Twisted Pixel Games is an indie studio again
Twisted Pixel Games has announced that it is no longer a part of Microsoft Games Studios. The one-time indie studio has left Microsoft behind and is now once again a, well, indie studio. "This transition has been in the works for a few months, with both parties working together to lay the groundwork for us to spin out and become independent again,” Twisted Pixel Executive Producer Bill Muehl said in prepared statement....
An alternative to `puts` in Ruby
As you know, I like to talk about idioms on this blog. A carefully chosen idiom can convey a lot in a few lines of code. Today I realized there’s an idiom I commonly use in my code that I haven’t really talked about before. Typically, in Ruby, when we want to put a line of text to the console, we do it with puts: puts "Hello, world!" Now, there’s nothing wrong with this. It works just fine. But for a while now, in...
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering-These Microscopic Fish Are 3D – Printed To Do More Than Swim
Researchers demonstrate a novel method to build microscopic robots with complex shapes and functionalities San Diego, Calif., August 25, 2015 — Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used an...
Michel Bauwens Interviewed for the Berlin Future Forum on Peer to Peer Spirituality
By Pedro Jardim and Alexa Clay for the Berlin Future Forum, October 2015 The beginning of the video covers familiar ground, but gradually the questions of Alexa veer towards spiritual concerns. Watch the video here at:
