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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.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Tech Tips: Styling Digital Images with ConvolveOp and Using HttpURLConnection to Access Web Pages.

Simon — Running a JSP container on port 80 with Mac OS X.

Rogers — Google drops Atom bomb on RSS.

Charles — Pronunciation of SQL.

Diego — configuring apache 2 + tomcat 5 + mysql + jdbc access on linux and windows.

David — What shall we call the new for loop?

Dion — Maven Resignation.

Simon — Run IntelliJ IDEA with the menubar at the top of the screen on Mac OS X.

Fred — SCO Death Blow Delivered by Novell.

Hani — Our Fearless Leaders Suck.

Laszlo — jFreeSafe 0.2.3.

Christian — R&D-Live - My ETech learnings.

Chris — Due credit: SiteMesh.

Jeffrey — How to Have Fun At Conferences.

Rogers — More on Google's Atom bomb.

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

New Microsoft security hole stretches wide. Released a critical software update to patch yet another security hole.

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Hackers Hall of Fame. 15 bios of modern and not so modern hackers.

Alan — J2ME avenges Corel Office for Java?

Robin — Open Letter to Bill Gates.

JDistro 0.29. A desktop and a shared runtime built on Java and Swing.

MIDP IDE [via Mobitopia] 

Jeremy — Is ETech Elitist?

jGossip v 1.0.0 RC1. Forum implemented on the J2EE platform using Struts framework with MySQL.

Jim — Nokian - Is the fat lady singing yet?

Rusty — Sebastiano Vigna has released version 4.1 of fastUtil, a collection of type-specific Java maps and sets.

Adam — Recruiting.

Steven — Being spammed by your own kid.

Rogers — How virus writers catch the coding bug.

Rob — Apple details iPod legal issues.

Michael — Looking for Java API's Online Drives Me Insane.

Rick — Poomonkey Anthony is upset, too bad!

Robert — Technorati at O'Reilly Conference.

Steven — Unison 1.0.2.

Alpine's iPod car stereo system. With a simple one-cable connection…

How to restart Squid with a clean cache. [via Mobitopia, added to wiki]

Guy — Java 1.5 Example: Revisiting Word Frequency Count.

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Daniel — Introducing IoC.

Is Your TCP Port 3127 Open? Then Watch Out for "MyDoom.C"

Frank — Security Alert: Multiple vulnerabilities in Nokia mobile phones.

Sony Officially Launches Three New Clies - TJ27, TJ37 and TH55.

Fejes — How to create your Gush RSS feed list - Applied XQuery.

Henri — simple-jndi 0.9 released and gj-config 1.0 released.

Simon — Testing thread safety - updated.

Nick — Excellence Award: Java Service Wrapper.

Mark — Re: DBUnit doubts.

Vasanth — Eclipse 3.0 compatible with 2.1 plugins.

Sybase EAServer 5.0 Released. Integrates J2EE 1.3, secure Enterprise Web services, C/C++, PowerBuilder and COM.

Chuq — Happy anniversary to me….

Lance — File Format Identification in Java.

PalmSource to rebrand OSes Garnet, Cobalt. One for smartphones, the other for PDAs.

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Print "Hello World" in a Mobile Phone Using J2ME. It all starts here.

Atlassian Releases Confluence RC1. Confluence RC1 brings a host of new features, new macros, general improvements and bug fixes.

J2ME Debugging with Eclipse. Step by step.

Ewan — O'Reilly Diary - Sunday.

Matt — Russ at ETech and Too Much Wireless.

Russ — Elvis has left the conference.

Ewan — Are You Attending the OPL Presentation?

Laurent — Core Dumps are Coming to Tiger.

Kevin — Making your blog Google compatible.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1151 available and blojsom 2.11 available.

Petri — 3G Round Up.

David — Equality and Autoboxing.

Keith — Some interesting files in the JDK1.5 beta javadoc.

Greg — NIO and the Servlet API.

Michael — Nokia, Symbian, Microsoft Smartphone and J2ME.

Patrick — JDK1.5 Metadata or Annotation.

Tom — Speed through smaller methods.

Wendong — Markup languages for phones.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Rajesh — RSS Top 55.

Paul — About the new Mozilla Firefox branding.

Rogers — Native2ascii handles Java's character flaws.

Java Serialization to XML 2.1.5 . A system that can instantly read and write any object data in XML.

Clustered JDBC 1.0 release candidate 1. A cluster of databases through JDBC.

Compuware Releases New Web Services Tools. OptimalJ.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Review: Sendo - X.

Rick — Update on Evermore Office & Javalobby.

Election Time for Java Games Community Board of Directors. You have until Feb 13 to vote.

Matthew — Eclipse interview.

Rael — Protecting Your Mobile Life… and Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers, Part 1.

Russ — Nokia Buys Out Psion - Controls Symbian.

Juniper Acquires NetScreen for $4 Billion. Stock swap.

PeopleSoft Rejects Oracle's $9.4 Billion Takeover Offer. I am shocked. ;-)

Rusty — JAPISoft has released EditiX 1.0.1, is $39 payware XML editor written in Java.

Matt — Mozilla Firebird 0.8 - I'm not impressed.

Geert — RIFE v0.6.59 has been released.

Niel — GPS and Java? Here's a Few.

Cedric — JUnit pain.

Sony Ericsson T650 sneak peek. The presumed successor to the T610 and T630.

Tim — Java Performance under OS X.

JHelpBuilder 1.1 beta 1 is available for download.

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Document any project using the Eclipse help system. The Eclipse Platform includes its own help system based on an XML table-of-contents referencing HTML files.

Breaking News: Nokia buys Symbian.

JNIWrapper 2.3 for Windows, XtremeJ Management Console v2.0 and InfinityDB 1.0.20.

Mozilla Firebird gets .8 Release, and New Name. Firefox.

Ewan — O'Reilly Diary - Saturday.

Matt — From the Lobby at ETech.

Russ — Emerging Tech Photos.

Rael — Faster Bluetooth Palm Synching.

Rusty — Smile 0.31, an open source implementation of JSF and Voruta 1.0 is an open source library that reduces the JDBC code.

David — blojsom Gallery Plugin v0.1.

Eugene — Bouncy Castle crypto API and JCE provider 1.22 released.

Richard — 13 improvements for EJB.

Marc — 10 Don't do's in Java WebApp Programming.

Matt — [ANN] WebWork 2.0 and XWork 1.0 Released!.

Mike — If you were a method, what would you be?

Ted — Mac Tips and Tricks updated.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Conor — Is JDK 1.5 too clever?

Dave — Blogging from O'Reilly's ETech.

Sanjay — Re-enabling username/password URLs.

Mark — sandler 0.5 released.

Former Lineo CEO takes helm at Metrowerks. Matt Harris.

Review: Siemens SX1 Smart Phone.

James — Why C Is Not My Favourite Programming Language.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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JSyntaxColor 1.2.4. A SWING editorKit for coloring user input.

Jacksum 1.4.0, a free utility for computing and verifying checksums, CRCs and message digests as well as timestamps of files.

Tutorial: Learn how to modify classes as they're being loaded with Javassist.

Chris — Unpacking the Nokia Series 60 SDK on Linux.

Diego — eye of the tiger… and …and the great IDE hunt.

Matt — Charging Gadgets for Etech and Hotspots as Portals.

Russ — J2ME Personal Profile Plug-In.

Matthew — GPS Running.

Java 1.4.2 for OS X new references:

• Release Notes
• API Reference: J2SE
• API Reference: Apple Extensions

Joe — An Excellent Blog Entry.

Michael — Who the hell wants printf anyway?

Wendong — Mobilize your blog site.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Rick — I Know Why Software Sucks.

Paul — I'm Learning Morse Code.

Keith — Links.

jEdit 4.2pre9, a couple more pre-releases, then 4.2final.

IdeaJad 1138-2, a JAD decompiler plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.

More Filemaker 7 Details. Special Report: FileMaker Pro 7 features revealed.

JBother 0.8.1, a Jabber client written in Java.

The Pornography Industry vs. Digital Pirates. The copyright rumble is playing out a little differently in the red-light districts of cyberspace.

Nalla — Java Adventure Builder Reference application v1.0 released.

Jon — Why I'm excited about JDK 1.5.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Filippo — Open Source Issue Tracker.

Karl-Martin — Links… and More links….

Bob — Exception Handling in Web Applications and Moving to java.net….

Simon — Java 1.4.2 Developer Package - documentation and Javadocs.

Slava — Staging Unofficial WebLogic FAQ.

Miko — My overview of EclipseCON.

Jon — Things that shouldn't need to be said.

Rui — No Time For More.

Christoph — Undocumented MT tags and UltraEdit Wordfile for MT templates.

Java Weather Library 0.2.3. A Java library for parsing raw weather data. I use it within mobibot. David, the author, even stoped by #mobitopia to check it out.

JaMp 0.3.0 alpha 1. A Java-based MP3 player.

Inline::Java 0.46. Lets you write Perl classes in Java and wrap/use existing Java classes.

More Free Garage Band Loops. Access Music has posted 46MB of free Garage Band loops.

MacBand.com lets GarageBand users share music. Community site for GarageBand.

JPluck 2.1 pre 1. A Plucker document creation toolkit.

Russ — MaxDox and Blue Lava Wireless.

Dave — #roller.

Charles — A Killer NetBeans 3.6 Beta is Released.

Erik — Rock Star Contest: Win $100.

Nextel to test '4G' broadband service. Set to begin testing a new, "fourth generation", wireless broadband offering later this month.

SCO abandons trade secret attack on IBM. The SCO Group abandoned a major rationale of its case against IBM by dropping its trade secret claims.

David — Pop Quiz: Java Shift Operators. You can also use shift operators to speed up common math operations.

Kumar — J2SE1.5: javax.pack is awesome but ..

Jay — XML is not good enough.

Marc — Jabber (XMPP) is now offocially the standard.

Software innovation is dead. All that's left is compatibility fixes, security patches, and minor-version-number incremental improvements. The problem isn't a lack of ideas; it's a lack of motivated developers.

JavaDOCHelper1.5.1, a Javadoc view & search tool. Bug fix release.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1147 available.

Juha — StringBuilder vs. StringBuffer.

JNetStream 0.2.0, a Java Network Streams Analyzer Library.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.