I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started writing more about D. I'm using it a great deal at work now and all new stuff is to be written in it. I'm loving every minute of this and really want to sing its praises.

I'll not lie though, i still need to learn a great deal to be at the level of the engineers here but my sights are fully fixed on D and learning every aspect of it. I've already made a small contribution to druntime and i hope to do more.

I've finally got my head around templates and i've really started to understand their power and flexibility so i thought i would write an article as a one stop shop for other developers who need to understand this stuff as quickly as possible. I'd like for your verification that i have my facts straight and if not i'll amend the text asap.

Be gentle: http://nomad.so/2013/07/templates-in-d-explained/

Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. It would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise excellent article to be rendered amateurish by such a trivial error.

Just in case English isn't your first language: the pronoun "I" is always uppercase, including when used with contractions, e.g. I'm, I've, I'll etc.

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 11:31:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
> Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. It would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise excellent article to be rendered amateurish by such a trivial error.
>
> Just in case English isn't your first language: the pronoun "I" is always uppercase, including when used with contractions, e.g. I'm, I've, I'll etc.

Thanks for the kind words about the article.

He he, this is a bit of concious rebellion on my part. English is my first language but i don't agree that 'i' should be capitalized mid-sentence. I am too humble to consider a mid-sentence 'i'  important enough.

Interesting article regarding 'i':
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 13:47:06 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 11:31:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
>> Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. It would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise excellent article to be rendered amateurish by such a trivial error.
>>
>> Just in case English isn't your first language: the pronoun "I" is always uppercase, including when used with contractions, e.g. I'm, I've, I'll etc.
>
> Thanks for the kind words about the article.
>
> He he, this is a bit of concious rebellion on my part. English is my first language but i don't agree that 'i' should be capitalized mid-sentence. I am too humble to consider a mid-sentence 'i'  important enough.
>
> Interesting article regarding 'i':
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03wwln-guestsafire-t.html

It doesn't matter why. That's how it's done in English. You don't get to change the capitalization of keywords in D. Same thing here.

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 14:18:50 UTC, Peter Lundgren wrote:
> It doesn't matter why. That's how it's done in English. You don't get to change the capitalization of keywords in D. Same thing here.

Computer languages are wholly different from *fluid* spoken and written languages. See en_US vs en_GB. Like i said i'm rebelling against the uppercase 'i' and i have for years.

Please don't let this degenerate into a grammar nazi poasting session, please focus on the article content instead.

On Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 21:19:03 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started writing more about D.

Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles, so I could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:05:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles, so I could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?

http://nomad.so/tag/d/

On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:54:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:05:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles, so I could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?
>
> http://nomad.so/tag/d/

Added, thanks! (Sorry if the tag was there already, I didn't see it in the category list and didn't realize there was a separate tag list.)

On 7/21/2013 8:43 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> Please don't let this degenerate into a grammar nazi poasting session, please
> focus on the article content instead.

Well, if you do want to be a rebel on capitalization, you have to accept that your audience may get distracted from your message and just see the rebellion :-)

On 7/20/2013 2:19 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started writing more
> about D. I'm using it a great deal at work now and all new stuff is to be
> written in it. I'm loving every minute of this and really want to sing its praises.
>
> I'll not lie though, i still need to learn a great deal to be at the level of
> the engineers here but my sights are fully fixed on D and learning every aspect
> of it. I've already made a small contribution to druntime and i hope to do more.
>
> I've finally got my head around templates and i've really started to understand
> their power and flexibility so i thought i would write an article as a one stop
> shop for other developers who need to understand this stuff as quickly as
> possible. I'd like for your verification that i have my facts straight and if
> not i'll amend the text asap.
>
> Be gentle: http://nomad.so/2013/07/templates-in-d-explained/

It's a nice blog! Thanks for doing this.

A stylistic issue:

"These are useful if you want to pass an arbitrary amount of types or values to any kind of template."

It sounds better as:

"These are useful for passing an arbitrary amount of types or values to any kind of template."

I've found in practice that nearly all uses of the word "you" in technical writing are superfluous and it flows better if they are removed.