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reply "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
Hi,

dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d - 
GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


Staging area for the new look is found here:

http://staging.dgnu.org

Regards
Iain.
Jul 28 2014
next sibling parent reply "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Iain Buclaw:

 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org
I suggest to reduce the section about bugs, to add links in the text to the other D compilers (and especially to the main D site), to explain the differences and advantages/disadvantages between dmd and gdc, to add well visible links at how to download it and its sources, at a page that lists the differences between gdc and dmd in usability, to a page that lists gdc command line arguments, and in this home page you can also add few graphs that show the higher/lower performance of gdc compared to dmd, and a list of the targets currently supported. Bye, bearophile
Jul 28 2014
parent reply Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 28 July 2014 11:39, bearophile via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 Iain Buclaw:


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org
I suggest to reduce the section about bugs, to add links in the text to the other D compilers (and especially to the main D site), to explain the differences and advantages/disadvantages between dmd and gdc, to add well visible links at how to download it and its sources, at a page that lists the differences between gdc and dmd in usability, to a page that lists gdc command line arguments, and in this home page you can also add few graphs that show the higher/lower performance of gdc compared to dmd, and a list of the targets currently supported. Bye, bearophile
I think that would require more navigation tabs than there is space for on the screen. ;) Iain.
Jul 28 2014
parent "Kagamin" <spam here.lot> writes:
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 11:13:32 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
 I think that would require more navigation tabs than there is 
 space for on the screen. ;)
Always wondered, why navigation toolbars can't wrap, especially when visual design allows for it. Aren't they just a sequence of styled spans? The browser should be able to wrap them.
Jul 29 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "w0rp" <devw0rp gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d 
 - GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
Jul 28 2014
next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?B?U8O2bmtlIEx1ZHdpZw==?= <sludwig rejectedsoftware.com> writes:
Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak (Win32 has been available already): https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Jul 28 2014
next sibling parent reply "w0rp" <devw0rp gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 17:31:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
 Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using 
 vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak (Win32 has been available already): https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Awesome, I'll use that at some point, then. There's been a pretty good history of things appearing in vibe.d just slightly after I want them.
Jul 28 2014
next sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 28 July 2014 19:08, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 17:31:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
 Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak (Win32 has been available already): https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Awesome, I'll use that at some point, then. There's been a pretty good history of things appearing in vibe.d just slightly after I want them.
FYI: https://github.com/ibuclaw/gdcproject/commit/03607e0c834e1950fa2b9c697b2cd17e38547812 Though you might do a better job than me. ;-)
Jul 30 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 30 July 2014 16:51, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> wrote:
 On 28 July 2014 19:08, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
 <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 17:31:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
 Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak (Win32 has been available already): https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Awesome, I'll use that at some point, then. There's been a pretty good history of things appearing in vibe.d just slightly after I want them.
FYI: https://github.com/ibuclaw/gdcproject/commit/03607e0c834e1950fa2b9c697b2cd17e38547812 Though you might do a better job than me. ;-)
I seem to be getting a SEGV in vibe.d on my server, but can't reproduce it locally. It's happening in the source changed by Martin for libev support. My dev machine is 64bit, the server is 32bit. Hmm....
Jul 30 2014
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 30 July 2014 17:15, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> wrote:
 On 30 July 2014 16:51, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> wrote:
 On 28 July 2014 19:08, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
 <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 17:31:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
 Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak (Win32 has been available already): https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Awesome, I'll use that at some point, then. There's been a pretty good history of things appearing in vibe.d just slightly after I want them.
FYI: https://github.com/ibuclaw/gdcproject/commit/03607e0c834e1950fa2b9c697b2cd17e38547812 Though you might do a better job than me. ;-)
I seem to be getting a SEGV in vibe.d on my server, but can't reproduce it locally. It's happening in the source changed by Martin for libev support. My dev machine is 64bit, the server is 32bit. Hmm....
Looks like was down to my server set-up. I had been using gdc w/ 2.065 on my own machine, but gdc w/ 2.064 on the server. Rebuilt on 2.065 and all is functional now. Site is now able to rebuild pages in the background on the fly, no recompilation/restart necessary. :o) Regards
Jul 30 2014
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
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On 28 Jul 2014 18:35, "S=C3=B6nke Ludwig" <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wro=
te:
 Am 28.07.2014 18:04, schrieb w0rp:

 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d -
 GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too. I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc. I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually.
DirectoryWatcher for Linux has just been implemented by Martin Nowak
(Win32 has been available already):
 https://github.com/rejectedsoftware/vibe.d/pull/743

 The corresponding API is vibe.core.file.watchDirectory().
Thanks! I'm now using it, though only for cached files for the moment. I should reorganise some things and instead cache compiled pages. Regards Iain.
Jul 29 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 28 Jul 2014 17:05, "w0rp via Digitalmars-d" <digitalmars-d puremagic.com>
wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d - GDC's
homepage is now getting a UI update.
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and
that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC. I left the downloads page as 'this is as good as it's going to get'. I had by chance stumbled upon firefox's responsive screen viewer and was able to fine tune lower resolutions.
 I like that you have links to AUR for Arch Linux, packages.debian.org for
Debian, etc. That's something which should go into the dlang.org downloads page too.

Walter goes on about that constantly.

 I'll have to look at whatever filesystem monitors you have written, etc.
I'll need to add filesystem monitors for Markdown files eventually. I did not get a chance to clean it up enough to push it in. Regards Iain
Jul 28 2014
parent reply "Justin C Calvarese" <jccalvarese+d gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 19:09:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
...
 I left the downloads page as 'this is as good as it's going to 
 get'.
If you decide to trim down the tables, you could probably make the tables a little simpler by adding a note above the tables that explains that "Runtime = Yes" for every one of the downloads lists, and then removing that column from the tables. It's just an idea. -- Justin
Jul 28 2014
parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 29 July 2014 03:53, Justin C Calvarese via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 19:09:51 UTC, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d
 wrote:
 ...

 I left the downloads page as 'this is as good as it's going to get'.
If you decide to trim down the tables, you could probably make the tables a little simpler by adding a note above the tables that explains that "Runtime = Yes" for every one of the downloads lists, and then removing that column from the tables. It's just an idea.
I'm not a web designer so that just goes straight over my head. :) Iain
Jul 28 2014
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 28 July 2014 17:04, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d - GDC's
 homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
I like it. There's very little you can say that's wrong with it, and that's a decent measure of success. The download page won't display decently on very small screen sizes, but I doubt you'd have much reason to look at GDC downloads unless you're on a machine which can run GDC.
I've tweaked the downloads page. It's not as fancy, but it should now keep consistency. Regards Iain
Jul 30 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 7/28/14, 3:27 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Hi,

 dlang.org isn't the only site being re-implemented using vibe.d - GDC's
 homepage is now getting a UI update.

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/6
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdcproject/pull/9


 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org

 Regards
 Iain.
Awesome! When will dlang.org be also vibed I wonder... -- Andrei
Jul 28 2014
prev sibling parent reply "tn" <no email.com> writes:
On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 - GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org
I think the old logo was better. The new one looks weird, like it was unfinished.
Aug 01 2014
next sibling parent Alix Pexton <alix.DOT.pexton gmail.DOT.com> writes:
On 01/08/2014 10:15 AM, tn wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 - GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org
I think the old logo was better. The new one looks weird, like it was unfinished.
It is unfinished, I got sidetracked studying copyright law and lupine anatomy among other things >< A...
Aug 01 2014
prev sibling parent Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
On 1 August 2014 10:15, tn via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d puremagic.com> wrote:
 On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 10:27:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 - GDC's homepage is now getting a UI update.

 Staging area for the new look is found here:

 http://staging.dgnu.org
I think the old logo was better. The new one looks weird, like it was unfinished.
Raise a pull request to fix it!
Aug 01 2014