digitalmars.D.announce - D Article Contest - win an iPad2
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 29 2011
- Emil Madsen <sovende gmail.com> Mar 29 2011
- Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Mar 30 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 30 2011
- "Nick Sabalausky" <a a.a> Mar 31 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 31 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 31 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 30 2011
- Mike Linford <mike.linford.reg gmail.com> Mar 30 2011
- simendsjo <simen.endsjo pandavre.com> Mar 30 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Mar 30 2011
- Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Mar 30 2011
- =?UTF-8?B?IkrDqXLDtG1lIE0uIEJlcmdlciI=?= <jeberger free.fr> Mar 30 2011
- Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Mar 31 2011
- Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Mar 31 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Apr 04 2011
- bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Apr 05 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Apr 05 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Apr 05 2011
- "Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy yahoo.com> Apr 05 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Apr 07 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Apr 07 2011
- simendsjo <simen.endsjo pandavre.com> Apr 08 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Apr 08 2011
- Caligo <iteronvexor gmail.com> Apr 07 2011
- Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> Apr 08 2011
- Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> Apr 08 2011
- Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> Apr 08 2011
- Luis Carlos Moreira da Costa <tcljava gmail.com> May 31 2011
D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize
Mar 29 2011
Emil Madsen <sovende gmail.com> --0016364c775729475a049fad3cf4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 30 March 2011 07:40, Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote:D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize
Lets hope its not a tie, such a shame to split an iPad ;) -- // Yours sincerely // Emil 'Skeen' Madsen --0016364c775729475a049fad3cf4 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 30 March 2011 07:40, Walter Bright <span dir= =3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:newshound2 digitalmars.com">newshound2 digit= almars.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style= =3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> D Article Contest!<br> <br> First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb<br> <br> Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted w= ill be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote ta= llies determine the winners!<br> <br> Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT<br> Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT<br> <br> <br> Author Rules<br> <br> 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License<br> 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DD= J and Artima.com<br> 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any = prize money<br> 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the <a href=3D"http://d_= programming_language.org" target=3D"_blank">d_programming_language.org</a> = web site<br> 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up= until the submission deadline<br> 6. Article must be about the D programming language<br> 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish<br> 8. Anyone may enter<br> 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [= Submission] in the Subject line<br> <br> <br> Voting Rules<br> <br> 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup pr= ior to this announcement<br> 2. One vote per handle<br> 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup<br> <br> <br> Winner Rules<br> <br> 1. Ties split the cash equivalent<br> 2. Optional cash equivalent<br> 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize<br> </blockquote></div><br><br><div>Lets hope its not a tie, such a shame to sp= lit an iPad ;)<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>// Yours sincerely<br>// Emil &#= 39;Skeen' Madsen<br> </div> --0016364c775729475a049fad3cf4--
Mar 29 2011
On 2011-03-29 22:40, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize
And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D? I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges. Would that qualify? Or are you looking for something else? - Jonathan M Davis
Mar 30 2011
On 3/30/2011 12:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D?
On the language, or on using D, or on designing programs in D, etc. An article only mentioning D incidentally would not qualify.I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges. Would that qualify? Or are you looking for something else?
Yes it qualifies.
Mar 30 2011
"Walter Bright" <newshound2 digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:imulpu$20c7$1 digitalmars.com...On 3/30/2011 12:05 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:And what do you mean by an article on the D Programming Language? A general article on the language itself? An article related to D?
On the language, or on using D, or on designing programs in D, etc. An article only mentioning D incidentally would not qualify.
I don't mean to split hairs or beat a semantic horse here (or abuse metaphors ;)), but what about an example-heavy article that's about some programming technique and just happens to use D for all the examples (and uses D terminology when talking about the code)? Or an article about using a particular library that's written for D?
Mar 31 2011
On 3/31/2011 6:59 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:I don't mean to split hairs or beat a semantic horse here (or abuse metaphors ;)), but what about an example-heavy article that's about some programming technique and just happens to use D for all the examples (and uses D terminology when talking about the code)?
Yes, that'd be cool!Or an article about using a particular library that's written for D?
That too!
Mar 31 2011
On 3/31/2011 7:15 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:*When I say tutorials I don't mean tutorials on the language itself. But a tutorial on how to create some type of software by using D.
Yes to both.
Mar 31 2011
On 3/29/2011 10:40 PM, Walter Bright wrote:Author Rules
I should add that it should not be a previously posted/published article.
Mar 30 2011
I recently started writing an article on ranges in D, since there have been requests for a good article/tutorial on ranges.
I'd just like to say that I look forward to reading this and would greatly appreciate it. :-) -- --Mike Linford
Mar 30 2011
Very nice initiative. D needs more articles and publicity. Hopefully many people will write articles even if they are know they are not able to compete for the grand prize - an article written by me cannot compete with Andrei or Bartosz :)2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers
Where would the articles that's not quite up to that quality standard go? codeproject.com? digitalmars.com? d-programming-language.org?
Mar 30 2011
On 3/30/2011 4:55 AM, simendsjo wrote:Very nice initiative. D needs more articles and publicity. Hopefully many people will write articles even if they are know they are not able to compete for the grand prize - an article written by me cannot compete with Andrei or Bartosz :)2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers
Where would the articles that's not quite up to that quality standard go? codeproject.com? digitalmars.com? d-programming-language.org?
Suggestions for where particular articles should go would be welcome.
Mar 30 2011
On 03/30/2011 12:40 AM, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest!
Posted to reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/gepwf/ipad2_contest_write_an_article_on_d_by_june_1st/ Andrei
Mar 30 2011
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Walter Bright wrote:Author Rules =20 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License
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Mar 30 2011
*When I say tutorials I don't mean tutorials on the language itself. But a tutorial on how to create some type of software by using D.
Mar 31 2011
On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest! First Prize: iPad 2 wifi 16Gb Write an article about the D programming language. The articles submitted will be voted on by the participants in the digitalmars.D newsgroup. Vote tallies determine the winners! Article submission deadline: before June 1, 2011, GMT Voting deadline: before June 8, 2011, GMT Author Rules 1. Article is submitted under the Creative Commons License 2. Digital Mars may submit the article on your behalf to publishers like DDJ and Artima.com 3. You will receive any proceeds from those submissions in addition to any prize money 4. Digital Mars may post the submitted articles on the d_programming_language.org web site 5. You may post article drafts at any time, collect feedback, and revise up until the submission deadline 6. Article must be about the D programming language 7. You may submit as many articles as you wish 8. Anyone may enter 9. Final submissions are to be posted to the digitalmars.D newsgroup with [Submission] in the Subject line Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup Winner Rules 1. Ties split the cash equivalent 2. Optional cash equivalent 3. Winner is responsible for any taxes on prize
This is the first draft of my (first?) article, a little number on using fibers in D. http://octarineparrot.com/article/view/getting-more-fiber-in-your-diet It is just a first draft, I'd appreciate any feedback you can give. -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Apr 04 2011
Robert Clipsham :It is just a first draft, I'd appreciate any feedback you can give.
I suggest to add values to the x scale too of the graphs. Bye, bearophile
Apr 05 2011
On 05/04/2011 10:35, bearophile wrote:Robert Clipsham :It is just a first draft, I'd appreciate any feedback you can give.
I suggest to add values to the x scale too of the graphs. Bye, bearophile
I wanted to do this, for some reason I can't find an option in Google Spreadsheets to do it. I'd happily change the graph to show them if I could find out how. -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Apr 05 2011
On 05/04/2011 15:42, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:I wanted to do this, for some reason I can't find an option in Google Spreadsheets to do it. I'd happily change the graph to show them if I could find out how.
I'd say it's worth hand-adding it using an image editor if you can't figure it out. The graph absolutely needs the x axis to be worth anything. Sorry, no idea how to do it in google spreadsheets. You may want to try open office.
Hacked in a couple of numbers with an image editor, hopefully they all line up, I wouldn't count on it though.Another note, you should change noPeople and noNutrients to numPeople and numNutrients, because noPeople looks like "no people".
Done. Thanks!-Steve
-- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Apr 05 2011
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 10:22:56 -0400, Robert Clipsham <robert octarineparrot.com> wrote:On 05/04/2011 10:35, bearophile wrote:Robert Clipsham :It is just a first draft, I'd appreciate any feedback you can give.
I suggest to add values to the x scale too of the graphs. Bye, bearophile
I wanted to do this, for some reason I can't find an option in Google Spreadsheets to do it. I'd happily change the graph to show them if I could find out how.
I'd say it's worth hand-adding it using an image editor if you can't figure it out. The graph absolutely needs the x axis to be worth anything. Sorry, no idea how to do it in google spreadsheets. You may want to try open office. Another note, you should change noPeople and noNutrients to numPeople and numNutrients, because noPeople looks like "no people". -Steve
Apr 05 2011
A couple of people have posted drafts of articles for this contest to the n.g. I think that's great! But since this is a contest, I hope everyone will understand that I think it would be inappropriate of me to comment on the content of them until the contest is over. Except keep the articles coming!
Apr 07 2011
On 4/7/2011 7:39 PM, Caligo wrote:In the rules there is no mention that the article should try to promote the D programming language rather than, say, criticize it because of its current state. One could write an article that portrays D negatively and receive majority of the votes. Would the author of that article still receive the prize?
Yes.
Apr 07 2011
I don't see why is it inappropriate of you to comment on them. Shouldn't the winner be picked by the most votes? In that case, you have a vote like everyone else, and should also be allowed to comment.
Apr 08 2011
On 4/8/2011 12:05 AM, simendsjo wrote:I don't see why is it inappropriate of you to comment on them. Shouldn't the winner be picked by the most votes? In that case, you have a vote like everyone else, and should also be allowed to comment.
While technically you are correct, I still think it is unseemly for me to appear to try and influence the vote.
Apr 08 2011
In the rules there is no mention that the article should try to promote the D programming language rather than, say, criticize it because of its current state. One could write an article that portrays D negatively and receive majority of the votes. Would the author of that article still receive the prize?
Apr 07 2011
On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest! Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup
Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
Apr 08 2011
On 4/8/11 10:35 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest!
Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup
Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
If you're an author prolific enough to produce two or more quality articles within the time frame, I'd say you deserve to accumulate the votes. This is not a supermarket sale with "one per family please". The more articles, the better for everybody. Of course Walter decides. Andrei
Apr 08 2011
On 4/8/2011 8:41 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:On 4/8/11 10:35 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote:On 30/03/2011 06:40, Walter Bright wrote:D Article Contest! Voting Rules 1. You must have used your handle to post to the digitalmars.D newsgroup prior to this announcement 2. One vote per handle 3. Voting will be done on the digitalmars.D newsgroup
Question: Are votes per-article or per-author? If it's per-article it could lead to a situation where an author has the most votes but someone else's article has the most votes, per-author this isn't a problem. Of course if it's per author, it could lead to an author monopolizing the contest... -- Robert http://octarineparrot.com/
If you're an author prolific enough to produce two or more quality articles within the time frame, I'd say you deserve to accumulate the votes. This is not a supermarket sale with "one per family please". The more articles, the better for everybody. Of course Walter decides.
As it's an article contest, the votes would be for articles. While Andrei's thoughts are sensible, I don't want to try and change things midstream.
Apr 08 2011