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digitalmars.D.announce - My D book is now officially coming soon

reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the 
last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the 
publisher's website:

http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it will 
be available in the summer.

Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

* Phobos, including Ranges
* Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error 
handling
* Reflection and code generation
* All kinds of fun with structs
* Integration with other languages and environments
* Using some third party libraries

and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's 
book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language 
features, I try to do them in the context of bigger picture 
tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each 
other.
Mar 03 2014
next sibling parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
 but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
 it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it 
 will be available in the summer.

 Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error 
 handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries

 and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of 
 language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger 
 picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and 
 reinforce each other.


Looking forward to reading it!
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "JR" <zorael gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
 but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
 it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it 
 will be available in the summer.


Preordered.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
 but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
 it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it 
 will be available in the summer.

 Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error 
 handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries

 and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of 
 language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger 
 picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and 
 reinforce each other.


Will the book also be available on Amazon?
Mar 03 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:06:36 UTC, Meta wrote:

 Will the book also be available on Amazon?


Yes, closer to the release date.
Mar 03 2014
parent "Meta" <jared771 gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:11:59 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 17:06:36 UTC, Meta wrote:

 Will the book also be available on Amazon?


 Yes, closer to the release date.


Great, I'm excited to read it.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/3/2014 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few
 months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Congratulations! This is a great contribution to D.



 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the
publisher
 thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like they are
 right...


Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.
Mar 03 2014
parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxpIMOHZWhyZWxp?= <acehreli yahoo.com> writes:
On 03/03/2014 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the
 publisher
 thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking like 




they are

 right...


 Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.


He should bring early copies to the conference! Please, please, 
please... (<-- I've already earned mine. :p )

Ali
Mar 03 2014
parent "extrawurst" <stephan extrawurst.org> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 22:36:29 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

 On 03/03/2014 09:24 AM, Walter Bright wrote:


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D




 conference, but the

 publisher
 thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking




 like they are

 right...


 Dang, we could have set up a table for your book.


 He should bring early copies to the conference! Please, please, 
 please... (<-- I've already earned mine. :p )


+1


 Ali
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?IlRow6lv?= Bueno" <munrek gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


This is a really good news !
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Craig Dillabaugh" <cdillaba cg.scs.carleton.ca> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
 but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
 it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it 
 will be available in the summer.

 Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error 
 handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries

 and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of 
 language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger 
 picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and 
 reinforce each other.


Congratulations.  I certainly intend to buy a copy.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Gary Willoughby" <dev nomad.so> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, 
 but the publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and 
 it is looking like they are right... right now we believe it 
 will be available in the summer.

 Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error 
 handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries

 and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book, not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of 
 language features, I try to do them in the context of bigger 
 picture tasks. So hopefully, the books can go together and 
 reinforce each other.


Looks great. I understand the effort and dedication of writing a 
technical book, it's not a small thing. I'll definitely be buying 
a copy when released. In fact i can't wait. :)
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Francesco Cattoglio" <francesco.cattoglio gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


I see there's a "sample chapters" tab, which is empty right now. 
Can we expect some preview chapter coming out soonish, too?
Mar 03 2014
parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 18:33:32 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio 
wrote:

 I see there's a "sample chapters" tab, which is empty right 
 now. Can we expect some preview chapter coming out soonish, too?


I don't know when, but eventually, yes. They'll probably wait for 
the first draft to be done (a month or so away still) before 
choosing one to put on the site.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Adam D. Ruppe:


 My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not to 
 repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I 
 try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So 
 hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.


Congratulations Adam :-)

Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the book 
about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online book, 
and probably more. Compared to other new languages like Scala 
there are far less books about D, but the situation is improving 
:-)

Bye,
bearophile
Mar 03 2014
parent "Jesse Phillips" <Jesse.K.Phillips+D gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 18:39:34 UTC, bearophile wrote:

 Adam D. Ruppe:


 My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book, not 
 to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, 
 I try to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So 
 hopefully, the books can go together and reinforce each other.


 Congratulations Adam :-)

 Now among the printed books about D there's Andrei book, the 
 book about Tango, and your one. Plus there's Ali Çehreli online 
 book, and probably more. Compared to other new languages like 
 Scala there are far less books about D, but the situation is 
 improving :-)

 Bye,
 bearophile


I believe there is a Japanese book for ~0.110

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?DevelopmentWithD#OtherLanguagesnon-English

But the link is dead and I really couldn't/can't confirm that the 
book was print.
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Stanislav Blinov" <stanislav.blinov gmail.com> writes:
Excellent! Congratulations! Best of luck finishing the book and 
publishing it!
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Dicebot" <public dicebot.lv> writes:
Damn, soon I will need to actually think before choosing what 
book to recommend to newbies! :)
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> writes:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:37:48 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe  
<destructionator gmail.com> wrote:


 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last  
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's  
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the  
 publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking  
 like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the  
 summer.

 Anyway, the topics I talk about include:

 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries

 and some more. My goal is to act as a nice complement to Andrei's book,  
 not to repeat it, so while I do cover a lot of language features, I try  
 to do them in the context of bigger picture tasks. So hopefully, the  
 books can go together and reinforce each other.


Congratulations! I look forward to reading it.

-Steve
Mar 03 2014
parent Philippe Sigaud <philippe.sigaud gmail.com> writes:
 On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 11:37:48 -0500, Adam D. Ruppe
 <destructionator gmail.com> wrote:


 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last few
 months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's website:


 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book




Nice! I find what you write here always clear and bringing very
interesting stuff along. Your posts here are always insightful, I'm
really looking forward to reading this


 * Phobos, including Ranges
 * Testing (both static and run time), documentation, and error handling
 * Reflection and code generation
 * All kinds of fun with structs
 * Integration with other languages and environments
 * Using some third party libraries




Nice choice of subjects! Good luck to finish it, it's always a very
tiring endeavour.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Let's share this on reddit tomorrow at 9 AM PST. Thanks!

Andrei
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


I thought it's implied since I've already been connected to the book as 
a reviewer: congratulations to Adam for undertaking such a powerful 
project. I'm enjoying the galleys quite a bit.

Andrei
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 3/3/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Sounds awesome, congrats!
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Mike" <none none.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Congratulations!  Looking forward to getting my hands on it.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent John J <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On 03/03/2014 11:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book



 I was hoping to have it finished in time for the D conference, but the
 publisher thought that was too soon to be realistic and it is looking
 like they are right... right now we believe it will be available in the
 summer.



Congratulations!
I will buy it as soon as it's available.
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Jonathan Dunlap" <jadit2 gmail.com> writes:
I'm excited to check it out! +1 preorder
Mar 03 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Announced:

https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202073362529100?stream_ref=10

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zjt9y/d_cookbook_available_for_preordering_from_packt/

I get internal server error from Twitter.


Andrei
Mar 04 2014
next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Announced:


Ah, cool, I almost forgot!


BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: 
I'm writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently 
uses sprintf which can't be run at compile time and isn't 
pure/ safe, so my new D implementation.... if I get it right on 
all the cases, it is close now tho... might be a nice replacement 
there.
Mar 04 2014
parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Announced:


 Ah, cool, I almost forgot!


 BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm
 writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf
 which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/ safe, so my new D
 implementation.... if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now
 tho... might be a nice replacement there.


It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.

http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/06/29/here-be-dragons-advances-in-problems-you-didnt-even-know-you-had/

(article by my manager!)


Andrei
Mar 04 2014
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/4/14, 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 3/4/14, 10:41 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:39:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Announced:


 Ah, cool, I almost forgot!


 BTW my brain is currently on something that might be of interest: I'm
 writing a little float to string function. Phobos currently uses sprintf
 which can't be run at compile time and isn't pure/ safe, so my new D
 implementation.... if I get it right on all the cases, it is close now
 tho... might be a nice replacement there.


 It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.

 http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2011/06/29/here-be-dragons-advances-in-problems-you-didnt-even-know-you-had/


 (article by my manager!)


 Andrei


That said I really wish we had CTFE-able parsing and formatting for FP 
numbers. The opportunities for function tabulation, interpolation etc. 
are fantastic.

Andrei
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:56:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.


Indeed, I started it last night figuring I could slap something 
together in 30 minutes to do the job... now I've spent over three 
hours on it and it still isn't quite right. It almost works 
(including in CTFE) but rounds some numbers incorrectly (very 
large and very small especially).

The guys on IRC said to look up the Burger algorithm and do it 
right, but I kinda wanna just finish it all by myself then maybe 
take a look at the prior art to see how wrong I was :)
Mar 04 2014
next sibling parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/4/2014 12:04 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:56:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.


 Indeed, I started it last night figuring I could slap something together in 30
 minutes to do the job... now I've spent over three hours on it and it still
 isn't quite right. It almost works (including in CTFE) but rounds some numbers
 incorrectly (very large and very small especially).


3 hours? Try a week or two.
Mar 04 2014
parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:29:31 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 3 hours? Try a week or two.


Yeah, I believe it now. Got close with my int version (shifting 
the fractional portion by the exponent... works great until it 
overflows adding up the bits). Tried a version with floating 
point math (cast to int, print that, append . to the string, 
raise the other to some power of ten, cast to int, call it done) 
and even that didn't actually work right - the leading zeroes or 
high exponents weren't right. Haven't even tried parsing them yet!

Yikes. I hate to admit defeat, but this has blown my time budget 
to pieces. Time to give it up. :(
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling parent Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 3/4/2014 3:04 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 but I kinda wanna just finish it all by myself then maybe take a look at
 the prior art to see how wrong I was :)


I like to do that too :)

That's what I tried the first time I ever did any parsing (it might have 
even just been lexing at that point). Wound up with several notebook 
pages filled with some half-baked bullshit "theory" that made no sense, 
and then gave up while trying to distill general rules out of it. I'm 
kind of amazed just how far I managed to dig down that particular rabbit 
hole.

It was fun, though. And it made learning the proper theory easier since 
it made so much more sense than my crazy version ;)
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/4/2014 10:57 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 It's a much harder problem than one might anticipate.


It might work better for CTFE to notice that the floating point formatting 
function is being called, and instead of interpreting that function, do its own 
workalike. Certainly that'd be a heluva lot faster.

A bugzilla issue for this would be apropos.
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/4/14, 10:39 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 Announced:

 https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/10202073362529100?stream_ref=10

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1zjt9y/d_cookbook_available_for_preordering_from_packt/


 I get internal server error from Twitter.


The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows "1 
comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear in "new" 
submissions but not in "hot" submissions.


Andrei
Mar 04 2014
parent reply "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission 
 shows "1 comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear 
 in "new" submissions but not in "hot" submissions.


I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .
Mar 04 2014
parent reply Max Klyga <max.klyga gmail.com> writes:
On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev said:


 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows 
 "1 comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear in "new" 
 submissions but not in "hot" submissions.


 
 I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .


Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators.
Mar 04 2014
parent reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote:

 On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev said:


 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission shows "1
 comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear in "new" submissions
 but not in "hot" submissions.


 I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .


 Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators.


yah, looks like that happened.
Mar 04 2014
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/4/14, 2:35 PM, Walter Bright wrote:

 On 3/4/2014 12:46 PM, Max Klyga wrote:

 On 2014-03-04 19:14:13 +0000, Vladimir Panteleev said:


 On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 18:58:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 The Net is definitely in a bad mood today. My reddit submission
 shows "1
 comment" but there's no comment to see. It also appear in "new"
 submissions
 but not in "hot" submissions.


 I don't see it in http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/new/ .


 Probably was filtered by some algorithm. Contact moderators.


 yah, looks like that happened.


Messaged a moderator. The post has been approved. However the timing is 
crappy so essentially the opportunity for a broad reach has been wasted.

BTW this is not something that only I can do. Anyone can politely 
message the moderators and ask what happened. Had that happened earlier 
(I've had a million meetings today), the impact of the post might have 
been much higher.

Let me reiterate: there's a lot of good talk about helping D out. 
Concurrently there are many simple, absolutely trivial tasks that are 
very easy for anyone to do but add to a lot of overhead if they all fall 
on the same person. Case in point, I asked for the photos of the keynote 
speakers on the homepage. This is a good idea because e.g. Scott's 
mugshot is instant credibility and a good selling points. Nobody found 
it worth their while to do that, so I ended up doing it myself, too. It 
would be awesome if there was more attention (thanks eco for the 
dconf.org pull request!) paid to all things that we can crowdsource.


Thanks,

Andrei
Mar 04 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Suliman" <evermind live.ru> writes:
to bare metal code


Do you mean low-level code like drivers?
Mar 05 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 5 March 2014 at 13:06:48 UTC, Suliman wrote:

 Do you mean low-level code like drivers?


Sort of. This chapter is one of the ones not yet written, but my 
plan is to show how to boot to a D program and interface (in a 
minimal way) with the keyboard (requires an interrupt handler) 
and screen (which is memory-mapped).

A lot of drivers use those same principles, so the stuff could 
apply there too, but for a real situation you'll need to use more 
care than I intend to take.

BTW I'll probably be talking about these things the the dconf too.
Mar 05 2014
parent "Namespace" <rswhite4 googlemail.com> writes:
Already planned to translate it into German? :P
Mar 06 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, March 03, 2014 16:37:48 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the
 last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the
 publisher's website:


Oh no! Now, I'll have yet another programming book that I'll have trouble 
getting around to reading... ;)

This is great news. Congrats!

- Jonathan M Davis
Mar 05 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;)
Hurry up! :)

-- 
http://dejan.lekic.org
Mar 06 2014
next sibling parent "extrawurst" <stephan extrawurst.org> writes:
On Thursday, 6 March 2014 at 14:17:57 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

 I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;)
 Hurry up! :)


Me too,  Amazon UK!
Looking foward.
Mar 06 2014
prev sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On 6 March 2014 14:17, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> wrote:

 I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;)
 Hurry up! :)


Cut the reviewers some lack! :)
Mar 06 2014
parent "Mike James" <foo bar.com> writes:
"Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> wrote in message 
news:mailman.10.1394132086.25740.digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com...

 On 6 March 2014 14:17, Dejan Lekic <dejan.lekic gmail.com> wrote:

 I've just pre-ordered it, on Amazon. ;)
 Hurry up! :)


 Cut the reviewers some lack! :)


Some lack of speed ;-)
Mar 07 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Jason King" <jhking airmail.net> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:


Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't gotten 
this yet, now would be the time.  I just did.
Apr 18 2014
next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
Aye, and I just finished the first draft this week, now doing the 
second draft and it is moving along at an excellent pace, I'm 
pretty sure we're going to release earlier than expected on the 
website.

BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did 
called "View from Phobos", seemed appropriate :P
Apr 18 2014
parent "John" <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
 BTW it now has a cover image, that's a painting my brother did 
 called "View from Phobos", seemed appropriate :P


Wow! :)
Apr 19 2014
prev sibling parent "John" <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 23:03:54 UTC, Jason King wrote:

 Packt is having a 1/2 price ebooks sale, so if you haven't 
 gotten this yet, now would be the time.  I just did.


Yes, I did it too.
Apr 19 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Daniel Davidson" <nospam spam.com> writes:
On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 16:37:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over 
 the last few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on 
 the publisher's website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


Congrats. Is there a early access option, like Manning Early 
Access Program, instead of just pre-order?

Thanks
Dan
May 05 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
We're publishing in about two weeks now so it won't be long until 
the real thing is out anyway!
May 05 2014
next sibling parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 12:34:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 We're publishing in about two weeks now so it won't be long 
 until the real thing is out anyway!


Any way to see the TOC?
May 06 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown 
through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think of 
a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it 
anyway):

Chapter 1: "Core Tasks", has a brief introduction to D then gets 
into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, basic stuff 
to get you acquainted with the core language.

BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, so 
I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that.

Chapter 2: "Phobos", goes over some phobos modules to show you 
the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients and 
servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't 
comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it covers 
a few important points you'll need to know throughout through 
representative examples.

Chapter 3: "Ranges" goes over how to create a range, use a range 
(including something I had to ask the group: what is a "generic 
input range"?), transform ranges, and use some of the algorithms. 
Also goes into why the efficiency rules are important (don't 
emulate range features you don't really support) by showing a bad 
sort result with a linked list that pretends to be an array.

Chapter 4: "Integration" talks about how to integrate with 
outside code, including calling C functions (including doing your 
own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, 
Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling D, 
using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and I 
show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with my 
script.d

Chapter 5: "Resource Management" gives tips on avoiding the GC, 
writing your own reference counted objects, using owned pointers, 
and stuff like how not to use class destructors.

Chapter 6: "Wrapped Types" goes into a bunch of struct features 
you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make a 
gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, 
disabling default construction, etc.

Chapter 7: "Correctness Checking" talks about bug catching. 
Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs assert, 
 safe, and more.

Chapter 8: "Reflection" goes into compile time and runtime 
reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and 
using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an 
automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to 
get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and 
their return values back to strings, all generically with CT 
reflection.

Chapter 9: "Code Generation" talks about user-defined literals 
(including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what it 
was supposed to do), template value parameters, string mixins, 
domain-specific language converters (including a relatively 
traditional programming language and an ASCII art diagram 
conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more efficient 
generation with the right statements so the optimizer can do its 
magic.

Chapter 10: "Multitasking" introduces you to threads, fibers, 
pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into all 
this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both did a 
good job and I didn't have a lot to add.

(generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to Andrei's 
book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is genuinely 
something new that you might not have seen before. Though much of 
it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, stack overflow, or 
IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen my posts over the last 
couple years.)

Chapter 11: "Kernel coding in D" gets you started using D on bare 
metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an operating 
system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back the minimal 
parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily compile and 
link the program so it can run without the OS (a simpler process 
can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that works on an OS 
btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda dumps some code 
on you to get keyboard interrupt handling working.

I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code 
works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or 
why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to make 
it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in this 
environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions.

Chapter 12: "Web and GUI programming" shows how to get some fun 
stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic 
website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, 
an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and manipulation.

The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, 
there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with 
questions for that. Instead, I talked more about how I 
implemented them and some lessons learned in the process so you 
see more practical application of stuff the book talked about 
before and can hopefully use that to extend your own libraries.

Each thing also has a See Also section pointing to other D 
libraries.

Appendix A: has a small assortment of things that didn't fit 
elsewhere like bare metal ARM getting started, Raspberry Pi 
coding, getting a stack trace without an exception, the exponent 
operator, and finally, how to get more help and resources about D.
May 06 2014
next sibling parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:12:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown 
 through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think 
 of a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it 
 anyway):

 Chapter 1: "Core Tasks", has a brief introduction to D then 
 gets into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, 
 basic stuff to get you acquainted with the core language.

 BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, 
 so I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that.

 Chapter 2: "Phobos", goes over some phobos modules to show you 
 the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients 
 and servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't 
 comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it 
 covers a few important points you'll need to know throughout 
 through representative examples.

 Chapter 3: "Ranges" goes over how to create a range, use a 
 range (including something I had to ask the group: what is a 
 "generic input range"?), transform ranges, and use some of the 
 algorithms. Also goes into why the efficiency rules are 
 important (don't emulate range features you don't really 
 support) by showing a bad sort result with a linked list that 
 pretends to be an array.

 Chapter 4: "Integration" talks about how to integrate with 
 outside code, including calling C functions (including doing 
 your own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, 
 Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling 
 D, using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and 
 I show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with 
 my script.d

 Chapter 5: "Resource Management" gives tips on avoiding the GC, 
 writing your own reference counted objects, using owned 
 pointers, and stuff like how not to use class destructors.

 Chapter 6: "Wrapped Types" goes into a bunch of struct features 
 you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make 
 a gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, 
 disabling default construction, etc.

 Chapter 7: "Correctness Checking" talks about bug catching. 
 Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs 
 assert,  safe, and more.

 Chapter 8: "Reflection" goes into compile time and runtime 
 reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and 
 using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an 
 automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to 
 get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and 
 their return values back to strings, all generically with CT 
 reflection.

 Chapter 9: "Code Generation" talks about user-defined literals 
 (including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what 
 it was supposed to do), template value parameters, string 
 mixins, domain-specific language converters (including a 
 relatively traditional programming language and an ASCII art 
 diagram conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more 
 efficient generation with the right statements so the optimizer 
 can do its magic.

 Chapter 10: "Multitasking" introduces you to threads, fibers, 
 pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into 
 all this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both 
 did a good job and I didn't have a lot to add.

 (generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is 
 genuinely something new that you might not have seen before. 
 Though much of it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, 
 stack overflow, or IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen 
 my posts over the last couple years.)

 Chapter 11: "Kernel coding in D" gets you started using D on 
 bare metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an 
 operating system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back 
 the minimal parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily 
 compile and link the program so it can run without the OS (a 
 simpler process can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that 
 works on an OS btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda 
 dumps some code on you to get keyboard interrupt handling 
 working.

 I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code 
 works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or 
 why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to 
 make it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in 
 this environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions.

 Chapter 12: "Web and GUI programming" shows how to get some fun 
 stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic 
 website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, 
 an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and 
 manipulation.

 The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, 
 there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with 
 questions for that. Instead, I talked more about how I 
 implemented them and some lessons learned in the process so you 
 see more practical application of stuff the book talked about 
 before and can hopefully use that to extend your own libraries.

 Each thing also has a See Also section pointing to other D 
 libraries.

 Appendix A: has a small assortment of things that didn't fit 
 elsewhere like bare metal ARM getting started, Raspberry Pi 
 coding, getting a stack trace without an exception, the 
 exponent operator, and finally, how to get more help and 
 resources about D.


Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this in 
337 pages?! I assume it has standard PACKT format ("give it a go 
hero" etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz!
May 06 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this in 
 337 pages?!


Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some 
shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges and 
reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos) and in 
some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on faith.

Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in 
the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just 
"that interacts with the hardware, trust me". So that chapter was 
only about 15 pages.... a lot for two "recipes" ("hello world" 
and "handling interrupts"), but certainly not a comprehensive 
covering of the subject.

I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit more 
into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions more than 
on how the hardware actually works.


 I assume it has standard PACKT format ("give it a go hero" 
 etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz!


yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code 
(not always a complete program but usually), then some talk about 
how it works and covering details.

the code should also be available as a separate download for each 
thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that way.
May 06 2014
parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:39:51 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:19:09 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Holy s**t, that is a lot! How did you manage to fit all this 
 in 337 pages?!


 Each individual item tended to only be about 3 pages, some 
 shorter, a few longer (I had a fair chunk to say about ranges 
 and reflection, not so much to say about threads and phobos) 
 and in some cases I kinda ask the reader to take things on 
 faith.

 Mostly, I explain the faith stuff on the following page, but in 
 the bare metal thing, like i said before, some of it is just 
 "that interacts with the hardware, trust me". So that chapter 
 was only about 15 pages.... a lot for two "recipes" ("hello 
 world" and "handling interrupts"), but certainly not a 
 comprehensive covering of the subject.

 I gotta writing my dconf talk next though that will go a bit 
 more into it, but again, with a focus on druntime functions 
 more than on how the hardware actually works.


 I assume it has standard PACKT format ("give it a go hero" 
 etc)? Bought it and waiting for a release :) Congratz!


 yeah, it starts with a list of steps, then usually shows code 
 (not always a complete program but usually), then some talk 
 about how it works and covering details.

 the code should also be available as a separate download for 
 each thing so you can run it more easily and play with it that 
 way.


Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I am 
really interested in resource management. I still can't find 
myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent 
discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P).
May 06 2014
parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 15:28:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Everything sounds great, really can't wait. Coming from C++ I 
 am really interested in resource management. I still can't find 
 myself in non-deterministic d-tor / GC world (and recent 
 discussion on removal of d-tors entirely isn't helping ;P).


Actually, my main recommendation is to try not to worry about it 
and love the GC! When it works, it really is pretty nice, and I 
find it works well enough in most places to be really useful.

But when it isn't right for you, then the other options come in 
and I showed some tricks to do it. Move semantics, for example, 
might not be obvious but is easy once you see the trick: disable 
the postblit and provide a release method. So that's the kind of 
stuff the chapter focuses on.
May 06 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 13:12:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. Each one is shown 
 through examples (with a few exceptions where I couldn't think 
 of a good example but wanted to discuss the principle behind it 
 anyway):

 Chapter 1: "Core Tasks", has a brief introduction to D then 
 gets into using modules, libraries, immutability, classes, 
 basic stuff to get you acquainted with the core language.

 BTW the book assumes you already know basic programming stuff, 
 so I don't explain what variables are and stuff like that.

 Chapter 2: "Phobos", goes over some phobos modules to show you 
 the basic idea. Covers files and directories, socket clients 
 and servers, zlib, random numbers, and a bit more. It isn't 
 comprehensive, there's the documentation for that, but it 
 covers a few important points you'll need to know throughout 
 through representative examples.

 Chapter 3: "Ranges" goes over how to create a range, use a 
 range (including something I had to ask the group: what is a 
 "generic input range"?), transform ranges, and use some of the 
 algorithms. Also goes into why the efficiency rules are 
 important (don't emulate range features you don't really 
 support) by showing a bad sort result with a linked list that 
 pretends to be an array.

 Chapter 4: "Integration" talks about how to integrate with 
 outside code, including calling C functions (including doing 
 your own bindings and using implib on Windows), C++ interfaces, 
 Windows API and Linux system calls in asm, C functions calling 
 D, using COM, cross-language resource management (briefly) and 
 I show some convenient scripting bindings using opDispatch with 
 my script.d

 Chapter 5: "Resource Management" gives tips on avoiding the GC, 
 writing your own reference counted objects, using owned 
 pointers, and stuff like how not to use class destructors.

 Chapter 6: "Wrapped Types" goes into a bunch of struct features 
 you can use to wrap other things. Includes a cute trick to make 
 a gettext translation file in D alone, operator overloading, 
 disabling default construction, etc.

 Chapter 7: "Correctness Checking" talks about bug catching. 
 Includes an introduction to ddoc, static assert, throw vs 
 assert,  safe, and more.

 Chapter 8: "Reflection" goes into compile time and runtime 
 reflection including TypeInfo, __traits, is(), std.traits, and 
 using module constructors to extend typeinfo. Culminates in an 
 automatic function caller from the command line, showing how to 
 get functions by name, convert strings to their arguments, and 
 their return values back to strings, all generically with CT 
 reflection.

 Chapter 9: "Code Generation" talks about user-defined literals 
 (including showing a disassembly to you can prove it did what 
 it was supposed to do), template value parameters, string 
 mixins, domain-specific language converters (including a 
 relatively traditional programming language and an ASCII art 
 diagram conversion to a struct), and talks about doing more 
 efficient generation with the right statements so the optimizer 
 can do its magic.

 Chapter 10: "Multitasking" introduces you to threads, fibers, 
 pipe process, and std.parallelism. I don't go too deeply into 
 all this since I think the documentation and Andrei's book both 
 did a good job and I didn't have a lot to add.

 (generally, I wanted my book to be a nice complement to 
 Andrei's book and avoid repeating documentation, so it is 
 genuinely something new that you might not have seen before. 
 Though much of it is stuff I've talked about on the forums, 
 stack overflow, or IRC, so it won't be all new if you've seen 
 my posts over the last couple years.)

 Chapter 11: "Kernel coding in D" gets you started using D on 
 bare metal x86; booting your PC to a D program without an 
 operating system. Shows how to remove druntime then add back 
 the minimal parts to get hello world to compile, how to easily 
 compile and link the program so it can run without the OS (a 
 simpler process can be used to make a minimal tiny binary that 
 works on an OS btw, it would be like using D as C), then kinda 
 dumps some code on you to get keyboard interrupt handling 
 working.

 I didn't go into the details of how the hardware specific code 
 works; I didn't explain what an interrupt table actually is or 
 why its format is so weird, but I did give you the pieces to 
 make it work and discuss the D features that are helpful in 
 this environment (and some pitfalls) like naked asm functions.

 Chapter 12: "Web and GUI programming" shows how to get some fun 
 stuff started with my misc github libraries including a dynamic 
 website, a desktop graphics demo, some image file manipulation, 
 an OpenGL window, and my dom.d for HTML parsing and 
 manipulation.

 The main focus isn't so much how to use the libraries though, 
 there's the [s]docs[/s] lol, the source and emailing me with 
 questions for that. Instead, I talked more about how I 
 implemented them and some lessons learned in the process so you 
 see more practical application of stuff the book talked about 
 before and can hopefully use that to extend your own libraries.

 Each thing also has a See Also section pointing to other D 
 libraries.

 Appendix A: has a small assortment of things that didn't fit 
 elsewhere like bare metal ARM getting started, Raspberry Pi 
 coding, getting a stack trace without an exception, the 
 exponent operator, and finally, how to get more help and 
 resources about D.


Wow! I'm really looking forward to reading it. I'll probably 
first have a look at the Ranges chapter and dom.d.
May 06 2014
prev sibling parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
 [snip]


Sounds awesome!
May 06 2014
parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
 [snip]


 Sounds awesome!


Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released:

http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

Congratz!
May 27 2014
next sibling parent "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
 [snip]


 Sounds awesome!


 Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

 Congratz!


Just downloaded the eBook version. Printed version will soon 
follow, I suppose. It couldn't have arrived at a better time, 
because I'm re-organizing and revising my code at the moment.
May 27 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Kozzi" <kozzi11 gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
 [snip]


 Sounds awesome!


 Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

 Congratz!


I am  reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.
May 27 2014
next sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote:

 I am  reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.


What do you mean?
May 27 2014
parent reply Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce writes:
I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of  
line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)
on page 2,6,8,10,14 ...

On page 19:
static Vector fromPoint(float[2] point) {
import std.math;
Vector v;
float x = point[0];
float y= point[1];
v.magnitude = sqrt(x ^^ 2 + y ^^ 2);
v.direction = atan2(y, x);
return v;
}}} // this 3 brackets

Vector opBinary(string op : "+")(Vector rhs) const {
auto point = toPoint(), point2 = rhs.toPoint();
point[0] += point2[0];
point[1] += point2[1];];]; // here
return Vector.fromPoint(point);); // and here
}

That is what I  already found







Dne Tue, 27 May 2014 13:45:53 +0200 Adam D. Ruppe via  
Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce puremagic.com> napsal(a):


 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote:

 I am  reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.


 What do you mean?



-- 
Vytvořeno poštovní aplikací Opery: http://www.opera.com/mail/
May 27 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via 
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at 
 the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)



Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the 
revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally 
butchered, the end of virtually every line had random characters, 
wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in that process 
too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I fixed all those 
in the final draft but apparently not...

I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed 
so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on the 
punctuation in the review process.
May 27 2014
parent reply "Chris" <wendlec tcd.ie> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at 
 the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)



 Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the 
 revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got totally 
 butchered, the end of virtually every line had random 
 characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx in 
 that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought I 
 fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...

 I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one needed 
 so much content revision that I didn't spend as much time on 
 the punctuation in the review process.


Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But 
why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on 
using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. 
Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the end. 
Incompetence? I dunno.
May 27 2014
parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:59:59 UTC, Chris wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via 
 Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at 
 the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;)



 Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the 
 revision process (chapter 6 especially, the spacing got 
 totally butchered, the end of virtually every line had random 
 characters, wtf, the file got changed from a .doc to a .docx 
 in that process too which i suspect is to blame) and I thought 
 I fixed all those in the final draft but apparently not...

 I suspect that'll get better past chapter 1; chapter one 
 needed so much content revision that I didn't spend as much 
 time on the punctuation in the review process.


 Tell me about formatting getting lost while re-formatting. But 
 why on earth do people (publishers / editors) still insist on 
 using .doc and .docx (i.e. MS)!? This is to invite disaster. 
 Laziness? Saving money? Nah, you'll work and pay more in the 
 end. Incompetence? I dunno.


Will epub version be available too?
May 27 2014
parent reply " Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Will epub version be available too?


Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.
May 27 2014
parent reply "Mike James" <foo bar.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Will epub version be available too?


 Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.


I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version 
include the errata described above?

-<mike>-
May 28 2014
next sibling parent reply Alix Pexton <alix.DOT.pexton gmail.DOT.com> writes:
On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Will epub version be available too?


 Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.


 I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version include the
 errata described above?

 -<mike>-


  I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but the ePub 
does have the same triple colons as the PDF.

the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in the text 
and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as far as I've seen 
so far the content is the same.

A...
May 28 2014
parent "Mike James" <foo bar.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 09:06:12 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:

 On 28/05/2014 9:00 AM, Mike James wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 14:20:49 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Will epub version be available too?


 Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.


 I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version 
 include the
 errata described above?

 -<mike>-


  I've not checked them side-by-side the whole way through but 
 the ePub does have the same triple colons as the PDF.

 the ePub uses colour instead of font weight for the keywords in 
 the text and the notes and tips are styled differently, but as 
 far as I've seen so far the content is the same.

 A...


Thanks. As 'early adopters' do we get a chance to upgrade :-)

-<mike>-
May 28 2014
prev sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote:

 I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version 
 include the errata described above?


Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions on 
chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But the 
subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people won't 
be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first chapter 
before things get interesting later on.
May 28 2014
parent reply "Mattcoder" <fromtheotherside mail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote:

 I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version 
 include the errata described above?


 Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions 
 on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But 
 the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people 
 won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first 
 chapter before things get interesting later on.


Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated? 
And if it yes, who already purchased the PDF book will be able to 
download the new file corrected too?

Matheus.
May 28 2014
next sibling parent "Mattcoder" <fromtheotherside mail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote:

 On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 14:06:33 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 08:01:00 UTC, Mike James wrote:

 I'm looking at getting the ebook version - does that version 
 include the errata described above?


 Yeah, those errors were in the .doc I sent in after revisions 
 on chapter 1 and we didn't catch them in the final draft. But 
 the subsequent chapters did them all right so hopefully people 
 won't be turned off by the (IMO fairly weak anyway) first 
 chapter before things get interesting later on.


 Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated? 
 And if it yes, who already purchased the PDF book will be able 
 to download the new file corrected too?

 Matheus.


s/founded/found.
May 28 2014
prev sibling parent "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 16:51:56 UTC, Mattcoder wrote:

 Question: But any mistakes like those founded will be updated?


Just heard back: maybe on the pdf, probably not on print due to 
it not being worth the cost. Most likely they'll just be some 
eratta listed on the site.
May 29 2014
prev sibling parent "Mattcoder" <fromtheotherside mail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote:

 I am  reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(.


Well that's a good thing about PDF, because you can fix it and 
update the version online.

Matheus.
May 27 2014
prev sibling parent "Joakim" <dlang joakim.airpost.net> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:

 Any way to see the TOC?


 Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is.
 [snip]


 Sounds awesome!


 Jus got mail from PacktPub: D Cookbook is now released:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book

 Congratz!


Thanks for the update.  I have the pdf loaded up now, looking 
forward to going through it.
May 28 2014
prev sibling parent =?UTF-8?B?IlRow6lv?= Bueno" <munrek gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, 5 May 2014 at 12:34:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 We're publishing in about two weeks now so it won't be long 
 until the real thing is out anyway!


Just preordered the ebook, waiting to read that :)
May 06 2014
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/3/14, 8:37 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 As some of you might know, I've been working on a D book over the last
 few months. It is now available as "coming soon" on the publisher's
 website:

 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei
May 06 2014
parent "John" <john.joyus gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book


 I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- 
 Andrei



I just read the foreword. It's great!
May 27 2014
prev sibling parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
I just posted it to reddit btw:

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/
May 28 2014
next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 5/28/2014 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 I just posted it to reddit btw:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/



Just snagged my copy!
May 28 2014
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 5/28/14, 10:34 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 I just posted it to reddit btw:

 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26pn00/d_cookbook_officially_published_consists_of_d/


Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei
May 29 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 07:51:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei


hmm, that was my first time ever posting to reddit so maybe 
that's why. Regardless, when the dconf talks come around I'll 
post the link in those comments too and that'll hopefully make up 
for it.
May 29 2014
parent reply "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 12:39:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:

 On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 07:51:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
 wrote:

 Looks like this got junked. -- Andrei


 hmm, that was my first time ever posting to reddit so maybe 
 that's why. Regardless, when the dconf talks come around I'll 
 post the link in those comments too and that'll hopefully make 
 up for it.


  Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted 
issues regarding your pretty great book?
Sep 03 2014
parent reply "Adam D. Ruppe" <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
wrote:

   Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post spotted 
 issues regarding your pretty great book?


Packt's website has an errata section.... somewhere, I can't find 
it now because they redesigned the site, but a lot of chapter 1 
errors are on that (typos and stuff).

If you can find that, that's one option, but I'd say just discuss 
it here or in the main dm.D newsgroup.
Sep 03 2014
parent "Szymon Gatner" <noemail gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:38:42 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 3 September 2014 at 13:34:11 UTC, Szymon Gatner 
 wrote:

   Adam D. Ruppe: Where should we ask questions and post 
 spotted issues regarding your pretty great book?


 Packt's website has an errata section.... somewhere, I can't 
 find it now because they redesigned the site, but a lot of 
 chapter 1 errors are on that (typos and stuff).

 If you can find that, that's one option, but I'd say just 
 discuss it here or in the main dm.D newsgroup.


Asking because I noticed few minor things like multiple commas or 
too many brackets etc, but also because I am trying to go through 
"Interfacing with C++" chapter and I am having some problems 
(VC++ x64, Win7):

1st I managed to solve and I think it could be useful for other 
that try to follow this chapter:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/ugkpqprobonorbdunxsx forum.dlang.org

2nd I am now stuck with and not much idea how to continue.

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/hsglkscatlniiuacpkhe forum.dlang.org

I am actually very much interested in this because of COFF 
support for Win32 in DMD merged recently.
Sep 03 2014