Re: DConf 2018 Ex Post Facto
On Thursday, 31 May 2018 at 15:01:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Since I returned home from my extended trip to Germany, it's been a slog trying to ramp back up into my usual routine. It was a week before I could find any words at all for a retrospective on the conference, and it very nearly took another week to get the post in readable form. I'm still not at peak productivity, but I'm getting there. I've got a couple of guest posts lined up (including one from Walter) and I should be getting the Twitter & FB feeds going again soon. In the meantime, here's what DConf 2018 was like from my perspective. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2018/05/31/dconf-2018-ex-post-facto/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/comments/8nj1nn/dconf_2018_ex_post_facto/ I probably wouldn't have attended my first DConf had it not been for your blog posts on writing bindings for C libraries, and thus probably wouldn't have attended the subsequent ones either, so it was great to meet you finally! If it's any consolation I also had an embarrassing train story on the way the conf ... Like you I also wasn't sure if I'd got on the right train from the airport so I asked some poor wee guy in my 'best' German if the train was going to Daglfing. Unfortunately Scots with bad German basically just sound like drunk Germans. I think he was just about to surrender his wallet when an elderly couple nearby chimed in with 'yes it is!!!', so face was saved in the end. All's well that ends well! Cheers, A.
Re: influxdb-dlang-wrapper v0.0.1 - D API for InfluxDB
On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 19:57:03 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/influxdb-dlang-wrapper InfluxDB is a database optimised for time-series data. This package implements a D API via the REST interface so that this code works: [...] Cool stuff. Worth stating that one of the big wins here is that the very cool 'grafana' metrics/dashboard web abb talks seamlessly to influx dub. So if you can get your data into influx you get a pretty cool metrics visualisation system for free, ( well, for a small time investment setting it up :-) ). Cheers, A
Re: DConf 2017: Bigger, Badder, and Berliner! Call for Submissions now open
On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 20:54:27 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 01:36:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/19/16 4:17 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Until branding for the 2017 conf is sorted out/agreed would it be a big deal to 'steal' the cool purple D rocket branding from the 2016 site? (Changing the 6 to a 7 obviously). If you switch between the two pages ( 2016 vs 2017 ). 2017 currently looks distinctly spartan :-( http://dconf.org/2017 http://dconf.org/2016 Cheers, A. That would be great. Do you have time to volunteer a couple of PRs? -- Andrei I've no idea what this will look like but fwiw - here's a stab at updating the logo. Sincere apologies to the original designer :-) https://github.com/dlang/dconf.org/pull/142 Cheers, A. I see this was pulled but no feedback as to whether it looked okay? Doesn't seem to have made its way into the Dconf 2017 site. Seriously I have no idea how my PR looks as I've not idea how to run ddoc. All I know is that the 2017 site as it stands could use a bit of love and I'm happy to help. Let me know :-) Cheers, A.
Re: DConf 2017: Bigger, Badder, and Berliner! Call for Submissions now open
On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 01:36:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/19/16 4:17 PM, Andy Smith wrote: Until branding for the 2017 conf is sorted out/agreed would it be a big deal to 'steal' the cool purple D rocket branding from the 2016 site? (Changing the 6 to a 7 obviously). If you switch between the two pages ( 2016 vs 2017 ). 2017 currently looks distinctly spartan :-( http://dconf.org/2017 http://dconf.org/2016 Cheers, A. That would be great. Do you have time to volunteer a couple of PRs? -- Andrei I've no idea what this will look like but fwiw - here's a stab at updating the logo. Sincere apologies to the original designer :-) https://github.com/dlang/dconf.org/pull/142 Cheers, A.
Re: DConf 2017: Bigger, Badder, and Berliner! Call for Submissions now open
On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 19:49:26 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please join us at DConf 2017, the conference of the D programming language in Berlin, Germany, May 4-6 2017. We're happy to announce that the D Language Foundation is cooperating again with Sociomantic to organize DConf 2017 in Berlin for the second time. Same location, same dates, but of course a whole new experience! The D programming language has improved dramatically this year thanks to more focus brought up by the D Language Foundation, better participation from corporate users and worldwide volunteers, and the advent of world-class open-source libraries such as Sociomantic's Tsunami and Ilya Yaroshenko's GLAS. The D Language Foundation has accumulated a war chest and announced a scholarship that already enrolls four MSc students. DConf is the main face-to-face event for everyone and everything related to the D language and environment. The 2017 edition will be held in Europe for the second time, following last year's smashing success. Which, of course, we plan to smash again! Call for Submissions We are looking forward to your submission for a paper, talk, demo, panel, or research report (new!) for DConf 2017. The topics of choice are anything and everything related to the D language. For more details, check the conference page: http://dconf.org/2017/index.html Until branding for the 2017 conf is sorted out/agreed would it be a big deal to 'steal' the cool purple D rocket branding from the 2016 site? (Changing the 6 to a 7 obviously). If you switch between the two pages ( 2016 vs 2017 ). 2017 currently looks distinctly spartan :-( http://dconf.org/2017 http://dconf.org/2016 Cheers, A.
Re: unit-threaded v0.6.19 - preliminary support for property-based testing
On Saturday, 2 July 2016 at 18:21:10 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/unit-threaded After merging code from Robert's fork I added some support for property-based testing. There's no shrinking yet and user-defined types aren't supported. Right now most if not all primitive types are, as well as string, wstring, dstring and arrays of any of them. Here's a simple example that is hopefully self-explanatory: [...] I make that round about 140 tests per line of code. Not too shabby! Cheers, A.
Re: Sociomantic's short DConf2016 video
On Tuesday, 24 May 2016 at 11:06:45 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: For the ones that missed it (and the ones that didn't too), here is a short video about the conference. https://vimeo.com/167235872 Impressive . Most Impressive. Darth Vader references aside I have to say I'm massively impressed with the job Sociomantic have done with DConf. Cheers, A.
Re: This Week in D: livestreaming and we're moving forward on Windows bindings!
On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 19:35:53 UTC, anonymous wrote: On Monday 05 October 2015 21:29, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/oct-04.html Quoting the the article: 'the the' ???!!! which generates Microsoft format object files and the MS linker even on 32 bit I think you a word there. I think you a grammatical error there. Honestly I think if you're going to pull people up on grammar/spelling errors you really need to do yourself a favour and not have the same type of error in your own post. It undermines your case somewhat and, frankly, makes you look like a bit of a dick. Apologies in advance if this was a well-meaning post but to be honest the tone didn't seem that friendly. Cheers, A.
Re: This Week in D: livestreaming and we're moving forward on Windows bindings!
On Monday, 5 October 2015 at 21:59:49 UTC, anonymous wrote: I don't think Adam minds my nagging. I hope he doesn't. I sure don't mean to berate anyone for making typos. I wouldn't point them out in a forum post. But TWID is like two or three steps up from that. Ah in that case I unreservedly reiterate the aforementioned apology :-) Good point re. the wider distribution. It's just s tricky sometimes figuring out intent on the web. Adam's someone I hold in very high esteem, and we Scots tend to react quite strongly to a slight ( perceived or otherwise) against those we consider our buddies :-) It just looked like you were taking a few potshots for fun , but given the wider context makes sense... Cheers, A.
Re: New blog about D
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 ever written anything other than code, and my name... I noticed there aren't many people actively blogging about D, so I will give it a go, and in the process, try to grow the community a tiny bit by showcasing D's strengths as I remember discovering them myself over the course of last year writing exclusively D. The first post is about vector swizzling. Game programmers get spoiled by writing shaders where swizzling is extremely convenient, and then when they go back to writing C++ they have wet dreams about swizzing in there too. It's not a dream in D. This was the first use-case I thought of when I first learned about D's templates and mixins, but never got to implement it until now. 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 web apps with D + vibe.d. It is really productive once the scaffolding and pipeline is all built. If you have a read, please let me know where I could improve, both my writing and the D code! Cheers! -M Great post! Really like it. If you're genuinely soliciting constructive feedback my one suggestion would be to maybe change the blog name to something a bit less quirky. To be honest I was 50/50 whether I'd read the post when I saw the title. Glad I read the post in the end, but I suspect many may be put off by it Cheers, A.
Re: reggae v0.5.0: new features in the D meta-build system
On Saturday, 26 September 2015 at 08:23:46 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: HI Atilla, Dub's looking interesting! Some of the links are broken when browsing from code.dlang.org though. From http://code.dlang.org/packages/reggae click on, say, 'detailed documentation'. ( Where I wanted to go!). Get .. 404 - Not Found Not Found Internal error information: No routes match path '/packages/doc/index.md' Not sure if that's problem with reggae's layout of the site Cheers, A. ^dub^reggae^ :-) Doh! - morning coffee hasn't kicked in yet! Cheers, A.
Re: reggae v0.5.0: new features in the D meta-build system
HI Atilla, Dub's looking interesting! Some of the links are broken when browsing from code.dlang.org though. From http://code.dlang.org/packages/reggae click on, say, 'detailed documentation'. ( Where I wanted to go!). Get .. 404 - Not Found Not Found Internal error information: No routes match path '/packages/doc/index.md' Not sure if that's problem with reggae's layout of the site Cheers, A.
London D meetups ...
Hi All, I've just been in touch with Kingsley Hendrickse who's unfortunately not going to have time to organise the London D Programmer meetups in the future. Which is a real shame - I only attended one of the two meetups but I was quite impressed with the calibre of people that turned up, and Kinglsey did a great job of organising it :-) I'd really hate for this initiative to die off just as it was getting going. So I thought I'd just ping the London community and see if there was any appetite for anyone to pick up the baton, so to speak. Normally I'd just say I'll do it but I'm on the verge of beginning a new job (literally starting tomorrow!), so I need to wait until I'm achieved some sort of equilibrium there before I commit to anything else. One thought I had was maybe a 'rolling' organiser would make sense? Committing to organising one meetup is a far less onerous commitment than becoming a full fledged card-carrying organiser so maybe that would make sense?! I'd quite happily commit to organising one meetup if there was a rotating quorum of organisers willing to step up. ( Probably wouldn't do any harm to the old linked-in profile :-) ). Anyway lets know your thoughts. The meetup group 'dies' on 17th August unless someone else steps up - hopefully that won't happen :-) Cheers, Andy.
Re: This Week in D - dconf videos, objc and iOS support improving, interview with Etienne Cimon
On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 04:40:12 UTC, John Carter wrote: On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 04:05:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Now that all the videos are out for dconf, Are there slides or anything for Martin Nowak's Garbage Collection in D? http://dconf.org/2015/talks/nowak.html Or has it been supplanted by Voting for std.experimental.allocator? http://forum.dlang.org/post/zbzjtssagejcxpxit...@forum.dlang.org Don't know if anyone replied, but unfortunately Martin missed his flight so that talk didn't happen :-( It was replaced by a few lightning talks. Not sure if they were recorded or not :-( Cheers, A.
Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos
On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 01:21:08 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 22:17:50 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: Wha?! I thought it was John Colvin that talked about OpenCL? Was Adam talking about it as well?! Cheers, A. My first reply was originally to John Colvin, but then wobbles refers to Adam's talk as well. I was just referring to Colvin when I mentioned Open CL. Ah sorry . My bad! Cheers, A.
Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos
On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 22:17:50 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 22:02:47 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 14:54:50 UTC, wobbles wrote: After the last slide in your presentation, you begin to give a demo of the code. From then on, nothing on screen is shown :/ The stuff about OpenCL Wha?! I thought it was John Colvin that talked about OpenCL? Was Adam talking about it as well?! Cheers, A. Yeah I seem to remember since Adam said his last talk was so low level he wanted to go high level this time, just to keep it real A.
Re: Four new DConf 2015 videos
On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 22:02:47 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 14:54:50 UTC, wobbles wrote: After the last slide in your presentation, you begin to give a demo of the code. From then on, nothing on screen is shown :/ The stuff about OpenCL Wha?! I thought it was John Colvin that talked about OpenCL? Was Adam talking about it as well?! Cheers, A.
Re: 3 more dconf 2015 talks (Andy, Jonathan, and Mark)
On Wednesday, 8 July 2015 at 02:53:06 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Saturday, 4 July 2015 at 01:13:52 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: I've raised https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/85 to have the dconf website point to these urls. Andrei please consider merging once you've done unpacking all the boxes :-) Cheers, A. Andy, I just watched your talk and enjoyed it. You make a comment about 24min in about implementing something like transiente from Clojure in D. I have some cursory knowledge of Clojure and what you mean by transient, but no idea how to implement the concept in D. If it's possible to provide a simple example, I would be interested. Hey I didn't really have an equivalent of transients in D, it was more a general statement that there are cases where you can still get functional purity using mutable state rather than adhering to a strict functional approach. So in much the same way as I 'cheat' slightly by using mutable state in the system, clojure cheats in much the same way using transients for intermediate calculations in an implementation provided that the interface is pure. I didn't elaborate too much during the talk as *NO-ONE* nodded to say they new clojure so moved swiftly on :-) Cheers, A.
Re: Repost of Chuck Allison's dconf 2015 talk
On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 02:04:20 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: It looks like they re-edited Chuck's talk and reposted it (so the old link is invalid): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTJnkF0H6S8 - Jonathan M Davis I'm really glad this has happened. The original was very hard to follow. Just glancing quickly at the new edit looks like can now see what chuck's code samples properly! A.
Re: 3 more dconf 2015 talks (Andy, Jonathan, and Mark)
On Friday, 3 July 2015 at 02:11:05 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: It looks like the UVU folks posted some more. Andy Smith -- Title: Hedge Fund Development Case Study dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/smith.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBhb0iWsWQ Jonathan M Davis Title: Introduction to Ranges dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/davis.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Btr8TPJ8c Mark Isaacson - Title: Leveraging D to mitigate dependency-induced code smell dconf link: http://dconf.org/2015/talks/isaacson.html video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHHhi4_9sGo You can find all of the talks that have been posted here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12FA104E02ABE730 I've raised https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/85 to have the dconf website point to these urls. Andrei please consider merging once you've done unpacking all the boxes :-) Cheers, A.
Re: More Dconf 2015 videos
There have been a few responses agreeing with me. Chucks talk was awesome but the current edit doesn't do it justice. Is there any way this can be fed back to UVU/Chuck etc.? Did so. -- Andrei Cheers! A.
Re: More Dconf 2015 videos
On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 19:03:11 UTC, Andy Smith wrote: I don't want to sound negative but the editing of Chuck's talk could be a lot better IMHO. Round about 30:00 he describes a code example which isn't shown in the video!. He's making multiple references to lines/code etc. that were visible to the attendees at the conference but aren't visible on the video. Having seen it in person, Chuck's talk was a *great* advocacy of D. But seeing it second time round on youtube I'm not feeling it the same way :-( I appreciate the work that UVU have put in to making the talks available so I *really* don't mean to sound unappreciative or disrespectful, but I think in this case it might make sense to go back and revisit this particular talk. Specifically when Chuck is talking about a specific code sample / line of code, it needs to be put into the video. Otherwise context is completely lost and viewers will be left confused + bewildered. Regards, Andy. There have been a few responses agreeing with me. Chucks talk was awesome but the current edit doesn't do it justice. Is there any way this can be fed back to UVU/Chuck etc.? Cheers, A
Re: More Dconf 2015 videos
On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 18:43:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/15 11:03 AM, extrawurst wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 16:42:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/15 9:28 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 15:54:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please continue to spread the love (twitter, reddit, hackernews, facebook, your blog...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM Andrei Last two are the same video. Sorry. So we have: Chuck Allison: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rmRmfoKxMCE Liran Zvibel: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1W6uhX6AITM Mihails Strasuns: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kDu0lgwqHKM Andrei Awesome! Is it planned to add the video links to dconf.org ? It is planned inasmuch people send pull requests for it. -- Andrei Boom! https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dconf.org/pull/82
Re: More Dconf 2015 videos
I don't want to sound negative but the editing of Chuck's talk could be a lot better IMHO. Round about 30:00 he describes a code example which isn't shown in the video!. He's making multiple references to lines/code etc. that were visible to the attendees at the conference but aren't visible on the video. Having seen it in person, Chuck's talk was a *great* advocacy of D. But seeing it second time round on youtube I'm not feeling it the same way :-( I appreciate the work that UVU have put in to making the talks available so I *really* don't mean to sound unappreciative or disrespectful, but I think in this case it might make sense to go back and revisit this particular talk. Specifically when Chuck is talking about a specific code sample / line of code, it needs to be put into the video. Otherwise context is completely lost and viewers will be left confused + bewildered. Regards, Andy.
Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!
On Sunday, 31 May 2015 at 14:21:08 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Friday, 29 May 2015 at 23:42:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: DConf 2015 has been awesome, I'm taking a minute to post this that's been announced a short while ago. We're pleased to announce that DConf 2016 will take place in Berlin, sponsored by Sociomantic. We'll be back with details. See you there! Just arrived back in Berlin, and before the jetlag finishes me off for today, I'd just like to say a big Thank You to Walter, Andrei, and to Chuck Allison and Utah Valley University, for a fantastic DConf 2015. It was great to be able to get to meet so many of you face to face at last and to take part in such a great collection of talks and discussions. Hope to see you all in Berlin next year! :-) Couldn't have put it better myself :-) +1 Cheers, A.
Re: DConf 2015 has ended. See you in Berlin at DConf 2016!
On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 19:55:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/30/15 7:09 AM, y wrote: On Saturday, 30 May 2015 at 13:30:33 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: Is there an overview about all the talks that were given? Will there be a link to the live-recordings, so one can jump to specific talks directly? http://dconf.org/2015/schedule/index.html are there any slides online? would be great! All slides are online at the respective talk pages at http://dlang.org. -- Andrei Yeah there's still a permission problem with Lirans slides I think. Cheers, A.
Re: Quick Start with D: few examples and set of links.
very nice examples. Kudos! A. On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 09:49:51 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 08:45:35 UTC, Namespace wrote: On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 08:18:10 UTC, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: http://d.readthedocs.org I hope this examples will be useful for students. Ilya Hellow Wolrd! Is this intended? Thanks! Fixed.
