Re: [OT] Extra time spent

2014-06-01 Thread John via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 June 2014 at 19:22:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/30/2014 8:08 AM, Chris wrote: I like to re-invent the wheel too, because existing wheels might not be fit for your purpose. A few years back I invented a triangular wheel, which was an improvement over the square ones because

Re: D Users Survey: Primary OS?

2014-05-30 Thread John via Digitalmars-d
I use Ubuntu 64-bit for my personal use, but my bread winner is always Windows. Though I use both Windows 64-bit and 32-bit, I wouldn't shed a tear if the 32-bit support is neglected or dropped entirely.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei I just read the foreword. It's great!

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 22:10:02 UTC, Johannes Totz wrote: Thanks, is it possible to put it on Youtube as well? Ustream stutters every second from where I am which makes me feel sorry for the speaker… http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ helps with the stutter. +1

Re: Programming in D book is about 97% translated

2014-05-21 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 20:45:01 UTC, Piotrek wrote: You have at least one buyer (me) declared. I don't know if it's enough but it would be great to collect TDPL, Cook Book and Programming in D altogether. I am sure there would be many.. myself included. This book is a great resource.

Re: Online D Course

2014-05-21 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 May 2014 at 23:04:10 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: - This trial experience is free of charge—at least for the first ten days, with 200 minutes access to all our training courses. After that, it will convert to a monthly paid subscription. - So what if you attempt to

Re: Learn D in x minutes

2014-05-14 Thread John via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 14 May 2014 at 12:27:22 UTC, FG wrote: On 2014-05-14 05:22, Steve D wrote: I came across this site http://learnxinyminutes.com/ which gives a summary of most of the popular languages. Yes, it's definitely a good idea from a promotional point of view to put D in all those places

Re: Tkd - Cross platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk

2014-05-07 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 4 May 2014 at 16:18:53 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Tkd v1.0.0-beta https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd http://code.dlang.org/packages/tkd Overview Tkd is a fully cross-platform GUI toolkit based on Tcl/Tk[1]. Tkd allows you to build GUI applications easily and with the

Re: The Current Status of DQt

2014-05-07 Thread John via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 8 May 2014 at 03:06:48 UTC, FrankLike wrote: https://github.com/SeijiFujita/dfl-examples-d2 Do you have any screenshots? Thanks.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-04-19 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did called View from Phobos, seemed appropriate :P Wow! :)

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-04-19 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 23:03:54 UTC, Jason King wrote: Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't gotten this yet, now would be the time. I just did. Yes, I did it too.

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