Re: New blog about D

2015-10-02 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 10:23:25 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 04:19:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:26:35 UTC, Chris wrote: I really don't like blog posts that have overly broad titles when the subject matter is technical. I

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-29 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 September 2015 at 04:19:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:26:35 UTC, Chris wrote: I really don't like blog posts that have overly broad titles when the subject matter is technical. I think the title should be as specific as possible so that I know

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 14:26:35 UTC, Chris wrote: It's best to keep it as general as possible (within reason). There is the temptation to think like an engineer and be very specific, but this will only attract a small audience, i.e. those that look for "vector swizzling". IMO, it

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:12:35 UTC, Chris wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 12:14:56 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 13:20:54 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10:02:20 UTC, Chris wrote: Hi, I've just read the post. It's nice, it doesn't waste the reader's time and comes straight to the point (apart from highlighting D's strength). I agree, however,

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Edwin van Leeuwen via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: The blog platform itself is home-made and the server-side is 100% D (vibe.d). Once I build it up a bit more, I will probably put it up on github as an example of how easy it is to build high-performance frontend and backend

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 09:49:03 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... [...] this is what

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me Hi, If you can create an RSS or ATOM feed for D

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... [...] this is what http://code.dlang.org/packages/gl3n does, right?

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me I want to get better at writing, as I have barely

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 10:02:20 UTC, Chris wrote: "A common problem in game programming and how D solved it" That indeed sounds more appealing for a general audience. Thanks Chris!

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-28 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 12:14:56 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: On Monday, 28 September 2015 at 11:53:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's

New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me I want to get better at writing, as I have barely ever written anything other than code, and my name... I noticed there

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 9/27/2015 4:23 PM, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3mnhp4/vector_swizzle_in_d/ You might want to do an "I am the author,

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
I didn't even notice the blog name at first; I don't think it makes that much of a difference, and it wouldn't put me off reading articles from the blog. Usually blog posts are linked to directly from sites like Hackernews and Reddit anyway. As for the post itself, I enjoyed it. Vector

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Andy Smith via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... You can reach it http://www.mmartins.me I want to get better at writing, as I have barely

Re: New blog about D

2015-09-27 Thread Pankaj via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 at 23:23:05 UTC, Márcio Martins wrote: Today I launched a very tiny and humble blog, with the first post being about D. It's likely all posts will be about D in the end... [...] I like your blog. I'm a newbie to D (or to Programming you can say) and need