When developing moderately complex plugins with the Bukkit API,
it is often necessary to perform certain tasks on a regular basis,
such as changing a player's hunger level or starting a new mini-game arena.
To schedule tasks that recur in minecraft, a number of methods can be used.
These methods are all quite similar, however will perform different types
of scheduling based on your needs.

• Different methods of scheduling tasks
• Asynchronous Scheduling
• Referencing Asynchronous Tasks

Since it was founded, the video sharing service YouTube has gained enormous popularity, being bought by Google in 2006 and receiving over four billion video views per day. What makes this service so popular? How has the simple idea of sharing videos produced a world-changing platform?

• Ability for anybody to do anything or become anybody (Government, Famous, Campaigns)
• Socially Accessible
• Self- Expression (Motivation - Self + Others) To a large audience?
• Self Improvement
• Takes something ordinary and turns it into something life changing
• Value created by users
• Dual Incentive (Ad revenue + Social opportunity)
• Corporate Opportunity

Over the past few weeks, as part of the Cisco CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) curriculum, i've been studying how to set-up and correctly address networks using IP (Internet Protocol) addresses. This post explains the process of subdividing and manipulating IPv4 addresses.

• Background
• IPv4 address depletion
• Example

Using block-chains to transfer data securely and anonymously is quite an interesting idea.
Data could easily be traded, given, bought and sold anonymously, without others gaining access to the data.
A data block-chain system could even hook into the BitCoin protocol and execute
BitCoin transactions directly when transacting data for currency or vice versa.

• Post by Ilyia Grigorik
• Block-Chain Images/Flowcharts
• Security drawbacks of embedded data
• Seeding similar to BitTorrent
• Data meta packet/file
• Additional projects

Last week, while visiting Paris, the bustling capital of France, I popped into "La Maison du BitCoin", one of France's first, certified, commercial BitCoin exchanges.
La Maison du BitCoin, situated in the third "arrondisement" of Paris[^1], was established late last year, and is now visited by many curious Parisians and travellers, eager to delve into the exciting, new world of crypto-currency.

• Background
• Accreditation by French authorities
• Friendly Services
• ID Required for Purchases
• BitCoin ATM

In order to develop smooth, bug-free applications, testing is a must. To accomplish this goal, many modern work-flows implement rigorous testing processes and emphasise concepts such as test-driven development.
Testing code, however, isn't always as straight forward as some may think.

• Java unit testing options
• JUnit chronological approach
• Benefits of mockito with JUnit

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