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
Category Archives: News
DMD 1.073 and 2.058
There’s a lot to be happy about in the two new DMD releases. Both version 1.073 and 2.058 are loaded with bugfixes. The 2.x release even sports a new lambda syntax. I was very happy that my “favorite” D bug … Continue reading
D Forums
Vladimir Panteleev’s awesome web interface to the D newsgroups has now gone live on the D site to replace the clunky old web interface that used to be there. I still prefer my newsreader, but now I finally have a … Continue reading
Derelict on GitHub
I’ve finally got Derelict all set up on GitHub. But if you haven’t kept up with the Derelict forum, you may be surprised at the Derelict3 label. The short version is that my decision to move to GitHub coupled with … Continue reading
Tango For D2
There has been an ongoing effort to port Tango to D2 for some time now. I remember hearing the first whispers of such a project a couple of years ago. Well, it’s definitely more than whispers now. I don’t know … Continue reading