And once again the Humble Indie Bundle was released! This time the bundle is composed by "Amnesia: The Dark Descent" — a survivor horror game —, "LIMBO" — a mix between puzzle and platform with a dark environment —, "Psychonauts" — another platform game but with a strong storytelling and humor —...
So, let’s suppose that it’s just a normal raining evening and you’re, as always, coding in Python. Then sundelly in the middle fo your code you need to accumulate some strings, what would you do? Simply accumulate using the +=, wright? Yeah, me too, until today! I’ve just found out (through...
In this last Tuesday (January 17) pacman 4 was moved into Arch Linux’s core repository. This new version brings several new features for this great package manager, but what stands out most is the GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) package signing, which ensures the integrity and reliability of the packages...
This is another Atlanta PyCon2011 lecture that I’d like to highlight. This one was given by Luke Gotszling and talks about Python and CouchDB, a NoSQL database document oriented. Now some additional information…
Finally the Humble Indie Bundle 4 was released! This time the bundle is composed by "Jamestown", "Bit, Trip Runner", "Super Meat Boy", "Shank" and "NightSky HD", if you pay more then the average ($5,31 U.S. Dollars) you’ll get "Gratuitous Space Battle" and "Cave Story+". Below is a video that...
The Wordpress 3.3 was just released! This new version is named "Sonny", in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. This new version brings many new UI improvements and a new drag-and-drop uploader. The upper video highlight these main features: Drag and drop uploader; Hover menus for...
Hello everybody! I know I have been absent lately, but this posts title summarizes everything: Finally Mind Bending has its own domain. Sounds simple but it gave me a good headache because the way that my blog is installed and hosted. This gave me so much trouble that I’m writing an article...
GIT is a distributed VCS (version control system) which emphasize speed. Most people forget that a version control system is not just for working with programing codes, but with any type of file that needs to be versioned. Thus GIT can be useful for anyone who wants to maintain and manage...
Hello, this is a very quick post just to inform you that now the Mind Bending Blog has a Facebook page! In fact it was created a cuple of days ago, but only now I got time to advertise it. You must be thinking that this isn’t a notable thing, after all, everyone has Facebook, right? Wrong… The...
In continuation to the series of articles PyCon2011 Highlights, today I won’t just suggest but insist with you to watch this great talk by Maciej Fijałkowski and Alex Gaynor, about the Python’s Virtual Machine called PyPy. I always wondered how PyPy (which is written in Python) can be faster than...
