Another week of my Google Summer of Code project passed by, and so you are reading another status update. I am not including any core D development-related news this time, first because I didn't… Read more

First, let me apologize for not posting an update last week – I had a busy time, but regardless I will try to let you know about the state of affairs regularly in the future. Now, what were I working on? I updated… Read more

The first week of my Thrift project as part of the D programming language Google Summer of Code is over, and I am happy to be able to share some first results. If you are not sure what I am talking about yet… Read more

During the last couple of weeks, I didn't really find time to update this blog. Nevertheless, however, I was able to spare some time for work on a couple open source projects related to the D programming language. But first, let me quickly summarize some other awesome news… Read more

I'm currently using OS X 10.6 on my MacBook Pro and the combination of a polished UI and the familiar Posix foundation quite appeals to me (I'll probably do a separate post on my experience with it eventually). Nevertheless, however, I am using the text console a lot, … Read more

Yesterday, SWIG 2.0.2 has been released. Along with various bug fixes for the other supported languages, this is the first release to officially support the D programming language. As always, … Read more

I am mainly a Git user, but lately I have been working with Mercurial from time to time. So far, I have been mostly using it for basic committing though, so I still occasionally end up with a commit I did not mean to create like this when performing more advanced operations. But undoing that can't be too hard, right?… Read more

Sorry if this notice might come a bit late for some of you, but a few days ago, I have committed a breaking change to D support in SWIG trunk. It was needed to bring the names used in the D module in line with the C# one,… Read more

In a nutshell, SWIG is a »glue code« generator, allowing you to access C/C++ libraries from various target languages, including C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Python … and, since I merged my work into SWIG trunk a few days ago, also the D programming language, both version 1 and 2.… Read more

… but unfortunately not in a personal project of mine that I started quite a while ago and which I have resumed work on recently. Today, I have been finally able to fix a bug which had already taken me some hours to trace down. Basically, mouse-over and -off events would not work properly on certain… Read more