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December 23, 2014 London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Hi, I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol. http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D. |
December 23, 2014 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | On 23 December 2014 at 18:26, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. > > I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol. > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ > > Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D. Awesome, I'll let people aware of this. Iain. |
January 22, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ Please come along if you can :) --Kingsley On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote: > Hi, > > I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. > > I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol. > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ > > Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D. |
January 22, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | Thanks for organising this, I'm looking forward to it.
On Thursday, 22 January 2015 at 22:12:43 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support.
>
> The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here:
> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/
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> Please come along if you can :)
>
> --Kingsley
>
> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D.
>>
>> I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol.
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/
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>> Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D.
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January 25, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley Attachments:
| On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 22:12 +0000, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have kindly offered us their support. > > The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ > > Please come along if you can :) Excellently done sir. You have succeeding in creating a London meetup where I have singularly failed. I shall make all endeavours to be there. A day of Go followed by an early evening of D. There is a pub a few doors down from Skills Matter that serves good food for a late supper. (I'll check with Oana what their "last food order" time is.) -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.winder@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: russel@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder |
January 25, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Russel Winder | On 1/25/15 1:22 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-01-22 at 22:12 +0000, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce
> wrote:
>> We now have a venue for the London D meetup. Skills Matter have
>> kindly offered us their support.
>>
>> The first meetup will be Tuesday 3rd February - see details here:
>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/
>>
>> Please come along if you can :)
>
> Excellently done sir. You have succeeding in creating a London meetup
> where I have singularly failed. I shall make all endeavours to be there.
> A day of Go followed by an early evening of D.
>
> There is a pub a few doors down from Skills Matter that serves good food
> for a late supper. (I'll check with Oana what their "last food order"
> time is.)
Awesome. Would be great if a volunteer could do a short write-up afterwards. -- Andrei
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February 01, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | Hi Just a reminder that the first London D Programmers meet up is happening on Tuesday February 3rd at Skills Matter. Looking forward to seeing you there :) http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ --Kingsley On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote: > Hi, > > I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. > > I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol. > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ > > Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D. |
February 04, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | Thanks to everyone who attended it was a great evening of D fun :) As part of the evening we did a secret santa code challenge - here are some of the results: http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/messages/boards/thread/48694585 We had about 13 people from different backgrounds - many from C/C++ as well as Java, F# and dynamic languages such as Python. Many of the guys had a financial / banking background or an academic background - for example we had some guys working on market data, another guy who ran a hedge fun as well as people from scientific / research and university backgrounds. We touched on IDE's and editors for D - I demo'd my intellij plugin. Bruno was also there (he maintains the eclipse D plugin DDT) and he had some interesting things to say about where he thought the future of IDE's is going especially in terms of code completion. In my intellij plugin I actually re-use the guts of the DDT parser/lexer and the general opinion seemed to be that have a single set of tools that could be re-used in multiple IDE projects was a good way forward. I already implemented Brian's DCD and DScanner tools in my plugin and Bruno was looking to go that way also rather than re-writing the wheel each time. Brian certainly has some great tools in D for this kind of thing. (Hackerpilot - DCD/libdparse/DScanner etc) We also had some discussion about the popularity of D - and many felt that D was a great language especially coming from C/C++ but that the whole community was perhaps a little fragmented and finding information on the Dlang site was also a bit disjointed and that in order for a language to gain popularity it needed the appropriate community support and information - the recent language Rust was mentioned as having great documentation/support for new people and is arguably doing a better job at that aspect than D especially since its such a new language compared to D. There was also a bit of discussion around the dub package manager with Russel W feeling strongly that dub was more like a java maven and had many issues for what he wanted to do. I think he has since posted something on the D forum about his dub feelings. We got onto dub from my intellij plugin which uses dub by default. We got together in pairs with 1 more experienced D person and 1 newbie / less experienced D persons and paired on the secret santa challenge. We only had about 45 mins for this one and then some discussion on how we chose to implement things. A couple of issues came out of the challenge regarding familiarity with syntax and then spending time hunting down the docs - is there a forall in D? Also one of the guys ended up with an out of data d compiler and spend a lot of time trying to get the right version instead of the one that came with the IDE he downloaded. The slides for the evening are here: http://slides.com/kingsleyhendrickse/london-d-programmers Our kind host Skills Matter are organising a Functional Programming conference in the summer and they have suggested we add a D talk to it that focuses on the functional aspects of D. I'll be arranging meetups every 6 weeks or so. Hope to see you all at the next one :) On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 17:33:48 UTC, Kingsley wrote: > Hi > > Just a reminder that the first London D Programmers meet up is happening on Tuesday February 3rd at Skills Matter. Looking forward to seeing you there :) > > http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ > > --Kingsley > > On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D. >> >> I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol. >> >> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/ >> >> Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D. |
February 04, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people were using the compiler.
Thanks all who came from further away for making it :)
On Wednesday, 4 February 2015 at 12:53:45 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who attended it was a great evening of D fun :)
>
> As part of the evening we did a secret santa code challenge - here are some of the results:
>
> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/messages/boards/thread/48694585
>
> We had about 13 people from different backgrounds - many from C/C++ as well as Java, F# and dynamic languages such as Python. Many of the guys had a financial / banking background or an academic background - for example we had some guys working on market data, another guy who ran a hedge fun as well as people from scientific / research and university backgrounds.
>
> We touched on IDE's and editors for D - I demo'd my intellij plugin. Bruno was also there (he maintains the eclipse D plugin DDT) and he had some interesting things to say about where he thought the future of IDE's is going especially in terms of code completion. In my intellij plugin I actually re-use the guts of the DDT parser/lexer and the general opinion seemed to be that have a single set of tools that could be re-used in multiple IDE projects was a good way forward. I already implemented Brian's DCD and DScanner tools in my plugin and Bruno was looking to go that way also rather than re-writing the wheel each time. Brian certainly has some great tools in D for this kind of thing. (Hackerpilot - DCD/libdparse/DScanner etc)
>
> We also had some discussion about the popularity of D - and many felt that D was a great language especially coming from C/C++ but that the whole community was perhaps a little fragmented and finding information on the Dlang site was also a bit disjointed and that in order for a language to gain popularity it needed the appropriate community support and information - the recent language Rust was mentioned as having great documentation/support for new people and is arguably doing a better job at that aspect than D especially since its such a new language compared to D.
>
> There was also a bit of discussion around the dub package manager with Russel W feeling strongly that dub was more like a java maven and had many issues for what he wanted to do. I think he has since posted something on the D forum about his dub feelings. We got onto dub from my intellij plugin which uses dub by default.
>
> We got together in pairs with 1 more experienced D person and 1 newbie / less experienced D persons and paired on the secret santa challenge. We only had about 45 mins for this one and then some discussion on how we chose to implement things.
>
> A couple of issues came out of the challenge regarding familiarity with syntax and then spending time hunting down the docs - is there a forall in D? Also one of the guys ended up with an out of data d compiler and spend a lot of time trying to get the right version instead of the one that came with the IDE he downloaded.
>
> The slides for the evening are here:
> http://slides.com/kingsleyhendrickse/london-d-programmers
>
> Our kind host Skills Matter are organising a Functional Programming conference in the summer and they have suggested we add a D talk to it that focuses on the functional aspects of D.
>
> I'll be arranging meetups every 6 weeks or so.
>
> Hope to see you all at the next one :)
>
>
>
> On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 17:33:48 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Just a reminder that the first London D Programmers meet up is happening on Tuesday February 3rd at Skills Matter. Looking forward to seeing you there :)
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/
>>
>> --Kingsley
>>
>> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 18:26:52 UTC, Kingsley wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've created this meetup group for any London based D enthusiasts to meet up and get excited about D.
>>>
>>> I'll also demo my intellij plugin for D at the first meetup which I've scheduled for February. Although I might be a bit lonely if I'm the only person there! lol.
>>>
>>> http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/
>>>
>>> Please join me if you are in the area and feel like getting some D.
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February 04, 2015 Re: London D Programmers MeetUp | ||||
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Posted in reply to Kingsley | On 4 February 2015 at 12:58, Kingsley via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > Also Iain B was there (who maintains the GDC compiler) and he mentioned that he was more from a devops background than a developer background and found it interesting to see how people were using the compiler. > > Thanks all who came from further away for making it :) > Pics or it didn't happen! http://www.meetup.com/London-D-Programmers/photos/25894172/433998206/ |
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