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Martin — Grey Day and Grey Downloads.

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Java Date Picker v2.2.0, ObjectDB 1.0 RC2 and SQLCreator Beta 1.

Tech Tip: Using JSTL SQL in Oracle JDeveloper 10g Preview.

Rusty — AspectWerkz 0.9 and Beryl XML GUI Library 1.0.

Matt — Programming by Contract with Web Services (in Python) and My Subversion DUH Moment.

Russ — Series 60 Sales Numbers.

Juan — The future of Java : The Invisible Framework cometh.

Tug — Java is everywhere ! Even in your Legos!

Magnus — A few useful links.

Brent — bash on Mac OS X.

Steve — new release of palm midp 2.0 sdk.

Abbot 0.12.0, a GUI Testing Framework.

JInstallTool pre-alpha2. An IDE that uses drag and drop gestures to create executable installs.

WinZip 9.0 has been released.

Mike — When Your Name Means You Can't Send Email.

SwingSet 0.7.0-beta, an open source Java toolkit that allows the standard Java Swing components to be made database aware.

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???? — Know Your 25 Nicknames with J2ME.

Simon — JSIG session : Java Development on Mac OS X.

Miguel — Compressing Wrapper.

Paul — Mozilla 1.7 alpha released.

Daniel — Levels and Dimensions.

Matt — 3GSM Phone Roundup.

Safari Search to use Yahoo instead of Google? According to one report, Yahoo is presently in negotiations with Apple to replace the Google-driven Search box in Apple's Web Browser.

Arjun — Happy Fat Tuesday! What is fat tuesday?

Dion — Article: One Assertion Per Test.

RSA: Microsoft to unveil anti-spam plans. A proposed open technology standard that Microsoft hopes will make it harder to fake the source of unsolicited commercial e-mail.

Leak prompts Microsoft to audit Windows code. Windows 2000 and NT 4.0.

'Rings' hits $1 billion box office mark. Titanic, now LOTR: The Return of King.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Getting the Length and Dimensions of an Array Object. Using the reflection API.

Daniel — Gardening.

Jindent 3.51 and Nacho 0.10.0.

Russ — The Enigma of J2ME Personal Profile and IBM and Nokia Vs. The Redmond Menace.

Brian — Synth Look and Feel: Does it actually work?

Brian — External Constructors.

Michael — Good article on Message Resources.

Vattekkat — Jython is great.

Miguel — Eclipse on the Server VM: Not Such A Good Idea.

Lee — Eclipse's new look & feel.

Adam — Eclipse & screen space.

Paul  — Napster claims five million download mark.

Robert — DevDays is holding a blogging contest.

JOE 1.8.10.3, Java Outline (OPML) Editor.

Apple sued by Eminem over iTunes ad song. Lose Yourself.

Kodo JDO 3.0.3. A method to access databases via Java rather than SQL.

daim-java 0.9.2. An instant messaging client and library supporting AIM and ICQ.

Sun to boost Java ID plan for PCs. Working with mobile phone and credit card companies to better guarantee the identity of personal computer users.

Danger to unveil prototype device. A prototype of a new all-in-one Hiptop device.

SimpleJNI 0.9 and Sketsa (SVG Graphics Editor) 1.7.

I've upgraded the server to Tomcat 5.0.19. Not sure why, but I did. ;-)

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Sun Kicks Off Phase Two of Project Rave. Technology Preview for Sun's Java Studio Creator.

Matt — Nokia 9500 Emulator: A First Look.

Frank — Nokia & IBM announce enterprise level mobile solutions.

Dion — Opinion: Is XDoclet really needed? and Eclipse announces new Eclipse Forms API.

???? — Good JAD, Evil JAD.

Michael — Finally, a killer Java enterprise phone from Nokia.

Matthew — Cocoon goes kiwi.

David — Redhat Enterprise 3.0.

Vasanth — Why FireFox is not my default browser?

Vim4J pre1. A Vim fork with a Java AWT GUI.

Digital projection TVs outsell plasma screens. Price is the main factor.

Cellular merger won't let users off contract hook. Subscribers hoping that Cingular's planned purchase of its carrier rival will let them out of long-term AT&T Wireless service contracts are out of luck.

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Mike — Run For Your Lives! War Drivers On The Loose!

R.J. — Who's Calling? (Java 1.5 Style).

Ted — Those who can, do; those who can't…. fake it.

Kevin — William Hung: American Idol reject turned mini-star.

Diego — so long, ZIP and Ant within Eclipse: switching JDKs and finding tools.jar.

Dominic — J2EE for .NET developers.

Lasse — Book review: Enterprise Java Programming with IBM WebSphere.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Keith — symbols.com is pretty awesome.

Norman — Is XDoclet really needed?

JRDF 0.2.1, Java RDF Binding.

Microsoft Files Defense in Real Networks Case. Microsoft files its formal denial.

JXMLPad 2.1, RIFE v0.7.0, jga: Generic Algorithms 0.5 and JasperAssistant 1.0.5.

Carlos — The Eclipse Juggernaut Moves On (Part 2).

Matt — 3GSM and Nokia Communicator 9500 Roundup.

Anil — Sun launches Smartphone HotSpot implementation.

Mobitopia: Catch me if you can, OPL for UIQ, Mobile Phones As Identity Providers and Siemens Mobile Phone Modding.

Filippo — Some Cocoon tutorials on dW.

Fejes — Testing Web Applications with HttpUnit.

Joe — Don't reference statics through instances. Period.

Bhagvan — Swing Action Architecture.

Jan — New toy.

Jason — XWork outside the web…

Keith — How to make the Swing HTML renderer split long words when wrapping.

Jon — Subversion 1.0 released!

Simon — Pebble 1.4 available (and thoughts on release cycles).

Mark — Daily roundup…

Dion — A harsh view of Mac OS X.

Hani — I wish I could run MC4J.

Werner — Eclipse Forms programming guide.

Scott — Checking out mod_python.

Pankaj — Comparing SSL performance: J2SE1.4 vs. J2SE1.5b1.

Kevin — Open Source Java.

WinSCP 3.5.5, a SFTP and SCP client for Windows using SSH.

jStock 0.3.2, a tool for technical analysis of stocks.

Building Java, .Net Apps Sans Coding. Kinzan Studio & Server 4.0.

Java SOS 3.70. A Java servlets office suite.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Refactorit 2.0 RC1 (build 1.9.11), SuperWaba 4.2 VM for Palm OS, WindowsCE/PocketPC, Win32 and Memory Interceptor Library.

Rick — Visual Fabrique: The Next Big Idea from JetBrains?

Tutorial: Facing Forward with JSF.

Russ — More on Atom.

Vinu — Java Tutorials/Articles from around the web.

Arjun — Useful Java resource.

Carsten — Goodbye Orkut.

Dion — Interview: BEA's Adam Bosworth on Simpler Java.

Alan — Have you contributed to the 1.5 billion Java devices out there yet?

Alex — Java OS?

FileZilla version 2.2.4a, a very nice FTP client.

Paul — obfuscation vs reverse engineering.

Judge: Stop selling DVD copying software. A federal court says 321 Studios' software breaks copyright laws and that the company must stop selling the products.

Mike — AT&T; Wireless Execs Cash Out, Employees Get Shafted.

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Steve — GPL and ASF licenses.

Bill — Getting kerberos stuff to compile on RedHat 9.

Jason — Jase, you're hired. Jase, you're not hired - Part II.

Eric — Developing Series 60 Applications: A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers.

Eugene — How to get all classes from rt.jar in the runtime.

Miguel — Relevant Google Ads for Java Pages.

Spamhaus crowned Internet heroes of 2003. ISPA awards: The good, the bad and the ugly.

iSneak Peek at Microsoft's Virtual Server. Run several Unix and Linux on the same single Intel x86 server.

Kevin — Genady's Java 1.5 Eclipse plugin looks usable!

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Loading and Saving Images with the Image I/O Library and Reflecting JavaBeans Components.

StrutsTestCase: Drilled-down Testing for Struts-based Java Apps.

Carsten — Eclipse is secure.

David — blojsom 2.12 available.

Dominic — Last day tommorow.

Sergio — The new Eclipse LAF.

Calvin — Roswell.

Adrian — GPL vs The World.

Juan — Is OpenSymphony dead?

Ted — Mac Tips and Tricks update.

Keith — Beyond javabeans-based configuration.

Anthony — In search of SWT.

Where can I find a list of the words that the FCC objects to?  No fucking shit.

Jeremy — Please Complete the MySQL License Survey.

Scott — Great Tutorial on Syndicated Data.

JMines 0.1, a Java clone of the famous puzzle minesweeper.

AOP banishes the tight-coupling blues. Static crosscutting can turn a tightly coupled code into a powerful, extensible enterprise application.

Lock down J2ME applications with Kerberos, Part 3: Establish secure communication with an e-bank.

Goldy — Activating a MIDlet through an incoming SMS.

MS Compact Framework squares up to Java. Battle to dominate the mobile platform.

Daniel — SourceCast Upgrade.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Mamba 1.0, provides a standalone implementation of the Simple framework.

Dana — Nice Patterns Reference Site.

Tutorial: Developing Web Services with J2EE 1.4.

Russ — eMarketer on Mobile Tech 2004.

A Terminal Emulator for MIDP. Explore the socket support in GCF by building a terminal (telenet) emulator.

Laurent — Litany of JVM call for changes.

Dave — The Atom API, dependencies, and logic that I just don't understand.

Pete — Third Party Apache Modules.

R.J. — Eclipse and Covariant Return Types.

Matt — JDOM 1.0?

Talip — TheServerSide.com.

Pelle — Password Cracking (was MD5 is stupid).

Mark — Software Documentation Is Like Weather and Pornography.

Andy — MD5IsStupid.java.

Keith — Time Zones.

Chuq — Glenn on Orkut.

Java MessagePort Library 0.97, a general abstraction for many different stream- or message-based APIs.

RSSOwl 0.7b, a RSS reader which uses SWT.

Kill an "unkillable" Win2k/XP/2k3 process. [added to wiki]

Review: OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b.

Mike — Do Not Call List Is Working, Mostly.

SPOT Watch Service Blinks. Microsoft's MSN Direct service experiences its first official outage since it went live in January.

Serious Linux Security Holes Uncovered and Patched.

FBI Warning Labels to Appear on CDs, DVDs. The is giving Hollywood film studios, music companies and software makers permission to use its name and logo.

Brett — Maven RC2 ready to roll.

Bill — CSS Drop Shadows.

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Tutorial: Lightweight XML search servers, Part 2.

Daniel — JavaOne Hacking.

Ant Commander 0.7, Coldtags suite ver. 1.70, Kaffe 1.1.4 and JavaBeginner 1.6.2.

Java "Beats .NET for Processing XML," Report Claims.

Sun fires back over Open Source Java accusations. Sun has offered a frank response to the open letter from Eric Raymond.

Diego — gender and computer science.

Anil — Java Surpasses 1.5 Billion Devices Worldwide.

T-Mobile USA launches PalmOne Treo 600. About time!

Filippo — WebSphere Developer Technical Journal - February Issue.

Laurent — Full support for JVM Continuation - Class Data Sharing.

Vinu — JDK 1.5 Plugin for Eclipse.

Eugene — Unused variables and the bytecode.

Jared — It's about time to open up Java and let it go….

Peter — JFunc: JUnit Functional Testing.

Marc — Generics Usage beyond Collections.

Brian — Once Again, Groovy Rocks.

New Motorola Smartphone Photos Leaked. MPx220.

Paul — Smiles fade at Napster.

Sam — New Jakarta Chair.

Simon — Taking exception to Exceptions.

snip 0.11. An Ant task that stores snippets of files in Ant project properties.

JBoss lands $10 million in funding. Rakes in $10 million in its first round of outside financing from Matrix Partners and Accel Partners.

Todd — $8000.00 PC?

Mary Jo — This Could Prove Handy: MS JVM Diagnostic Tool.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Charles — Eric Raymond's Letter and Modern Computing Mythology.

Fred — Why Sun Hates OpenSource According SimonPhipps.

Joda-Time 0.95. A library of classes to replace the Java JDK Date and Time classes including formatting.

Project JXTA 2.2.1 BETA 1. JXTA has the technology that you need to write networked, interoperable P2P applications.

Russ — Returning to Yahoo! and Hypocrisy: RDF and the Atom API.

Anthony — Wireless Carriers As ISPs.

jTime 0.1. A Web-based time tracking package.

Windows source code leak leads to IE hole. The vulnerability allows an attacker gain control over a user's computer by using a specially crafted bitmap file.

JView 2004, a J2EE Performance Monitor.

IntelliVIEW client 2.3. A reporting solution to query, view, and manipulate data from any RDBMS.

Security in Struts: User Delegation Made Possible.

Java Desktop Development. Java developers can choose between three primary GUI toolkits for desktop applications: AWT, Swing, and SWT.

The Eclipse Project Looks Ahead. EclipseCon revealed the Eclipse project as not just an IDE, but a rich client platform with a flexible architecture, an active community, and a bright future.

Rael — Azure J2ME Weblog Client.

Glenn — Apple Sells 20% of 802.11g Products.

Ross — Testing in IntelliJ: quick tip.

Simon — ESR response.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Paul — Morse Code Alphabet Table.

Jeremy — People and Things that Really Bug Me Recently.

Kevin — Jakarta FeedParser now in CVS.

Java HMO 1.2, a TiVo HMO Server.

Mike — Schlotzsky's Continues Their Free WiFi Push.

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Scala 1.1.0-b1, a programming language somewhere between Java and Standard ML.

Matt — EasyMoblog.

Matthew — RSS business.

Jeff — Where does foo and bar come from?

J2ME Fancier — Midlet Environment - More Applet Analogies and Does Sendo X Help J2ME Progress?

Jeremy — When does Microsoft get commoditzed?

RIAA goes after 531 more file sharers. Here we go again.

Columba 1.0 Milestone M2, an email client.

Woman sued for file-sharing brings RICO countersuit against RIAA. You go, girl!

Daniel — Templating with Velocity.

Apple Now Debt Free, Says Internal Memo.

Diego — the new yahoo search.

Rael — PocketPUTTY: Free SSH for Pocket PC.

Anthony — JavaSight.com, Content Syndication and Copyright.

James — Class Data Sharing in Tiger: part of the way towards Continuations?

John — Sun's Phipps rants on Raymond's open-source rant.

R.J. — Eclipse: Code Folding and 1.5 Support.

Hani — The breaking point.

Niel — Free Resource CD From JDJ….Very Nice!!

Leo — Moving away from maven.

Java Remote Method Invocation Language 2.1. A simple Web service XML dialect for Java applications.

Two Fedora Core 2 Reviews. The upgrade installation went quite smoothly…

Hotspot Use To Triple This Year, Report Claims.

Handheld porn comes closer. Is that a killer app in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?

Kevin Smith to Write and Direct 'Hornet'. Jet Li as Kato?

Russ — The Meet and Decompressing.

Julian — Google Wifi Hotspot search - USA Only.

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Handling a Final Empty Parameter. StringTokenizer tip.

New Specification to be Released for Mobile Devices to Discover and Connect to Web Services. WS-Discovery.

Matthew — Weblog business.

Don — Tomcat as a generic server framework?

Gavin — Finalizers are even eviler than you think.

Jason— My first IBM developerWorks article goes live. Congrats, Jase.

Mark — Jira Plugin: Multiple Project Configurations.

Goldy — The MIDP 2.0 Push Registry.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Mark — WS-Discovery.

Ovidiu — Editing remote files in Emacs.

Tom — Open source Java?

UJAC 0.9.7a, a set of Useful Java Application Components.

Java Ultra-Lite Persistence 1.0.1. An RDBMS-independent object-relational framework.

Do-Not-Call Registry for Telemarketing Upheld in Court. A federal appeals court upheld the governments right to help people shield themselves from unwanted telemarketing calls.

Mike — Hibernate, Struts, Tomcat, MySQL in 15 min or less.

Linux: 2.6.3 Released. Linux kernel 2.6.3 is now available, with minimal changes since 2.6.3-r4.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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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.