Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 18:02:55 UTC, default0 wrote: I don't have an IRC client set up since I rarely use that, plus an IRC is always kind of "out of the way". Just click this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=d type in a random name, click the captcha checkbox and go! I'l

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread default0 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 16:20:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:51:57 UTC, default0 wrote: The thing I was trying to do was dead simple: Receive a base64 encoded text via a query parameter. So when I read this, I thought you might have missed another little

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:55:13 UTC, default0 wrote: Well if I post this as a question to SO and link it here, would you mind answering it? Maybe we should make this a general scheme: If someone has trouble learning something, just ask the question directly on SO and have someone answer

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:51:57 UTC, default0 wrote: The thing I was trying to do was dead simple: Receive a base64 encoded text via a query parameter. So when I read this, I thought you might have missed another little fact... there's more than one base64. Yup, normal Base64 encodin

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread default0 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:49:14 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:51:57 UTC, default0 wrote: As this isn't really a question for Learn I'm not sure if it fits here. This is more of a "This is how I went about trying to learn X. These are the problems I encountered.

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 15:49:14 UTC, thedeemon wrote: Out of curiosity I looked into "D Cookbook" to check if it contains your particular case but the only mention of Base64 there is about encoding some data into Base64, not the other way around. Hmm, yeah, I didn't want to have any s

Re: Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread thedeemon via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 13:51:57 UTC, default0 wrote: As this isn't really a question for Learn I'm not sure if it fits here. This is more of a "This is how I went about trying to learn X. These are the problems I encountered. Ideas to improve?" but I guess I might as well post it here.

Make Simple Things Hard to Figure out

2015-12-21 Thread default0 via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hi So today I tried setting up vibe.d and see how that all works out. Doing the initial setup was easy enough (dub is amazingly convenient!) and I had a "Hello World" server up and running in about 10 minutes. Sweet. After that, I started looking into vibes URLRouter - also easy enough, docume