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No More Leap Second? In a phenomenon that has scientists puzzled, the Earth is right on schedule for a fifth straight year.

Matthew — It took 60 years and A Hobbit wins.

Russ — What's on my Nokia 6600 and New App Idea: Print to Mobile.

Laurent — How serious is Microsoft about killing COM and The Eclipse OSGi runtime explained - Servlets on your PocketPC.

Carlos — Room cleaning and A paper prototyping story.

Ben — How stupid.

Jeremy — I am not mainstream.

Chris — IPython.

Bill — Open Source and Outsourcing.

Paul — Revising english for developers.

Anselm — Syndic8 Reaches 20,000 RSS Feed Milestone.

Robert — Toshiba Tablet Review.

jmaid 0.1 alpha, a file manager written in Java which allows editing of text files.

Hobbits, Fish, Pirates Lead Cast in 2003. Movies in 2003 collected an estimated total of $9.275 billion, compared to the 2002 total of $9.317 billion.

Matt — Wi-Fi Free Spot.

Hani — Open Source Java Programming book review.

Alexander — iPod, Accessories, and The Illusion of Lifestyle Products.

Paul — Feeling lucky?

Chuq — the Dirty Little Secret of Nutritional supplements….

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100 Years of Macintosh. Zero seconds on the Mac OS system clock is January 1, 1904. The Mac OS epoch hits 100 years…

Debashish — The best of Null Pointer - 2003.

Ted — A look back, and 5 predictions for 2004.

Forbes Ventures Bold Predictions For IT, Linux. Everyone's favorite, Daniel Lyons and other Forbes journalists have made some bold predictions about IT in 2004.

Best Albums of 2003, Scientifically or not.

Dave — Happy New Year!

Rusty — 3DChat.org has released Java XTools 1.15.

Matt — Happy New Year = Update your copyright notices.

Adam — I'm a yank.

Top Yahoo serches of 2003. [via Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Aaron — New Zeitgeist.

Aslak — RE: Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Paul — Re: Re: Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Rui — 2003++.

Christoph — Tech Predictions for 2004.

Martin — Bye Bye 2003.

2003: One Step Backward, Two Steps Forward. OfB's latest Year-in-Review article.

CNET Year in review: The sound of Net music.

Business 2.0: Tech predictions for 2004.

Robert — Slashdot worried about American programmer jobs.

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Thanks for reading. See you next year!

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My Year in Review:

• 315 blog days.
• 2.5 million visits.
• 35 million page views.
• 240GB of bandwidth.

Which explains why I started an Exclusive Sponsorship Program.

I also released the Google Tag Library into the OSS world, bought a Zaurus and began writing Erik's Pulse.

We made one addition to the family, and one departed unexpectedly.

FileZilla 2.2.3, a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features.

101 Ways To Save The Internet. 101 ways to save the Internet from spammers, crackers and smothering regulation.

Carlos — 2003 in review - presentations and articles.

Ted — Microsoft buys BEA?

Java FSP Library 1.0rc2. FSP protocol support for Java.

Java Tools Community Effort Back on Track. The plan to build a ecosystem of Java tool frameworks based on open standards appears to be finally gathering steam.

Netcraft: January 2004 Web Server Survey.

Finding MD5 Collisions With Chinese Lottery. Stealing idle CPU time.

Joi — Some 2003 site stats.

Interview: MySQL CEO Mickos Addresses Critics, Looks to Open-Source Growth.

Top Spam For The Year: Viagra, Mortgages And Porn.

Linux Today: Top 10 Stories of 2003.

Bill — Meta Best of 2003.

Mobitopia: Happy New Year!

Ted — My year in review.

Novell Registers Unix Copyrights. Novell has quietly registered for the copyrights on many versions of Unix code that the SCO Group says it owns.

Paul — Enough with the Test Driven Development Hype.

Luke — 2004, here I come.

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Konqueror successfully compiled for OS X. Benjamin Reed has compiled Konqueror for Mac OS X, after recently porting the KUniqueApplication class.

Analyst encourages Microsoft acquisition of BEA. Combined companies would give marketplace more software choices.

David — Happy New Year Blog!

First external USB HDTV tuner. The OnAir USB HDTV from SASEM.

Groups Promote Recycling of Tech Gadgets. Environmental groups are getting ready for a surge of electronic devices that could be recycled or reused.

Hani — WebWork 1.4 Interceptors with Spring.

Vattekkat — Cool tools.

Keith — Links.

Matt — Send a Fax from Java?

Carlos — 2003 in review - all the releases I could link to.

Mark — do not parse html with regexes.

New Products at MacWorld Expo. A short list of new products to be launched.

Macworld review: Digital Performer 4.1.

UMLet 2, a Java tool to rapidly create UML sketches.

Review: Gateway DMP-X20 Digital Music Jukebox.

Mitnick to exploit hackers for $500 a pop. Fame and glory awaits.

Movie ticket prices rising. Loews Cineplex and United Artists, 25 cents.

AP: Wal-Mart Music Download Service Mediocre.

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Frank — Text Messaging For Americans: a european take.

Marc — So long 2003…

Sam — Syndication and CSS.

Daniel — Year end notes.

Review: XMLSPY 2004 from Altova.

Martin — 2003 => 2004.

Matt — Leo Laporte: KFI's Tech Guy and RetroBox: Cool Cheap Old Gear.

Russ — New Year's Stuff.

David — Sony Ericsson P900 vs Nokia 7650 Picture Quality Test.

Apple unlikely to release smaller, cheaper iPods. Aren't rumors fun?

Emily — Phil Kaplan of FuckedCompany.com launches an anonymous moblog.

Alan — Setting up MailScanner on Redhat 9 and Linux Shell Script for testing for disk size.

Dion — Opinion: The End of the Beginning?

Marc — we need Reflection in MIDP.

Michael — JXPath to rescue!

Jack — Responses to last month, and December Java Performance News.

Matt — Jalopy source code formatter no longer free.

Adrian — The long hand of RIAA or simple plain dumbness ?

Eric — Why the FAA worries about your cellphone.

Danny — Raptor 1.1.0 released.

XFree86 core team disbands. XFree86 core team leader David Dawes has sent out a message stating that the core team has voted to disband itself.

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Russ — Received Messages.

Rael — Online Sony Ericsson Phone Configurator.

Daniel — CryptoPhone's limited "open sourceness".

Review: Toshiba e405 / e400.

Jus — Javascript and Form Trickery.

Lowem — How fast can you read?

Shay — The Java persistence poll results are in.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Bill — Reading for 2004.

Mark — My new book 'Java 10 Minute Solutions' is in print.

Bill — Sir Tim.

Charles — Valid HTML Woes.

The Year's Top Tech Movers and Shakers. eWEEK.com editors recognize some of the year's most influential figures in tech.

Wireless Firm Rings Up 'King'-Sized Entertainment. Jamdat Mobile unveiled a collection of products based on "LOTR: The Return of the King."

Quantum Framework for Java. A port of Miro Samek's Quantum Framework. 

JavaAPI View and Search Tool — JawaAPIHelper1.4 released.

JComposer is now OpenSource. JComposer aim to be a complete Java based music composition tool.

Andrew — List of free Java books for download (ver. 0.1).

Werner — Java Development with Ant : "good read".

Rob — Snow in Puget Sound Country. There's currently a little over 1 inch in Bellevue.

UK's 'Most influential' websites named. Google, eBay and Friends Reunited.

Tokyo Edge: New Gadgets for the New Year.

Today's sponsor is Atlassian.

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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.