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Video-on-demand and ReplayTV

My current ReplayTV has the ability to receive programs from other devices over the LAN or over the internet. Why hasn’t someone started a video-on-demand service for it?

Well, one could probably argue that there isn’t enough penetration in the market…

Maven artifacts need to be more discoverable

The laundry list of repositories that are filling the POM in Maven projects has to go. The ideal of having a central store of all artifacts is clearly dead and we have to move on. My proposal is two fold. First, the repository to end all repositories…

Object Identity and why JDK 1.0.2/1.1 was better than 1.2+

Object identity is something that is at the core of all persistence containers and most distributed object systems. Finding the “same” object in another system or loading the “same” object that was referenced before is at the…

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.

iPod Nano

I don’t have anything interesting to say about this except that either I am getting old or this thing is pure science fiction.

I have never seen a more beautiful piece of technology in every sense of the word. The other digital audio player companies (are there any?) must be…