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Collective Ownership of Code and Text. Ward Cunningham talks with Bill Venners about how he designed wiki to be a model for collective code ownership, etc.

Daniel — CS for Poets.

ObjectWeb and Apache to Team Up on Open Source J2EE. They have agreed to collaborate to speed up the availability and certification of their Open Source J2EE application servers.

Understanding JAXB: Java Binding Customization.

Java vs. .NET Security, Part 2.

Matthew — eCommerce will fail - in Germany.

Tom — Coping with SMS spam.

Matt — Bluetooth keyboards for your mobile: one step closer?

Anthony — Cleaning Your iPod.

Rusty — The JBoss Project has released JBoss 3.2.3, an open source Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java.

David — Personalized (RSS) feeds or "Choose Your Own Adventure".

Dion — Interviews: J2EE Questions No One Else Dared to Ask.

Emerson — Eclipse Open-gl Plugin.

John — Microsoft Clarifies Intentions to Retire JVM-Based Products.

Neema — Dick Tracy Watch.

Paul — My IoC article on JDJ.

Matt — Upgrading Hibernate, Struts and Display Tag.

Kevin — Mozilla 1.6b Breaks Java.

Denial-of-Service Attack Knocks SCO Group Offline. The SCO Group Inc.'s Web site was slammed by a massive distributed denial-of-service attack.

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Expect smaller/slower than usual updates… I'm not quite all there yet.

EADP for WSAD and VA Java. A development platform for building, with bean customization instead of programming, WebSphere applications that use servlets and JSPs.

Defensive coding and unit testing "rules of the road". Scott Will, Ted Rivera, and Adam Tate discuss some basic "defensive" coding and unit testing practices.

Daniel — Play along at home.

Japo, a modular java preprocessor.

J2ME 101, Part 1: Introduction to MIDP's high-level user interface.

Matthew — Trend Watch 2004: eSports.

Jim — 3G: Three and Vodafone's different approaches.

Pete — xcopy - Handy tool on windows.

Mozilla 1.6 Beta Released.

Lowem — Worm gets into Windows ATM's.

Michael — Java2Html rocks.

Patrick — Thick, Thin client ?

Rob — CVS 1.12.4 - live on the cutting edge.

Simon — Getting MIME types with java.net.FileNameMap.

Brian — Query By Critera Library For JDBC.

Werner — JBossCache out of the bag.

Wendong — MIDP 2.0 Phone Watch.

Bob — XSLT and XPath Quick Reference.

Haiko — Quick Links, December 10.

Jeremy — MySQL Geek Cruise?

Keith — web-sniffer.net.

Simon — How to compile subversion javahl bindings on a Gentoo system.

JMP 0.37, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Small Co. to Defend Pop-Up Internet Ads. A small company targeted by regulators for delivering unwanted pop-up Internet ads is mounting an aggressive defense against the FTC in court.

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I thought I would be over this damn flu by now, but I'm still having problems kicking it.

I feel pretty good most of the time, but the fever/chill episodes are draining a lot out of me.

A lot of rest and fluid seems to be the only remedy at this point. Hopefully things will get back on track pretty soon.

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I've been experiencing sudden onset of fever, chills, headache and cough caused by the flu. I will spend the day resting and drink plenty of fluid in order to kick this thing.

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David — Camera Phones Considered Harmful.

Sam — Eye of the Tiger - Generics in J2SE 1.5.

Mark — jive releases smack beta 3.

Paul — How to Call an External Program from Java and Deal with Streams and Return Codes.

ROXES XmlWrite 1.4 released as Freeware.

Sketsa 1.5 released, a WYSIWYG SVG Editor.

Iogear introduces BOSS network appliance.

Fedora Linux Advisory: kernel. Fedora Security Update Notification.

James — The Peter Principle: software developers version.

Geert — Funniest blog comment.

Feet Up! — TGV.

Anthony — File.length() in loops.

Jon — DevPartner Studio.

"2003 Foot in Mouth Award". Donald Rumsfeld.

Rogers — Deprecating unused RSS 2.0 tags.

Michael — Morning Coffee Links.

Maybe cell phones aren't so portable. Carriers typically place network restrictions, along with long-term service contracts, on phones they give away free or with substantial discounts.

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MX4J 2.0 supports Jython. MX4J is a project to build an Open Source implementation of the JMX and JMX Remote API specifications.

Load Testing with Apache JMeter. Got handle on how much your Website can handle?

Building a Commercial App Part III: Getting Started with Source Code. Building, testing, and selling a small commercial BREW-based app.

Daniel — Are Open Source tools worth the price?

Follow, a simple Java application which allows a user to monitor several log files concurrently.

DIET Agents, a multi-agent platform in Java.

FCC Chairman Powell Wants Regulation Free Internet and VoIP. Powell believes in maintaining an Internet free from government regulation.

Carlos — Surprise! Blogging Roller in Technorati Top 100!

Jim — SchemaWeb.

Matt — OpenPGP in Python and What's Your Number?

Frank — Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Review.

Alan — www.javawebstart.net launched to promote java apps.

Rusty — Mark Lindner has posted the Jolt JVM Daemon 0.3.

Richard — IBM and BEA: Are they thumbing their noses at the JCP?

Andreas — Debuggers: a modern 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.

Ken — Jay Leno drives the SLR.

Tim — Loading arbitrary classes from arbitrary places…. a lesson in Class Loaders..

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (X) - Mobicq.

Laszlo — jFreeSafe 0.2.1.

Chris — Interesting article on choosing Python.

Chris — 'Right tool for the job' is stupid.

Nelson — Packet sniffing in Python.

Netcraft: December 2003 Web Server Survey.

Review — Sony Ericsson P900 smartphone.

MP3.com archive is destroyed. What a waste.

Japanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph. Maglev.

Haiko — Plain English, please.

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Vicki and I both have the flu. Though she's doing a lot worse than I am.

Precompiled headers. One of the features appearing in the upcoming GCC-3.4 release is so-called precompiled headers, which enables you to build applications at a faster pace.

.NET and Oracle Java Stored Procedures. Bridging the Gap with XML.

Russ — Carrier Choice Redux: Still Torn and GSM Phone Source.

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (IX) - kCommand.

Dan — Really Good Article on FreeBSD and OS X.

Andy — I bought a Hybrid Civic.

Norman — Goodbye blogshares .

Chris — Death to DynaBeans.

Simon — HTML entities for email addresses: don't bother.

Eric Raymond on Microsoft. Transcript of a recent conference call.

When Free Isn't Really Free. Web giveaways increasingly come at a steep price…

Hackers used unpatched server to breach Debian. brk()ing and entering.

Bertrand — XSLT syntax still sucks.

Dave — "Wireless Music Done Right".

The Wells Fargo example. A new law took effect in California, that requires all companies to promptly notify individuals whose personal information was compromised by a cyber attack.

Glen — Keeping iTunes on top.

Bell 'did not invent telephone'. German research scientist Philipp Reis.

Evan — P.V.C.S. is C.R.A.P.

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Daniel — Debuggers are a wasteful Timesink.

Apple Answers to LDAP DHCP Exploit. Configure Directory Access to Protect Your Mac From a Malicious DHCP Server.

Optimizing Web Services Using Java, Part I - Generic Java and Web services.

Carlos — Eclipse Embeds OSGi Based MicroKernel.

Jim — Mobitopia Postings and Symbian OS Developer Days.

Matt — Xine: 1.0 is Approaching.

Russ — S60 Bluejacking: Send A URL!.

Anil — iMode vs. iMode : the difference between the East and the West.

Pete — Generic Search Engine Safe URL's on Apache.

Danno — Some Code Never Dies.

Michael — Micro Payments.

Simon — Ahh crufty code.

Patrick — Lots of OpenSymphony Releases.

Juan — Installing Java on Debian.

Hani — Awkward download links.

Chris — What is the most dynamic language?

Brent — Developers and users perspectives.

Luke — MTBlacklist Updater 1.0.

Norman — Rewriting the classpath at runtime.

Cedric — It's all about ease of use.

Rogers — Java coders have lost their POJO.

Steven — Best Tab Ever.

T-Mobile buys world's fourth biggest Wi-Fi provider. Snaps up Metronet.

RIAA wins round in file-swapping suit. Change of venue.

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This blog started 3 years ago.

Distcc Compiler. A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler.

JTextCheck, a spell-checking API for Java.

Java EPS Graphics2D package.

What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? "But sometimes, the Open Source community can be its own worst enemy."

Ewan — Thoughts on the Symbian Dev Day Keynotes.

Matt — Sendo X and The Stability of MIDP 2.0.

Alan — We have Applets, Servlets and MIDlets, we now need CARlets.

Simon — Abstract classes are not types.

Matt — Struts Menu 2.0 Released!

Mathias — SiteMesh 2.0 released!

Tim — Classpaths in Executable JAR Files.

Vincent — JUnit in Action - book signing in Paris.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Markus — Eclipse switching to new runtime.

Don — How BitTorrent Works.

David — Theory of Compatibility (Part 1).

Pierre — jsFind - Static Web Page indexing.

Martin — Wordsmith.

WinCvs 1.3b14 released.

JFreeChart Version 0.9.15 released.

Jameleon 1.6, an automation testing framework.

.name registry site hacked. Apache exploit causes embarrassment.

Asian Pirates Sell Microsoft's Next Windows System. Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Windows years before it is supposed to be on sale.

An Open Letter to Music Pirates and "DVD Jon".

If he wasn't actually serious, it would be laughable.

Fair use is about removing arbitrary DRM restrictions on digital media, which, by the way, is legal. It has nothing to do with pirating.