Re: D Article Contest - win an iPad2
Very Interesting!
Re: D Article Contest - win an iPad2
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:iqejth$1jjf$1...@digitalmars.com... Just a reminder! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Maybe there should be a wiki page or something to keep track of all the submissions?
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I don't see why is it inappropriate of you to comment on them. Shouldn't the winner be picked by the most votes? In that case, you have a vote like everyone else, and should also be allowed to comment.
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On 4/8/2011 12:05 AM, simendsjo wrote: I don't see why is it inappropriate of you to comment on them. Shouldn't the winner be picked by the most votes? In that case, you have a vote like everyone else, and should also be allowed to comment. While technically you are correct, I still think it is unseemly for me to appear to try and influence the vote.
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On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
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On 4/8/11 10:35 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/ If you're an author prolific enough to produce two or more quality articles within the time frame, I'd say you deserve to accumulate the votes. This is not a supermarket sale with one per family please. The more articles, the better for everybody. Of course Walter decides. Andrei
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On 4/8/2011 8:41 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 4/8/11 10:35 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/ If you're an author prolific enough to produce two or more quality articles within the time frame, I'd say you deserve to accumulate the votes. This is not a supermarket sale with one per family please. The more articles, the better for everybody. Of course Walter decides. As it's an article contest, the votes would be for articles. While Andrei's thoughts are sensible, I don't want to try and change things midstream.
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A couple of people have posted drafts of articles for this contest to the n.g. I think that's great! But since this is a contest, I hope everyone will understand that I think it would be inappropriate of me to comment on the content of them until the contest is over. Except keep the articles coming!
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In the rules there is no mention that the article should try to promote the D programming language rather than, say, criticize it because of its current state. One could write an article that portrays D negatively and receive majority of the votes. Would the author of that article still receive the prize?
[First draft] Getting more fiber in your diet Was: Re: D Article Contest - win an iPad2
On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize This is the first draft of my (first?) article, a little number on using fibers in D. http://octarineparrot.com/article/view/getting-more-fiber-in-your-diet It is just a first draft, I'd appreciate any feedback you can give. -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
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On 3/31/2011 7:15 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: *When I say tutorials I don't mean tutorials on the language itself. But a tutorial on how to create some type of software by using D. Yes to both.
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Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:imulpu$20c7$1...@digitalmars.com... On 3/30/2011 12:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D? On the language, or on using D, or on designing programs in D, etc. An article only mentioning D incidentally would not qualify. I don't mean to split hairs or beat a semantic horse here (or abuse metaphors ;)), but what about an example-heavy article that's about some programming technique and just happens to use D for all the examples (and uses D terminology when talking about the code)? Or an article about using a particular library that's written for D?
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What about tutorials? Allowed?
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On 3/31/2011 6:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I don't mean to split hairs or beat a semantic horse here (or abuse metaphors ;)), but what about an example-heavy article that's about some programming technique and just happens to use D for all the examples (and uses D terminology when talking about the code)? Yes, that'd be cool! Or an article about using a particular library that's written for D? That too!
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*When I say tutorials I don't mean tutorials on the language itself. But a tutorial on how to create some type of software by using D.
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On 30 March 2011 07:40, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize Lets hope its not a tie, such a shame to split an iPad ;) -- // Yours sincerely // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen
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On 2011-03-29 22:40, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D? I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges. Would that qualify? Or are you looking for something else? - Jonathan M Davis
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On 3/30/2011 12:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D? On the language, or on using D, or on designing programs in D, etc. An article only mentioning D incidentally would not qualify. I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges. Would that qualify? Or are you looking for something else? Yes it qualifies.
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On 3/29/2011 10:40 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Author Rules I should add that it should not be a previously posted/published article.
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I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges. I'd just like to say that I look forward to reading this and would greatly appreciate it. :-) -- --Mike Linford
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Very nice initiative. D needs more articles and publicity. Hopefully many people will write articles even if they are know they are not able to compete for the grand prize - an article written by me cannot compete with Andrei or Bartosz :) 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com Where would the articles that's not quite up to that quality standard go? codeproject.com? digitalmars.com? d-programming-language.org?
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On 03/30/2011 12:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote: D Article Contest! [snip] Posted to reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gepwf/ipad2_contest_write_an_article_on_d_by_june_1st/ Andrei
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Walter Bright wrote: Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License Which one? Jerome -- mailto:jeber...@free.fr http://jeberger.free.fr Jabber: jeber...@jabber.fr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
