Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop down. Look at how Bootstrap is doing it [1]. The menu doesn't take up any more horizontal space when it's expanded. [1] http

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 03:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yes. Next step: fix it! :o) -- Andrei A couple of years ago I started on writing a contribution document [1] but never finished it. It might be a bit outdated now but it's mostly correct and could be used as a starting point. [1] https://dl.d

Re: The ugly truth about ddoc

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 03:18, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: TL;DR: I've uploaded new menu colors at http://erdani.com/d/, this time aiming for a more martian red ethos. Please let me know. I still like the original menu better. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 02:42, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html I'm not so sure if "Add support for compiling Objective-C code as extra sources" is a major change. I would rather think it's mino

Re: The ugly truth about ddoc

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 04:17, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yah. The ones I found were paid. My point is ddoc was there and fit the job perfectly well. libsass [1] is a C implementation of Sass. Original implementation of Sass is in Ruby. This is a confusion - css minification is a separate topic alto

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 03:31, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So now minification and gzipping are the culprit? I don't quite understand. There are plenty existing web frameworks that already have solved, what it seems like, all the problems you're trying to solve now. You're just shooting them down becau

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
"Jacob Carlborg" wrote in message news:m9iee2$p14$1...@digitalmars.com... I'm not so sure if "Add support for compiling Objective-C code as extra sources" is a major change. I would rather think it's minor. Especially since it won't really be visible to end users and the functionality is poin

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:29:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Styling needs work :o). Andrei Personally I really like the spartan styling. I don't see any need for a whole load of colourful background and heavy styling etc. any more than I would on the page of a book. The only

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 01:42:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html Do NOT post this publically yet - it is just a draft, I want to do the broad public release/announcement ei

Re: Idea: featuring forum content on dlang.org?

2015-01-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:34:36 -0800 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote: > With all this discussion on more dynamic content on dlang.org, I sat > down (figuratively; I've been on a hike today) and thought - what is > dynamic about D? > > So it hit me like a hammer: > > * Forum discussi

Re: DMD, Wine and MinGW

2015-01-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
for those who may be interested, i put my dirty hack there: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14008 feel free to not use it.

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread ZombineDev via Digitalmars-d
Very nice work as the previous edition! Some corrections, though: * The number of merged PRs is incorrect, because it includes PRs that have been merged before this week and only have new comments on them. E.g.: [1] * You may want to rename the second links in the Statistics section to 31 is

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Mathias LANG via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 16:41:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] I don't know. So what would be the replacement? BTW turns out that dlangspec.pdf is downloaded quite a bit. -- Andrei Bummer. I never used it, so I figured I should give it a try before attempting to kill it. I didn'

Re: post qualifier and template constraint limitation, is there a reason ?

2015-01-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/2015 8:23 PM, deadalnix wrote: IMO style is the role of the formater. Prompting the programmer with "don't write this, write that instead" only crate reaction à la "If you know what I meant, why don't you compile that you asshole ?" Redundancy is built in to the language design on purpo

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d
hello all yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was able to put some design together for it. please see it at http://bit.ly/1DTLuPS and let us know what you guys think. let's have some elegance with rock solid c

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the server side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on Rails but I know that most of you here would hate that so a better suggestion would probably be vibe.

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Ivan Timokhin via Digitalmars-d
19.01.2015 04:42, Adam D. Ruppe пишет: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html Do NOT post this publically yet - it is just a draft, I want to do the broad public release/announcement either later tonight or first

Re: post qualifier and template constraint limitation, is there a reason ?

2015-01-19 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/15 10:57 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/18/2015 7:07 PM, deadalnix wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:24:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/18/2015 12:46 AM, Brian Schott wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 08:40:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Sounds like a good idea. If I wasn't cl

Re: post qualifier and template constraint limitation, is there a reason ?

2015-01-19 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 1/17/15 3:33 AM, deadalnix wrote: This is accepted : auto fun(T)(T T) inout if(...) { ... } This is not : auto fun(T)(T T) if(...) inout { ... } Is there a reason ? I kind of agree with you. Because this is short for: template fun(T) if(...) { auto fun(T t) inout {...}} I think it makes

Re: The ugly truth about ddoc

2015-01-19 Thread Jonas Drewsen via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:43:05 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:18:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: TL;DR: I've uploaded new menu colors at http://erdani.com/d/, this time aiming for a more martian red ethos. Please let me know. Well I'd prefer less red-ish: ht

Re: Eliminate comparison.html?

2015-01-19 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/15 2:48 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/17/2015 6:19 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/17/15 5:05 PM, MattCoder wrote: And please change that logo: http://dlang.org/images/d3.png is so early 90's. I don't mean anything wrong with that, but I don't think it fit in the current standard.

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: hello all yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was able to put some design together for it. please see it at http://bit.ly/1DTLuPS and let us know what yo

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Sebastiaan Koppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 12:00:58 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 10:24:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Why don't we instead make use of a proper framework both on the server side and client side. Personally I would go with Ruby on Rails but I know that most of

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 13:43:28 UTC, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Bootstrap or PureCSS are just a bunch of CSS helper classes to quickly model a responsive and modern site. It is basically pointless if you know CSS and browser limitations. You need to view the site in the browsers you target

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 13:24:13 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: hello all yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was able to put some design together for it. p

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 01:42:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html I have some style suggestions. Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/mrfkLvq8/1/embedded/result/ CSS additions: /* Space things out. */ body {line-height: 1.5em;} h1 {border-bottom: none; m

Re: Eliminate comparison.html?

2015-01-19 Thread Colin via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 17:32:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: In https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/778 I'm proposing replacing http://dlang.org/comparison.html with http://erdani.com/d/comparison.html The silly one-column comparison was a vestige of a multi-

D, Dub, Debian, Fedora

2015-01-19 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
Has anyone been in contact with Debian and Fedora packagers to see if using Dub as a build system is acceptable to them for packaging? I know Debian folk still prefer Autotools, but accept Make or SCons (but definitely not Waf). My suspicion is that Debian will deem it not acceptable, but this is

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d
Framework doesn't really matter (though dog-fooding is desirable) - it is a matter of maintainability. You may like RoR but how many people in D community will be able to maintain such solution if you disappear? I doubt many. It is sad that Andrei wastes his time on such tasks but it is hard

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-19 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 19:45 +, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote: > By the way I finds DDoc suprinsingly apt for a static site > generator. Markdown is great for writing content but without > macros, no reuse. My only comment is, which country is UT, this two letter combination is not yet assig

Compiler License Terms

2015-01-19 Thread Ryan via Digitalmars-d
Hi it's me again, I didn't know if you were getting the updates from the other post, or, as I can imagine, you are just extremely busy. You said there was a license for redistributing the compiler? What are the terms and if I agree how would I apply? Thanks, Ryan (If you were getting updates

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-19 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:54:33 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Sun, 2015-01-18 at 19:45 +, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote: By the way I finds DDoc suprinsingly apt for a static site generator. Markdown is great for writing content but without macros, no reuse. My o

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 08:14:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I'm not so sure if "Add support for compiling Objective-C code as extra sources" is a major change. I would rather think it's minor. Yeah, the change itself is minor, but I'm hoping it might be indicative more coming in the com

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 12:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Yes. Next step: fix it! :o) -- Andrei A couple of years ago I started on writing a contribution document [1] but never finished it. It might be a bit outdated now but it's mostly correct and could be us

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 10:05:42 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: * The number of merged PRs is incorrect, because it includes PRs that have been merged before this week and only have new comments on them. E.g.: [1] Ah, yes, fixed. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pulls?q=is%3A

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 12:40:12 UTC, Ivan Timokhin wrote: > cat test.d void main() { import std.stdio : writeln; 1.writeln; } > rdmd test.d 1 Huh, I'm pretty sure that didn't used to work. The nested function case still doesn't work though so I'll fix it to just talk about that

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 5:43 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Yep, run the site on vibe.d, I think this is what everybody wants. Besides, vibe.d is already compiling all the html files. I think that would be great. Who wants to champion this project? Our webmaster is okay with it and can arrange a domain such a

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 6:54 AM, Dicebot wrote: Framework doesn't really matter (though dog-fooding is desirable) - it is a matter of maintainability. You may like RoR but how many people in D community will be able to maintain such solution if you disappear? I doubt many. That's exactly right. That said, s

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 5:43 AM, Sebastiaan Koppe wrote: Bootstrap or PureCSS are just a bunch of CSS helper classes to quickly model a responsive and modern site. I would definitely use them. Besides, any web developer worth his salt knows one or the other. And with all the tutorials they got, it is not har

Re: [unittest] constness

2015-01-19 Thread Luc Bourhis via Digitalmars-d
Thanks everybody for your help!

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:22:12 UTC, anonymous wrote: I have some style suggestions. Cool, thanks! file:///home/me/d/this-week/web/jan-18.html

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:23:25 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: file:///home/me/d/this-week/web/jan-18.html oops you obviously can't see that lol well, it'll be in the live folder soon enough anyway...

Re: The ugly truth about ddoc

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/15 7:19 PM, tcak wrote: Red colour is hard to work with generally. It takes too much attention. It goes well with white and grey colours. Though, here is some colours for you to try: https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel/?base=2&rule=Custom&selected=4&name=My%20Color%20Theme&mode=rg

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-19 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:31 +, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > > Dunno, maybe an US person would tell if "Utah" would be > preferable to "UT". I guess it depends if you want non USA people to know the location. I appreciate that everyone inside the USA knows all the state codes, and kno

Re: D, Dub, Debian, Fedora

2015-01-19 Thread Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:48:32 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Has anyone been in contact with Debian and Fedora packagers to see if using Dub as a build system is acceptable to them for packaging? I know Debian folk still prefer Autotools, but accept Make or SCons (but def

Re: The ugly truth about ddoc

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/15 7:19 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 03:01:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: No personal aspect to this. What hex colors did you use? -- background-color: #6E6E6E; And I cleaned: #cssmenu > ul > li > a { font-size: 14px; display: block; backgroun

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was Cool, thanks! I combined the two suggestions to form this: http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html Final d

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 2:49 AM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 16:41:36 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [...] I don't know. So what would be the replacement? BTW turns out that dlangspec.pdf is downloaded quite a bit. -- Andrei Bummer. I never used it, so I figured I should give it a tr

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/18/15 6:50 PM, DaveG wrote: Here's where I'm at. The menus don't use javascript (except when the screen gets so small it needs a button to open the navigation, the button uses js). It scales with screen size and should work on mobile (untested) - I changed doctype to html5 and added metata

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was Cool, thanks! I combined the two suggestions to form this: http://arsdn

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 12:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:31, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So now minification and gzipping are the culprit? I don't quite understand. There are plenty existing web frameworks that already have solved, what it seems like, all the problems you're trying to solve

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:54:36 UTC, Dicebot wrote: It is sad that Andrei wastes his time on such tasks but it is hard to find volunteers for such unpleasant things. I'd personally avoid it at all costs :) Uhm, if you insist on home grown macros, and provide no consistent semantic mark

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:40:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We seem to have the problem that every time we want to release on Sunday evening, we end up releasing on Monday morning. Nah, last time we didn't release until Tuesday! If the pattern keeps up, we'll be on time next week. (

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. luckily, he was Cool, thanks! I combined the two suggestions to

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:46:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote: There's a typo in the From The Past section s/demonstrats/demonstrates hit refresh, it should be fixed you might see a cached version

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 01:42:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html Do NOT post this publically yet - it is just a draft, I want to do the broad public release/announcement ei

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:46:41 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Hey Mengu you could share those icons from his demonstration (Calendar, statistic): http://i.imgur.com/VRmCwCT.png And other potential headers too. I could have cut them out of the image but since there's only the two, I figured that

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:46:41 UTC, MattCoder wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:37:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 11:57:51 UTC, Mengu wrote: yesterday i took the liberty of asking a dear designer friend of mine to help us have a better newsletter. lucki

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Mathias LANG via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:38:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: But that's beside the point. This seems to suggest the choice is "if we didn't have to build the mobi and pdf, the road is clear to using Great Framework(tm)". There are a few issues with that, such as nobody seems to agre

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:47:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:46:08 UTC, weaselcat wrote: There's a typo in the From The Past section s/demonstrats/demonstrates hit refresh, it should be fixed you might see a cached version oh yep, the new version looks gr

Re: D, Dub, Debian, Fedora

2015-01-19 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 14:48:32 UTC, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Has anyone been in contact with Debian and Fedora packagers to see if using Dub as a build system is acceptable to them for packaging? I know Debian folk still prefer Autotools, but accept Make or SCons (but def

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread DaveG via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 07:56:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop down. Look at how Bootstrap is doing it [1]. The menu doesn'

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:00:19 UTC, DaveG wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 07:56:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop do

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 01:42:58 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html Some typos: "happing" -> "happening" "mobile devices,and more" -> "mobile devices, and more" (space) "for

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:02:04 UTC, anonymous wrote: Some typos: thanks! You can tell I typed it last night on my laptop, my laptop keyboard and I don't get along very well. And with that, I'm announcing it officially! http://forum.dlang.org/thread/sftxzrfmqtnhmgmvw...@forum.dlang.o

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 8:57 AM, Mathias LANG wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:38:58 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: But that's beside the point. This seems to suggest the choice is "if we didn't have to build the mobi and pdf, the road is clear to using Great Framework(tm)". There are a few issues w

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 1:33 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 02:29:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: * Styling needs work :o). Andrei Personally I really like the spartan styling. I don't see any need for a whole load of colourful background and heavy styling etc. any more than I wo

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d
Ok I'm afraid to ask this and sound like annoying person, but according to my sign: "their 'attention to detail' is for a reason: to help others". So: Would be strange with get rid of ":" in this text: "This Week in D: " ? Because everytime that I look to it, this D: look like a sad face.

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 9:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/19/15 9:07 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:02:04 UTC, anonymous wrote: Some typos: thanks! You can tell I typed it last night on my laptop, my laptop keyboard and I don't get along very well. And with that, I'm ann

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 9:07 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:02:04 UTC, anonymous wrote: Some typos: thanks! You can tell I typed it last night on my laptop, my laptop keyboard and I don't get along very well. And with that, I'm announcing it officially! http://forum.dlang.org/t

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:13:35 UTC, MattCoder wrote: Would be strange with get rid of ":" in this text: Yeah, it isn't needed now that there's a line break, so I'll remove it.

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:19:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks for also submitting to Reddit and Twitter! When doing the latter please use #dlang so it shows up in filters. -- Andrei Yeah, I realized that after hitting send. I'm still somewhat new to twittering at all and forget

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 9:21 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:19:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks for also submitting to Reddit and Twitter! When doing the latter please use #dlang so it shows up in filters. -- Andrei Yeah, I realized that after hitting send. I'm still som

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread DaveG via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 16:44:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/18/15 6:50 PM, DaveG wrote: Here's where I'm at. The menus don't use javascript (except when the screen gets so small it needs a button to open the navigation, the button uses js). It scales with screen size and shou

Re: Compiler License Terms

2015-01-19 Thread Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
"Ryan" wrote in message news:vtrhuhssdzcthekqc...@forum.dlang.org... Hi it's me again, I didn't know if you were getting the updates from the other post, or, as I can imagine, you are just extremely busy. You said there was a license for redistributing the compiler? What are the terms and i

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 1:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/19/15 12:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:31, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So now minification and gzipping are the culprit? I don't quite understand. There are plenty existing web frameworks that already have solved, what it see

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-19 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 11:30 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 15:31 +, ponce via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] Dunno, maybe an US person would tell if "Utah" would be preferable to "UT". I guess it depends if you want non USA people to know the location. I appreciate that e

README.md for dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
Please review: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/784. Comments should go there. Thanks! Andrei

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 9:55 AM, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 1/19/15 1:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/19/15 12:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 03:31, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: So now minification and gzipping are the culprit? I don't quite understand. There are plenty existing web fram

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 9:37 AM, DaveG wrote: I need to fix a few things tonight. Also, is there some way to know what the current page is when generating the html? It would be nice to know what page you are currently on. Actually now that I think of it, with sub-navigation I also need to know the parent so i

Re: Compiler License Terms

2015-01-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/2015 7:23 AM, Ryan wrote: Hi it's me again, I didn't know if you were getting the updates from the other post, or, as I can imagine, you are just extremely busy. You said there was a license for redistributing the compiler? What are the terms and if I agree how would I apply? Thanks, Ry

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d
On 19/01/15 02:42, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html I think your location for the D meetup has a typo, it should be the Melbourne Canteen (you're missing the final n:

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d
On 19/01/15 20:23, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 19/01/15 02:42, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: Anyone like to do a quick proofread of the next edition of This Week in D? http://arsdnet.net/this-week-in-d/jan-18.html I think your location for the D meetup has a t

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 18:00, DaveG wrote: The vertical menu expanded from the top works well with relatively few items (in the case of bootstrap, eight). Personally, I don't think that method works well with many items (we currently show 13, and up to 26 when expanded). It is particularly weird when the

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 19:47:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2015-01-19 18:00, DaveG wrote: The vertical menu expanded from the top works well with relatively few items (in the case of bootstrap, eight). Personally, I don't think that method works well with many items (we currently sho

Re: Thanks to p0nce for a nicer DConf logo!

2015-01-19 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Mon, 2015-01-19 at 13:21 -0500, Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] > It is the same format as previous years (i.e. Menlo Park, CA). If you > are having trouble, look at the google map embedded in the venue tab. Sorry, but I think you are missing the point I am making. PS Due t

Interviews: Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose Answer Your Questions

2015-01-19 Thread NA via Digitalmars-d
Interesting Interview. http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/15/01/19/159242/interviews-alexander-stepanov-and-daniel-e-rose-answer-your-questions NA

Re: Please help me with improving dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread DaveG via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 18:46:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Should we pull my stuff so the others come on top of it? I'm new to git (and github) so I don't know the process. I just cloned your branch locally and have been working off that. I assume I can fork master and push my cha

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 16:57, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I think that would be great. Who wants to champion this project? Our webmaster is okay with it and can arrange a domain such as new.dlang.org to work the kinks out. Takers? I would like to but I have too many other projects going on right now.

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 15:54, Dicebot wrote: Framework doesn't really matter (though dog-fooding is desirable) - it is a matter of maintainability. You may like RoR but how many people in D community will be able to maintain such solution if you disappear? I doubt many. I said like 100 times now that vi

Re: Use proper frameworks for building dlang.org

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 13:00, "Ola Fosheim =?UTF-8?B?R3LDuHN0YWQi?= " wrote: I would suggest you avoid frameworks since they go out of fashion fairly quickly and makes maintenance dependent on individuals (with framework knowledge). jQuery adds little value since browsers are fairly standards-compliant

Re: [DRAFT] This Week in D - Jan 18

2015-01-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d
On 2015-01-19 16:47, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Yeah, the change itself is minor, but I'm hoping it might be indicative more coming in the coming months; adding it to the test cases means we might have significant stuff to test soon. Then we can wait until there's actually anything useful added. --

Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

2015-01-19 Thread Alexey T. via Digitalmars-d
Will be much easier to read Source, if func declarataion begins with keyword. "def" of "func". e.g. func myName(params.): typeOfResult; or func myName(params...) -> typeOfResult; easier to read and PARSE. Next D version may allow--with compatability of old syntad (C like where typeOfResult

Re: Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

2015-01-19 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 20:51:02 + "Alexey T. via Digitalmars-d" wrote: > Will be much easier to read Source, if func declarataion begins > with keyword. "def" of "func". e.g. > > func myName(params.): typeOfResult; > or > func myName(params...) -> typeOfResult; > > easier to read and PARS

I want to know who can help with DCD for Synwrite editor

2015-01-19 Thread Alexey T. via Digitalmars-d
Hi, sorry don't know in which part to post this. SynWrite editor can have DCD integration. But I miss Python guy who can make this work. (Not small work, but not hard, in Python it's doable in some days with my help; I don't know Python cool). Who can know such guy who knows Py and can help w

Re: Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

2015-01-19 Thread Alexey T. via Digitalmars-d
Better that next D version (next MAJOR version) can support such syntax. (Old syntax may be compatible too but "deprecated"). What developers think..

Re: Interviews: Alexander Stepanov and Daniel E. Rose Answer Your Questions

2015-01-19 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d
NA: http://interviews.slashdot.org/story/15/01/19/159242/interviews-alexander-stepanov-and-daniel-e-rose-answer-your-questions I am glad to see that the field of programming languages is far from done :-) Alex>After STL was accepted into the standard in 1994, I started thinking about desig

Re: Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

2015-01-19 Thread Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 21:06:40 UTC, Alexey T. wrote: Better that next D version (next MAJOR version) can support such syntax. (Old syntax may be compatible too but "deprecated"). What developers think.. I have a feeling you might get some strong opposition to this idea *Brace Yourself

Re: Variadic templates - D section on wikipedia

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 1:25 PM, Dicebot wrote: On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 18:30:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Does that do a lot of moving stuff to a separate module? I have to say that after porting a bunch of code from 2.065 to 2.067.1 at work, I'm less keen about renaming stuff than I used to.

Re: Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration

2015-01-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 1/19/15 12:51 PM, Alexey T. wrote: Will be much easier to read Source, if func declarataion begins with keyword. "def" of "func". e.g. func myName(params.): typeOfResult; or func myName(params...) -> typeOfResult; easier to read and PARSE. Next D version may allow--with compatability of

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