The birth of Åkerön

Joseph Rushton Wakeling joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net
Tue Jun 18 17:41:43 PDT 2013


On 06/18/2013 11:37 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> I can do my best here, from memory. If I get anything wrong, please correct me!

Thanks very much for the summary.  It sounds like it was an interesting talk,
and I'm sad it wasn't recorded, although I imagine Andrew had good reasons for
his request.

> The first part of Andrew's talk was about his personal journey to the point
> where he was standing before us.  Service in the Marine Corps (thank you,
> Andrew), an interest in computers, being someone who was always inspired to
> contribute to society as a software developer.  His talk included several funny
> anecdotes, I would not do them justice to repeat them here from my bad memory :)
> 
> So then he talked about Akeron, his company that he wants to use to promote
> several things.  One is helping people learn about D.  To that end, he has
> established the web site dtutor.org (which Andrei registered during his talk I
> believe).  See his announcement here: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/km6ccu$1ads$1@digitalmars.com

I hadn't connected Andrew with Tyro[17].  dtutor.org sounds very cool, although
it doesn't seem to currently point to anything, at least for me (the browser
starts trying to load an IP address and never gets anywhere, apart from "D
Tutorials" appearing in the tab title).

> I know this is short on details, but it was over a month ago.  Andrew, you may
> want to post an executive summary of your talk based on your slides, to set the
> record straight :)

I confess that when I saw the word Åkerön, in the absence of further details I
assumed it was most likely to be some kind of online fantasy RPG ... ;-)


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