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The Netflix Player by Roku

We recently purchased the Netflix Player by Roku and signed up for the $8.99/month (1 DVD at-a-time) plan with NetFlix. This probably has been one of the best purchases in the past few years. Yeah, the selection of instant isn’t that expansive.
That is, until this week.
This week, Netflix announced agreements with CBS and the Disney [...]

Spring Presentation at Charlotte JUG

Thanks to everyone that came out to the Charlotte JUG for tonight’s presentation on Spring 101: Spring Core. I hope everybody walked away learning something new.
Here’s the links to a number of sites that I mentioned throughout the night:

SpringFramework.org Documentation

Spring By Example
Terracotta Platform Support
Development Environment Setup as prescribed by Matt Raible
Inversion of Control Containers and [...]

Mac OS 10.5.5 released

Apple released Mac OS 10.5.5 on Monday. Lots of security updates. If you are running a Mac, you need to update. Now.

Update on OS X 2.1

The update for the iPod Touch was available on Tuesday, along with iTunes 8. I promptly updated my Mac to the latest and greatest (sorry, PC, you get to wait a few days) then updated my Touch. I see the version is 2.1 (5F137), so that’s nice. I’m digging around for cut and paste…hmmm…nowhere to [...]

OS X 2.1 arrives Friday!

For those of us with iPhones and iPod Touches, today’s announcement from Apple’s music related event at Yerba Buena today about the next version of OS X being released Friday is nothing but good news. Again, no exact listing of what is in 2.1 except that it’s a big update and it fixes a lot [...]