The Christmas break has been a chance to work on some little projects that have been building up.

Overcoming the last few issues to get DVR features working on Plex in Docker with the Official Xbox One Digital TV Tuner.

Plex DVR with the Official Xbox One Digital TV Tuner - Working without TVheadend!!

At the weekend I was skimming over the parts of the OCA exam book which are new for Java 8, and the comparison on working with the new java.time APIs versus the previous java.util offerings got me ...

Introduction As noted in the introduction to this series, I wanted to learn a bit about how Ivy worked as a dependency management system integrating with Ant. The logical starting point here is the Ivy Tutorial, but there are many broken areas of the Quick Start page which make it difficult to follow. It also heavily relies on just inspecting the sample code available as part of the Ivy source code, instead of explaining it in any depth as part of the tutorial. This and the next part of the series will build up a basic project with a REST service using CDI to inject a cache manager, will all of our code as part of the same module.