Syncing files without a dynamic DNS service with D, Gmail and cURL

I figured I would share this project here since I wrote it in D and this is a D forum! I basically built two small programs to send and get a computer's IP using gmail as the static source. It would've been simpler to implement with some shell scripts, but I wanted to get practice using other d

Re: Syncing files without a dynamic DNS service with D, Gmail and cURL

On Thursday, 23 January 2014 at 02:12:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/22/14 12:15 PM, Ben wrote: I figured I would share this project here since I wrote it in D and this is a D forum! I basically built two small programs to send and get a computer's IP using gmail as the static s

Internships investigating D in high-performance computing.

asant place to be in summer with lots of lakes and mountain valleys to explore on the weekends. If you are interested, contact my colleague Claudio (find his email by following the link above), or me at bcumm...@cscs.ch Cheers, Ben Cumming.

Re: Mobile App STACK4 with a D backend

It works fine on Nexus 5 (it also loaded promptly the first time). I lost to the AI a couple of times before I tried to play multiplayer, but gave up after waiting a couple of minutes for another player to come online.

Re: Internships investigating D in high-performance computing.

ld do. I am only starting out with D myself, so I'm open to any ideas from more experienced hands who might have put some thought into this before, or know of similar work. Ben.

Dragging Gunroar into 2014

[ Originally posted to Reddit: . ] I got an itch recently and started to port my favorite game from ABA Games[1] to 2014: gunroar[1]. Currently, it has been ported to using Derelict3 rather than Kenta Cho's manua

Re: Dragging Gunroar into 2014

.org/wheezy/gunroar D2: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/gunroar I would like to tell them that this is going to be fixed before the next release. This is beyond my scope right now, but it's nice to know that other arch support (namely ARM) is in the works. --Ben

Re: Dragging Gunroar into 2014

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 21:42:13 +, Ben Boeckel wrote: > This is beyond my scope right now, but it's nice to know that other > arch support (namely ARM) is in the works. As incentive for this, I've implemented 3 new modes tonight (though they're all untested,

Re: Dragging Gunroar into 2014

f guaranteeing a single, unbroken string that depends on the compiler show up in a D executable. I do plan on splitting it out at some point, but without a project attached to it, testing is hard, so it's living in gunroar for now. --Ben [1]https://github.com/mathstuf/abagames-gunroar/tree/master/cmake

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

ut GDC will work with Ninja and Make already (LDC/DMD+Ninja has a pull request with Ninja). I'll try it out when I get a chance. --Ben

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 14:12:45 -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote: > I'll try it out when I get a chance. I've pushed some fixes to my CMake fork to work with GDC on Linux. I've also fixed up some things I saw and opened a bug on your fork (which isn't linked with Kitware/CMake, so

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

rt (preferred; no comment from martine yet) - CMake - Add depfile support to Make (preferred) - Add dmd -> make depfile translator (likely necessary[2]) --Ben [1]http://stackoverflow.com/a/16969086 [2]The dmd-depfile format probably won't fly with make upstream since make-depfiles aren't actually a thing with make, but gcc.

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 00:38:05 +, Trent Forkert wrote: > On Wednesday, 26 March 2014 at 23:17:31 UTC, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > 4. Add depfile support to Makefile generators. > > That's basically what I'm doing, though only in the context of D. No, I meant, using the

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

command that is actually used to generate a > depend.make. But, as I said above, cmDepends is a build-time thing. > It's more obtuse about it than the Ninja generator is, but it is > still build-time. I'll have to ask Brad what he perfers for cmDepends* going forward. I don't know the full ramifications of removing it. --Ben

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

ce of getting subtle new behavior[1], more reasonable to expect or ask users to have an up-to-date version, etc.). Getting the -M flags recognized and implemented in DMD and LDC are good goals to shoot for, but we're constrained by the tools we have available… --Ben [1]CMake is (ideally) loud when this occurs through its policy system.m

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 14:47:51 +, Trent Forkert wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 April 2014 at 12:46:54 UTC, w0rp wrote: > >1. Do you plan to get this merged back into CMake proper? > > Ideally, yes. But things are still in early stages, and that is up to > people who aren't m

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

DDoc stuff?), and other minor things (cmDependsD not working for older compilers last I looked, something needs to be done about the Ninja patch I made, removal of unnecessary code in the Platform/ and Compiler/ files, probably more). --Ben

Re: CMake with D support early snapshot

LDC equivalents. That's…unfortunate :( . Though knowing where the -deps= writer lives in DMD (the implementation of the import keyword rather than the lexer), this probably doesn't surprise me. --Ben [1]At compile time, you may discover that you depend on a .mod file generated by another s

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

ossibly better off since you can now do: add $offset $compare_result jmp *$offset rather than doing 2 comparisons and a branch since you *know* the result will never be more than 2. --Ben

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

How would you copy the common attributes of the composed functions to the new function (if not builtin)? --Ben

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

e T unT() { return store; } } and if you want unT to be public: public T unT(NewType!T nt) { return nt.unT(); } --Ben [1]http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/Data-Ix.html

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

; array[i+j] Why would you be adding arbitrary integers to enumerations and expecting a valid result? > And forcing the user to use templates to do any logical or arithmetic > operations on enum operands? It's just awful. Again, interfaces :) . --Ben

Re: Interesting rant about Scala's issues

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 20:11:39 +, John Colvin wrote: > unicode decoding. front decodes a code-point from a string instead of > a code-unit (single char) Another reason for separating 'byte' and 'char' types? --Ben

Re: Programming language made in D!

lly since tools don't flag 'tarbombs' as anything different). Either way, get a flag added to tar for such a thing and maybe folks wouldn't care so much about tarbombs anymore. --Ben

Berlin Meetup

In case someone hasn't seen the post in the D general group, we have organised a social meet up for D programmers in Berlin Germany next week. It will take place on Friday the 23rd of January from 17:00 to 19:30 at the Melbourne Canteen (http://www.melbournecanteen.com/). The idea is to have a

Berlin D Meetup Feb 2015

presentation on "Random number generation in Phobos and beyond". After the presentation we will have time for questions/discussions/drinks. We also have a meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

On Thursday, 24 January 2019 at 14:44:07 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Of course, one could argue that it must have offered enough to keep some of them interested. They were able to get stuff done when they used it. The build in and good performing http server hit the sweet spot. Never underestimate

Re: DIP 1021--Argument Ownership and Function Calls--Formal Assessment

On Monday, 28 October 2019 at 20:23:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 10/28/2019 12:23 PM, jmh530 wrote: Is there a connection between this DIP and the restrict qualifier in C? This DIP basically ensures that in @safe code, if a piece of data is accessed only through scope pointers, then there m

Re: Earcut polygon triangulation

On Monday, 24 February 2020 at 19:15:13 UTC, JN wrote: On Sunday, 23 February 2020 at 16:20:09 UTC, Ahmet Sait wrote: Out of curiosity, why would you need to triangulate polygons instead of using stencil buffer? I'm assuming you're using OpenGL (or something similar) since you talked about your

Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3386323 Many, many thanks to Mike Parker and Andrei Alexandrescu for their endless hours spent fixing the mess I originally wrote. Interesting history! Did Eric Niebler lose interest in D? I

Re: D Language Foundation Monthly Meeting Summary (September 24, 2021)

On Wednesday, 6 October 2021 at 06:23:01 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: On Friday, 1 October 2021 at 12:32:20 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: [...] new slogan [...] want to generate controversial heat? Do it in D (DIID) (careful with there being a trademark for DiiD though) How about "from prototype to p

Re: Pry parser v0.6.0 is out

On Monday, 10 July 2023 at 10:22:08 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: Not much in way of new features but now atom set actually take a set as runtime parameter making it all the more useful. https://github.com/DmitryOlshansky/pry-parser -- Dmitry Olshansky CEO @ Glow Labs http://olshansky.me Cool

Re: Z80 Emulation Engine

u can change at will. If you accept contributions, you'll need everyone to agree (or rip their code out). You could go with a contributor agreement, but I'd advise against it. Personally, I refuse to contribute to projects which require handing copyright of my pathces over. --Ben [1]https://help.g

Re: D Breaks on to the TIOBE Top 20 List.

ed) projects are targeting printers as their platform (at least via the paper tray). Almost certainly not more than all of Scala, Go, and Haskell. --Ben

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

he top of my head. From what I've seen of Tk so > far, Steam would have been *far* better if it had used it instead of > going to the bother of reinventing everything really, really badly. > (Well, at least Steam isn't all-green anymore like it used to be :/ ) IIRC, Steam is a Java beast, so I wouldn't go off and blame Qt/Gtk for that. --Ben

Re: OpenGL Examples in D and a birth of a New Initiative

lly want us to have a > 3D physics engine. Derelict has a module[1] for ODE[2]. --Ben [1]https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictODE [2]http://www.ode.org/

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

phism and type inference is for. In Haskell at least, you rarely need to actually put types in to your source. Usually you decorate top-level API functions to make sure you got it right and for making figuring out what the type of an argument is though. And those types shouldn't be changing all that often. --Ben

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 19:36:35 +, Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere > (like last year)? My connection is just too slow for streaming. Use youtube-dl[1]. --Ben [1]http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Re: dmd front end now switched to Boost license

is source-file-based copyleft (rather than link-time copyleft). --Ben

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

es which inflates its numbers (the score is valid though). --Ben

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b2

oes it compile? Removing the > string changes the signature of opDispatch but as shown in my prior > example, there are orther ways to cause this error. It's swizzling. gl3n[1] implements it as well. --Ben [1]https://github.com/Dav1dde/gl3n/blob/master/gl3n/linalg.d#L375

Re: Coloring terminal output.

ch are fairly common. Also rxvt-unicode-256color (if it supports 256 colors which a quick scan didn't seem to indicate). --Ben

Re: DUB 0.9.22 released

ncy analysis > (currently all object file are rebuild when something change). FWIW, the CMake branch[1] Trent and I have been working on has this support if you want something sooner. --Ben [1]https://github.com/trentforkert/CMake

Re: DUB 0.9.22 released

would be viable ('w' for 'wrap'). --Ben

Re: DUB 0.9.22 released

ich wraps another with 4 version components? Enforced semver to the limit that only 3 components are supported seems a little heavy-handed to me. --Ben

Re: D2 port of Sociomantic CDGC available for early experiments

e-arg2 -RTS --program-arg1 The program doesn't see anything between +RTS and -RTS arguments. --Ben

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

get some share from > it). One way to do this is to make the engine FOSS then keep the artwork under a less permissive license (e.g., this is what Froggato does). --Ben

Re: Anyone interested in embedding a JVM in their D app?

there wasn't anything conclusive since debugging was never easier than what I got from logcat and looking at disassemblies). This was back in 2.065 era though and I haven't done much with it since then. --Ben

Re: This Week in D, issue 1

mount of time I've spent saying "it's on the > list" lol) And for those who like NNTP over email: http://gwene.org/ --Ben

Re: Interfacing D to existing C++ code

ed" version from the C++ object data and use that directly > in the D mangled version? IIRC, C++ default arguments are handled at compile time and are not part of the ABI. --Ben

Re: 2015 H1 Vision

I've been using CMake (with patches[1]) just fine[2]. --Ben [1]https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake [2]https://github.com/mathstuf/abagames-gunroar

Re: 2D game engine written in D is in progress

27;data > oriented design'. http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html --Ben

Re: Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

hen actually submitted...ugh :) You can subscribe via email. --Ben

Re: Berlin D Meetup Feb 2015

Just a reminder that this is happening tonight at 19:30. For those coming from further away the closest U-Bahn is Kottbusser Tor on the U1 and U8. The directions for getting to the room (from the http://co-up.de/ website) are: Go through the big metal gate to the left of Adalbertstr. 7, strai

Berlin D Meetup February 2017

h their own pet projects to do a small hackathon on improving CI state of those (not limited to GitLab CI)." More details are available on the meetup page here: https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/237548983/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup March 2017

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mX6lIJqKhI"; As always we will have both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available and time for discussions after the talk. The meetup page is: https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/238293017/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup June 2017

agged union in less than 100 LoC". As always we will have both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available and time for discussions after the talk. The meetup page is: https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/240756635/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup August 2017

your examples, questions, or just an interest in what static foreach can do. As always we will have both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks available. The meetup page is: https://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/242557986/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: The latest Terrarium TV 1.8.1 has been updated.

On Wednesday, 8 November 2017 at 09:40:01 UTC, Theresa Henson wrote: The update is compatible with the latest Android OS as well as all others over Android 4.0 Here are updated version of Terrarium TV: https://terrariumtvforpcdownload.com/terrarium-tv-apk/

Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0 If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's true and quite funny :o). Now as to the talk, as you could imagine, it touches on another language as well... Andrei A lo

Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available

On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:22:32 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: On Monday, 14 January 2019 at 21:08:50 UTC, Ben Jones wrote: On Saturday, 12 January 2019 at 15:51:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tcyb1lpEHm0 If nothing else please watch the opening story, it's

Re: Berlin D Meetup Feb 2015

randomness based on variations in code execution time on a processor. Thanks, Ben.

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 23:57:56 +, Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I remember someone somewhere suggested to make our own summer of > code (however I don't know how this would look like). Fedora runs its own[1]. --Ben [1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_SIG

Re: GSoC 2015 - Application Rejected

nies with 9+ zeros active in and aware of this community. And one notable one in particular has decent multipliers over even Red Hat's size. I see no reason why targeted GSoC-like things can't be organized by those companies besides a presumed lack of ROI. --Ben

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

int baz) ^__tab_^^___spaces___^ By the way, this is *wrong* because tabs now have a defined size (8 here) which defeats the only (tangible[1]) advantage they have: int my_long_function_name(int bar, int baz) ^__tab_________^ --Ben [

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 19:55:10 +, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Fri, 2015-03-06 at 09:54 -0500, Ben Boeckel via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > -int foo(int bar) { > > - return bar; > > -} > > > > versus (assuming 8 space

Berlin D Meetup March 2015

questions/discussions/drinks. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

s (also duh). It should add DDT support[1] for D projects. --Ben [1]https://github.com/trentforkert/cmake/blob/d_support3/Source/cmExtraEclipseCDT4Generator.cxx#L70-L73

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

complex codebase; you can't really bake all of the knowledge required for the general cases in every language's tools. --Ben

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

is, for developers, on the whole faster than "unity" builds because you can parallelize it and only have to build what changed. CMake only really works with .d -> .o rules (Java support bends this AFAIK due to restrictions in javac, but I vastly prefer -j8 over a single invokation). --Ben

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

e commercial version of Visual > Studio to try it out. VS2013 Community Edition should work. --Ben

Re: Release Candidate D 2.067.0-rc1

> recent fuss about this. And yes, I've tried mixed C++/D app on > x64 Win, it crashes with simple writeln() call. At least you get that far; Android doesn't even get there (though those patches to even let people get toolchains up and running are "only" around a year old). --Ben

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

where you want to do runtime detection and run the fastest version based on the running processor. You might need to compile foo.bar.sse3 and foo.bar.sse4 with different compiler flags. --Ben

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

then used to generate code in the same project? --Ben

Re: DDT 0.11.0 released

;s mainly D code, but there is some C and Java in the src/android directory. If one were working in Eclipse with it, it would be nice to support using CDT features for the C code, the native Java support for the Java code, DDT for the D code, and the build button to put it all together. --Ben

Re: Release D 2.067.0

aking notes for an actual release is taking those, collating them and finally cleaning out the directory for the next release. --Ben

Re: Reggae v0.0.5 super alpha: A build system in D

th it, but I don't see anything blocking separate compilation for D if dependencies are set up properly. --Ben

Berlin D Meetup April 2015

will have time for questions/discussions/drinks. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup May 2015

/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup June 2015

on we will have time for questions/discussions/drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic). Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: Berlin D Meetup June 2015

speak German but have ties to Germany, so that is why I am interested. In my experience the majority of the programming meetups in Berlin are in English. If you are interested a list of meetups that are held at the same venue as the D meetup can be found here: http://co-up.de/events.html Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup July 2015

. Those not currently working on anything can join up with others and meld brain power! Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: Berlin D Meetup July 2015

Just a note for anyone that is coming, we will be on the 5th floor from now on and not the 3rd floor.

Re: Beta D 2.068.0-b2

> Is it not better to use 7z format? It has more compression ratios than > gz/bz2, and they can be easily handled on Windows. 7z and xz are the same compression algorithm (LZMA), but xz works with tar (it works in streaming mode). --Ben

Re: Release D 2.068.0

ow. IIRC, even root can't touch it in 10.11. --Ben

Re: Release D 2.068.0

ong-running convention in Unix and variants as a place to stash material and software that individual users rely on. El Capitan will also remove files from those directories that don't belong to Apple. So it isn't safe over an upgrade, but is accessible. --Ben

Berlin D Meetup August 2015

on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup September 2015

he audience the possibility to participate and improve the code beyond the proposed solution. I am looking forward to you joining me for some D coding." Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: FancyPars

ase. Github is already a minefield when it comes to licensing, please don't help make it worse :) . --Ben

Re: FancyPars

t; your repo is in fact violating your copyright. It is not what > most people expect on github, and I will have to delete my fork > and local clone... By using public repos, you explicitly allow anyone to view and fork your project. There are no implicit rights of *use* of that clone though. --Ben

Re: Scriptlike v0.9.4 - Perl-like interpolated strings, full examples and more.

just one function that > removes everything, regardless if it's a file, directory and if it's > empty or not. Be aware that you will have to pay an extra lstat call for such a function so that *it* can call the right function. It certainly shouldn't replace the existing functions. --Ben

Berlin D Meetup October 2015

just a topic for discussion feel free to bring it along. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup January 2016

available. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup February 2016

pment in D. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Re: Berlin D Meetup February 2016

On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 19:36:09 UTC, default0 wrote: On Thursday, 11 February 2016 at 17:09:40 UTC, Ben Palmer wrote: Hi All, The February Berlin D Meetup will be happening at 19:30 on Friday the 19th at Berlin Co-Op (http://co-up.de/) on the fifth floor. This time Stefan Brus

Berlin D Meetup March 2016

available. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup May 2016

first in a series of meetups/hackathons for working on this topic along with some future meetups planned for working with dub. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available. Details are also on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup June 2016

aNode". Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks will be available. More details and an abstract of the talk are available on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/231746496/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup July 2016

/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/232532625/ Thanks, Ben.

Berlin D Meetup August 2016

ll be sponsoring food (including vegetarian options) and drinks (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic). More details are available on the meetup page here: http://www.meetup.com/Berlin-D-Programmers/events/233371803/ Thanks, Ben.

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