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O'Reilly's ONJava: 2003 in Review.

Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files. Excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition.

Matthew — Sell yourself on eBay.

Russ— More Mobile Media and Text Messaging For Americans.

Laurent — Eclipse for Embedded Development.

Behrang — Programming is like…

David — Playing around with XStream.

Eric — Cool Things: Jodd Utility Library.

R.J. — Using the Ternary Operator.

Simon — First impressions of the Garmin iQue 3600.

jakarta-oro 2.0.8 has been released.

Jeffrey — XML Export from Your eBay Store.

Charles — Java IDE Feature Request: Per-project file templates.

Rob — A Macworld wish list.

Jameleon 1.6.1, an automation testing framework without the problems of automated testing.

Python 2.3.3, a high-level scripting language.

Mike — Judge Tosses AOL Spammer Lawsuit Over Jurisdiction Issue.

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R.J. — Shadow Boxes.

Hani — My hellish journey with axiondb.

GnuPG for OS X 1.2.4 released.

Mac Dev Journal: Add Features Fast w/AppleScript Studio.

Mike — Bill Gates Grabs Patent For Distributing Art and Are People Using Non-Browser Apps To Access The Internet?.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1050 available.

Bluejack City - A new wireless craze is spreading through Europe.

Brent — Brent's Psychic Predictions for 2004.

Government announces ban on ephedra. The government has determined that products containing ephedra "present an unreasonable risk of illness or injury."

Interview with Vignette CEO Thomas Hogan. What are Hogan's ambitions for this J2EE-compliant workflow and collaboration software vendor?

Keith — Links.

Matt — FedEx Buys Kinko's.

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Matthew — Social Software vendors go for the enterprise.

Rusty — BugRoster 1.0.3 and beta of YourKit Memory Profiler 2.0.

Ron — The End of the Beginning?

Christian — JBoss 4 Roadmap.

Joi — Dvorak explains why Americans are behind on cell phone culture.

Paul — Notebooks cheaper than ever … and falling.

Uncle Scoopy's Fun House Top 15 Nude Scenes of 2003.

Christoph — Paris Hilton is the No. 1 fake name.

JFaceDbc 2.2.0, a plugin for Eclipse which allows you to view the structure and the content of any JDBC compliant database, issue SQL commands, etc.

Review: SuSE Linux Pro v9.0.

CNET's Year in review: Web services finds its way.

Todd — BlogPulse.

Daniel — This may be a stupid question, but.

The Algebra of RSS Feeds. Splice and dice.

A Look Back at Apple's 2003. Ars Technica has a look back at Apple in 2003.

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How-To: Java Web Start Walkthrough.

Russ — M$ Mobilizes its Minions Again.

Charles — Early Access : J2SE 1.5, Java Studio Creator, JavaServer Faces.

Michael — A simple method call: that is all it takes.

Jobless Count Skips Millions. Actual unemployment rate: 9.7%

Matt — RE: Wake a Sleeping Mac (Remotely).

Ted— Uh, I've discovered MacPython.

Keith — Lython.

Robert — Tantek improves my Weblog's Structure.

eWEEK: The Year's Top 10 Tech Stories.

Todd — OnStar may not be the only ones watching you and 10 Minute HIV Test.

Tips: How to Write, Use, and Test a Singleton Class and Posting Forms Programmatically.

Keith — 4-line Java word wrapping code.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Sun seeks widespread Java brand. From cash registers and microchip-enabled "smart cards" to TV set-top boxes and video recorders.

Guillaume — IntelliJ version of Miranda Rights.

Jesus — Favorite Movies.

Keith — Quick C# and Apple web development best practices.

Christoph — FabForce DBDesigner 4.

RSSFeedMagic 0.1, a PHP-based feed (rss/rdf) reader.

Marc — JDK 1.5 alpha… seems to be alpha.

Paul Clinton's top 10 films of 2003 and Top ten best DVDs of 2003.

10 Ads The US Won't See. Some ads made by world's leading advertising agencies for well-known brands will never be seen in the United States.

Simon — Javascript from Python.

New Spam Law Won't Stop Number One Spammer. Alan Ralsky.

Brian — JDev TeamDev Feature Digest #2: CVS External Tools Macros.

Dick — Amazon Recommends: The Da Vinci Code!

John — Booming concepts for 2003 that will do well in 2004.

Robert — Blogger Time Savers.

CES promises TVs, watches, and growing attendance. Trade shows around the world are coping with a drop-off in attendance and sponsors.

Russ — Symbian OSS Dev Redux.

David — Revisiting blojsom vs. Roller to address some comments.

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Tutorial: Array Manipulation in Perl.

Daniel — Buy Where You Shop.

Jakob Nielson: Instant Messaging is Toxic to Productivity.

Congressional Spam. Congress says it hates spam, except its own.

Rael — Go with Bluetooth Class 1 and Quick Bluetooth Send on Mac OS X.

Pulled Over For Wardriving. The wardriver and the cop.

Andrej — Eric Gamma on the future of Eclipse.

Dion — Article: Six Signs That You Should Use Paper Prototyping.

Bob — Generating Javadocs for J2SDK 1.5…

Steve — Lose the manual? Try Amazon.

Oliver — postgres on osx.

Christoph — Web Growing by 27%.

JDistro 0.28, a desktop for the JVM.

Glenn — Truck Stop Wi-Fi Growing.

Andrej — JHeadstart 10G (9.0.4.5).

Brent — RFC: feed URI scheme.

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I've just implemented an Atom feed for this blog.

XMLBuddy Release 2.0. Available as an Eclipse plugin.

Thomas — Tomcat 5 - Datasource - DB connections blocked.

Mark — you got your chocolate in my java.

Spam Costing An Hour A Day? Have you cleaned your in-box lately? 

Guillaume — Code name for IntelliJ IDEA 5.0.

C++ WSDL Parser. WSDL Pull Parser 1.3 released.

Shoaib of xhead software emailed me about lock.xhead, a password manager for Mac OS X written in Cocoa-Java.

Jim — The Beagle has landed.

MySQL Control Center 0.9.4. A GUI client for MySQL databases.

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"Mobility is More than J2ME," Says Michael Yuan.

Matt — A Mobitopian Weekend.

Russ — My Big Present.

Commercial Fuel Cells: On Eve of Commercial Deployment.

Selections From The CIA's Gadget Museum. Celebrating its 40th anniversary by revealing a few dozen of its secrets.

Weighing Yourself in the Car. In-car system for dieters that weighs them and tells them when they have strayed.

Laurent — J2EE Web Services.

Dave — WiFi tip of the day.

David — (Atom) Sandler 0.4 released.

Frans — Apache vs Microsoft or Open Source vs Microsoft.

Patrick — WebWork Tip #1 - Handling null properties.

Michael — Is mobile commerce a revolution and what role would J2EE play here?

Simon — Immutable Collections.

Nick — Making Patch Files.

Werner — J2EE AntiPatterns : "next".

Luke — The Wikipedia needs help.

Robert — MobileRSS.

jEdit 4.2pre8 now available.

jMileage 1.6.2 , a tool which tracks the gas mileage of your vehicles.

Java Supplements 1.3.1. A library of Java utility classes to alleviate repetitive development tasks.

Review: Ground Up Java.

Andrew — Java Open Source Content Management Systems (CMS).

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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We went to see Paycheck.

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Sizeof for Java. Object sizing revisited.

JiniologyCall on extensible RMI.

Ewan — Engaging The User.

Rajesh — Dan Gillmor's Favourite Gadgets.

Jeremy — Gas Stations Sell DSL and Cheap Gas in Ohio.

Lint4j 0.5.1. A static Java source code analyzer that detects locking and performance problems.

Python Reference. An attempt to produce a complete, alphabetized reference of all of Python's language features.

Matt — File Drop.

Joe — IDEA Build 1035 available.

Rael — Nokia N-Gage: The Bad.

Busiest holiday season yet for Amazon.com. A single-day record with more than 2.1 million products ordered around the world.

Online music's winners and losers. iTunes, Napster, etc.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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The Apache Jakarta team announces Lucene 1.3 Final.

Matt — Archos AV380.

Michael — Achieving better compression with Deflater.

Michael — Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer Exam — draft objectives posted on JavaRanch.

Lance — Scooping Erik Thauvin. :-)

Superslim USB 2.0 Flash drives. New line of incredibly small USB 2.0 Flash memory drives from Adtec that are a mere 2.8mm thick.

What's next for the Pocket PC? Chris De Herrera of CEWindows.Net has some thoughts on what's next for the Pocket PC.

Two new singers break boundaries. Joss Stone and Fefe Dobson.

Adam — pay 4 spam.

Paul — LindowsOS 4.5 vs. Sun Java Desktop System 2003.

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Daniel — Aspects.

Daniel — XDoclet Load Groups.

Erik — XDoclet in Action and Running Mac OS X Panther.

Nelson — AT&T Wireless secret number.

jGossip 1.0.0 024, a forum implemented on the J2EE platform using Struts.

News.com: Year in review.

Web site picks year's top word. Embedded, blog and SARS.

IBM's Unpublished Cases. Groklaw continues to follow the back-and-forth filings in the SCO v. IBM case.

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MySQL 5.0.0 (Alpha) Released. Includes support for SQL-99 stored procedures.

Opera Proposes XForms Alternative: Web Forms 2.0.

Review: Sprint Handspring Treo 600.

Ugo — iTunes Gift Certificate ouside the U.S.

Michael — Building javadoc from J2SDK source code.

Jeremy — Wardriving in Toledo.

Kellan — OreillyNet: Best articles of 2003.

Cedric — EJB restrictions.

Stefan — Men.com domain sold for $1.3m.

Get ready for 802.11n wireless networking. 100Mbps.

Tutorial: Java language essentials.

YourKit Java Profiler 2.0 beta released.

SnipSnap 0.5, a weblog and wiki system..

Hani — Christmas Special: bilebile.

Danny — FOAF Xmas.

ActivePerl 5.8.2.808. ActivePerl 5.8.2 build 808.

The Java Specialists' Newsletter: End of Year Puzzle.

Here's what Santa brought me:

• Accelerated C++: Practical Programming by Example, which was on my wish list per Jim's recommendation.
• X-Men: The Ultimate Guide.
• X-Men UNO card game.
• 24 Season 2.
• Angel Season 2.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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We're on our way to dinner at Vicki's sister. Have a Merry X-Mas Eve!

Dish Network DVR-921 HD DVR Reviewed.

Dave — Links.

Dion — TSS Article: Return of the eXo Portal Platform.

Robert — Open Source Tablet PC Notetaking app.

Todd — Office of Homeland Defense issues overflight approval.

Carlos — A whole bunch of quickies.

Wendong — SSH and telnet tools for J2ME.

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Punit — Few More Portlet Links and Resources.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Ted — No, Servlets do NOT need to die….

I Want My Phone TV. Cell phones now include MP3 players, Web browsers, and cameras, so it was only a matter of time before television arrived.

A J2EE overview. Java has become widely accepted not only as the Web-programming model but also as the strategic programming technology for almost all enterprises.

The Many Forms of Garbage Collection Have a Common Goal. The Java and .NET platforms take different approaches to freeing unused memory, but there are telling similarities below the surface. 

Daniel — Paper prototyping.

J2SE SDK 1.5 "Tiger" Alpha Release ready for download.

Laurent — A look at JBuilder X.

Nick — JDK1.5 Alpha Rant.

Krzysztof — Subversion is ALMOST 1.0beta.

Lasse — My first JavaRanch articles are out there.

Adam — hot wheels.

Bob — Lazy loading and caching expensive objects.

FreeGuide TV Guide 0.6.3, a TV guide program which grabs listings from the Internet.

10 technologies to watch in 2004.

Movie theaters going digital. Number of theaters showing digital flicks expected to double.

Dion — Article: WebDAV comes to Java with Slide.

Eclipse HTML Tidy 1.1.1 released.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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Object Caching in a Web Portal Application Using JCS. One way to improve server-side performance is to cache data instead of generating it over and over again.

Russ — SSH for Series 60!

Kellan — Source code documenting systems.

First U.S. mad cow case confirmed in Washington Sate. Local news says the farm is located in Yakima.

Tech Tips: Introducing J2EE 1.4 and The Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)

RText 0.8.3, a Text Editor written in Java.

J2SE 1.5 Early Access For Javalobby Members.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1024 available.

UJAC 0.9.3. Useful Java Application Components.

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Daniel — Have developers "forgotten their place".

Michael — Mobility is more than J2ME (and the job martket for 2004).

Daniel — Cameron's Challenge.

R.J. — Functional Programming in Java/Javascript.

Fred — J2MEUnit.

Paul — 1.5 Generics: Comments & Headaches.

Todd — Tiny URL's site is getting heavier demand.

Jim — Cinemas encourage piracy?

Tech Tips: Programmer Challenge.

Joe — Comments on java.beans.EventHandler.

Dave — Client-Side Java Survey: You could win a free X-Box.

Kevin — DRM 'Industry' hates freedom.

DOJ closes Net music antitrust scrutiny. After more than two years, regulators say big record labels didn't break any laws on the Internet.

Rumor: Cingular + AT&T Wireless?

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Will Sun's Java Studio Creator earn raves? Sun's software strategy highlights price, interoperability, and open source strengths.

James — Groovy 1.0 beta 2 released!

Bob — EJB is not magic.

Paul — Latest iPod replacement: Aigo.

Law firm considering iPod battery class action suit. I'm sure you can easily take Apple to small-claim court and win. It has been done before.

Mary Jo — XP SP2 Beta 1: Now Available on MSDN.

SCO opens new front in Linux war. SCO started sending out the first of an estimated 3,000 letters to companies, universities and other organizations that licensed Unix.

Max — EventHandler.java is Good but not perfect.

Kellan — Simple Test - Unit tests and mock objects for PHP.

PDAs in the year 2005. Steve Sande of PDAntic looks ahead to 2005.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1019 is available.

Vattekkat — Quick UI for DocIndexer.

Research In Motion climbs after earnings report. Up by more than 40%.

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JawaBeginner1.6, a lightweight Java IDE Tool.

Carlos — A Definition of "Services".

Matt — SSH For Series 60 At Last!

Matthew — XML for the rest of us.

Paul — December Issue of the JavaRanch Journal.

Magnus — The 2003 weasel awards.

Danny — Wrong scent.

Jagzilla 1.1.0, a Java-based set of components for Bugzilla and Eclipse.

US broadband continues growth. Homes and businesses in the US are enjoying a healthy growth in broadband net connections.

Papal message goes mobile. Sign up to receive a thought of the day from the Pope.

Open letter to Michael Dell. John Dickinson: Your customer service just ain't what it used to be.

Verizon, Vodafone team on transatlantic 'texting'. Text back and forth across the Atlantic.

The USB dongle: a form factor worth plugging? Removable storage is only the beginning…

Dion — JCP Watch: Tiger Community Review, New life for JCache?

R.J. — When WILL SCO's Arguments Hold Water?

Installing MovableType on Panther. [via anil dash's daily links]

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I'd like to welcome Atlassian as my new Exclusive Sponsor.

Their flagship product, JIRA, has been featured on this blog numerous times. If you need to track bugs, you ought to check it out.

They've recently introduced Confluence, which I would describe as a groupware wiki.

Of course, they are also the guys behind java.blogs, which as I've said before, is a great resource for the whole Java-blogging community.

Digital Music Stores Reviewed. Napster 2.0, MusicMatch, WAL*MART Music Service and iTMS.

Russ — Symbian Dev continues towards OSS.

Anthony — Open Source - Fade To Black.

Vinny — My iTrip rocks my world.

Joi — My Nokia 6600 vs my Sony SO505iS.

Apple sold 1.79 iPods per minute in 2003. According to sales figures documented in Apple's annual filing with the SEC.

Punit — (funny) Portlet-my first impression.

Julian — dbActivity Program Is Now Open Source.

Linux Creator Torvalds Details Code Differences. Linux != Unix.

Developer Preview 2 of Java 1.4.2 is now available for Mac OS X v10.3 through the ADC download site.

Matthew — Open Source and Urine.

Danger Adds Java to Hiptop, Promises Software Downloads. J2ME support in next version of the OS.

DBMonster 1.0-beta4, a tool which generates random test data and puts it into SQL database.

VirtualMock 0.1.8, a Unit Testing tool. It uses Junit, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and the Mock Objects testing approach.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.