D Bits- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012When working with D's standard library, it is sometimes necessary to work around missing declarations in the core.sys.windows.windows module. It's a fairly big module as is, but it isn't all-inclusive. If you are doing any heavy-duty Windows development, you'll likely want a... […]
- Putting D's Array Slices to Use March 8, 2012I've been working on BorderWatch a little bit every day. My focus has been on getting the ASCII engine, Arthur, into a state that will let me get a game up and running. With the few modules that I've implemented so far, I believe I'm there. One of the D features that has... […]
- BorderWatch March 5, 2012I'm afraid I'm going to be waving goodbye to Dolce. It's been sitting, bit rotting, for a while now. Some time ago I encountered two major issues with my Allegro binding in Derelict 2. One, a random (and I mean... […]
- Compiling Data into a D Executable March 3, 2012I'm supposed to be posting part three of my series on binding D to C. It's going to be boring to write, so I keep putting it off. But I *will* get to it eventually. In the meantime, I wanted to blog about a neat feature of D that I'd sort of forgotten about until I needed it. I'm working on an ASCII-based strategy/simulation game in the.. […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012This is part two of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. In my previous post, I discussed the difference between dynamic and static bindings and some of the considerations to take into account when deciding which way to go. Here in part two,... […]
- Setting Thread Affinity on Windows in D April 3, 2012
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Walter on Function Hijacking
Walter has posted an article on function hijacking, the subject of his presentation at the most recent Northwest C++ Users Group gathering: As software becomes more complex, we become more reliant on module interfaces. An application may import and combine … Continue reading
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DMD 2.006
Walter has announced the latest version of bleeding edge D. Many new and changed features, including several enhancements to Phobos. No corresponding 1.x release, this time. This is all 2.0. As always, for you D newcomers, 2.x is an unstable … Continue reading
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DSSS 0.73
Gregor has released a new version of DSSS. The changelog, as posted in the NG: – Rebuild: Merged DMD 2.003.- Improved incremental build speed.- Fixed excludes to work with a larger variety of paths (see ticket #126).- Added a warning … Continue reading
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D Configuration Framework Update
Martin Kuszczak has rewritten his D Configuration Framework (a.k.a. Program Options) and put out a beta release. You can use this library to ease management of application configuration, such as: …reading configuration options from physical media, saving them back, presenting … Continue reading
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Upgrade Complete
The upgrade is finished. So far, it looks like everything is working. If you notice any issues with the site or the theme, please leave a comment and let me know. I’m rather hooked on this new theme (from Blog … Continue reading
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