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How to Polish Rusty Steel

Steel, when exposed to moisture and oxygen, forms a crusty chemical component called iron oxide -- otherwise known as rust. The best way to remove rust is to never allow steel to rust in the first ...

How Sugar Makes A Steak Better

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Funding the Foundry: Why Are Taxpayers Continually on the Hook?

Why Type Foundry Dinamo Releases Its Fonts as if They Were Albums

What should a 21st-century type foundry be? How might a type specimen function in a way that suits our increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing times? And why shouldn’t fonts be intelligent systems—programmed to shift and react to meet the needs of designers? And while we’re at it, they mig

The Foundry is Going Digital. Will You Keep Up?

The Digital Foundry will capitalize on digital design processes, along with significantly improved technologies and materials

Metal 3D Printing and Classic Foundry Techniques: Friends or Foes?

The first question that is often asked when a new technology is introduced is: what of the old way of doing things? Sometimes the answer is that it fades into oblivion -- think: fortran and floppy disks -- other times it falls out of use in mainstream society but becomes the domain of a small, espec...

Machine Vision: Improved optical-inspection algorithm finds defects on industrial steel rollers

A newly developed machine-vision system can accurately measure roller surface defects.

Find your perfect gift at The Foundry

The Foundry is located on Valley Mills and is a boutique with so many items from clothing to food items, to shoes and custom-made pocket knives. You can find your perfect gift here.

How to Keep Costs Down in the Foundry

Learn how to earn a greater profit in your foundry by lowering costs and increasing productivity. These tips will lower your cost in your foundry.

Is a Cloud Foundry deployment right for you?

Cloud Foundry deployments are becoming more popular because of their open source roots. Walk through Cloud Foundry's main features, the differences between the open source and commercial versions and compare it to other application deployment options, such as Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Can Intel Dethrone The Foundry Giants?

For some customers, Intel may be an interesting partner. For others, foundries still have some distinct advantages.

Why I've Been Writing Tests in Solidity with Foundry

Foundry feels like overkill for testing most NFT smart contracts. For more complicated systems such as defi protocols, though, Foundry seems ideal.

Purdue "Foundry" designed to move ideas to the marketplace

Purdue is putting a greater emphasis on commercialization of faculty, staff and student inventions. To help move ideas to the marketplace more quickly, the

Trouble Gauging Foundry Equipment Efficiency? There's an App for That

GK doesn't only create waste management equipment, we make it easy to monitor these machines' efficiency! Learn more about GK's app, the Portable Stroke Monitor.

Can Software Change the World? The Role of Cloud Foundry

Digital innovation and software disruption...The stakes are high: Cloud Foundry is already changing industries, cities, and even nations. This post describes how Cloud Foundry (and its community) is involved in making a better world.

Is the City Foundry Just Moving Vegetables Around the Plate?

When you were a kid, did you ever push your vegetables around your plate hoping that the different placement would convince your parents that you’d eaten

My Favorite Type Foundries to Find Typefaces

One of the questions I hear the most is “What are your favorite typefaces?” The truth is, they change all the time and my answer would probably change every time you ask me. But what doesn’t change is the list of type foundries I follow, the source of all the goodness. I probably spent tens …

User Guidelines for Waste Foundry Green Sand Use in Pavement Construction

Waste green sand from metalcasting foundry operations may have use in paving technologies. This article is an overview of green sand content and use.

Apple Swift buildpack for Cloud Foundry

Apple has open sourced their Swift programming language and many developers like it a lot. Over time it may evolve a strong ecosystem for writing backend web applications. But how will you run them on Cloud Foundry?<br>Introducing a buildpack for running Swift web applications: