Re: D marketplace

2009-10-16 Thread AJ
bearophile wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: Is this something needed? At the moment I don't see a lot of business D-related. At the moment? If the boat has a hole in it, tell them immediately.

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-14 Thread Justin Johansson
Walter Bright Wrote: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D programmers, anything business oriented that's related

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread language_fan
Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:04:04 -0600, Stanley Steel thusly wrote: On 10/6/09 11:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Stanley Steel wrote: On 10/6/09 12:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread Stanley Steel
language_fan Wrote: The nntp system is not that bad actually. What annoys me on the announcement group is that there is too much OT discussion and new release announcements are added to the same thread with lots of OT posts. Some kind of moderation would be more than welcome. If you

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread Walter Bright
Stanley Steel wrote: I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent portfolio. So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web development and design as that is where my interest and experience lies. Hence, the suggestion to do something other than a newsgroup

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:haj1ek$20s...@digitalmars.com... Stanley Steel wrote: I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent portfolio. So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web development and design as that is

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread Stanley Steel
Walter Bright Wrote: Stanley Steel wrote: I am looking for a project to complete to help enhance my nonexistent portfolio. So, I was hoping to do something along the lines of web development and design as that is where my interest and experience lies. Hence, the suggestion to do

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-07 Thread Walter Bright
Stanley Steel wrote: Walter Bright Wrote: I've been interested in a long time in writing a D cgi application that runs on the server and enables a reddit-like view of the n.g. postings, as well as the usual n.g. nntp interface. The current archiving stuff

D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Walter Bright
I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D programmers, anything business oriented that's related to D. Is this something

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread bearophile
Walter Bright Wrote: Is this something needed? At the moment I don't see a lot of business D-related. But if you build it they may come, maybe slowly (in a year or two). If in a couple years from now you see that newsgroup keeps being dead, you can delete it. So I don't see harm in trying.

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:hag41h$21l...@digitalmars.com... I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services,

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Walter Bright
Nick Sabalausky wrote: Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote in message news:hag41h$21l...@digitalmars.com... I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D programmers,

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Walter Bright
dsimcha wrote: Can't hurt. Part of what holds D back is that its community is so diffuse, since it doesn't have a real niche yet that concentrates a lot of users. These forums are about the only place other than random coffee shops in Seattle where you hear much about D on the technical

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2009-10-06 14:58:59 -0400, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com said: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Tim Matthews
Walter Bright wrote: There's some overlap, but I think they serve entirely different purposes. D.announce is for any announcements of interest to D programmers, D.marketplace is for commercial things - products and services to buy and sell. Think of it like the 'classified' section of the

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Walter Bright
Tim Matthews wrote: I don't know anything of the implementation of news groups. Is it at all easy to just move posts in the same way as can be done through a web message board forum? It would be very hard to move them.

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Stanley Steel
On 10/6/09 12:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D programmers, anything business oriented

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Walter Bright
Stanley Steel wrote: On 10/6/09 12:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting services, post want ads for D programmers,

Re: D marketplace

2009-10-06 Thread Stanley Steel
On 10/6/09 11:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Stanley Steel wrote: On 10/6/09 12:58 PM, Walter Bright wrote: I'm considering setting up another D newsgroup called D.marketplace. In it, you can essentially post advertisements for your D products, hang out a shingle offering your D consulting