All I want to do is watch hulu.com movies on my TV instead of my laptop. This is much easier said than done though. The development tools seem to have stalled a few years ago. Is anyone else writing these things these days? This post gives bad news: Flash is not coming to MCE anytime… Continue reading Building a Vista Media Center plugin
Category: projects
NukeboxPerl, a web-based music jukebox
I originally wrote this in 2004. This was built with some pretty old-school stuff (e.g., running PostgreSQL and Apache on cygwin). Yikes. I’ve since rewritten it for WAMP. There is some interesting stuff in that zipfile though, such as a hack to remove DRM from WMA files and a metadata database that include AMG tags… Continue reading NukeboxPerl, a web-based music jukebox
Developing with the Windows peer-to-peer framework
A few months ago I investigated various options to build P2P apps that could be run across the internet, regardless of hardware and ISPs. The research started with Java, which is JXTA (aka Juxtapose) – the framework started by Sun in 2001. I suspect the open-source P2P filesharing clients all use it (since they all… Continue reading Developing with the Windows peer-to-peer framework