Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:15:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time to compile another issue! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss This week's tip goes into the import statement which many people use but not everyone realizes what all it can do. D.announce seemed a bit less active this week too (my criteria for inclusion there is simply a new thread made since last time, so new posts in an existing thread don't count), but there were a lot of bug and pull request action this week (mostly related to the style tweaks)! Hi Adam, enjoy reading your articles but it was/is kind of difficult to find them. I browse dlang.org frequently but irregularly and Issue 3 popped accidentally into my eye. I could not find any obvious link to Issues 1 and 2 (searching the announce forum does not count as obvious) and had to guess the URLs based on weekly. I would suggest to collect the links to all Issues on the URL: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d What do you think? Regards, ParticlePeter
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
Did the link disappear from the rust forum? I'm having trouble finding anything but three topics there. Also lots of images are missing.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 18:17:39 UTC, Casper Færgemand wrote: Did the link disappear from the rust forum? I'm having trouble finding anything but three topics there. Also lots of images are missing. Yes, they have renamed it to internals.rust-lang.org Probably so that discuss.rust-lang.org will be reserved for end users now that Rusties are pimping themselves for 1.0.0 release! Will be interesting to see how it falls out. Go has really enjoyed accelerated growth in the eco system after going stable. I wonder if the same will happen for Rust. (Go even have iOS and Android support now... Geez. Searching for http on github yields Go hits that is at 25% of Java. People seem to pick it up fast, it is easy to learn.)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:38:31 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: (A slight typo: 2017 in the header) oops. fixed. One thing I did this time that I'm not sure if I want to commit to was writing a very brief summary of a couple of the threads. (It had to be very brief tbh because I didn't actually read them all myself, I had just been skimming) I think it would be too much to do that for everything, but I do like the idea and might do it for at least a few when I can going forward. One thing I don't want this to ever be is *just* a list of links.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:15:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time to compile another issue! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss This week's tip goes into the import statement which many people use but not everyone realizes what all it can do. D.announce seemed a bit less active this week too (my criteria for inclusion there is simply a new thread made since last time, so new posts in an existing thread don't count), but there were a lot of bug and pull request action this week (mostly related to the style tweaks)! Thanks for your work. Good luck with the search for your dog! Craig
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
Nice and focused summary of last week. Every issue so far has to be an improvement over the last one. :-) (A slight typo: 2017 in the header)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 15:15:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:42:18 UTC, weaselcat wrote: At first I feared there wouldn't be enough content for you to do this weekly but I'm glad I was wrong. D seems more popular than ever. Yea, and besides, worst case scenario, there's plenty of backlog tips or projects I can talk about to fill it in. A single support email/SO question/IRC comment can lead to enough material to make it look somewhat substantial, even if the forums are pretty dead in a week. I have noticed that email interviews often generate a lot of discussion in programming-oriented social media. I guess there are many people who have used D in a project you could do an email interview with if you feel like having a bit of variety (or someone else could perhaps submit an interview conducted on a meetup?). Interviews also don´t have to be fresh, they just have to be unpublished so you can buffer them as carrots and push it when people have time to read and discuss (easter?)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On 26.01.15 14:37, Nick Treleaven wrote: On 26/01/2015 05:15, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss Much appreciated - now works with my Thunderbird, thanks :) Double :)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:01:02 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Good luck with the search for your dog! Thank. I'm especially worried now because the weather took a turn for the worse in Watertown, with sub-zero wind chills and snowfall coming. She's been out since Thursday night, and spotted yesterday morning by someone, so apparently she has made it through the cold nights so far, but it keeps getting worse and she's gotta be wearing down... with any luck though, she'll stop running from people trying to help her, then she can get inside.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 14:48:52 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: One thing I did this time that I'm not sure if I want to commit to was writing a very brief summary of a couple of the threads. (It had to be very brief tbh because I didn't actually read them all myself, I had just been skimming) I think it would be too much to do that for everything, but I do like the idea and might do it for at least a few when I can going forward. One thing I don't want this to ever be is *just* a list of links. Yes, if there is too much trivia on the top of the newsletter people might loose interest and miss out on the Tip of the week, which could be an important channel for incremental education. I guess forum summaries are most interesting if there is: 1. a sense of movement/change of direction 2. new directions (new framework or compiler) 3. encouragement to participate if there is contention around an important issue before implementation (like before improving the GC). An acid test would be asking yourself will this discussion topic be notable after a month?. I think the usual hot today forum topics ought be profiled on dlang.org front page using heuristics. I think dlang.org could list more than 8 threads, with a more link that goes to the forum page. (I doubt most people will use the scroll bar, and it looks ugly :-). If a forum announcement acts as an official blog news announcement then a snippet ought to be present on the front page and in the This Week in D, with a read more link? Anyway, keep up the good work. I like where you are going with this! :-)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:42:18 UTC, weaselcat wrote: At first I feared there wouldn't be enough content for you to do this weekly but I'm glad I was wrong. D seems more popular than ever. Yea, and besides, worst case scenario, there's plenty of backlog tips or projects I can talk about to fill it in. A single support email/SO question/IRC comment can lead to enough material to make it look somewhat substantial, even if the forums are pretty dead in a week.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 15:07:09 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Yes, if there is too much trivia on the top of the newsletter people might loose interest and miss out on the Tip of the week, which could be an important channel for incremental education. Right. I thought about putting the tip (etc.) sections on the top too, but then I felt pressured to shorten them so the links aren't too far away and that felt wrong. This week's turned out pretty good though, I'm happy with this length and order I guess forum summaries are most interesting if there is: Right. Sometimes that is hard to tell though - long threads have often seemed significant, but ended up going nowhere in the past. But that's also the difference between significant threads and major changes - the threads are just talk, the major changes are based on some concrete step. If a forum announcement acts as an official blog news announcement then a snippet ought to be present on the front page and in the This Week in D, with a read more link? The subject of announce posts is often pretty good IMO. I haven't felt the need to summarize them much. Anyway, keep up the good work. I like where you are going with this! :-) thanks
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 06:47:35 UTC, ketmar wrote: great. and i never realised that the trick with Aye, static imports I think are a bit underused. The tip section (and project spotlight, which takes longer to write but I have a few plans for that too) is something I hope can keep active, experienced users interested in these newsletters each week too. This one was inspired by a real life problem I helped an emailer though this week, so I was pretty sure it would be worth writing up.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:26:23 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: There is an exposed $P tag on the page: Ooops, fixed. Thanks! (remember to refresh to skip your browser cache)
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Monday, 26 January 2015 at 05:15:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time to compile another issue! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss This week's tip goes into the import statement which many people use but not everyone realizes what all it can do. D.announce seemed a bit less active this week too (my criteria for inclusion there is simply a new thread made since last time, so new posts in an existing thread don't count), but there were a lot of bug and pull request action this week (mostly related to the style tweaks)! At first I feared there wouldn't be enough content for you to do this weekly but I'm glad I was wrong. D seems more popular than ever. Can't wait for next week's update.
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 05:15:49 +, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: great. and i never realised that the trick with static import arsd.dom; import std.xml; will help to disambiguate identifiers. but it's so obvious after you pointed that out... signature.asc Description: PGP signature
This Week in D, Issue 3
I've been out of town this week and also dealing with trying to remotely find my lost dog (she got away from the sitter... and no luck yet :( ) so I haven't been as active as I often am in the D community, but I still made time to compile another issue! http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss This week's tip goes into the import statement which many people use but not everyone realizes what all it can do. D.announce seemed a bit less active this week too (my criteria for inclusion there is simply a new thread made since last time, so new posts in an existing thread don't count), but there were a lot of bug and pull request action this week (mostly related to the style tweaks)!
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2tozgb/this_week_in_d_website_makeover_c_interop_import/
Re: This Week in D, Issue 3
On 1/25/2015 9:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-25.html Also available via RSS: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/twid.rss Awesome job (as usual!). Thanks, Adam!
