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Schema by (One) Example: Part 1

I know there are bunch of people out there that hate XML Schema, I’m not one of them, but I do dislike writing XML Schema. So how do you get the power without the pain? We’ll explore this with a spec by example.

Writing a web-based poker game in Java

In this entry I’m going to decompose an application I have written using Java 5, JSP 2.0, and a little bit of Hibernate. I’ll try and track all the work done including the changes as I went along by using my trusty source control system.

Deconstructing The Pyramids

After watching about a million of these shows where they open some tomb in a pyramid and find nothing, I have a theory…

First a little engineering. The pyramids are not built by putting a whole bunch of rocks on top of one another and hollowing them out…

Programmable Video Games

Neverwinter Nights takes programmable to a new level, but it is still ham-strung by its implementation.

I have always been an avid player of programmable video games. Back in the Commodore 64 days it was this tank game where you made a program to defeat your…