Re: auto: useful, annoying or bad practice?

2018-05-01 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 April 2018 at 21:11:07 UTC, Gerald wrote: I'll freely admit I haven't put a ton of thought into this post (never a good start), however I'm genuinely curious what people's feeling are with regards to the auto keyword. Speaking for myself, I dislike the auto keyword. Some of this

Re: GSOC 2018 - no slots for D

2018-02-13 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 February 2018 at 13:33:00 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 02/12/2018 08:20 PM, Jakub Łabaj wrote: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/ Seems like we didn't make it this year :( Is there any feedback from Google when they don't accept an organisation? Do you thin

Re: Old but interesting link as to the low adoption reason for D

2018-02-12 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 12 February 2018 at 21:42:25 UTC, Bo wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/4etdnc/free_pascal_is_very_super_mega_ultra_underrated/ Ignore the part about Pascal and read the Post by matthieum: [...] Here are some of the comments: [...] This is part of th

Re: Best SQL library to use with local desktop app

2018-01-03 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 21:12:54 UTC, wakhshti wrote: On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 16:38:27 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 12:14:19 UTC, wakhshti wrote: clip this is main.d content: import std.stdio; import sqlite; void main(string[] args){

Re: Best SQL library to use with local desktop app

2018-01-03 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 12:14:19 UTC, wakhshti wrote: what is best (SQLite?) @small @local @offline database library to use in D? and also what about a simple GUI library ? (once there was a library named DFL, but i never could get it to run). I've used sqlite3 library: http://cod

Re: [OT] Windows dying

2017-11-03 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:26:54 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:08:54 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 17:25:26 UTC, Joakim wrote: Most programmers will one day be coding on mobile devices, though I admit I'm in a small, early-adopting minority

Re: Simple web server benchmark - vibe.d is slower than node.js and Go?

2017-11-03 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 November 2017 at 18:44:30 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Monday, 30 October 2017 at 17:23:02 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: Maybe this one: clip vibedtest ~master: building configuration "dmd"... Linking... /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -levent_pthrea

Re: Why don't you advertise more your language on Quora etc ?

2017-03-01 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 1 March 2017 at 08:12:05 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 02/28/2017 06:29 PM, Jared Jeffries wrote: What's quora? (It's really hard to always keep on top of all the latest tread sites/appz/whatever. It's all so fly-by-night.) Quora is a general Q&A forum and hang-out

GSoC Needs Mentors

2017-02-06 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
Hi All I want to put out a call for mentors for the 2017 Google Summer of Code. I've heard back from a few of you but still only have about 3 mentors officially confirmed. Perhaps some of the past mentors are assuming that I know you are willing to do it again, but I don't like to put anyon

Re: GSoC Project Idea's Part 2

2017-02-03 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 3 February 2017 at 04:14:58 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 03/02/2017 5:12 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: So the GSoC ideas page is now at least partially complete, you can find it here: https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2017_Ideas In the previous thread some of you (Rikki, Adam) had sugge

GSoC Project Idea's Part 2

2017-02-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
So the GSoC ideas page is now at least partially complete, you can find it here: https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2017_Ideas In the previous thread some of you (Rikki, Adam) had suggested some improvements to dub/the code.dlang.org website. Either of you interested in mentoring something around t

Re: GSoC 2017 Ideas!

2017-01-24 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
I wanted to ask if anyone knows if there is a way to add links to PDF documents to the Wiki. I want to post some successful past proposals, but the Wiki only seems to want to let me upload a small number of formats, with PDF not being one of them.

Re: GSoC 2017 Ideas!

2017-01-21 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 05:17:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Sunday, 15 January 2017 at 04:11:06 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: I've been trying to find something on this, but haven't yet, but I am not sure if website work would be considered appropriate. The website is still a program,

Re: GSoC 2017 Ideas!

2017-01-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 16:20:06 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 16:12:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: but sorting by rating in search I'm sorry, that was a run on sentence. The big picture goal I'd like to see is that the package manager, or even a tutorial au

Re: GSoC 2017 Ideas!

2017-01-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 January 2017 at 15:23:19 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 15/01/2017 4:19 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: So the ideas page is up for the 2017 GSoC. Its a bit light on content. Please feel free to use this forum thread to discuss any ideas you might have for appropriate projects.

GSoC 2017 Ideas!

2017-01-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
So the ideas page is up for the 2017 GSoC. Its a bit light on content. Please feel free to use this forum thread to discuss any ideas you might have for appropriate projects. https://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2017_Ideas Cheers Craig

Re: we push flatbuffers for dlang support, no one to help?

2016-09-23 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 23 September 2016 at 11:08:51 UTC, Brian wrote: the pull request: https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/pull/3856 We are putao's huntstudio! We help D language to develop some component support. but, not have yours support??? Long before they have been submitted, but they have not be

Re: consequences of removing semicolons in D like in Python

2016-09-17 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 13:18:24 UTC, eugene wrote: On Saturday, 17 September 2016 at 13:11:50 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 09/16/2016 07:00 PM, eugene wrote: Hello everyone, what if to remove semicolons at the end of each line of code in D like in Python? Is it worth it? Not wo

Re: Why D is not popular enough?

2016-08-30 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 14:19:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 30 August 2016 at 14:11:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Sadly if this doesn't float your boat you're unlikely to enjoy most of what D has to offer. -- Andrei This might be the most wrong statement you have ever sai

Re: [OT] Create more debt == earn more

2016-08-02 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 2 August 2016 at 08:07:38 UTC, Basile B. wrote: I was thinking about the value of what we do in the life, daily, the jobs, etc I've endend with this conclusion: The more you're able to create debt, the more you'll earn. example, CIO: hudge pay, because your 1000 salaries will creat

Re: Atila Neves: "C IS NOT MAGICALLY FAST, PART 2"

2016-07-19 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 03:03:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 at 02:54:37 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: Posted on Atila's blog yesterday: https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2016/07/18/c-is-not-magically-fast-part-2/ Where is the part one ? https://atilanevesoncode.wordp

Re: Researcher question – what's the point of semicolons and curly braces?

2016-05-03 Thread CRAIG DILLABAUGH via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 04:24:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 03:48:09 UTC, Joe Duarte wrote: Would it be difficult to compile the clean version? You realize your bias is showing very strongly in the wording of this question, right? I don't agree the naked version is

Re: DConf 2016 offical presentation template

2016-04-21 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 01:53:02 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 22 April 2016 at 00:35:21 UTC, Mithun Hunsur wrote: supporting the presentation rather than _being_ the presentation). Powerpoints have a bad habit of damaging presentations rather than supporting them... I hate slid

Re: The day before DConf 2016

2016-04-08 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 7 April 2016 at 18:13:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I'm flying in to Berlin late on May 2nd. I'll be staying at the Hotel Ibis, slated to be the "unofficial hangout place" according to the DConf site. I'm curious who else will be in the area on the 3rd. I'm usually an explorer when I

Re: debugger blues

2016-03-25 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 08:14:15 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: clip * a pony Of all points above, this is one that can actually be arranged. No joke! I've got a Border Collie I could throw in to the mix too if that would be helpful.

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-03-21 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 21 March 2016 at 21:12:30 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-03-21 14:54, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Jacob Carlborg ... if you are reading this would you be able to lend a hand in advising on the proposals? I believe these projects a mostly related to C => D conversion tools. Maybe

Re: GSoC 2016

2016-03-21 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 March 2016 at 15:03:16 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Due to unforseen circumstances, I am well behind dealing wit GSoC email, an I doubt I will beable to get on top of it till Thursday. There are at least five peopl I should be having conversations with but I fear it is unlikely to h

Re: GSOC 16 - Flatbuffer support or Protocol Buffer Support for D Language.

2016-03-19 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 07:51:34 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 06:18:06 UTC, Rajat Kumar wrote: Hello. I am Rajat Kumar, a junior year university student from India. I have working experiences in languages like C,C++ and Python. I am really really interested in working

Re: Potential GSoC project - GC improvements

2016-03-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 01:34:07 UTC, Jeremy DeHaan wrote: I haven't had power for a couple of days, but it looks like the discussion has gone along pretty ok. After reading everything, I think I'm inclined to agree with Adam and the main focus of my proposal will be a precise GC (or as pr

Re: Pitching D to academia

2016-03-09 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 16:12:08 UTC, Michael wrote: On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 08:40:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 07:38:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: Motivated by Dmitry's "Pitching D to a gang of Gophers" thread, how about pitching it to a gang of professor

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2016-03-07 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 11:46:00 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: On Saturday, 5 March 2016 at 15:20:12 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Robert, we have had some student interest in GSOC for XML. Would you be interested in mentoring a student to work with you on this. Craig Of course Gre

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2016-03-05 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:39:48 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: std.xml has been considered not up to specs nearly 3 years now. Time to build a successor. I currently plan the following featues for it: - SAX and DOM parser - in-situ / slicing parsing when possible (forward range?) - compil

Re: I guess this is good GSOC 2016 news?

2016-03-04 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 21:33:47 UTC, Wyatt wrote: On Monday, 29 February 2016 at 21:22:44 UTC, Jonas Drewsen wrote: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-category=languages Yes, that IS great news! Though it doesn't seem to say how many slots were given? Craig, any w

Re: GSoC Next Steps

2016-03-03 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
Haven't yet found email addresses for a few mentors (if you are available this year): Iain Buclaw Jacob Ovrum Also, there is still time to sign up if you are a potential mentor. For those of you interested in mentoring, the following is a good (and short) read on how students should be sel

Re: GSoC Next Steps

2016-03-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 17:27:47 UTC, Alex Herrmann wrote: On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 00:29:27 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: Craig I just had time to see the results today, congratulations on the approval into GSOC! Very exciting time as a student who enjoys programming in D. Althoug

Re: Pseudo-random numbers in [0, n), covering all numbers in n steps?

2016-02-26 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 15:21:08 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 15:17:16 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 15:15:11 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 14:59:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 02/25/2016 06:

Re: Pseudo-random numbers in [0, n), covering all numbers in n steps?

2016-02-26 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 15:15:11 UTC, Nicholas Wilson wrote: On Friday, 26 February 2016 at 14:59:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 02/25/2016 06:46 PM, Nicholas Wilson wrote: The technical name for the property of distribution you describe is k-Dimensional Equidistribution (in th

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2016-02-24 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 12:46:38 UTC, Dmitry wrote: On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 11:22:23 UTC, Joakim wrote: Then write a good XML extraction-only library and dub it. I see no reason to include this in Phobos You won't be able to sleep if it will be in Phobos? I use XML and I don't

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2016-02-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 10:18:18 UTC, Robert burner Schadek wrote: On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 04:34:13 UTC, Alex Vincent wrote: I'm looking for a status update. DUB doesn't seem to have many options posted. I was thinking about starting a SAXParser implementation. I'm working

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-16 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 11:20:13 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote: Am Tue, 16 Feb 2016 00:28:29 + schrieb Craig Dillabaugh : clip I'd suggest posting this to D.announce, people often don't read these old threads. Done! Thanks for the suggestion.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 03:28:55 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: clip I would like confirmation from the following individuals if they can mentor GSOC this summer. Iain Buclaw Bruno Medeiros Martin Nowak (and as backup Admin) Jacob Ovrum And as backup mentors Adam D. Ruppe Dmitry O

Re: Can I get more opinions on increasing the logo size on the site please

2016-02-10 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 21:44:54 UTC, anonymous wrote: On 10.02.2016 22:37, CraigDillabaugh wrote: I know I can take the logo from the website and blow it up, but it is pretty small and enlarging it so much will result in a pretty awful looking image. It's an SVG file, so enlarging

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-09 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 16:16:01 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together. For the time bei

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-06 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:46:59 UTC, Tavi wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 16:06:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Deadline is getting closer, any new project i

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-02-06 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 6 February 2016 at 13:33:34 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: clip I've scanned this thread, but haven't seen if any 'decisions' have been more, or if it is just more of the usual have been more => have been made

Re: Proposal: Database Engine for D

2016-02-06 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 17:14:55 UTC, Piotrek wrote: The goal of this post is to measure the craziness of an idea to embed a database engine into the D language ;) I think about a database engine which would meet my three main requirements: - integrated with D (ranges) - ACID -

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-03 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 13:57:06 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 29/01/16 2:53 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: [...] I have a c phase 1-3 implemented in D. I would be willing to give up the source if I keep the rights (but code can be open just not an open source license). Could be used t

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-02-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 03:33:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/14/2016 01:56 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now. A few quick ideas: * Bringing a parser generator library into

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 22:26:44 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 22:01 +0100, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 2016-01-28 14:53, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: > Jacob, are you sure you don't want to Mentor?  It seems like > you > are > involved in all the interest

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 15:20:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Thursday, 28 January 2016 at 13:53:30 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Would there be any interest in a project to automate binding generation from C files (or perhaps even a full conversion tool)? This could be done either as a new p

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together. For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far): ht

Re: Pre-alpha D language online tour

2016-01-25 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 18:17:09 UTC, André wrote: Hi, Inspired by the Go online language tour (https://tour.golang.org/) and the great experience it gave me learning the language I started a similar project for D some weeks ago. It's currently in a very pre-alpha state but I wanted to

Re: Pre-alpha D language online tour

2016-01-25 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 25 January 2016 at 18:17:09 UTC, André wrote: Hi, Inspired by the Go online language tour (https://tour.golang.org/) and the great experience it gave me learning the language I started a similar project for D some weeks ago. It's currently in a very pre-alpha state but I wanted to

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together. For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far): ht

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:46:59 UTC, Tavi wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 16:06:00 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Deadline is getting closer, any new project i

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 20:20:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2016-01-15 13:36, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I recall there has been one (or two?) unsuccessful attempts. -- Andrei Yes, twice. It mainly needs to be rangified. How much work do you think that would involve? Would it be en

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 15:11:39 UTC, Tavi wrote: On Thursday, 14 January 2016 at 18:56:21 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now. FlatBuffers for DLang - http://google.github.io/flatbuff

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 13:43:07 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/15/2016 08:11 AM, Marc Schütz wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 12:36:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/15/16 6:58 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 10:02:14 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: [

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 10:02:14 UTC, Marc Schütz wrote: On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 03:33:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: A few quick ideas: * Bringing a parser generator library into phobos, either based on pegged or independent * SQL parser, binder, validator * Anything buildi

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 January 2016 at 03:33:23 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 01/14/2016 01:56 PM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Deadline is getting closer, any new project ideas are welcome. Starting to get some contact from students now. A few quick ideas: * Bringing a parser generator library into

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 23:58:32 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together. For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far): [.

Re: Google Summer of Code 2016

2016-01-05 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 6 January 2016 at 02:27:05 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 06/01/16 11:28 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Monday, 4 January 2016 at 22:58:43 UTC, CraigDillabaugh clip For Android you really need an easy way to interface with JNI. And that means another library. There is a library th

Google Summer of Code 2016

2015-12-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
The deadline for the Google Summer of Code, 2016 is February 19th. Which means we have about a month and a half to put something together. For the time being I've recycled last years projects (with one dropped so far): http://wiki.dlang.org/GSOC_2016_Ideas#Ideas Since we were rejected with,

Re: Three people out of four dislike SDL

2015-12-01 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 23:34:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: I think the default should be the obscure, hipster language that no-one has heard of and who's website is currently offline[1]. Using this language for dub configuration should increase the barrier-to-entry just enough to weed

Re: I hate new DUB config format

2015-11-30 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 1 December 2015 at 04:54:23 UTC, James Hofmann wrote: FWIW, I'm tempted to take the side of "make JS the default, compile existing SDL and JSON to JS when run, add compilers for TOML or YAML if there's demand". If you make code your lowest common denominator, nothing else matters,

Re: std.data.json formal review

2015-08-13 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 14 August 2015 at 00:16:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/13/2015 5:22 AM, CraigDillabaugh wrote: No configuration file should be in a format that doesn't support comments. [ "comment" : "and you thought it couldn't have comments!" ] You are cheating :o) There do seem to be some

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 14:43:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Thanks all for the feedback; a follow up is in order seeing as there are a few misunderstandings of the situation. [...] clip Yah, ideally the autotester would just build the release as well for each platform on the same ma

Re: Martin Nowak is officially MIA

2015-06-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:35:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/17/15 5:38 AM, IgorStepanov wrote: He returned back to github and posted some messages. End alarm:) Glad to hear that. However, the need for two other release managers is still there. The role of Release Manager and

Re: std.xml2 (collecting features)

2015-05-09 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 9 May 2015 at 10:28:53 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Monday, 4 May 2015 at 18:50:43 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: On Sunday, 3 May 2015 at 17:47:15 UTC, Joakim wrote: clip Remember that while JSON is simpler, XML is not just a structured container for bool, Number and String data. It comes w

Re: They wrote the fastest parallelized BAM parser in D

2015-03-30 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 22:55:37 UTC, lobo wrote: On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 20:25:33 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Monday, 30 March 2015 at 20:09:35 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: clip You're right about the lack of visualization being a shame. I have been thinking about porting Bokeh bi

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-02-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 19 February 2015 at 04:28:35 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 11:52:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 21:20 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] I haven't yet heard from Martin on his Melange name. Do you mind me putti

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-02-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 17 February 2015 at 11:52:15 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Mon, 2015-02-16 at 21:20 +, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] I haven't yet heard from Martin on his Melange name. Do you mind me putting your name down as assistant administrator if by submission time I sti

Re: Botan Crypto and TLS for D

2015-02-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 04:17:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 18/02/2015 5:01 p.m., Etienne Cimon wrote: On 2015-02-17 20:54, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 18/02/2015 10:00 a.m., Etienne wrote: I'd like to announce the first release of Botan, which implements all features of v1.11.1

Re: Botan Crypto and TLS for D

2015-02-18 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 04:17:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 18/02/2015 5:01 p.m., Etienne Cimon wrote: On 2015-02-17 20:54, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 18/02/2015 10:00 a.m., Etienne wrote: I'd like to announce the first release of Botan, which implements all features of v1.11.1

Re: Consistency

2015-02-15 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 15 February 2015 at 18:45:45 UTC, bearophile wrote: Meta: Oh, whoops. I mixed up average-case complexity with worst-case. Although, isn't lookup O(n) in the worst case for hash tables? D associative arrays used to be O(1) amortized and O(n ln n) in worst case. Now they are O(1) a

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-02-14 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 February 2015 at 06:56:00 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Craig, I have signed up on Melange as a potential mentor, user name russel_winder. Thank you.

Re: Testing package proposed for Phobos

2015-02-08 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 9 February 2015 at 01:41:33 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: More and more, D code is written as a component that takes a type parameters that are ranges. Unit testing becomes inconvenient, as types must be mocked up to call them. Using an array of data often is inadequate, because the comp

Re: Renaming DMD File Extensions from C to C++

2015-02-07 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 February 2015 at 06:23:43 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Fri, 06 Feb 2015 18:48:16 +, deadalnix wrote: Well you are talking for talking, we are waiting on your awesome PRs. easy deal. and i'm waiting for Andrei and Walter preapprovement. i'm not interested in writing code for noth

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-02-05 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 6 February 2015 at 00:23:59 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 6/02/2015 9:30 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote: On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 04:32:14 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help. The start of submissions for the 2015 Goo

Re: Window creation, for phobos?

2015-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 11:34:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 10:34:29 UTC, ponce wrote: Regarding C++ that might change. https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/28/experimenting-with-a-proposed-standard-gui-for-the-c-language/ http://isocpp.org/files/papers/N388

Re: Window creation, for phobos?

2015-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 05:10:52 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 11:34:42 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 10:34:29 UTC, ponce wrote: Regarding C++ that might change. https://msopentech.com/blog/2015/01/28/experimenting-with-a-proposed-

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 22:30:18 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 31/01/2015 3:24 a.m., CraigDillabaugh wrote: Window creation isn't conception. Its a very nice reality :) I was just throwing it out there however about an image library. In case somebody wanted to mentor for it. I gues

Re: Mars Drafting Library - Official community driven library

2015-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 20:48:01 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/31/2015 7:10 AM, Piotrek wrote: I know that, but the naming is the least important aspect of the proposal. I agree. Let's not have endless posts bikeshedding the name, no matter how tempting. Yeah, lets just call it Tan

Re: Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-01-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 31 January 2015 at 08:57:15 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Friday, 30 January 2015 at 14:11:27 UTC, CraigDillabaugh wrote: http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/managing-the-mentors/ Sounds good, count me in. Thank you very much.

Google Summer of Code - Again

2015-01-29 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
It seems like its been too long since I posted asking for GSOC help. The start of submissions for the 2015 Google Summer of Code is fast approaching, so once again I would like to approach the community for some assistance. My immediate needs are: 1) I need a volunteer for 'backup' administr

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-17 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 03:33:29 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 3/01/2015 3:59 p.m., Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 00:15:42 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 3/01/2015 4:30 a.m., Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 06:19:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermol

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-13 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 12:23:16 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 31/12/2014 03:25, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: 7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added it. Can you provide me with a few more details, and a bio. Also, under what license is DDT released, I couldn't access

Re: Could D compete in a competition like this?

2015-01-11 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:10:12 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 13:01:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Could D compete in a competition like this? The guts will have to be done in assembly or Intel intrinsics... Why do you say that. Seems like picking the

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-10 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
8) Russel Winder and QML ... see #4. Should we drop QML support from our GSOC due to: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hapeegrotkazppwdn...@forum.dlang.org

Re: Phobos Contributor Tutorial

2015-01-10 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 10 January 2015 at 19:08:07 UTC, Ulrich Küttler wrote: Hi, with one phobos PR accepted any a second one submitted, I feel it is about time I write a tutorial. No, seriously, I spend some time to get started. Others might have a rough time, too. So here is a draft of a contributor

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-04 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 4 January 2015 at 17:25:49 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On 01/04/2015 04:50 AM, Mike wrote: On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 14:14:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: clip It's a known issue that certain language constructs require memory management. That's not a big deal, you can't use C++'s

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 3 January 2015 at 00:15:42 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 3/01/2015 4:30 a.m., Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 06:19:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: clip 10) Rikki had mentioned a 'Web Development' project, but I don't have enough to post on the project id

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 06:19:14 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: clip 10) Rikki had mentioned a 'Web Development' project, but I don't have enough to post on the project ideas page. Are you still interested in doing this. Yes I am. I don't know what I'm doing in the near future (need a

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2015-01-02 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 1 January 2015 at 02:18:40 UTC, Mike wrote: On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 11:24:00 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: The key guy to get in touch though is Michael Franklin: http://dconf.org/2014/talks/franklin.html Would be great to know if he open-sourced some of his stuff. My e

Re: Happy new year!

2014-12-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 14:55:00 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 14:20:28 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: Here's to an awesome 2015! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda :-) Is that welsh?

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2014-12-31 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 11:24:00 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 31-Dec-2014 06:25, Craig Dillabaugh пишет: I was hoping folks to take a brief break from bickering about features, and arguing over which posters have been naughty, and which have been nice, to get a bit of input on our 201

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2014-12-30 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 03:44:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 03:25:53 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: 3) I would like to have a 'backup' mentor for each project. Any volunteers! I think we have enough for the Phobos project, but other projects could reall

Re: GSOC - Holiday Edition

2014-12-30 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 31 December 2014 at 03:25:53 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: 7) Bruno Medeiros - you suggested a DDT project. I've added it. Can you provide me with a few more details, and a bio. Also, under what license is DDT released, I couldn't access any code on your GitHub page to check th

GSOC - Holiday Edition

2014-12-30 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
I was hoping folks to take a brief break from bickering about features, and arguing over which posters have been naughty, and which have been nice, to get a bit of input on our 2015 Google Summer of Code Proposal ... :o) First off, I've been able to get some work done on the Idea's page, it

Re: Worst Phobos documentation evar!

2014-12-28 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 28 December 2014 at 17:55:26 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On 28/12/2014 17:51, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: Trying to fix this problem seems to require people who want to contribute to have to clone Phobos and submit pull requests. You can do it all from your browser if yo

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