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reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
So far, getting content for the blog has, with a few exceptions, 
been a process of sending out emails prompted by activity on my 
radar. This is no problem when it comes to project highlights or 
other fairly broad topics, but it's highly inefficient for 
ginning up technical posts on the implementation of specific 
algorithms, or optimization details, or how a D feature prevented 
a nuclear meltdown.

I want to publish more posts like Andreas's 'Find Was Too Damn 
Slow, So We Fixed It` [1] (which, by the way, is the most-viewed 
post so far, just ahead of Joakim's interview with Walter [2]), 
or Steven's 'How to Write  trusted Code in D' [3], but I need 
help.

If you, or someone you know, have done something interesting with 
an algorithm or optimization in D, or have used a D idiom to do 
things in a way that pleasantly surprised you, please let me 
know. If I think it's something we can work with, I'll help you 
in putting together a guest post, or something like I do with the 
project highlights (where I build a post around whatever info you 
give me).

Also, I need news. If you see or hear any D news anywhere outside 
of the forums -- new projects, research papers, usage at a 
company, a game using D -- please drop me a line. I'll either get 
a post together for it or make sure Adam knows about it for 'This 
Week in D'.

I'm also open to ideas for other types of posts, like project 
highlights, but I'd really like more of the technical stuff. 
Please send any suggestions to aldacron gmail.com.

Thanks!

[1] 
http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/16/find-was-too-damn-slow-so-we-fixed-it/
[2] 
http://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/30/ruminations-on-d-an-interview-with-walter-bright/
[3] 
http://dlang.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-to-write-trusted-code-in-d/
Oct 30 2016
next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?Q?Ali_=c3=87ehreli?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 10/30/2016 08:51 PM, Mike Parker wrote:

 So far, getting content for the blog has, with a few exceptions, been a
 process of sending out emails prompted by activity on my radar.


Thank you and please continue doing that. I would have never thought of 
contributing to the blog if you hadn't contacted me with an idea.d

I have an article request for anyone who is considering writing 
something, which was prompted by a recent thread[1]. There are many 
functions in Phobos that can be used for searching and parsing: The ones 
in std.algorighm like find, findSplit, splitter, etc.; a few in 
std.range like some members of SortedRange; some in std.array like 
split; some in std.string like indexOf; and of course std.regex; and more...

It's likely that some of those are redundant or less efficient compared 
to others. There must be some simple guidelines to prefer one over the 
others. I would enjoy reading such an article. :)

Ali

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/iygdxteveaykhiauosko forum.dlang.org
Oct 31 2016
parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 07:00:05 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 10/30/2016 08:51 PM, Mike Parker wrote:

 So far, getting content for the blog has, with a few


 exceptions, been a

 process of sending out emails prompted by activity on my


 radar.

 Thank you and please continue doing that. I would have never 
 thought of contributing to the blog if you hadn't contacted me 
 with an idea.d


I intend to! I scrounge for ideas every three or four weeks, then 
send emails out in batches and cross my fingers waiting for 
responses. That so far has enabled me to build up a nice little 
queue of posts, most of which actually materialize. It's just a 
matter of doing it, something that is increasingly taking more 
time. The absence of a post last week was because the queue run 
out without me sending out a new round of emails to build it back 
up and not writing a fallback post to fill in the gap. I let 
myself get distracted by a side project and preparation for 
NaNoWriMo. I'm hoping my plea here will help reduce the 
likelihood of that happening again anytime soon.
Oct 31 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Guillaume Piolat <first.last gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 03:51:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 If you, or someone you know, have done something interesting 
 with an algorithm or optimization in D, or have used a D idiom 
 to do things in a way that pleasantly surprised you, please let 
 me know. If I think it's something we can work with, I'll help 
 you in putting together a guest post, or something like I do 
 with the project highlights (where I build a post around 
 whatever info you give me).


No fantastic story-telling there, but feel free to pick any 
content from https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/
Oct 31 2016
parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 10:02:16 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:


 No fantastic story-telling there, but feel free to pick any 
 content from https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/


If there's a backstory behind any of them, that would be great. I 
need more than just a blurb. I'm planning to make a handful of 
posts over the next few months on how some specific dub commands 
have helped me in certain situations. I'd love something similar 
for some of the idioms in your list. I'm sure you could put 
together an interesting post about your GC-destructor-detection 
trick.
Oct 31 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2016-10-31 04:51, Mike Parker wrote:

 So far, getting content for the blog has, with a few exceptions, been a
 process of sending out emails prompted by activity on my radar. This is
 no problem when it comes to project highlights or other fairly broad
 topics, but it's highly inefficient for ginning up technical posts on
 the implementation of specific algorithms, or optimization details, or
 how a D feature prevented a nuclear meltdown.


Would it be interesting to have a blog post about implement support for 
Objective-C in D? That would be very technical and quite low level.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 31 2016
parent reply Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:29:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 Would it be interesting to have a blog post about implement 
 support for Objective-C in D? That would be very technical and 
 quite low level.


Absolutely!
Oct 31 2016
parent reply Stefan Koch <uplink.coder googlemail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 06:23:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:29:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:


 Would it be interesting to have a blog post about implement 
 support for Objective-C in D? That would be very technical and 
 quite low level.


 Absolutely!


I could write something about the CTFE engine.
And how I plan to beat the llvm jit :)
Oct 31 2016
next sibling parent bachmeier <no spam.net> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 06:36:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:

 On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 06:23:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:29:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:


 Would it be interesting to have a blog post about implement 
 support for Objective-C in D? That would be very technical 
 and quite low level.


 Absolutely!


 I could write something about the CTFE engine.
 And how I plan to beat the llvm jit :)


I'd be very interested in such a post. And it would provide some 
good publicity for D.
Nov 01 2016
prev sibling parent Mike Parker <aldacron gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 06:36:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:

 On Tuesday, 1 November 2016 at 06:23:29 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 20:29:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:


 Would it be interesting to have a blog post about implement 
 support for Objective-C in D? That would be very technical 
 and quite low level.


 Absolutely!


 I could write something about the CTFE engine.
 And how I plan to beat the llvm jit :)


Please do!
Nov 01 2016
prev sibling next sibling parent qznc <qznc web.de> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 03:51:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 I want to publish more posts like Andreas's 'Find Was Too Damn 
 Slow, So We Fixed It` [1] (which, by the way, is the 
 most-viewed post so far, just ahead of Joakim's interview with 
 Walter [2]), or Steven's 'How to Write  trusted Code in D' [3], 
 but I need help.



 [1] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/16/find-was-too-damn-slow-so-we-fixed-it/
 [2] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/30/ruminations-on-d-an-interview-with-walter-bright/
 [3] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-to-write-trusted-code-in-d/


I take that as a compliment. Thanks! The rest of you, take that 
as a challenge. ;)

What I would like to read about would be LuaD [4] or ctRegex [5], 
because they are great demos of CTFE.

The auto-tester would be worth an article as well. Not about the 
implementation details, but about its features and the PR 
workflow.

Also, some embedded D use like kernel or freestanding stuff.

None of these are "I fixed something in D" though. Hm, Taking a 
look through the recent 072 changelog, I found two items which 
could be worth a story:

* std.range.padLeft and std.range.padRight were added (if someone 
can write comedy and wants to take some jabs at the Javascript 
leftPad story)
* std.range.generate fixed to be a proper range (I remember some 
heated discussion about the semantics of front)


[4] http://jakobovrum.github.io/LuaD/
[5] https://dlang.org/phobos/std_regex.html#.ctRegex
Nov 01 2016
prev sibling parent Daniel9 <andreikovalsa mail.ru> writes:
On Monday, 31 October 2016 at 03:51:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:

 So far, getting content for the blog has, with a few 
 exceptions, been a process of sending out emails prompted by 
 activity on my radar. This is no problem when it comes to 
 project highlights or other fairly broad topics, but it's 
 highly inefficient for ginning up technical posts on the 
 implementation of specific algorithms, or optimization details, 
 or how a D feature prevented a nuclear meltdown.

 I want to publish more posts like Andreas's 'Find Was Too Damn 
 Slow, So We Fixed It` [1] (which, by the way, is the 
 most-viewed post so far, just ahead of Joakim's interview with 
 Walter [2]), or Steven's 'How to Write  trusted Code in D' [3], 
 but I need help.

 If you, or someone you know, have done something interesting 
 with an algorithm or optimization in D, or have used a D idiom 
 to do things in a way that pleasantly surprised you, please let 
 me know. If I think it's something we can work with, I'll help 
 you in putting together a guest post, or something like I do 
 with the project highlights (where I build a post around 
 whatever info you give me).

 Also, I need news. If you see or hear any D news anywhere 
 outside of the forums -- new projects, research papers, usage 
 at a company, a game using D -- please drop me a line. I'll 
 either get a post together for it or make sure Adam knows about 
 it for 'This Week in D'.

 I'm also open to ideas for other types of posts, like project 
 highlights, but I'd really like more of the technical stuff. 
 Please send any suggestions to aldacron gmail.com.

 Thanks!

 [1] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/16/find-was-too-damn-slow-so-we-fixed-it/
 [2] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/30/ruminations-on-d-an-interview-with-walter-bright/
 [3] 
 http://dlang.org/blog/2016/09/28/how-to-write-trusted-code-in-d/


It's excellent, thanks)
Nov 02 2016