What have I missed?

[Era Scarecrow via Digitalmars-d]

  Well it looks like i got a lot of work ahead of me. Is Ali's 
online book good and up-to-date on D's current behavior as well 
as it's features?

  I'll look over the bugzilla listing of stuff for BitManip and 
see if i can't help with that library once more, but so far 
personal experience trying to contribute to phobos & D has been a 
sub-par experience. Probably due to not being familiar with Git 
or GitHub.


  At the DConf2014 Walter Bright commented on using LZW 
compression on name mangling to manage template expansion to keep 
it from going overboard. Has anyone done that? If not i could do 
that...