Category Archives: Software

08/17/2011
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“Embedding disabled” no more for PlayX

If you’ve been using PlayX for the past year, you know how often you have come across “Embedding disabled by request.” The good news is that 2.6 swaps the JW player for playing YouTube videos with YouTube’s own player, allowing … Continue reading


07/14/2011
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Spotify now open to the US; it’s amazing

Now that Spotify is available in the US and I’ve gotten to use it, it’s amazing. It lets you stream any song from its growing music library on demand and instantly. Search is great, the interface is snappy and nice … Continue reading


01/26/2011
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Balancing permissions

The Bukkit project now has a permissions system on the cusp of release. Since its method is heavily based off my proposal, I’m going to go over what my system (and Bukkit’s derivative) entails and the design decisions that went … Continue reading


01/10/2011
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WorldEdit, WorldGuard, and CraftBook

If you run Minecraft servers, you may be aware that hMod is being displaced by Bukkit. hMod had some longstanding design problems that afflicted it such as the inflexibility of event handling and the inability to communicate between plugins. The … Continue reading