May 12, 2003
Thursday?

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The first official release of Jakarta Commons Codec, which contains a number of phonetic encoders, a Hex implementation, and a Base64 implementation.

Krysalis barcode, a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java.

Diego — (simple) roundtrip weblog/RSS/email integration.

Russ — First Day in The Office.

Dominic — M7 for J2EE development.

Ryan — Map, List or Collection?

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2.

Michael — Hebrew Computing on Mac OS X.

Janne — Hero.

Bryce — Zaurus .NET and CF w/o Visual Studio.

SpamAssassin 2.5.4 released.

Moving iTunes Music Store To Windows Faces Obstacles & Challenges.

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Maurizio — Another WiFi joke.

Tom — New Scientist on 3G vs DAB.

Jim — SMS - Death throes?

David — Social Software Alliance.

William — Focus on Java Newsletter 05/12/03.

Matt — RE: Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces.

James — JIRA.

Andres — Google for hackers.

Jonas — AspectWerkz 0.5 has been released.

Cedric — Beautiful code.

Steve — Dear Apple Canada.

J2EE Certificate Authority, EJBCA 2.0.1.

JetBrains Adds IDE to JBoss Community. IDEA will now be integrated with JBoss Group's application server offering.

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JavaWorld announces finalists in Editors' Choice Awards.

Work more efficiently with Perl Regular Expressions.

JDK 1.4 lets you ‘assert’ yourself in debugging.

Cracking Java byte-code encryption. Why Java obfuscation schemes based on byte-code encryption won't work.

New Java Browser: WebWindow 2.1.1.

Diego — why the new install system for JDK 1.4.2 is bad.

François — Trendspotting: mobile SPAM :(

Russ — BlogPlanet Rules: J2ME Blogging MIDlet for 3650s, What IS Moblogging? and My Progress.

Julian — Verizon Plans Wireless Access Via Pay Phones.

Bluetooth wireless for your car from Sony Ericsson. Andrew Eden has written a review of the Sony Ericsson HCB-30 Bluetooth car kit.

David — RSSLibJ in Roller? and Weekend of RSS fun.

Bernard — JHotDraw.

David — blojsim 0.9.

William — Java Profiles: James Gosling Bio.

Philippe — A good naming convention for tables in a database.

Matt — StrutsTestCase v2.0 Released!, Roller 0.9.7.2 Released! and New Hibernate Versions (1.2.5 and 2.0 RC2).

Fred — Java JREs on Debian and J2ME Resources For the Poor Developer.

Dominic — Free book chapters by category.

Anonymous Coward — A new profiler on Eclipse arena: from Hyades team.

Simon — J2EE applications can be lightweight.

Daniel — Code style auto-formatting in two clicks.

Benoit — Les futures extensions du JDK...

Yakuu — Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces.

Bertrand — LogFactor5.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2fc1.

Keith — Awesome Matrix Reloaded review.

Seyed — RSS and News aggregators.

Ovidiu — Cocoon flow controller implemented in Java and More on advanced XSLT usage.

Scott — MySQL creator contemplates RAM-only databases.

Alan — Klingon and Java Coding Standards.

JDAVMail, WebDAV JavaMail provider.

JGraph 2.1.1 (For Java 1.3).

JProftpd 1.1, a simple graphic frontend written in Java for the proftpd FTP server.

Major release of the Jargon File — 4.4.0, now with cartoons.

Bellevue Apple Store opening video.

Study: Mobile phones seen as ‘essential’.

USB 1.1 vs USB 2.0 flash drives: is there any difference?

Where is the Matrix Phone?

NEC Builds a Bigger PDA. MobilePro 900.

David — Technorati API 0.9.

Public Wi-Fi has look and feel of a dead duck. T-Mobile swallows the bill.

Ian — FoafNews.

Anybody noticed that The Matrix is starting on a Thursday in the U.S?



On May 12, 1978 — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.