Is anyone up for writing an article or two on D for publication in the CVu or Overload journals as an act of D-efiance? There are to be a 1- day D workshop and a keynote session t the conference, it would be good to "leverage" this as part of the campaign to show that C++ is a 20th century language and D a 21st century one.

I am happy to co-author if that helps. ASCIIDoctor the only source form usable though.

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On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 11:40:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Is anyone up for writing an article or two on D for publication in the CVu or Overload journals as an act of D-efiance? There are to be a 1- day D workshop and a keynote session t the conference, it would be good to "leverage" this as part of the campaign to show that C++ is a 20th century language and D a 21st century one.
>
> I am happy to co-author if that helps. ASCIIDoctor the only source form usable though.


What would the topics be?

How long?

What are the deadlines?

On 12/28/2015 10:14 AM, Jakob Jenkov wrote:
> On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 11:40:50 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> Is anyone up for writing an article or two on D for publication in the
>> CVu or Overload journals as an act of D-efiance? There are to be a 1-
>> day D workshop and a keynote session t the conference, it would be
>> good to "leverage" this as part of the campaign to show that C++ is a
>> 20th century language and D a 21st century one.
>>
>> I am happy to co-author if that helps. ASCIIDoctor the only source
>> form usable though.
>
>
> What would the topics be?
>
> How long?
>
> What are the deadlines?
>
>

CVu is for ACCU members only but Overload is freely available online as well (both are actually print magazines):

  http://accu.org/index.php/journal

Quoting from the most-recent Overload PDF:

  http://accu.org/index.php/journals/c78/

"All articles intended for publication in Overload 131 should be submitted by 1st January 2016 and those for Overload 132 by 1st March 2016."

Ali

On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 18:14 +0000, Jakob Jenkov via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> What would the topics be?

Anything to do with programming that a professional programmer would be interested. CVu is the membership magazine/journal of ACCU but does a lot of technical content. Overload was the magazine/journal that tended to be C++ focussed but there is a move to make it have wider content.

I have just submitted an article on Spock (Groovy implemented testing
framework for the JVM) for Overload, and am about to read a book on D
and do a review for CVu. Article was about 3000 words plus code. Not
sure how long the book review will be.

> How long?

Articles of many different lengths are good. Generally 1500 to 4500 words I think.

> What are the deadlines?

The two journals are every other month interleaved so there is a journal every month. So there is always another deadline to aim for. :- )

I feel an article about how crap C++ is at doing concurrency and parallelism and how good Go and Rust are. D sadly sits in the middle. Dataflow for the win!

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On Mon, 2015-12-28 at 11:12 -0800, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
[…]
> CVu is for ACCU members only but Overload is freely available online
> as
> well (both are actually print magazines):
> 
>    http://accu.org/index.php/journal
> 
> Quoting from the most-recent Overload PDF:
> 
>    http://accu.org/index.php/journals/c78/
> 
> "All articles intended for publication in Overload 131 should be submitted by 1st January 2016 and those for Overload 132 by 1st March 2016."

I have the book with me, I just haven't read it yet. I will be submitting a review though. Maybe I should do one for other new-ish D books all at the same time so we can have them appear around the ACCU 2016 conference.

BTW Any preferences as to what to do with the other two copies? I was wondering about handing them out at ACCU 2016 as prizes for something or other.

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On 12/29/2015 05:31 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> BTW Any preferences as to what to do with the other two copies? I was
> wondering about handing them out at ACCU 2016 as prizes for something
> or other.

Thank you! That sounds great. Or you can do anything else that you want with them. Maybe you know someone that is interested in D; you can give it to them. Or put it around at a company where people will see and grab it to flip through the pages... They are just marketing expense for me. :)

Ali