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I just had a very enlightening chat with Didier Girard of Application-Servers.com. If you read French, you oughta be sure to check his site regularly.

David — blojsom 2.05 available.

Brian — How Does Apple Stay in Business?

Sun Brings Java Desktop to Wal-Mart Shelves. Sun is wagering that Wal-Mart's "always low prices" will catapult its Java Desktop System off storeroom shelves into the home market.

SuperWaba 4.1, a Java-like virtual machine for PDAs.

Jisp 3.0.0, a Java Indexed Serialization Package.

Hani — The codehaus of crack.

Metrowerks Siemens SX1 SDK available. The SDK contains a commercial release SX1 as well as everything you need to develop for it. $1,150.

Dion — Opinion: Closures in Java.

Ken — 831.

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Daniel — Working from a Template.

JURPE, a Java Universal Role Playing Engine.

Carlos — 13 Exceptional Exception Handling Techniques.

Anil — Bluetooth MIDlet for SE Car.

Omar — Cell phone users slow to embrace number portability.

Emily — How people are using camera phones.

Jonas — AspectWerkz 0.9.RC1 is released.

Chad — A bloggers start, UrlRewriting Filter.

Mark — Review: Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 days.

Thomas — SCBCD Online Study notes.

Wendong — SVG and Mobile SVG.

Mats — A really bad IBM Developerworks article.

Luke — Windows XP Service Pack 2 changes.

Charles — Overly Mocked.

T-Mobile, iPass sign Wi-Fi roaming deal. T-Mobile and iPass agree to a deal that allows subscribers to access each other's networks.

Mariano — Reflect Tips por facu.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Java Adoption Continues to Rise in Enterprise. Study finds J2EE most popular edition, WebSphere favorite app server.

Russ — The Newton Effect and Napster: The Cat is Cool.

Keith — The Big Bang Theory of IDEs and Reading, Writing, and Code.

Glen — GAIM for Windows… not terrible.

Behrang — BeOS might see a full implementation of Java soon.

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 996 is available.

Jeremy — Zone Labs Snapped Up - Firewalls R Us?

Luke — Disable last access time in Windows XP.

Java 2 Micro Edition Game Library 0.0.1. An MIDP 1.0-compliant, highly customizable game library.

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O'Reilly offers Panther ed. of Mac OS X 'Missing Manual'.

Apple Developer Conference 2004 Details Emerging. WWDC 2004. Same week as JavaOne.

IBM to Move Software Jobs to India, China. IBM plans to move up to several thousand skilled software jobs from the United States to India, China and other countries.

David Pogue's Platform Comparison. David Pogue compares the Symbian, Palm and Windows Mobile for Smartphone platforms.

Spiderman 2 preview. Just one kiss…

Daniel — Working for "them".

Toshiba Develops Tiny Hard Drive for Mobiles. 0.85-inch diameter hard drive that could store 2 to 3 gigabytes of data.

Rusty — JabberWookie 1.0.1 and Java Application Monitor 1.0 (JAMon).

Padraic — java Business process management — jbpm.

EJP 2.0, an Extensible Java Profiler.

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Cameron — Too funny .. (off topic).

Living Tomorrow Today. Home of the Future in Amsterdam.

Web Services Tool Kit for Mobile Devices. Version 3.0.0.

jGossip, a simple and powerful forum implemented on J2EE platform using the Struts framework.

Carlos — Open Source Profilers for Java.

Matthew — Ward goes Microsoft.

Russ — Windows Mobile UI Tutorial, Mobile Download Managers and Nokia's Content Syndication Program.

Matt — Wi-Fi is a key ingredient in "Multiradio".

Behrang — Another JGoodies Masterpiece.

Rusty — Ivan Moore has released Jester 1.3.0.

Michael — Common Sense Please.

Michael — Most difficult exam.

Andrew — Where for art though, wifi?

Bill — Yeah, ease of use my ass.

Rickard — Java as screensaver - Bob to the rescue.

Kevin — Will the real VOIP please stand up?

Saddam capture a Net news win. The news broke after most of the nation's newspapers had gone to print.

Apple: iTunes downloads top 25 million.

jboard, a bulletin board project based on Struts, Tiles, JSTL, XHTML and CSS2.

Anil — The Treo 600 gets MIDP 2.0.

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Java Tiny Gfx Library, a New OpenSourced Tiny Java Graphics Library.

Martin — All Change to WiFi, Please, All Change… and Where For Art Thou WiFi?

Chris — WiFi Anywhere: The Pocket Router.

Rusty — Cougaar 1.2 is a memory profiler that is not based on the Java Virtual Machine Profiling Interface (JVMPI).

Daniel — Holiday Pictures.

Kasia — Best billboard ever.

Dan — Voice over IP. Or not.

End of Life for Red Hat Linux 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0. December 31, 2003.

Canada says P2P downloading legal. In the same ruling, Canadian copyright regulators also impose a $25 fee on iPod-like MP3 players and say that uploading is prohibited.

Walt Mossberg is down on the new Smartphones. The Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg doesn't have many good things to say about Samsung's…

WiFi cAntenna reviews. Overclockers Club review of two WiFi antennas, the 10-inch cAntenna Deluxe and the 5-inch Mini-Tenna from EtherDesigns.

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Russ — From Amazing to Plumbing: A year of WiFi.

Dominic — It's winter, time to Hibernate.

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Tip of the Day: Use Lazy Initialization to Conserve Resources.

Russ — Geek TV.

JML 4.1_rc4, Java Modeling Language.

Macromedia: Java Developers Wanted!

Anil — A Java Wrist Watch.

Record PC shipments in '03. 152 million, strong consumer demand for laptop PCs.

Don — Spoofing for Dummies.

Matt — Extending Your Wi-Fi Range: Passive Parabolic Waveguides.

How do Internet phone calls work? VoIP explained.

Emily — Cell Phones' Bad Rap.

Patrick — Another Web Framework - Shocks.

Internet shopping hits new high. Increased by 44% over the past year.

Time to reassess Brew. As Qualcomm gets serious about Europe.

Dump Lindows name or we'll take all your money, says MS. Another day, another injunction for Robertson…

David — Starbucks and WiFi in the UK.

Aiirnet to blanket US city with Wi-Fi. Hotzone to cover 8.6 square miles.

Ewan — Old Computers Don't Die… They Just Upgrade To Wi-Fi.

World's Largest Databases Ranked. The world's largest and most hard-working (in terms of load) databases are ranked.

Rogers — Regular expressions are beautifully ugly.

Rafe — Inexplicable WiFi problems?

jZonic, a Java framework for web-application supporting an XML workflow, XML sitemap management, connection pooling.

Beyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure.

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Cultured Perl: Fun with MP3 and Perl, Part 1.

Charming Python: Review of Python IDEs.

Eye on performance: Micro performance benchmarking.

JavaHMO 1.1, a media server for the TiVo Home Media Option.

More About Handling Exceptions and Using HTML in Swing Components.

Jim — Wi-Fi Day.

Dave — IronPython.

Kevin — Groovy 1.0 beta 1 is available!

Kumar — J2SE: Update On J2SE 1.5 Early Access on Dec15th?

Matt — Export JSPWiki pages to HTML using Hula.

Bill — Tivo rc.sysinit.author.

Aaron — Search By Number.

Bryan — Sun javadoc comments entertain again.

Adobe reports $83 million Q4 profit, or 34 cents per diluted share.

Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law. Two North Carolina men were the first people charged under Virginia's anti-spam law.

Offshore outsourcing: Little effect on US jobs?

DVD Jon appeal ends: verdict before Xmas. But how did it even get this far?

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New BEA Industry-Standard Java Benchmark Results Nearly Double Previous World Record. SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark.

Rusty — Version 1.3.5 of BlueJ, a free integrated development environment (IDE) for Java aimed at education, has been released.

Gregg — JCreator 3.0.

M — Uploading SIP Services.

Ross — io.

JSch 0.1.12, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Mark — blojsim 0.9 released.

Security Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked. Or was it?

Hitachi's fuel cell for PDAs. Hitachi says they're working with disposable cigarette lighter manufacturer Tokai on methanol-based fuel cells for handhelds.

Sony and Toshiba close to sampling Cell technology. 65nm process to begin trial production in Q1 '04.

ASUS updates AMD motherboard with WiFi. A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard.

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Eclipse plugin Verion Tree 1.0 released.

Crionics announces jPDF Template, Merger, Parser and Encryption.

Matt — MythTV 0.13, KnoppMyth and MiniMyth.

Mike — Sun finally becoming active in mobile space.

VoIP still needs breathing room. Jeff Pulver says federal regulators are poised to play Scrooge this holiday season by slowing the spread of Internet phoning technology.

Mark — blojsim v0.5 support's blojsom 1.8.

Cape Clear integrates data via Web services. Cape Clear Data Interchange.

Microsoft takes Lindows fight to Sweden. Wins restraining order.

Bill — Need better WiFi coverage?

Jeremy — A New Search Toolbar — From Copernic.

Mike — Formatted Dataset API.

Trolltech offers Qt Solutions developer tools suite.

Rui — Mozilla/Extensions/wmlbrowser.

City to offer wireless Web for all. Cerritos, California.

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Alan — SanDisk.

Kumar — Java Desktop System is here.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Eric — One Awesome IDE — CodeGuide.

Keith — Hire me.

Simon — My first SitePoint article.

JDraw 1.1beta, a pixel oriented image editor written in Java.

Sharp puts Word files on phones. The rendering software will be embedded in the new Vodafone V601SH Mobile Phone by Sharp, sold in Japan.

pENC 1.01, a Perl Source Code Encryptor.

Report: AT&T to offer Internet calling.

Sun sets Solaris x86 free. Almost two years after it went on hiatus, Solaris x86 has come back in full form with free downloads of the OS becoming available once again.

Qwest to Offer Residential Voice Over IP. The first Baby Bell to offer residential Internet phone service.

Russ — Big Decisions. Congrats!

Matthew — Google goes India.

James — a few things I find ugly with C# - virtual and override keywords.

Matt — Hibernate 2.1 Final Released!

Nick — Why No Java Interface for JVMPI?

Jeremy — Music Formats And The Death Of Ownership.

Simon — A major contribution to road safety.

Mark — blojsom turns 1.7.

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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.