Upgrade Delayed
I'm holding off on upgrading the site until after the weekend. I don't have much time today to get it done, then I will be out of town Saturday and Sunday. So I'll either work on it Sunday evening (if I get back in time and feel like it), or Monday.
TinyXPath Port
There's a new project at DSource which is a port to D of TinyXPath. The project also included a port of TinyXML. Read more about the project at its home page and discuss it in the project forums.
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D Discussion at GameDev.net
There is a new thread over at GameDev.net where someone is asking about D. That's akin to a straight guy walking into a gay male bar to meet a woman. GameDev is a fantastic resource, but the majority of forum users are fairly biased toward C++ and rarely give any informed answers to such questions. Such threads usually degenerate into language bashing and misinformation dumps. So far, the thread has actually been civil and people have shared their personal experiences with D. Still, they aren't D users and it's obvious that they haven't looked at D in a long while.
I know a lot of you are using D to make games or game engines. If you are one of them, perhaps you should get on over to GDNet and let Red Ant know your experiences with D, both good and bad, and what you think of it, so that he can better decide if it's something he'd like to explore.
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Site Changes
In the very near future, as in within the next day or two, I will be upgrading my version of WordPress to the very latest. In the process, I'm giving the site design an overhaul. I just completed doing the same thing with my GDMike blog. It took a fair amount of time, but it went off without any major issues.
The process I use to go about upgrading is a little unconventional and will most certainly cause a disruption if you attempt to access the blog while I am upgrading. At worst, you'll see 404 errors. So if you do have problems accessing the site at some point over the next couple of days, assume I'm upgrading. Just thought I'd give a heads up.
D DBI Revival & FreeUniverse Inauguration
James Pelcis has stepped up and brought the D DBI project back to life. D DBI is a database-independent interface. Currently, it supports MySQL, ODBC, PostgreSQL, and SQLite v3, with more on the way. Learn more about D DBI on the project home page.
phroot from the DSource forums (sorry, I know the first name is Jeremy but nothing more than that) has started an ambitious game project called FreeUniverse. It's an open ended, 2D space simulator. I haven't checked it out yet myself, but I'll definitely be getting around to it in the near future.
Technorati Tags: D Programming Language, DBI, databases, games, space simulators