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Utility functions and Utility AI, a practical example

This video explores a bit of utility based AI for tile based position selection by applying re-usable considerations to the decision making mechanism.

It is probably an oversimplification of the term Utility AI, but should be a reasonable introduction...

Using Dropbox to automatically download torrents

Need to be able to remotely add torrents to your secure machine at home? Don't want to expose any ports to the world in order to accomplish that?

Solution: Use Dropbox and uTorrent.

How? Setup uTorrent to automatically download any torrent files...

Spring and hibernate- Lazy loading collections in desktop (swing) applications

So here's something you can't find on the internets. Or at least i couldn't, when i was trying to find a way to do this.

The problem:

Traditionally, spring and hibernate have been mostly used in web applications. In this case, you can easily define...

Java Web Start (jnlp) simple example

UPDATE (2013/05/28): Since most people already know, WebStart is a bit of a crappy piece of tech with a bunch of limitations. The good news is there are alternatives :)

One of my current projects requires me to deliver a Swing application via Java...