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BlackMamba: Semi-automatic spam filter and email previewer.

Jonas — AspectWerkz announces support for BEA JRockit.

A Comdex mea culpa. Comdex general manager Eric Faurot explains how the once-acclaimed trade show fell into a funk.

Feet Up! — Phone envy and More traffic, less sense?

Leslie — Quick Links.

Daniel — Visualizing Complexity.

Ovm, a framework for building programming language runtime systems. The current emphasis is to produce a JVM compliant with the real time specification for Java.

MailBridge, tunnels POP and SMTP access through an HTTP connection.

UML/Dot, generates UML class diagrams from Java source or byte code.

JPTC, the Java Performance Portal.

Gentoo for PowerPC G5. Includes pre-released yaboot-1.3.11 bootloader and a 2.6.0-test9 benh kernel.

Study: Developers Think Java is Best Language for Web Services.

François — Sign of the times…

Matt — The 7700 Gets Noticed by Newsforge.

Dave — Date and Times displayingimport jav…

Glen — Fun with Apache JMeter.

Patrick — A french interview of steve ballmer on zdnet !!!

Andreas — Java Source Code Formatter.

Wouter — Upgraded to Tomcat 4.1.29.

Max — JIRA with internationalization!

Markus — Re: Evaluating Scripting Languages.

Dan — Does Anyone Really Care About Cross-Platform Development?

Jeremy — News: Nokia Confirms N-Gage Cracked.

Niel — GoodBye PocketPC, Hello Linux on iPAQ.

FileZilla 2.2.1b, a fast FTP client for Windows.

Review: Orange's new SPV E200 Smartphone.

Repeat after me: there is no black iPod.

SCO, IBM battle heats up. Subpoenas are flying in the high-profile lawsuit between the SCO Group and IBM.

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Daniel — Swing - again.

Jameleon 1.4.2, an acceptance-level automated testing tool an acceptance-level automated testing tool.

James — Yes, I've got a real job again.

Charles — CocoaDev.

Christoph — 50 new Oracle 10g books - download sample chapters.

Kevin — UPX: Packer for Executables.

TJDO 2.0, TriActive Java Data Objects. An open source implementation of Sun's Java Data Objects (JDO) specification.

ScriptLinker builds AppleScript links in HTML. If Then Software has released ScriptLinker 1.0, donationware. 

Quicktime for Linux 2.0.1. Quicktime support for Unix.

Novell Releases Ximian Red Carpet Enterprise.

Penn State trustee and RIAA lawyer denies conflict of interests. Here's to you, Mr. Robinson.

Allon — McDonalds is McPissed.

Martin — P900 First Impressions.

Matt — Buffer Overflow in Windows Workstation Service.

Don — Re: Struts Vs. WebWork Technical Comparison.

J2EE Certification — Free online preparation for your SCWCD exam.

Marshall — Random MP3 Player. Very cool!

Keith — joscar login tutorial updates.

Matt — Upgrading to Fedora.

Michael — Javascript Editor.

Thomas — Sun Certified Mobile Application Developer for J2ME.

Kellan — Codestriker, a web application which facilitates collaborative code reviewing.

Steven — Cold, Dead Hands.

htaccesser 0.1. A script for generating Apache .htaccess files.

The tyranny of TiVo. TV viewers find TiVo addictive.

FCC confirms that landlines are subject to new portability rules, too. Requires local telephone companies to let their customers transfer their number to a cellphone.

Yuichi — A WMA/MP3 player with a FM tuner.

Interview: Ex-Microsoft Employee Michael Hanscom.

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WSDL 2.0 Working Drafts Published. Web Services Description Language.

ArsTechnica Review: Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

ONJava Newsletter: Head First EJB.

Nokia N-Gage Cracked. "Now that the security on the N-Gage has been cracked the games can be played on other mobile phones as well such as the Siemens SX1."

Jim — O'Reilly's ETech Conference gets mobilised.

Martin — P900 On Deck.

Frank — Update your dictionaries!

New game phone from Sinclair Research. Inspired, indeed.

Matrix Revolutions cock ups. Net pedants quell Matrix Revolutions.

Russ — Two Quick Nokia 3650 Tips.

Kevin — Berklee releases course materials.

Charles — Has Microsoft ever sued anyone?

Dion — Sun aiming for unified plug-in standard if they join Eclipse.

Frans — HELP….HELP… Install Sun Java 1.4.2 or 1.3.1 on Debian.

Ray — J2SE SDK 1.4.2_03 ?

Bertrand — Panther will eat my fragments.

Jason — Re: comments to Struts Vs. WebWork.

Gateway Adds MP3 Player, Consumer Gear. 14 new products.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Ewan — America! America! Are You Ready For Me!!!

Glenn — Dell Offers Unlimited GPRS with New Card and T-Mobile.

Brett — Cactus: not as spiny as it sounds!

Books: Mastering Red Hat Linux 9.

Aimster calls for Supreme Court showdown. Deep goes to Washington.

Second build of MacPython addons for Panther. Mac OS X 10.3.

Why You Can't Ignore the JMS. A fateful Sun decision suddenly makes Java Messaging Service an even more important factor in corporate development.

PNG Second Edition Is a W3C Recommendation. Portable Network Graphics.

Martin — Mobi Boys Rockin' Down.

Matt — My $55 Bet on Symbian, Series 90, and the Nokia 7700.

Russ — The Carrier Choice and Worth Going Back?

Evan — Sun Certified Developer.

Jason — Even the Perl hacks are starting to come our way.

Matt — Need to recover deleted files on OS X.

Simon — Use Custom Tags to Aggregate RSS Feeds into JSP-Based Web Apps.

Hani — ASF vs JBoss bitchfight.

Simon — Bringing your Java Application to Mac OS X.

Jason — Struts vs. WebWork: A Technical Comparison.

Jeffrey — eBay SDK Article on OnDotNet.com.

Tim — Panther.

Kevin — FeedParser - an RSS Parser API for Java.

Stefan — Why Do We Sleep?

Steven — Toshiba e805.

Gartner: Handheld shipments slightly down in Q3.

Zohar — A Hole in the 2.3 Servlet Spec.

Java Performance Test Client 0.2.3, a tool for testing the performance of Java code.

JSwat Java Debugger 2.18, a JPDA based graphical Java debugger.

The Art of Advanced Link Building. Link popularity remained one of the hottest topics of discussion at the San Jose Search Engine Strategies conference.

Qwest to sell VoiP to Harry Homeowner says Dick Notebaert, CEO.

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Daniel — You know what I mean.

The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. 'Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid…'

Matt  — Best. Craiglslist Post. Evar!

Matthew — ETech 2004 details.

Russ — Relativity.

Apple ad claim rubbished by watchdog. G5s are not the "world's fastest, most powerful personal computer".

Sony Music wants buyers to like copy protected CDs. Copy protected CDs that also include "a compressed digital copy of the music that can be quickly copied onto any computer."

Eric — Gartner Declares Premature Victory for Microsoft Smartphone.

Rusty — Excelsior has posted the third beta of FlawDetector 1.0, yet another lint-like static code checking tool for Java.

Dion — Jakarta Team Releases New Jakarta Commons Primitives Package and Alledged Code Copying in Apache Geronimo spurs JBoss response.

Sam — J2EE/JSP Week at SitePoint.

Joshua — Swing has failed. What can we do?

Eric — SCO Claims Ownership of Patriot Act.

Matt — Why I don't use My Eclipse IDE.

Hani — The senior architect syndrome.

Chris — Managing packages for OS X.

RealRadix — After the iPod.

Ross — What Kind of Social Software Are You?

Microsoft sets low price for Virtual PC 2004. $129 + MSDN subscription.

Mac OS X v10.3.1 improves FileVault, FireWire 800, more.

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Dion — 1 NetBeans facelift coming up!

Matt — CodeCon 2004 CFP.

Newton II in January? Dvorak thinks so… I loved my Newton. I love my Zaurus.

Jim — Clay Shirky - genius or troll?

iTunes Music Store Is "Invention of the Year". Time Magazine.

Palm Zire 21. Reg Review The perfect beginners' PDA?

jTunes 4, a Java-based iTunes clone.

New, Clearer, IP Defensive, Apache Licenses Proposed. "reflect changes in the community regarding patents and contributing…."

Nokia not buying Psion. Rumors denied.

Joe — RSS Feed Quality.

'Wheel of Fortune'. Show celebrates 4,000 shows.

A Glimpse Inside the Virus Writer. "Virus writing is not rocket science"

Joe — New Book: Java Open Source Programming.

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Develop state-of-the-art mobile games. Trends in mobile games and a survey of related J2ME APIs.

Matt — Blog-it.

Elton — Java Games.

Jason — Code in books part II.

Michael — How do you teach Java?

Maxym — Corporate OpenSource.

Jesus — Fedora Core 1 Review with Pictures.

Neema — Motorola's 3g Phone.

Patrick — XPath and JAVA, where to start?

Simon — TagUnit 1.0 available.

Werner — MyEclipse 3.6.4 released.

Counterfeit new $20 bills already in circulation. [from Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Kevin — Google lies about search terms.

Stuart — A perl script to create release notes from a cvs log file.

Charles — [AHOV 1] Directory Traversal and [AHOV 2] SQL Injection.

JFreeReport 0.8.4-5, a Java class library for generating reports.

Windows Media Player 9 : toujours pas de DRM. No DRM.

JMyra 2.0.3, a Java monitoring plaform with support for multiple logging APIs.

Debugging with Eclipse. An overview of how you can use the built-in debugging features in the Eclipse Platform for debugging your software projects.

unix2mac and mac2unix.

Rusty — JCalendar 0.7 and version 2.4 of JProfiler.

Michael — J2ME tech tips from JavaRanch.

On November 10, 1969 — "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS.

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Carlos — How Much Faster is Java on a 64-Bit AMD Opteron?

Diego — short presentation on blogging.

Matthew — EuroSource launched.

Elton — Java Magazine #10 and MP3 Player Applet.

Rusty — TRIEMAX Software has released Jalopy 1.0, a $40 payware source code formatter.

Gregg — Sun Java Desktop System.

Jesus — Fedora Core 1 Review.

Cheah — Ahem! 5 reasons not to buy an iPod.

Rick — To Binstock: What, Me Worry?

Simon — Secure Panther.

Wendong — J2ME Size and Performance Tips.

Chris — Java Documentation Isn't Keeping Up With Java.

Dan — Apple Pulls a Microsoft-Style Stunt With Defaults.

Paul — SD Button Logos.

Jeremy — CVS Commit Notifications via E-mail.

Rob — Here's a Mozilla Searchplugin for OTN.

Stefan — Google with 21 Worldwide Offices.

Charles — Review: Matrix Revolutions.

Antenna 0.9.11, a set of Ant tasks for developing J2ME/MIDP applications.

Napster DRM. Digital Rights Management.

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Matt — How Much for that 7700 in the Window?

How to create a SIS file and How to create a SIS file - Part II.

Billy — Why are JMS APIs restricted in J2EE and how to workaround it.

Tim — Java v. C++, why do we bother?

Dave — Visual Tags for Struts.

Simon — I've been blogging for one year! Congrats.

Don — StAX Fun.

Jason — BlogThis! for the Google Deskbar and a few more searches.

Windows Media Player 9 for OS X available for download.

Napster: 'We will take market share from Apple'.

InfoWorld 100 winners. An industry breakdown of outstanding IT projects.

Senate Scraps Internet Access Tax Ban Vote. Lawmakers unable reach compromise on whether to make ban permanent or temporary.

Intel acquires Wi-Fi chipmaker. Mobilian.

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EGOTHOR, an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java.

Jason — Code samples in books.

Erik — More on Zinio.

What does C have in common with a scalding cup of coffee? Opinion Security's Brewing Mess.

Jerba, a simple persistence framework for J2EE.

Sun still pondering Eclipse move. Company seeks unified development plug-ins.

:Carlos — Will Google Deskbar Promote Java on the Desktop?

Rusty — Tom Copeland has released PMD 1.3.

Keith — The Java is Faster than C++ and C++ Sucks Unbiased Benchmark.

Andreas — CruiseControl.

'Titanic' voted Worst Film Ever by BBC viewers. 'A.I.' is second. [from Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Chris — Well Done, Apple. Just one of the reason why I would never buy a song from iTunes. As long as I have to give up my rights to get low-quality digital content, I will buy CDs and rip them myself.

Tim — Picture Windows.

Wi-Fi providers move toward ISP model. Wayport, T-Mobile…

Dion — Why it is easy for the quality of Open Source Projects to be bad.

Andres — fedora core one slated tonight.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Basic principles in database tuning. This article is excerpted from the book Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques.

Daniel — Therefore, BOOM!

McDonald's Denies Deal With iTunes. Tsk… Tsk…

Diego — The Matrix Revolutions: a review.

Tom — OrangeWorld portal updates.

Gregg — Java.net vs Sourceforge.

Simon — First impressions of Clover and Minor TagUnit changes before 1.0 release.

Jesus — Fedora Core 1 INSTALLED!

Nick — "Enterprise J2ME" — expand your enterprise skills to new horizons.

Luke — SharpReader 0.9.3.

Matt — [New Book] Art of Java Web Development: Frameworks and Best Practices and Run Multiple versions of IE on the same Windows OS.

Mike — Good Ideas by Rogue Amoeba.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Don — Tomcat and Windows Server 2003.

Erik — QueryParser Rulez.

Bill — Google's HTML Deconstructed and Apache Cocoon Recipes.

Kevin — Java Deadlock Detection with 'kill'.

Getting to Know Fedora Core 1. Not Red Hat 10.

Father of Java joins Sun tools group.

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Java 1.4.2 Developer Preview 1 for Mac OS X 10.3 is now available for all ADC members.

Tutorial: Java certification success, Part 1: SCJP.

Tip: How to create a simple JAX-RPC handler.

A practical introduction to TriActive JDO. TJDO, a lightweight, open source implementation of Sun's Java Data Objects (JDO) 1.0 specification.

Scheduling recurring tasks in Java applications. All manner of Java applications commonly need to schedule tasks for repeated execution.

Use a consistent trace system for easier debugging. When faced with a thorny bug, many developers use System.out.println statements…

Invoke Web services with Java clients. A look at Web services clients in the J2SE and J2EE environment.

Matthew — JSF Impressions - update.

Russ — First Day in the New Pad.

Dell Axim X3i Coupon — Final Cost $306. Coupons galore.

Brett — Mike Cannon-Brookes on TSS and WebWork.

Michael — Redhat, Fedora and common questions.

Matt — My Development Environment.

Aaron — Labs: Google Deskbar.

Brent — Can you make money?

Marc — Longhorn Architecture.

Cedric — JSR 175 available for public review.

Bluetooth reaches 1.2. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) announced the adoption of Bluetooth Specification Version 1.2.

Napster and Penn State Announce Free Music Deal. Penn State University reached a deal to offer students free access to the Napster music service.

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Tutorial: Handling Messages, Errors and Exceptions in Struts 1.1.

Tutorial: Code Smarter, Not Harder, With XDoclet.

Tutorial: The Pitfalls of Inheritance.

Java API for XML Processing: Getting Started with JAXP.

The New Java USB API.

Logging with log4j: An Efficient Way to Log Java Applications.

Matthew — JSF impressions.

Patrick — I've got a picture on you !!!

Rob — The Matrix Reconsidered.

Christian — Using Jalopy with UltraEdit.

What is the Meatrix? [from Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Cedric — Installation from hell (volume 2).

Walmart Music Store. The New York Post reports that Walmart is finalizing deals with the five major labels and plans to launch its own music download service…

FTC peers through Windows weakness. Press conference "to address consumer concerns" about the Windows Messenger service.

Rusty — Jakarta Commons Primitives 1.0 and POI 2.0 RC 1.

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Daniel — SOAP - just a name.

JSP 2.0: The New Deal, Part 1.

A Java-Based Music Player For MP3, Ogg, & WAV. Putting the JavaSound API to work.

Carlos — Open Source Structured Graphics Libraries Written in Java.

Matt — Series 90 C++ Emulator and Development Environment.

Bernard — Java Uuid Generators and Java UUID Performance Benchmarks…

Sam — FeedDemon 1.0 RC3 is out.

Michael — EJB 2.1.

Ted — Matrix Revolutions (no spoilers).

Vincent — JUnit in Action news.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Conor — Finger Phones.

Rob — I forgot that Firebird handles JAR URL's like Java does…

Martin — Matrix Regurgitated.

NY Post: McDonald's to do billion-song iTunes giveaway.

JFormula 2.4, a Java library for evaluating mathematical expressions.

Sony's $60 iPod? No way.

PC sales are getting better, better all the time. IDC on Germany and UK markets.

Red Hat's Fedora released - the upgrade path for the rest of us? What if we have a cuckoo in the nest here?

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Carlos — Rendezvous Enabled Distributed Build!

Diego — the matrix revolutions: the abridged script.

Matt — Testing C++ Applications on Series 90 and Apache Axis C++ 1.0 Alpha.

Elton — Poseidon for UML 2.1 is out.

Simon — Deploying Pebble on Resin 2.1.x.

Chris — On Hani and I'm a Console Cowboy.

Chris — Initial Matrix impressions.

Keith — Matrix Revolutions.

Rick — First programming language ideas?

Simon — easytoggle and debugging in Safari.

Dan — Da Matrix.

Chuq — Lunar Eclipse Saturday.

WinSCP 3.4.2 released.

JavaThrottle 0.1, a pipe bandwidth limiter.

Apple says could easily move to Intel, but happy with IBM.

BEA Releases Finalized StAX. The streaming API for XML.

'Critical' Office 2003 Patch Released. Microsoft plugs holes in Powerpoint, Word and Excel.

I spent most of the day getting familiar with JFreeChart and Cewolf.

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Exchanger XML Editor 1.1. Cladonia Ltd.

GJTester, a Java Testing Tool.

David — AtomAPI 0.8 forthcoming.

Mike — SD Magazine Review of Bitter EJB.

Cedric — Installation from hell (volume 1).

Matt — trying my hand at freelance work: P800 review.

Number portability winners and losers. MyRatePlan.com is running a poll.

Hani — I loathe Redhat users.

RIAA Anti-Piracy Campaign Having An Impact. 1.4 million American households deleted all the digital music files on their computers.

Anthony — JCE.

Joshua — Swing Hack 5: a magic lens.

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Matt — Wallop: Microsoft Enters the Fray.

Worldwide cellphone shipments up 21% for the 3rd quarter.

Martin — Light & Camera: Then We'll Have Action!

Chris — Trying out Scarab.

Eddy — Capturing keystrokes with GetAsyncKeyState.

Dion — Oracle leads multinode SPECJAppServer2002 with new results.

Emerson — Bug fix version 2.1.2 of Eclipse is out.

Ed — The problem with DRM.

Mark — Fedora Core Test 3 - First Thoughts.

Ted — All PGP Keyservers are not created equal.

Mohd — JSTL format with multiple Resource Bundles.

Keith — Apache's kicking ass.

Marc — All-in-one Media PC.

Secure FTP Bean 2.0.11, a Java bean for performing secure FTP transfers.

First look at the PlayStation Portable. PSP.

Sony to offer $60 iPod? Not likely. Apple and Oranges.

Microsoft Offers $500,000 Bounty for Virus Writers. MSBlast and Sobig.