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HelpSetMaker 0.9.0 allows creation and maintenance of online help documents.

JGoodies Swing Suite 1.3 provides components and solutions that complement Swing to solve common user interface tasks.

Tutorial: Java Generics.

eSeminar: Refactoring with Oracle JDeveloper and Refactorit.

Jim — Tivo To Go?

FREE Beta J2ME Certification. Free vouchers for the first 400 candidates. February 5 - 25

Rael — Compiling Java on the P800.

Diego — not everything that shines is made of gold…

Angus — Magnolia 1.1 Trial Thoughts.

Bharanidharan — Nokia Mobile Secrets .

David — Generics Glossary.

Dion — CGLIB 2.0 Final Release.

Michael — The Irish go to war with France …

Sam — Thoughts on an MVC framework for Swing.

Paul — Catch 22 and Good Software Developers.

Pelle — GUI tools in IDEA 4.

Brian — DynAOP Relicensed!

Rui — blog/2004-02-17.

Robert — Nice chat with Russell Beattie.

WWDC 2004 registration opens. Registration is now open for Apple's 2004 Worldwide Developers Conference. June 28-July 2 in San Francisco.

8 GB CompactFlash Card out now. SimpleTech, 8 GB Type II card, $5,999.

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I've put together a home page for mobibot, the #mobitopia IRC channel bot. The source code (Java) is also available on my CVS server.

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Nick — Ant Tip.

Daniel — Swing Sightings.

Mats — Open Source Java? Please elaborate!

Google updates the number of indexed pages. From 3,151,743,117 to 4,285,199,774.

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Images of the new Sendo X Carbon Design. [via mobibot]

Lars — Discovering XML files with Google.

Dido joins music's major earners. British pop star Dido is included in Heat magazine's Top 10 of the music world's biggest earners.

Anil — Cingular aquires AT&T Wireless.

Charles — Scripting Fun Part 1: Dogfood.

JDistro 0.29, a desktop in pure Java.

Adrian — HttpClient 2.0.

Jason — Adding Python to my toolkit.

Hmmm… If you're using a library in Python, use one in Java too:

  import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
  …

  HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
  GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod("http://www.jaseb.net");
  client.executeMethod(getMethod);
  System.out.println(getMethod.getResponseBodyAsString());

Seems pretty simple to me.

Cheah — Mozilla Europe website launched.

Fred — Slashdot Founder's Blog.

Installing the Java SDK. Getting the Nokia SDK to work with Java SDK 1.3.1_10.

javasight.com, a new Java portal.

ObjectWeb Announces JORAM 4.0. 100% pure Java implementation of JMS.

Jim — Going Underground - reprise.

Alan — Dreamweaver MX Tip: Changing file extensions.

Rusty — JSwat 2.21 and JWizardComponent 1.2.2.

Michael — Regex RSS.

Simon — JSTL resources.

Lance — Atom4J continues.

iPod mini hits Apple Stores this Friday. 100K on order.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

OpenReports 0.6.0 & OpenReports Designer 1.0.0. A complete web-based solution to view dynamically created PDF, HTML or XLS reports.

Chris — How smart is my smartphone?

Angus — OpenCMS Trial Thoughts and JBoss Nukes Trial Thoughts.

Kathy — To API designers/spec developers: pity those of us who have to LEARN this…

Robert — Anyone know why Java doesn't have consts?

Wendong — Simkin article from SymbianOne.

Goldy — Looking for XML-RPC implementation for J2ME?

Michael Slinn pointed me to the Zamples Press Release.

Bucky — Open Source Java.

Aaron — C# Public Properties vs. Java getX() and setX().

Ask Yahoo!: Why do record companies release artist albums on Tuesdays?

Dan — Tivo Series 2 Becomes a Must-Have.

Rajesh — Demo 2004.

Brent — Eric Czarny's new XML-RPC Cocoa code.

Jeremy — Web Search, Context, and Discussion Boards.

Simon — Automatic line ending conversions in IE and End user license agreements hit a new low.

Interarchy 7.0. FTP, SFTP, and FTP over SSH…

YourKit Java Profiler 2.0.1. A CPU and memory profiler.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Navy Jet eBayed. Some Assembly Required?

Matthew — Arun Sarin speaks.

Ewan — OPL at O'Reilly.

Joi — Six Apart makes Fast Company 50.

Yves — Managed C++ resources I consider very useful.

JSecureTunneling 0.2.2. A Java SSH client for tunnels management.

Daniel — Java and GIS.

TopCoder Announces Yahoo! as Sponsor. Leading Global Internet Company Pairs with TopCoder to Determine Collegiate World Champions of Coding.

Uber Russ — WaveBlog.

Stefan — We are Morons.

PircBot 1.2.8. A Java package for quickly and easily creating your own IRC bots, like mobibot.

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Rusty — HTTPClient 2.0 and JMemProf 0.7.

Carsten — Eclipse M7.

J2ME Fancier — J2ME: ulilize your applets knowledge.

Calvin — Is iTunes for Real?

Miguel — Bundling the JDK in a Linux Distribution.

Review: Zaurus SL-C860.

Juan — The simple alternative to Hibernate.

Vinu — IDEA 4.0 not Java 1.5 compatible?

Robert — Just got off stage at Demo.

Vasanth — FlipStart : PC or Super PDA?

Free Books from O'Reilly. Open Books — books with various forms of "open" copyright.

SixApart launches integrated moblogging tools for TypePad and MovableType. [via Mobitopia]

Feedster Builder. [via Mobitopia]

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L2FProd.com Common Components 0.1-dev. In this build, you can experience the PropertySheet, the Directory Chooser, the Font Chooser, the JButtonBar.

Diego — location-based blogging on mobiles.

New Source of Online Ad Revenue. Search engines are looking for advertising dollars from small businesses that don't have a presence on the Internet.

Kevin — Swing/multithreaded unit testing tips.

Joe — Orion 2.0.3 in EAP now!

Matt — Talking Tiger, generically speaking.

Paul — Can the next big language drop public static void main(String[] args) please?

Mike — The A-team and Incremental search everywehere - gotta love OSX!

Weiqi — IDEA 4.0, J2SDK 1.5.0 Beta 1, Generify, …

Jeremy — The Real And Lucrative Art Of Mobile Blogging.

Norman — From Java to Objective-C.

Stefan — 30 Ways to Annoy Your Boss.

Robert — My SPOT watch experience.

PHP 5.0.0 Beta 4 Released.

Open Snippets: Java, Constructed from MySQL with PHP.

O2 opens text services to the US . SMS across the pond.

Jim — Business card cubes.

Frank — Germany: student sued for stealing 0.1 Eurocent worth of electricity.

James — Great new article on Groovy.

Calvin — No Documentation Is Better than Bad Documentation.

Cheah — Interesting Google stuff.

Cameron — Still not getting a Mac.

How to Register a urn: namespace. [via Mark]

Nicola — Java 1.5 AKA Tiger is better than they tell you.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Our anniversary dinner was fantastic last night. We both went for the Valentine's dinner special.

I had:

• Escargot
• French Onion Soupe
• Salade
• Filet Bourguignon au Poivre
• Pêche Melba

Vicki:

• Prawn Sauté
• Lobster Bisque
• Salade
• Chicken Cordon Bleu
• Mousse au Chocolat

JADE 6.0 beta. Java Addition to Default Environment, a real-time framework library.

A Power Users Look at Linux on the Mac. Linux on Mac: a POWER programmer's primer.

Russ — Personalized Search Thought.

Apple PDA Rumors Stoked Again. Here we go again.

Cell Phone Jammin'. Jamming cell phones is illegal in the US, but with pocket-sized jammers sold online and even on eBay…

EditiX, a Swing XML editor.

Laurent — Favorite M7 Features.

Fejes — Home Baked XML Content Management - Part 1.

Angsuman — To Hibernate or not? - A commentary on ORM's and few recommendations.

Henri — Does anyone have an actual plan for opening Java?

Klaus — TeX to MathML.

Moof — SuprFeedr 0.4 released.

Marc — IDEA 4.0 - Projects and Classpaths.

Michael — Using IDEA v4.0 for end-to-end development.

Simon — Pebble 1.4 beta 3 available.

Ted — PyCon 2004 Schedule is now available.

Ken — compulsory javadocs.

Brian — DynAOP Impressions.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Paul — Free J2ME spreadsheet.

Jeremy — The End of Wireless (as we know it).

Cedric — Firefox: okay, but….

Scott — Demo 2004 Blog.

Christoph — Regular Expression Library.

Quartz 1.3.2, an enterprise-class job scheduler.

InfoWorld: IBM to Launch MS Office for Linux. Via emulation?

Amazon glitch exposes self-promoters. Anonymous no-more.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Today's a big day for us, not only is it Valentine's Day, it is also our Wedding Anniversary. We're going back to the Café de Paris for dinner.

IntelliJ IDEA 4.0 released.

Eric Raymond – Open Letter to Sun: Let Java Go.

Diego — snipsnap: wow.

Russ — DEMO Update.

David — Revolutionary New Bluetooth Feature.

Anthony — dynaop.

Neil — Tiger Startup Time.

Bill — M7 Ant Support - its the little things that count.

Glen — Apples and Oranges.

Kevin — Java is not something I'm going to pay for.

Eddy — iChat AV 2.1 Beta out!

David — Generics Tutorial Coming Soon.

Gregg — Java IDE's - One Thing Missing.

Adrian — The real big deal with Eclipse 3.0M7 …

Gerald — The Free Java Runtime Matrix @ UserLinux.

Ken — Eclipse and the "The Fifteen Minute Test".

Weiqi — J2SDK 1.5.0 Beta 1, Class File Versions, Compatibility…

paypal.de. The first non-English PayPal site has just been launched.

Angel cancelled. The fifth season of Angel to be the last. Bummer.

EclipseME 0.2.0. Bug fixes, requires Eclipse 3.0M7, package obfucation and debugging support.

JPluck 2.1 pre 2. A Plucker document creation toolkit.

New Dell Inspiron XPS Gaming Notebook. TechTV review.

Luke — ReSharper first impressions.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Eclipse 3.0 M7. New and noteworthy in M7.

JasperAssistant 1.0.0. A visual report designer tool for JasperReports.

Diego — eclipse 3.0 M7 release.

Dion — Sun produces XML Performance Paper.

Carlos — Valentine's Day.

Dave — DeveloperWorks Versioning Article Review.

Eric — What's New in Vault 2.0.

Aaron — Anti AdWords Strike Again.

Algernon-J 4.1, a rule-based reasoning engine written in Java.

Dell Launches Pentium 4 EE Notebook. Dell today unveiled a notebook based on Intel's expensive Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.

PayPal Developer Network Blog. It has a feed too.

Pelle — Clump - Maven for C programmers??

Steve — quick cameraphone shootout #2.

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Daniel — Source control, change tracking, and regular builds.

jIRCii B3, is a cross platform java Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client.

jConfig v2.5 is finally out.

SPF, Anti Spam Mechanism. Gaining Traction.

Apache Ant 1.6.1 released.

Angsuman — .NET versus Java - A Philosophical interlude.

Rusty — SwingWT 0.79.

Gregg — Pro JSP Reviewed.

J2ME Fancier — Test your J2ME-ability.

Bill — Java for Palm OS Devices, Act 2.

Guillermo — Azureus (or Another reason why SWT is here to stay).

Andreas — Where is my new language? Where is the next Java?

Mike— Good Technology looking for mobile app developer.

Sylvain — Cocoon 2.1.4.

Tom — Java SDK 1.5 Beta 1.

Grand Central Communications Elects Tim O'Reilly to Board of Directors.

Sun's Returning Co-Founder Talks About His New Role. Andy Bechtolsheim hopes to accelerate Sun's efforts in the high-volume systems market using AMD's Opteron chip.

'Help! I married a Net porn star'. Man encounters wife on amateur smut site.

Why Cloning Didn't Happen in U.S. Korean researchers leapfrogged American scientists when they derived the first embryonic stem cells from a human clone.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

NASA Prepares to Open Source Code. NASA is looking for approval for their own open source license.

Vinny — J2EE Web Services.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Sanjay — QuickServer — Java library to build TCP server apps.

No Rumor: Windows Source Code Loose on the 'Net.

Client- and server-side templating with Velocity.

Matt — The Bar from Top Gun.

Russ — Mobile Water Bombs.

Guy — Shame On the JDJ.

Rob — Why I dumped Google's Adsense program.

Java Email Server 1.3.4. An SMTP POP3 email server.

Mike — Recording Industry Lies About Copy Protected CDs Not Playing In Cars.

JamP 0.521. Webstart enabled MP3 Player. 

New Battlestar Galactica Series Greenlighted. 13 episode season ordered.

J2ME Fancier — MIDP - which one?

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Vicki just emailed me this:

Because of Valentine's Day, Victoria's Secret is having something called the "Janet Jackson lingerie sale: all bras half off."

Rick just pointed me to this set of JDK 1.5 Examples.

Microsoft At Risk Of Losing Windows Trademark? Ironic.

Hani — Genesis of JBoss AOP.

FCC starts rewriting Internet rules. Rules for telephone calls made online, and for technology to allow computer users to reach the Internet.

Tom — XP PL&F on Linux.

Matt — ETech: Dashboard and ETech: 35 Ways to Find Your Location (with special features).

Andrew — Microsoft XML patent invalid.

Vibhu — I miss Java already..

Kevin — BitTorrent Sites and Software.

Simon — Dead code elimination.

Mike — So What If Windows Code Has Been Leaked?

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Daniel — Emerging Technology.

Matt — ETech: GeoURL and ETech: Power to the People: Hardware Hacking for the Masses.

Russ — Python on the S60.

2 billion mobile phones by 2008. This means an increase of over 800 million users in the next 4 years.

Rael — Python on Nokia w/ SCREENSHOTS.

Martin — Vodafone Launches 3G Data Service In Europe.

Anthony — Java 1.5 varargs.

Rusty — ArgoUML 0.15.3, JavaDBF 0.3.3 and Blitz JavaSpaces 2.0.0.

Carsten — New Cocoon Version.

Michael — J2ME Palm development using IBM WME and Java Bluetooth article from Ben Hui.

Carlos — Blow your brains out.

Gerald — Poll: What is your free Java VM of choice?

Brent — NetNewsWire special Atom beta.

Jeremy — My Yahoo and Atom.

Phil — eBay adds SOAP.

Bill — Charles Darwin's Birthday.

Cedric — Getters and setters are here to stay.

Paul — Fedora Core 2 Test Release 1 Available.

Lance — Atom4J is Stagnant.

Apple releases GarageBand update. GarageBand 1.0.1.

ExtremeTech: iTunes Bad, WMA Good.

Mike — The End Of The VCR.

Mark — Atkins vs. the PCRM.

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Glen — Commercial Swing Components?

Calvin — Java's "Tiger" (J2SE 1.5) - Might There Be a CORBA Comeback?

Erik — QotD: Bond. Mine's here.

CSS Editor 0.3.3. CSS Editor Plugin for Eclipse, bug fix release.

Jim — English Breakfast.

Tom — Mobile gambling is taking off…

Series 60 SDK v2.1. C++ application development for the Nokia 6620 and others, now supports the Presence Open API and Bluetooth notifier.

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Bruce — Six Cool New JSP and Servlet Features.

Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML. [PDF]

MySQL Administrator v1.0.1a-Alpha Released. MySQL Administrator is a new visual administration console that lets you administer your MySQL environment.

Jim — Python-a-go-go.

Matt on ETech:

• Catalyzing Collective Action on the Net
• Any Time, Anywhere: High Speed Mobile Data Technology Overview .
• Art-of-Logic, Experience Making, the Nokia Way .
• FOAF.
• Life Hacks.

Russ — PalmSource Gets Java and Atom Again.

Anil — Vodafone Starts 3G service in Europe.

Rael — Palm Dropping Support for the Mac.

Filippo — Please tell me why JSF is gonna be the silver bullet.

Chris — How To Use JSTL SQL in JDeveloper 10g.

Bob — dynaop 1.0 beta.

Matt — JSP is dead, long live JSP (or, EL and tag injection).

Matt — Spring 1.0 RC1 Released.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Fictional Google banners. Some very nice ones.

Is This Man Obese? I just heard on the local news that he had some kind of medical condition that was the cause of the extra weight. 

Jason — Thoughts on OSX.

Keith — Links.

Stefan — 10 Great Companies to Work for in Europe.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Eye on performance: Exceptions to exceptions.

Daniel — Exception costs.

Java 1.5 In Action. This example code produces a word-frequency table from standard input.

Diego — first day at the new office.

Tom — ETech keynote from Nokia CTO and David Potter interview.

Go Beyond Tag Libraries. See how to improve page and tag authoring by embracing JSP 2.0's new expression language and tag extension model

Building Trust for Applets. With only one security model to worry about, the Java 2 standard security model, security for applets is now easier than ever.

Get Ready for the Enterprise Supply Chain. The next-generation use of the Internet involves using RFID to track product movements from source to destination.

Designing end-user MIDP apps. Design implementations, incorporation of graphics, testing the product on various devices, and further development of an MIDP application.

J2ME Luminary Antero Taivalsaari. The father of KVM, gives us his insights into both the history and the future of J2ME, and more.

Joe — instanceof vs. ClassCastException.

Rusty — The first beta of EJBCA 3.0, an open source, J2EE Certificate Authority, has been posted. .

Pete — SQLServer Books Online Updated.

Magnus — Applying the Java Service Wrapper to JBoss 3.2.3.

Gavin — Not so Naked Objects.

Matt — Where do you put your extensions in a CVS tree?

Slava — Java 1.5 Documentation.

Brian — My Mobile Hacks Slides.

Jon — Programs that write programs.

Steve — HandsFreeLink Compatibility.

Paul — The iMac Needs to Lose Its Head.

FindBugs 0.7.1. A program to find bugs in Java programs.

Programmer Sets Up Mask for File-Sharers. AnonX.

Review: Siemens SX1.

J Aaron — Surviving in Open Source Communities.

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TiVo wins Pause Technology patent suit. a favorable ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit brought against it by Pause Technology in 2001.

Java Tools Subscribers Get Free Hardware. Program cost is $1,499 per year for three years.

Comcast offers $66 billion for Disney. Unsolicited proposal.

Sun Acquires Server Maker, Rejoins With Co-Founder. Bechtolsheim agrees to rejoin the company he helped establish 20 years ago.

Tom — Web Developer Extension for FireFox and Mozilla.

What exactly is a nimrod? Dipstick?

Wendong — We need mobile java.sql

Carlos — Naked Eclipse Objects and More on the Naked Objects remake.

Dominic — Kernel comparison: Web serving on 2.4 and 2.6.

Charles — 90 Million Chinese Mobile Users Get Java.

Paul — Free Mail Checker (WAP/PDA).

Scott — MasterCard Raises Credit Interchange Fee.

Dave — Regressions from 1.1.

Mathew — Mobile server applications with Cocoon.

TinyLine, provides Mobile SVG Applications and Development Tools for J2ME devices.

Mike — Judges Say Harlan Ellison Can Sue AOL For Usenet Postings.

Russ — Tomcat 5 Database Pooling with MySQL.

DoJ officials recommend blocking PeopleSoft takeover by Oracle.

Photos of Josh, the Newfie who won Westminster Dog Show.

Keith — Links.

We filled our taxes electronically yesterday night.

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