D Bits- 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,... […]
- Binding D to C January 8, 2012This is part one of a series on creating bindings to C libraries for the D programming language. This is a topic that has become near and dear to my heart. Derelict is the first, and only, open source project I've ever maintained. It's not a complicated thing. There's very little... […]
- Dolce and Da5teroids December 18, 2011So I've finally gotten started on some game code. In order to see if Dolce is actually useful or a waste of time, I decided to start by porting the A5teroids demo that ships with the Allegro 5 package. Here's what I've learned so far. First, the whole idea of Dolce as a framework on top of Allegro to allow an absolute minimum amount of startup […]
- Dolce Gets Some Love November 17, 2011Once the semester ended, I took a week to do nothing but play Dark Age of Camelot and get some much needed guitar practice in. Then I dove back in to the gym for some long overdue exercise. I also managed to pick up a few more private classes to fill some of the gaps in my schedule. Once I let off all that steam, I fired up... […]
- On My Job, and Some Big D News October 9, 2011Dolce is still very much alive, just getting little attention while I wrap up the second semester at the university. For anyone interested, I'm teaching in a special program where a local university here in Seoul is partnered with a university in America. The students do two semesters here in Korea before moving off to the States for three years. We... […]
- Binding D to C Part Two January 31, 2012
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Lutger’s Stuff
Lutger has updated lodepng. From the NG announcement: lodepng, a smallish png codec, has been updated to incorporate modestpng-editing capabilities. I’ve made some small changes to the encodinginterface as well. He also posted news of the ptrace utility: ptrace is … Continue reading
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More D Articles
Hans-Eric Grönlund has a blog post up detailing how to abstract D’s loops in a Rubyesque fashion. Elsewhere, Unknown Brackets has posted an overview D from a user perspective called Polishing D. Technorati Tags: D Programming Language
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D Game Postmortem
I meant to post this a few days ago and it slipped my mind. Jonathan Breuer put up a postmortem on his experience using D to develop a little game as part of the process of learning the language. Based … Continue reading
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DMD 1.026 and 2.010
I’m a bit late on this, but Walter released new versions of the DMD 1.x and DMD 2.x compilers recently. Both are mostly bugfix releases. A friendly reminder: DMD 2.x is an unstable developmental branch and should not be used … Continue reading
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And the winner is…
Through a process utilizing bleeding edge technology and complex algorithms, a winner has been randomly selected from the 27 entrants in the Learn to Tango with D Contest. Everyone congratulate Neal for his legally free copy of Learn to Tango … Continue reading
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