmail.com wrote in message news:i3bmk0$18t...@digitalmars.com... On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:11 +0100, Mike James wrote: The downladable version appears in the Tokens Downloads tab of My Safari when I log on. Have you got that Tab? -=mike=- Is it the whole book

Re: In the Bay Area on August 11?

2010-08-02 Thread Mike James
Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:i353ak$1n...@digitalmars.com... I've been kindly invited by the ACCU Silicon Valley Chapter to give a talk on D at their next meeting. The talk starts at 7:00pm on Wednesday, August 11 and takes place in Mountain View.

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-14 Thread Mike James
Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.342.1279143025.24349.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... On Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:16:11 Mike James wrote: The downladable version appears in the Tokens Downloads tab of My Safari when I log on. Have you got that Tab

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-14 Thread Mike James
Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.343.1279145587.24349.digitalmars-d-annou...@puremagic.com... On Wednesday, July 14, 2010 14:59:54 Mike James wrote: Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.342.1279143025.24349.digitalmars-d-annou

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-13 Thread Mike James
strtr st...@sp.am wrote in message news:i1ck0c$g...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from Mike James (f...@bar.com)'s article Patrick Byrne pby...@frontier.co.uk wrote in message news:hvq1dr$30e...@digitalmars.com... On 22/06/2010 10:03, Mike James wrote: When you get the book it has an access

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-07-13 Thread Mike James
strtr st...@sp.am wrote in message news:i1i0up$15p...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from Mike James (f...@bar.com)'s article strtr st...@sp.am wrote in message news:i1ck0c$g...@digitalmars.com... == Quote from Mike James (f...@bar.com)'s article Patrick Byrne pby...@frontier.co.uk wrote

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
Adrian Matoga e...@atari8.info wrote in message news:hvorrg$j3...@digitalmars.com... Alix Pexton pisze: On 21/06/2010 20:23, Mike James wrote: Got my collectors item delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Where to find

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
Patrick Byrne pby...@frontier.co.uk wrote in message news:hvq1dr$30e...@digitalmars.com... On 22/06/2010 10:03, Mike James wrote: When you get the book it has an access code to download the PDF book from Safari. But you need the book first :-) Can you actually download the pdf? All I can see

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-22 Thread Mike James
Jacob Carlborg d...@me.com wrote in message news:hvr503$287...@digitalmars.com... On 2010-06-22 14:51, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 06/22/2010 07:45 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2010-06-21 21:23, Mike James wrote: Got my collectors item delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
Got my collectors item delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0...@digitalmars.com... Due to

Re: This just in: authorless TDPL becomes collector's edition

2010-06-21 Thread Mike James
:23, Mike James wrote: Got my collectors item delivered today from Amazon UK. Looks good. I like the bonus of being able to download a PDF version of TDPL. Thanks for all the hard work Andrei. -=mike=- Andrei Alexandrescuseewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote in message news:hu3hq6$2f0

Re: TDPL is #75 on the bestselling list at bestbookbuys.com

2010-04-20 Thread Mike James
== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org)'s article http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/bestsellers There are only three programming books on their Top 100 list. The other two are Modern C++ Design (#12) and C++ Coding Standards (#28). This all sounds great, but it must be

Re: Tango 0.99.8 Sean released

2009-03-27 Thread Mike James
Cheers. Regards, mike.