I've just published a guest post from Adam Ruppe at the D Blog [1]. If you notice any errors, that's all on me. I had intended it for yesterday, but was just too busy. And though I did manage to get it out today, I did not have the time to review it as thoroughly as I normally do. Please post here if you find any glaring issues with it. The reddit link is at [2].

[1] https://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/04/the-origins-of-the-d-cookbook/
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4w4qaa/from_the_d_blog_the_origins_of_the_d_cookbook/

On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 14:23:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I've just published a guest post from Adam Ruppe at the D Blog [1]. If you notice any errors, that's all on me. I had intended it for yesterday, but was just too busy. And though I did manage to get it out today, I did not have the time to review it as thoroughly as I normally do. Please post here if you find any glaring issues with it. The reddit link is at [2].
>
> [1] https://dlang.org/blog/2016/08/04/the-origins-of-the-d-cookbook/
> [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4w4qaa/from_the_d_blog_the_origins_of_the_d_cookbook/

Nice read.  I must say Mike's doing a great job running the blog so far.  Perhaps it's for the best I never got the D blog running back when I suggested it a couple years back, though I hope to contribute to this one soon.

On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 15:42:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:

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> Nice read.  I must say Mike's doing a great job running the blog so far.  Perhaps it's for the best I never got the D blog running back when I suggested it a couple years back, though I hope to contribute to this one soon.

Thanks, Joakim! Looking forward to that contribution. The post queue is in a bit of an uncertain state at the moment.

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 00:09:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 15:42:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>
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>> Nice read.  I must say Mike's doing a great job running the blog so far.  Perhaps it's for the best I never got the D blog running back when I suggested it a couple years back, though I hope to contribute to this one soon.
>
> Thanks, Joakim! Looking forward to that contribution. The post queue is in a bit of an uncertain state at the moment.

Can anyone who likes and uses D contribute to the blog, or is it only for, say, core D team members? and if the former, are there any kinds of posts that you are looking for or prefer?

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 22:07:11 UTC, A D dev wrote:
> On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 00:09:41 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> On Thursday, 4 August 2016 at 15:42:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
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>>>
>>> Nice read.  I must say Mike's doing a great job running the blog so far.  Perhaps it's for the best I never got the D blog running back when I suggested it a couple years back, though I hope to contribute to this one soon.
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>> Thanks, Joakim! Looking forward to that contribution. The post queue is in a bit of an uncertain state at the moment.
>
> Can anyone who likes and uses D contribute to the blog, or is it only for, say, core D team members? and if the former, are there any kinds of posts that you are looking for or prefer?

A.D.Ruppe is not in the dlang GH organization but he's an old and notorious user.
I think it's also for people who knows themselves a bit, e.g DConf speakers, people who has something to say. About that I find the last post middly interesting.

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 22:47:00 UTC, H.Loom wrote:
> A.D.Ruppe is not in the dlang GH organization but he's an old and notorious user.

no·to·ri·ous
[nōˈtôrēəs]
ADJECTIVE

    famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed:

"Adam is notorious for his crappy hacked-together code."



;-)

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 23:50:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 22:47:00 UTC, H.Loom wrote:
>> A.D.Ruppe is not in the dlang GH organization but he's an old and notorious user.
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> no·to·ri·ous
> [nōˈtôrēəs]
> ADJECTIVE
>
>     famous or well known, typically for some bad quality or deed:

yes indeed !!

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> "Adam is notorious for his crappy hacked-together code."
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>
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> ;-)

sorry, I'm not English native speaker and i didn't know that it has a bad connotation...I meant "famous".

On 8/5/16 7:58 PM, H.Loom wrote:

> sorry, I'm not English native speaker and i didn't know that it has a
> bad connotation...I meant "famous".

No you see, he's IN-famous. IN-famous is when you're MORE than famous. This man, Adam Ruppe, he's not just famous, he's IN-famous.

-Steve

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 22:07:11 UTC, A D dev wrote:

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> Can anyone who likes and uses D contribute to the blog, or is it only for, say, core D team members? and if the former, are there any kinds of posts that you are looking for or prefer?

There are two goals behind the blog: to market D to the world at large and to let users know what's going on in the community. Interesting content that furthers either goal is always welcome, but I make no promises to publish any and all submissions.

If you've got a D project you'd like to discuss, I'm open to putting together a project highlight [1]. If you've got a specific technical challenge you overcame in D that you'd like to write about, then a guest post like this one [2] would be really nice to see. And we can discuss any other type of content you have in mind.

You can send ideas to aldacron@gmail.com and I'll let you know. For the record, most of the content so far has come from me bothering people. A couple of posts were at Andrei's suggestion. Only two others have contacted me out of the blue with ideas. I said yes to both, which should result in two posts in the coming weeks. So the acceptance rate so far is 100% :)

[1] http://dlang.org/blog/category/project-highlights/
[2] http://dlang.org/blog/2016/06/16/find-was-too-damn-slow-so-we-fixed-it/

On Friday, 5 August 2016 at 23:58:27 UTC, H.Loom wrote:
> sorry, I'm not English native speaker and i didn't know that it has a bad connotation...I meant "famous".

yeah, i'm just kidding.