The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
In 2006, I started a blog on PHP-GTK 2.x that ran for 40 posts before the blog site I was using closed its door. By then, I was caught up in writing Corkboard, the first full-featured application I'd written for my own amusement in nearly 20 years, and so I just let it slip away. Last year, w

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-21 Thread angel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 19:37:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: In 2006, I started a blog on PHP-GTK 2.x that ran for 40 posts before the blog site I was using closed its door. By then, I was caught up in writing Corkboard, the first full-featured application I'd written for my own amusement i

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-21 Thread SashaGreat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 19:37:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: ... I think you have 2 problems: First and unfortunately this community is very very small, it'll be hard to make money over here, I think with Rust you could get more attraction. Second the timing, at least today "everything

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-21 Thread Doc Andrew via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 19:37:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Ron, for what it's worth, I was doing some work using GtkAda recently, and your blog was one of the better references for just understanding the Gtk libs. I don't use Gtk all that often, but I appreciated the reference! -Doc

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-21 Thread mipri via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 16:14:48 UTC, angel wrote: On Tuesday, 19 November 2019 at 19:37:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: In 2006, I started a blog on PHP-GTK 2.x that ran for 40 posts before the blog site I was using closed its door. By then, I was caught up in writing Corkboard, the first

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 16:14:48 UTC, angel wrote: I think you should set up a "Donate" page on your site, so that an occasional visitor can say thank you. Hi angel, I actually do have a link at the bottom of every post. Just look for the big red heart. :)

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 00:17:33 UTC, Doc Andrew wrote: Ron, for what it's worth, I was doing some work using GtkAda recently, and your blog was one of the better references for just understanding the Gtk libs. I don't use Gtk all that often, but I appreciated the reference! Well, it'

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 18:56:25 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I think you have 2 problems: First and unfortunately this community is very very small, it'll be hard to make money over here, I think with Rust you could get more attraction. Yup, it's a small community. I've been keeping an

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 10:42:33 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 18:56:25 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: Second the timing, at least today "everything is WEB APP", and I'm not saying desktop is dead applications is dead, but most of my current work is converting to WE

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 01:33:22 UTC, mipri wrote: On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 16:14:48 UTC, angel wrote: Github sponsorship is very good right now though, since Github matches the donations, but what I'd suggest is a "Desktop Applications in D" booklet similar to: I do have some

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 11:05:24 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: I suppose you know about Gtk's Broadway backend, it seems to do its job so a Gtk desktop-app can be a web-app in a very simple way: Yup, I know about it, but I strive for simplicity in the demos I post and talk about. It may s

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-13 Thread Ferhat Kurtulmuş via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 12:14:58 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 11:05:24 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: My goal is to write X-plat apps in the simplest way possible, using one language (D) and one toolkit (GTK). The world is complicated enough these days in very man

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-13 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 13:17:53 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward. Well, that's pretty cool, Ferhat.

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-14 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 13:17:53 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward. After further pondering on the implications of this, I'm getting rather excited about where it could go. Hav

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-14 Thread Ferhat Kurtulmuş via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 January 2020 at 10:09:39 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 13:17:53 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward. After further pondering on the implications