The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2019/03/22/dconf-2019-london-programme/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b45bxp/dconf_2019_london_programme/

On 3/22/19 9:58 AM, Mike Parker wrote:
> The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles.
> 
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2019/03/22/dconf-2019-london-programme/
> 
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b45bxp/dconf_2019_london_programme/ 
> 

Side note, I started using mewe (and I really am not a social media type, so I doubt it will get a lot of use from me). And I created a Dlang group, if anyone is on there, feel free to join.

https://mewe.com/group/5c7174c35ff915267872a688

-Steve

On Friday, 22 March 2019 at 13:58:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles.


As usual, Ali is bringing something cool:
"The D programming language is used in writing development tools at Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, North America."

This is a great sign that D can get more awareness in the automotive industry. Looking forward to D on wheels.

Cheers,
Piotrek

On 03/23/2019 02:02 AM, Piotrek wrote:

> As usual, Ali is bringing something cool:
> "The D programming language is used in writing development tools at
> Mercedes-Benz Research and Development, North America."

Thank you but this is only about software development tools.

> This is a great sign that D can get more awareness in the automotive
> industry. Looking forward to D on wheels.

Don't hold your breath. :) With the disclaimer that I don't and can't speak for my employer, the automotive industry takes safety very seriously and embraces standards and guidelines like ISO 26262, MISRA, AUTOSAR, etc. I think every manufacturer should scrutinize all hardware and software components including compilers and libraries that they use.

Coding guidelines like MISRA and AUTOSAR have been developed and matured for C++ for years. There is no equivalent for D for it to be even considered by the automotive industry.

> Cheers,
> Piotrek

Ali

On Friday, 22 March 2019 at 13:58:01 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> The DConf schedule was announced last Sunday. I've just published a write-up about it on the blog for the world-at-large. Please help us out by sharing this post in your social media circles.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2019/03/22/dconf-2019-london-programme/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/b45bxp/dconf_2019_london_programme/

Just going to respond to this:

"If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you’ll surely notice that it’s been redesigned. The old version was not responsive and was quite annoying to manipulate on small screens."

The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.

While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better.

It just doesn't look very well done.

I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page.

On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote:
> Just going to respond to this:
>
> "If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you’ll surely notice that it’s been redesigned. The old version was not responsive and was quite annoying to manipulate on small screens."
>
> The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.
>
> While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better.
>
> It just doesn't look very well done.
>
> I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page.

Well, it takes up less browser resources than my proposal for DConf 2018 ;-)

https://wilzbach.github.io/dconf18/

Source: https://github.com/wilzbach/dconf18

On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
> The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.
>
> While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better.
>
> It just doesn't look very well done.
>
> I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page.

Perhaps raising money to pay an experienced web designer would be a good topic for a fundraiser later this year.

On Sunday, 7 April 2019 at 06:19:31 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote:
>>
>> The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.
>>
>> While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better.
>>
>> It just doesn't look very well done.
>>
>> I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page.
>
> Perhaps raising money to pay an experienced web designer would be a good topic for a fundraiser later this year.

I think that would be a great idea. I'd tip in with some cash for that.

On 4/6/19 6:30 PM, bauss wrote:
> 
> Just going to respond to this:
> 
> "If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you’ll surely notice that it’s been redesigned. The old version was not responsive and was quite annoying to manipulate on small screens."
> 
> The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.
> 
> While the old site wasn't responsive, the design was at least slightly better.
> 
> It just doesn't look very well done.
> 
> I'm not trying to be negative or anything, but it looks like someone who just learn html/css in 1999 tried to make the design of the page.
> 

Aside from perhaps an overuse of padding on the left navbar, it looks good to me. Whaddya want, a bunch of those vaguely-relevant full-screen introductory images you have to scroll past just to get to any nuggets of actual content there might be?

The vast majority of "responsive" pages I've seen out there are absolutely god-awful for both aesthetics and practicality. This design is far better than any of them. Bear in mind too, that not playing an endless game of follow-the-crowd with design is a far cry from looking "terrible" or "unprofessional".

Not saying there isn't room for improvement, but "The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional." makes it seem like you're looking at completely different site than I am.

On Saturday, 6 April 2019 at 22:30:58 UTC, bauss wrote:
>
> Just going to respond to this:
>
> "If you haven’t visited the site in a while, you’ll surely notice that it’s been redesigned. The old version was not responsive and was quite annoying to manipulate on small screens."
>
> The design is terrible and it really looks unprofessional.

I don't know about design, but on my MacBook on a 21:9 widescreen monitor, the font is defaulting to Arial Narrow, giving a very squished look and hard to read.