You may have noticed the blog is relatively quiet right now. That's not from a lack of trying. I am in a dry spell with my own writing at the moment. I've got two posts in progress that shouldn't be difficult to write, but the words haven't been coming out the way I want them to nor as easily as they usually do. One is the next post in the GC series (I'm currently on my fifth revision) and the other is the first in a Sociomantic profile. I'll finish them eventually and my dry spell will pass, but until then, I need backup!

My usual approach to drum up guest posts is to contact people directly as broad calls in the forums tend to come up empty. Thought I'd give it a go, though

If you've got something D-related you'd like to tell the world about, please let me know. It doesn't have to be a guest post -- project highlights, where you give me info about your project and I write the post, are also welcome. I'm open to ideas for other formats, too. Just drop me a line at aldacron@gmail.com and let me know what you'd like to do.

Thanks!

On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 14:29:30 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> You may have noticed the blog is relatively quiet right now. That's not from a lack of trying.

Good to know, and thanks for trying.

> If you've got something D-related you'd like to tell the world about, please let me know.

I'll keep in mind, but nothing right now.

But I want to say, that the fairly recent post about SARC moving to D was great stuff to read! It had so many links and viewpoints rarely mentioned, I was not even aware about them. The naval architecht viewpoint is a refresher!

Morale of the story? I think that one should not be afraid to post there if he does not consider himself a "regular" programmer, because thats precisely what produces the best posts.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 02:29:30PM +0000, Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: [...]
> If you've got something D-related you'd like to tell the world about, please let me know. It doesn't have to be a guest post -- project highlights, where you give me info about your project and I write the post, are also welcome.  I'm open to ideas for other formats, too. Just drop me a line at aldacron@gmail.com and let me know what you'd like to do.
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I'm too busy to actually work on much right now, but if you're running short of material to post, what about this draft wiki article that I haven't been able to finish?

	https://wiki.dlang.org/User:Quickfur/Compile-time_vs._compile-time

It's pretty much ready except for some details that need to be updated (that I'm sorry to say I haven't had time to get around to).  You can freely copy/adapt/etc. whatever you need from this article to throw together a blog post.

Just throwing it out there.


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On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 16:16:31 UTC, Dukc wrote:
> But I want to say, that the fairly recent post about SARC moving to D was great stuff to read! It had so many links and viewpoints rarely mentioned, I was not even aware about them. The naval architecht viewpoint is a refresher!

That’s nice to hear, thanks a lot!
Update on that project: I have moved out from the laboratory and today I successfully transpiled the second real-world Pascal module. The next one requires more thought, as it’s interface and implementation are in separate files.

> Morale of the story? I think that one should not be afraid to post there if he does not consider himself a "regular" programmer, because thats precisely what produces the best posts.

I appreciate that morale. There's definitely no reason to be shy, and Mike is a very helpful editor!

On 14/08/2018 2:29 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> You may have noticed the blog is relatively quiet right now. That's not from a lack of trying. I am in a dry spell with my own writing at the moment. I've got two posts in progress that shouldn't be difficult to write, but the words haven't been coming out the way I want them to nor as easily as they usually do. One is the next post in the GC series (I'm currently on my fifth revision) and the other is the first in a Sociomantic profile. I'll finish them eventually and my dry spell will pass, but until then, I need backup!
> 
> My usual approach to drum up guest posts is to contact people directly as broad calls in the forums tend to come up empty. Thought I'd give it a go, though
> 
> If you've got something D-related you'd like to tell the world about, please let me know. It doesn't have to be a guest post -- project highlights, where you give me info about your project and I write the post, are also welcome. I'm open to ideas for other formats, too. Just drop me a line at aldacron@gmail.com and let me know what you'd like to do.
> 
> Thanks!


Hmm, maybe I should do a write up some time about signatures and their superiority to classes for OOP abstraction. Would be a great way to drum up support for a DIP.