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18 Mar 2022 2 minute read 0 comments jer979!!
One of the most significant developments in the history of the software gaming industry was the development, in the mid-90s, of the 3D game engine. Game engine implementers often economize on the process of game development by reusing/adapting, in l...
2 Dec 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
It has been a week since my last blog post but I have a good excuse for the silence. I co-wrote a book. A short one I will admit, but still... As you may recall my last post featured a click bait style headline: Get Paid in Radix $XRD for Coding with...
21 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
The Radix team announced a developer incentive program that pays you in XRD for trying Scrypto. You can make up to $100 in XRD for making any non-trivial example and up to $1000 in XRD for each example that you submit that is judged as good enough to...
19 Nov 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
The soft launch of the Radix Programmer's Guild (aka RadGuild) is underway. Here are some news items. RadGuild Organizing Activities RadGuild discord reorganized. Roles added. Initial projects outlined. Forty members invited and onboarded. Scored ac...
17 Nov 2021 2 minute read 1 comment RockHoward
Not too long ago I tuned into a twitch session hosted by the two main developers in charge of Solana's smart contract compiler. While extolling the virtues of the Solana compiler they mentioned their latest creation: a smart contract that implemented...
16 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
The most compelling part of Radix from a developer's perspective is the introduction of Asset Oriented Programming. You can read my recent blog post on this subject of you need a primer on the concepts, but the short form is that the compiler and run...
15 Nov 2021 1 minute read 8 comments RockHoward
Today's post is a guest article by Peachy, a well known long time Radix activist who currently lives in Puerto Rico. This article was originally posted to the RadixDLT discord and is used with permission. An island is no fun if there is no way to vis...
14 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
I am currently writing a book about my journey to Radix and Scrypto but today I will answer the question I get a lot these days. How did you find out about Radix? My journey with crypto goes all the way back to 2011 but contains significant gaps. Onl...
13 Nov 2021 2 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
The first public release of Scrypto happened yesterday as part of the APE presentations in New York. I cloned the latest code drop and immediately jumped into the example code to see if I could quickly spot any changes since the last code drop which...
12 Nov 2021 4 minute read 0 comments RockHoward
Today is a momentous day for the Radix community as the Alexandria Preview Event happens this afternoon in New York and across the virtual world. In this event the Radix team will, for the first time, reveal the actual syntax and key mechanisms of th...
