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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.

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A fellow Erik just informed me that I'm now #1 on Google.

Jeff, the author of ReportMill, suggested that I use Borland Optimizeit to determine the memory requirements, etc. for mobibot. Me likee!

Daniel — Caring about your work.

Rael — RSS Feed Reader for 6600 and P900.

Kevin — JSTOR has Java contract work in Ann Arbor.

Dion — javax.pack: Crunching jars up to less then 10% of their size.

Norman — Hacking the iTunes/pepsi contest.

Paul — Apple responds to furor over Panther-only Safari.

Simon — The dangers of PageRank.

Guy — Other Goodies in Tiger.

Woman files class action lawsuit over Janet's nipple baring. [via Amy]

Midlet Dictionary 0.0.2, english/russian, released.

What's next for PDAs and smartphones. Brighthand overview of fourteen new PDAs and smartphones that are due out (or rumored to be due out) in the next couple of months.

Mike — Tower Records Declares Bankruptcy.

Russ — PalmSource and the smart phone wars continued…

Michael — Do programmers want J2SE on their cell phones?

Joe — Running Orion from a non-writeable directory.

Norman — Convert protected AACs to MP3s.

Super Bowl Ads Supercharge Online Traffic. But Janet beat 'em all. ;-)

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Announcing TheServerSide Java Symposium, May 6-8, Las Vegas.

Neil — New "Ocean" LAF in Tiger.

Simon — Pebble 1.4 beta 2 available.

Matt — iChat AV can now talk to Windows users!

Steven — Unison 1.0.1.

Kevin — Make Your Swing App Go Native, Part 3.

Mike — OSX Confluence Client Prototype.

Derek — JetBrains Will Refactor Your Personal Info.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1144 available.

Keith — JavaBeans : the good and bad.

Vinny — New Java books from O'Reilly.

KDE Brings Safari Improvements to Linux. Refinements to the Konqueror Web browser derived from collaboration with Apple's Safari browser team.

Nokia 7600 Review. [via Mobitopia]

Leslie — Quick Links.

Eclipse Hex Editor Plugin 1.0 released.

SCO adds copyright claim to IBM suit. Throwing in the kitchen sink too.

Todd — Real Player Security flaw found.

Take a Look at Some AMD64 Source Code. AMD's Paul Devriendt worked with Alan Zeichick to present the source for the AMD Opteron and Athlon 64 processor driver for Linux.

Nokia Mobile Server Services Emulator 1.0. A development and testing environment for Nokia MMSC, Delivery Server and Terminal Management Server.

JDK 1.5.0 plugin for Eclipse. Provides only preliminary support for JDK 1.5.

Kazaa Raided in Australia. The Music Industry Piracy Investigations raided the offices and homes of Kazaa executives.

Alan — JDK1.5 used to be installed on my machine … then i had to take it off and My Java Car.

Rusty — JDOM beta 10/rc1 and Jericho HTML Parser 1.0.

Don — SVG Image Server.

Joe — Running Orion 2.0.x under 1.5.

Michael — AspectJ & JDK 1.5 anybody know if it works underwater?

Scott — gzip all of today's web server logs?

Brent — Gus Mueller does “Edit in BBEdit”.

Simon — What's wrong with J2EE.

Radeox 1.0-BETA. A Wiki markup rendering engine.

Tutorial: VNC (Virtual Network Computing) 101.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Daniel — Tiger goes beta.

NetBeans 3.6 Beta. Available starting tomorrow.

Rael — Bluetooth Headset and Printer support for Mac OS X.

Brian — Java Jerks.

Kevin — Eclipse 3.0 plan updated, M7 due next week.

Mats — Cool log4j hack.

Eugene — Crunching jars up to less then 10% of the original size.

Matthew — The Future Of Orion- Does it Exist?

JFig 1.4.1, a configuration utility.

Jatha 1.5.6, a Java LISP library.

FScript 1.14. A very simple embedded scripting language for Java.

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First Java IDE with full support for JDK 1.5.0 available. CodeGuide 6.1.

Coldtags suite ver. 1.65 released. 165+ custom JSP tags for common programming tasks.

Ewan — Same Game Updated to v1.10.

Frank — BlueFOAF.

Filippo — Application Server market share.

Brian — JDeveloper Projects and Ant.

Guillaume — Groovy-JDK doc : Parsing Java with QDox.

Matt — How much CPU Power does a Java/Tomcat app need?

Mike — Terrible javablogs ripoffs - or how not to copy a site…

Andreas — KDE 3.2 Final Released.

Simon — Projection.

Bertrand — XML 1.1 - ready for this Amharic-language newspaper!

John — KaZaA wireless?

Charles — The Java Seige Mentality.

JaCSy 1.2. The Java CreditPoint System is for Distributed Programs and Internet Software sales.

Apple CFO Anderson to retire June 1. Peter Oppenheimer stepping in.

CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.1.2. An Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access on an SSH2 session.

NoUnit 0.7. A JUnit test measurement tool.

Keith — Code to safely delete a directory containing symbolic links.

JPreference Framework 0.2 beta, a preference system framework modeled after Java's property system.

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I've deployed the new version of mobibot in #mobitopia. Russ has updated the links and RSS pages accordingly. I'll put the source in my public CVS repository soon.

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Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide and Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE.

J2SE 1.5 in a Nutshell. An overview of the exciting changes in J2SE 1.5, from the J2SE team.

Paul — If it works keep the mold.

The J2ME Wireless Toolkit 2.1 and Getting Started with MIDP 2.0.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1141 available.

Gavin — Hibernate 2.1.2.

Vinny — Exploiting Software: How to Break Code.

Brian — Finally Played with JDK 1.5 Some… I Likee!

Ben — Apple quickies.

Jeffrey — PayPal SDK for ASP.NET.

Stefan — Where Does Apple Go from Here?

Sylvain — No donut for Orkut.

AOL wants refund for nipple slip. Super Bowl pop-up gone wrong.

Leslie — Quick Links.

JBuilder sur OSX. Il est remarquablement facile d'installer JBuilderX sur son Mac.

Buffer Overflow for Beginners. Buffer overflows are a common vulnerability on all platforms, but are by far the most commonly exploited bug on the linux/unix Operating systems.

Brian — Tiger and the Magic of Synth.

NewzCrawler 1.6 Build 1989 Beta 4. My fav desktop aggregator.

Henri — Payload 0.2 released.

Geert — Codeguide Amethyst build 809 released.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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I'd like to extend a warm welcome to my new Exclusive Sponsor, ReportMill Software.

ReportMill 7, their flagship product, was announced today. If you have a need for reports generated in PDF, HTML and/or Flash, you ought to to check it out.

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Java programming dynamics, Part 5: Transforming classes on-the-fly.

The Servlet API and NIO: Together at last.

Good news: Tiger Beta available.

Bill — More EclipseCon Notes.

Rusty — IBM has released version 1.19 of Jikes.

David — To Spike Lee: Do The Right Thing and shut the fsck up!

Dominic — Applying Enterprise JavaBean quiz.

Joe — ENOUGH about Eclipse!

James — The Tiger is out!

Will — What ever happened to SVG?

John — Survey: What do you want in the JavaOne2004 conference?

Slava — FAQ: OutOfMemory in WebLogic.

Aaron — Ant WAR Task & WEB-INF in lowercase.

Kevin — Technorati is Hiring.

Danny — The 9 versions of RSS.

JASA 0.28. High-performance auction simulation software in Java.

Lucane 0.6.2. A free and extensible groupware platform written in Java.

Java MessagePort Library 0.94. A general abstraction for many different stream- or message-based APIs.

Trolltech updates Linux app dev framework. Qt 3.3, C++ application development framework, etc.

Microsoft teases users with 64-bit XP trial . Software seduction.

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Tutorial: Programming Linux sockets, Part 2.

The Enhanced For Loop. Coming up with the JDK 1.5 (tiger) release of Java is a new feature of the enhanced for loop.

Jim — Predictive text: a cusser's guide.

Matt — Eastern Standard Tribe, Aikido and Ramping up for ETech.

Burt — dev2dev now has an RSS feed.

Markus — More about JetBrains PIM application.

Jeremy — Homeland Virus Alerts - What Happened?.

Steven — Belgian web designer for hire.

Kevin — Spam is EVIL!!!!!!

JellyfiSSH 3.1.1, a bookmark manager for SSH.

New DRM Play for Mobile Content. The Open Mobile Alliance has released an open spec for mobile DRM, but dissension may be rumbling among industry groups.

Verizon Wireless Outpaces Rivals in New Subscribers. Can you hear me now?

Hack Your Own Search Engine Crawler. Want to build your own customized search tool that can search the web and mine virtually any other type of internet resource? Spidering Hacks shows you how.

Andreas — jConfig v2.5 is coming.

Today's sponsor is ReportMill Software.

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Matt — More Linux in Your Pocket.

Rael — Nokia 3650 Accessories at NokiaUSA.

Kevin — What bothers me about iTunes Music Service.

Mike — Yesterday XML-RPC, today SOAP! and X-Confluence-Http-Include-Stack-Depth.

Janne — ETech 2004.

I know chmod! [via Fishbowl]

Paul — OmniWeb 5.0 beta 1 for Mac OS X 10.2, 10.3 released.

Rui — blog/2004-02-03.

DrJava 2304, Java IDE.

MacHack morphs into multi-platform event. MacHack will now be known as the Advanced Developers Hands On Conference - ADHOC.

JMP 0.39, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Out-of-memory problem caused Mars rover's glitch. Need more RAM!

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 1138 available.

Google tutorial. GoogleGuide is a tutorial on building good Google queries.

Matt — Approved for Google Ads.

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I just received the following email:

Sorry I had to send an XL, but that was all I had left. I just wanted to extend some thanks for keeping us all up on the tech happenings. Take care.

-David

Isn't he the greatest? — Thanks!

jTidy extension for Oracle JDeveloper 10g preview. Clean your HTML files and turn an HTML page into an xHTML document.

Carlos — Spring Framework Versus JBoss Application Server.

Matt — KDevelop 3.0.

Dion — Eclipse foundation names board members.

Joe — New IntelliJ build… 1136.

Jason — J2ME RSS feeds wanted.

Daniel — Getting around security.

Keif — SUN JDK: some assembly required.

Michael — I have the No. 2 Java blog site on Internet?

Pawn — XpoLog Xtrim Log Viewer 1.0 Released.

Hani — Jikes for morons.

Keith — Simple Service Locator with Spring.

Brian — Suse has a Sense of Humor.

Werner — Eclipse: Building Commercial Quality Plugins.

Cedric — Java field of dreams.

Rogers — Janet's breast throttled my Web server.

JQuantity 0.5 alpha, a Precision Math Java Framework.

Kazaa Wireless 0.40. What's that?

Jeremy — eBay to use MySQL?

Mike — Cheaper CDs Available Again At CD Wow… But How?

Wi-Fi Group Claims 175 WPA-Certified Products. More than 175 products from 40 vendors have received Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) security certification since last April.

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I got a blojsom t-shirt in the mail yesterday. Thanks, Dave!

Sun's Open Source OS Is an Elegant Windows Mimic. The product once known as 'Mad Hatter' is far from crazy.

Jaxor 3.4, generative programming to provide transparent persistence in Java.

Rael — MyZaurus Tips and Tricks.

Jim — Cheap N-Gage in the UK, an Irish business opportunity?

Bhagvan — Interesting links related to struts.

Bernard — JConfig Class Library and cajo distributed object framework.

Kevin — Can JavaWorld tips be used for anything?

David — Static Fields Through null Variables.

Juancarlo — -2000 Lines of Code.

Mark — ANN: Jira Plugin 0.1.4.3.

Jan — Magic & Java.

Goldy — Integrating Tomcat with IIS.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Chris — Perl implementation of Lucene.

Haiko — Quick Links, February 03.

Marc — Interesting TiVO landmark….

Mike — Mobile development (J2ME) job!

Alan — TCP/IP Speed Limit.

WinCvs 1.3b15. Major update with many bug fixes and new features.

JSynoptic 0.7, a graphical sheet editor.

JWacom 1.0, a Java library for Wacom tablets.

jSai 0.5, an alternate servlet authentication implementation.

CrypTool v1.3.05, a freeware program which enables you to apply and analyse cryptographic mechanisms.

TextDiff, another diff tool, freeware.

Today's sponsor is Mobitopia.