Hi all!

Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the past? The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development

The story behind the book:
Some time after the review of the "D Cookbook" I was asked by Packt Publishing if I would be interested in writing a book about web development with D. By that time I used vibe.d only as a test case for LDC :-) But then I took a closer look at the features of vibe.d and got enthusiastic about it. I agreed to write the book. Hopefully the book shows much fun it is to use D for web applications.

For me writing a book is an incredible experience. It's challenging because I am not a native English speaker. But I am having lot of fun in exploring all the details, creating examples and writing about it. I learned a lot in this process, including some more D programming. :-)

A big thank to all (known and unknown) reviewers, to Andrei for contributing the foreword and all others who helped in one way or the other.

Having finished about 60% of the chapters, the other 40% and the rework due to comments still absorb most of my time. Please be patient if fixing LDC bugs  takes some more time as usual.

Regards,
Kai

Am 22.07.2015 um 17:29 schrieb Kai Nacke:
> Hi all!
>
> Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the
> past? The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for
> pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development
>
> The story behind the book:
> Some time after the review of the "D Cookbook" I was asked by Packt
> Publishing if I would be interested in writing a book about web
> development with D. By that time I used vibe.d only as a test case for
> LDC :-) But then I took a closer look at the features of vibe.d and got
> enthusiastic about it. I agreed to write the book. Hopefully the book
> shows much fun it is to use D for web applications.
>
> For me writing a book is an incredible experience. It's challenging
> because I am not a native English speaker. But I am having lot of fun in
> exploring all the details, creating examples and writing about it. I
> learned a lot in this process, including some more D programming. :-)
>
> A big thank to all (known and unknown) reviewers, to Andrei for
> contributing the foreword and all others who helped in one way or the
> other.
>
> Having finished about 60% of the chapters, the other 40% and the rework
> due to comments still absorb most of my time. Please be patient if
> fixing LDC bugs  takes some more time as usual.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>

Nice! I had heard of the plans for this book, but didn't have time to actively contribute. But give me a ping if you need some additional review. I can't promise that I'll be fast, but I'll do my best!

On 07/22/2015 11:29 AM, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the
> past? The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for
> pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development
>

Congrats! This exactly the sort of book I think D could really use right now. D/vibe is fantastic for web, but outside of the vibe.d site there isn't enough written about it.

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the past? The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development

Awesome, I'll be picking up a copy when it's finished. Hopefully I'll one day be able to have a whole shelf dedicated to D.

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Some time after the review of the "D Cookbook" I was asked by Packt Publishing if I would be interested in writing a book about web development with D. By that time I used vibe.d only as a test case for LDC :-) But then I took a closer look at the features of vibe.d and got enthusiastic about it. I agreed to write the book. Hopefully the book shows much fun it is to use D for web applications.

Preordered :)

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 17:31:49 Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Awesome, I'll be picking up a copy when it's finished. Hopefully I'll one day be able to have a whole shelf dedicated to D.

Well, you can do that now if you're shelf is really short or close to empty. ;)

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:

> The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development
>
~~~ snip ~~~
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Hi Kai.

As I have all the books/hardcopies from http://wiki.dlang.org/Books, I had to  pre-order your coming book as well... and did so just now.

It's not like I'm a Dlang programmer and I guess I'll never do real world "D [Web] Development", but buying the D books is my way of supporting Dlang and especially those of this great community who spend their valuable time for the hardest part of programming/development... which is writing usable documentation and/or books!

From now on, I'm waiting for my Christmas 2015 gift ;) Thanks for doing this!


Btw., @Ali: I'm would still love to buy the best ever Dlang book/documentation/reference, which for me is your (and/or the Turkish Dlang communities) "Programming in D" bible! Well, if you could make it my birthday present (end of May ;) )...

Regards
 notna

On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 21:19:20 UTC, notna wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>
>
> As I have all the books/hardcopies from http://wiki.dlang.org/Books,

Added you book to the Wiki. Hope you and your publisher don't mind ;)

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 21:43:07 notna via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 21:19:20 UTC, notna wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 15:29:20 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> >
> >
> > As I have all the books/hardcopies from http://wiki.dlang.org/Books,
>
> Added you book to the Wiki. Hope you and your publisher don't mind ;)

I'm sure that they hate publicity. :)

- Jonathan M Davis

On 22 Jul 2015 17:30, "Kai Nacke via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> Did you notice that development of LDC has been a bit slowly in the past?
The reason is my book D Web Development, available now for pre-order: https://www.packtpub.com/web-development/d-web-development
>
> The story behind the book:
> Some time after the review of the "D Cookbook" I was asked by Packt
Publishing if I would be interested in writing a book about web development with D. By that time I used vibe.d only as a test case for LDC :-) But then I took a closer look at the features of vibe.d and got enthusiastic about it. I agreed to write the book. Hopefully the book shows much fun it is to use D for web applications.
>
> For me writing a book is an incredible experience. It's challenging
because I am not a native English speaker. But I am having lot of fun in exploring all the details, creating examples and writing about it. I learned a lot in this process, including some more D programming. :-)
>
> A big thank to all (known and unknown) reviewers, to Andrei for
contributing the foreword and all others who helped in one way or the other.
>
> Having finished about 60% of the chapters, the other 40% and the rework
due to comments still absorb most of my time. Please be patient if fixing LDC bugs  takes some more time as usual.
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>

Packt seem to have caught some sort of wave at the moment with D related books.

Though from my experience of correspondence with then they seem to work a bit backwards.

Hope you enjoyed writing.

Iain