Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-27 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 25 March 2015 at 13:21:21 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/ thanks --Kingsley Thanks

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 25 Mar 2015 12:15, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 11:25 +, wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word:

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-25 Thread wobbles via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 23:32:38 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Here are the details - spread the word: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/ thanks --Kingsley Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin Priya

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-24 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Here are the details - spread the word: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/events/220610394/ thanks --Kingsley Thanks for all who came to the D meetup. The champion tank of the evening goes to runaway.d by Justin Priya which defeated all challengers swiftly and in style :)

Re: 2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-03-19 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just a reminder - this is happening next Tuesday - please come along if you are in London and fancy a bit of D programming fun. On Thursday, 26 February 2015 at 15:56:13 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Hi, The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially scheduled for Tuesday 24th March

2nd London D Programmers Meetup - Robot Tank Battle Tournament

2015-02-26 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, The second London D Programmers Meetup is now officially scheduled for Tuesday 24th March. As usual it's sponsored by Skills Matter and will be at their awesome training facility. This meetup will be all about an awesome robot battle tournament. Come along and bring your laptop

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-13 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
done. and gave him headsup too. is your email no spam o n e at yourfullname.com ? if not what should the first part be? or you can email me at myfirstn...@myfirstname.com On Friday, 13 February 2015 at 07:31:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Wednesday, 11 February 2015 at 22:28:03 UTC,

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-11 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/4/2015 1:17 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight into production, and

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-05 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 12:06:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:35 +, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That pretty much sums up my understanding of it too. I recollect the banter including (paraphrased): if the prototype works, just put it

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-05 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 20:40:52 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Thursday, 5 February 2015 at 12:06:31 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:35 +, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That pretty much sums up my understanding of it too. I recollect the

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-05 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 21:35 +, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] That pretty much sums up my understanding of it too. I recollect the banter including (paraphrased): if the prototype works, just put it into production, it's standard practice. -- Russel.

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thank you, Kingsley, for a very well organized and thought-through event. I was impressed by the calibre of people that attended, and look forward to attending future meetups.

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more conventional language. The prototype went straight into production, and they are happy with it. The C interop

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4 February 2015 at 21:17, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: One interesting anecdote: somebody in a financial services company gave an account of giving D a try as a way to prototype something quickly, intending to rewrite it later in a more

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks to everyone who attended it was a great evening of D fun :) As part of the evening we did a secret santa code challenge - here are some of the results: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/messages/boards/thread/48694585 We had about 13 people from different backgrounds - many

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people were using the compiler. Thanks all who came from further away for making it :) On Wednesday, 4 February

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4 February 2015 at 12:58, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x 3) which is equivalent to a foldLeft ( I think) On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 14:52:32 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/4/15, Kingsley via

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2/4/15, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: A couple of issues came out of the challenge regarding familiarity with syntax and then spending time hunting down the docs - is there a forall in D? What would forall do?

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce píše v St 04. 02. 2015 v 15:08 +: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce píše v St 04. 02. 2015 v 15:08 +: On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-04 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 15:02:09 UTC, Kingsley wrote: usually it applies to a collection e.g. List in Scala there is one - that takes a function that returns a boolean. e.g. List(1,2,3).forall(x = x 3) If I understand what you want correctly, std.algorithm.all

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-02-01 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi Just a reminder that the first London D Programmers meet up is happening on Tuesday February 3rd at Skills Matter. Looking forward to seeing you there :) http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ --Kingsley On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote: Hi, I've

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-01-25 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 22:12 +, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-01-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 1/25/15 1:22 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 22:12 +, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-01-22 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ Please come along if you can :) --Kingsley On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2015-01-22 Thread Phil via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks for organising this, I'm looking forward to it. On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 22:12:43 UTC, Kingsley wrote: We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here:

London D Programmers MeetUp

2014-12-23 Thread Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi, I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol.

Re: London D Programmers MeetUp

2014-12-23 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 23 December 2014 at 18:26, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Hi, I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've