The One With D

Catching Up

I haven’t been completely absent from D-land the past couple of weeks. I’ve been firing up Thunderbird every few days to browse through the newsgroups. A few announcements I recall: Chris released a new version of DFL; Gregor released a couple of new versions of DSSS; Bruno Medeiros released the first version of a new Eclipse-based IDE for D, derived from Descent and named Mmrnmhrm (mer-nem-herm) — just drop the jars in your Eclipse plugins directory (requires Eclipse 3.3 and Java 1.5 or later). I’m sure there was more, but I don’t feel like going back through all of those threads right now.

I’ve also been keeping abreast of the Derelict forums in case any fires sprung up there. It’s been quite calm, thankfully. Though, it was brought to my attention that the latest version of DevIL sort of breaks the DerelictIL bindings since a function was apparently removed from the API. I’ll be getting around to fixing that up Real Soon Now.

I unashamedly admit that I took five days away from anything resembling work last week, other than my English classes, in order to catch up on my reading and play some games that have been languishing on my hard drive. The break must have enchanted me, as my productivity has shot through the roof the past couple of days. I’m almost finished with all of the proofreading work I’ve had in the queue. I wasn’t expecting to be back to D-land until next week, but I’ll be able to get back to it a few days sooner it seems. Too bad I can’t make the conference.

I haven’t yet emailed my two Q&A targets to ask if they are interested. I’m going to get on that in just a little bit, so it may be a week or so before I have anything to post from them. Regardless, I’m back on the blog job.

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