Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Hello Brad, BCS wrote: I can't memorize speeches either (OTOH I really like ones where I can read it off a script) what I'd love to have is a power point setup with two screens for me, one with a copy of the projector and one with my notes (in inch high font) and thumbnails of the following sl

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

BCS wrote: > Reply to Georg, > > >> I was always terrible at memorization. I couldn't learn my lines in >> school plays, and once I starred in an educational movie. The director >> was pulling his hair because I couldn't remember 15 secs of lines at a >> time. If I make a presentation, I simply h

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Reply to Walter, BCS wrote: I can't memorize speeches either (OTOH I really like ones where I can read it off a script) what I'd love to have is a power point setup with two screens for me, one with a copy of the projector and one with my notes (in inch high font) and thumbnails of the followi

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright wrote: BCS wrote: I can't memorize speeches either (OTOH I really like ones where I can read it off a script) what I'd love to have is a power point setup with two screens for me, one with a copy of the projector and one with my notes (in inch high font) and thumbnails of the fol

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

BCS wrote: I can't memorize speeches either (OTOH I really like ones where I can read it off a script) what I'd love to have is a power point setup with two screens for me, one with a copy of the projector and one with my notes (in inch high font) and thumbnails of the following slides. I.e.

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Reply to Georg, I was always terrible at memorization. I couldn't learn my lines in school plays, and once I starred in an educational movie. The director was pulling his hair because I couldn't remember 15 secs of lines at a time. If I make a presentation, I simply have to get familiar with th

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Sean Kelly wrote: Georg Wrede wrote: That's certainly true with non-techie audiences. I wish we had had speaking classes when I went to school. The first time I gave a lecture at the university, my hands trembled visibly on the OH. I'm fine if I can just sit down and talk, but if I have to

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Sean Kelly wrote: I'm fine if I can just sit down and talk, but if I have to stand in front of people I still get nervous and scattered. I was told my talk at the D conference actually went reasonably well, but I forgot or missed about half the points I'd meant to cover out of sheer terror :-)

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Brad Roberts: > I've now done enough presentations that the terror has subsided > and I can give a decent talk. It took years and lots of terror though. That's why you have to start giving presentations of your ideas/stories from the age of about 6 or so :-) I think in USA some schools use somet

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Sean Kelly wrote: > Georg Wrede wrote: >> >> That's certainly true with non-techie audiences. I wish we had had >> speaking classes when I went to school. The first time I gave a >> lecture at the university, my hands trembled visibly on the OH. > > I'm fine if I can just sit down and talk, but if

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Georg Wrede wrote: That's certainly true with non-techie audiences. I wish we had had speaking classes when I went to school. The first time I gave a lecture at the university, my hands trembled visibly on the OH. I'm fine if I can just sit down and talk, but if I have to stand in front of

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Sean Kelly wrote: == Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wr...@iki.fi)'s article The "presentation software format" is more restrictive than we usually think. Everything has to be crunched to ridiculous screenfuls, mostly containing a couple of bullet items. And if you want the audience to follow the

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Daniel Keep wrote: > There's always S5: it lets you make slideshows in HTML. > > http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ I’m partial to Slidy myself. —Joel Salomon

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

== Quote from Georg Wrede (georg.wr...@iki.fi)'s article > > The "presentation software format" is more restrictive than we usually > think. Everything has to be crunched to ridiculous screenfuls, mostly > containing a couple of bullet items. And if you want the audience to > follow the presentatio

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright wrote: Georg Wrede wrote: That hit me too. I've been using PP or OO "just because", never really thinking. But there are some advantages to using "a straight, long document". It's a /lot/ faster to create the presentation. You don't have to split stuff into screenfulls (or figh

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Daniel Keep wrote: There's always S5: it lets you make slideshows in HTML. http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/ After playing with OO Impress for a while, I've found it to be quicker and easier to produce a slideshow with it than with html. For another thing, the fonts render obviously better

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright wrote: > Georg Wrede wrote: >> That hit me too. I've been using PP or OO "just because", never really >> thinking. But there are some advantages to using "a straight, long >> document". >> >> It's a /lot/ faster to create the presentation. You don't have to >> split stuff into scree

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Georg Wrede wrote: That hit me too. I've been using PP or OO "just because", never really thinking. But there are some advantages to using "a straight, long document". It's a /lot/ faster to create the presentation. You don't have to split stuff into screenfulls (or fight with the presentatio

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

bearophile wrote: Arild Boes: Here's the link: http://www.vimeo.com/4333802 Globally is a very nice presentation. I like how Walter is never putting himself over the people that are listening. He is humble and at the same level. It has to be a gift! Richard Stallman is the opposite, both on

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Awww! I wanna see how it ends! :D -- Daniel

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Arild Boes wrote: > Here’s the link: > > http://www.vimeo.com/4333802 > One thing that I thought could have been explained was that this: > T increment(T)(T x) > { > return x + 1; > } > > auto j = increment(3); Is actually this: > template increment(T) > { > T increment(T x) > {

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Arild Boes: > Here's the link: > http://www.vimeo.com/4333802 Globally is a very nice presentation. I like how Walter is never putting himself over the people that are listening. He is humble and at the same level. But the video isn't finished, where's the second part of the video? :-) Using ht

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Hello Arild, Here's the link: http://www.vimeo.com/4333802 SWEET! to bad it's almost midnight and I'm pineing for a 56K link right now (don't ask) so I'll have to wait til later

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Here’s the link: http://www.vimeo.com/4333802

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

BCS skrev: Reply to Arild, Walter Bright skrev: BCS wrote: Hello Walter, Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web sit

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Reply to Arild, Walter Bright skrev: BCS wrote: Hello Walter, Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon. Bu

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright skrev: BCS wrote: Hello Walter, Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon. Bump ? You'll h

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

BCS wrote: Hello Walter, Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon. Bump ? You'll have to ask Bartosz!

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Hello Walter, Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon. Bump ?

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright skrev: Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon. yay! can't wait for that :)

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Tim M wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:50:51 +1300, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ Hi walter on 20/21 of december 2008 I created a post on digitalmars.D "Feature request: getMembers". It never got repplied to. Have you implemented this in D2 yet? Unfortunately, there's a very

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:50:51 +1300, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ Hi walter on 20/21 of december 2008 I created a post on digitalmars.D "Feature request: getMembers". It never got repplied to. Have you implemented this in D2 yet?

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Robert Fraser wrote: Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...? Bartosz videotaped it, I imagine he'll put it up on the nwcpp.org web site soon.

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Brad Roberts wrote: BCS wrote: Hello Walter, http://www.nwcpp.org/ Crud! 99.9% of the time I'd be able to say I'm 300mi away and couldn't make it, but right now I'm 30mi from Seattle for other reasons. What are the chances that I'd be only a little to far out for one of the few talks I'd lik

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Walter Bright wrote: http://www.nwcpp.org/ !!! I had a lab or I would have gone ;-( Any chance of a video...?

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

BCS wrote: > Hello Walter, > >> http://www.nwcpp.org/ >> > > Crud! 99.9% of the time I'd be able to say I'm 300mi away and couldn't > make it, but right now I'm 30mi from Seattle for other reasons. What are > the chances that I'd be only a little to far out for one of the few > talks I'd like to

Re: Metaprogramming in D tonight at the NWCPP

Hello Walter, http://www.nwcpp.org/ Crud! 99.9% of the time I'd be able to say I'm 300mi away and couldn't make it, but right now I'm 30mi from Seattle for other reasons. What are the chances that I'd be only a little to far out for one of the few talks I'd like to go to?