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Carlos — Temporal Anomalies In Movies Explained.

Russ — Webcamming.

Andreas — jUnit to the Rescue.

Matt — I'm outta here. Nice tip.

Hani — Goodbye freeroller.

Kevin — Microsoft Monopoly Represents National Security Risk.

PayPal launches in the UK. Local delivery companies and a seller protection service included.

Keith — Joel Spolsky on Unicode and Character Sets.

Ted — Eclipse 3.0M4 is out.

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Tech Talk with John Crupi. The author of Core J2EE Patterns discusses the new patterns in his book and how he and his team re-architected eBay 3.0.

Diego — forget the typewriter, fire up those modems.

Daniel — Competition Announced.

Noah — The HotSpot Haven - A New Wi-Fi Directory!!

Guy — Wireless Widgets - a whole exhibition, in Las Vegas Oct 22.

Guillermo — Worker blogs raising concerns?

Debashish — Baby steps onto J2ME.

Alan — Tips for Java Guerrilla Warfare #4.

Simon — Firebird URL shortcut tips.

Xrefactory 1.6.4, a refactoring browser for Emacs, XEmacs, and jEdit.

Report: Bluetooth has security gaps.

First 14.1-inch Tablet PC. Acer's C300 convertible-style Tablet PC.

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I've just released version 1.0 of the Google Tag Library. Thanks to Matt, Russ, Jim and Diego for the assistance. If you have any questions, please join the mailing list.

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IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4, a set of Java classes and APIs with five sample applications.

Matt — To San Francisco.

Michael — From the Dumb Fucks Dept.

Leslie — Quick links.

Bill — Oh, we can hope, can't we?

ReadRadix — Brief hands-on review of the Sony PSX.

Kevin — JAXRPC RI Headers and mustUnderstand.

T-Mobile delays the Treo 600. November 24th.

No Napster 2.0 for the iPod. WMA, not MP3.

Google bug blocks thousands of sites. Choking on spam, noise – Bots are 'ready to give up'.

Why 'Download.com' isn't what it appears to be. The Reg fell for it.

The Most Dangerous Windows And Linux Security Threats. Fourth annual list.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Carlos — Open Source Portal Servers Written in Java.

Russ — Leaving on a Jet Plane. The boy wonder comes back to town. ;-) 

Toshiba Announces 3 New PDAs. The Genio 550 DT, Genio 550 CT and Genio 550 GT.

Glen — Forget PHP, JSTL is *so* productive.

Matt — Precompile your JSPs for Tomcat 4.x.

Brent — Mac OS X Innovators Special Presentation.

Christoph — Dell Inspiron 8600 hacks.

Review: Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools .

PDA images with J2ME. How to download and display images.

Advanced DAO Programming. Learn techniques for building better DAOs.

JAR Files Revealed. Explore the power of the JAR file format.

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Apple to Launch iTunes for Windows. Next Thursday.

Siemens Handset Sales Skyrocket. Up 44%.

Will — The Future of Native Interfaces.

Jayson — Blarg #1: Are JSP Still Relevant?

Samsung's Napster MP3 player. YP-910GS.

We discover that you can't use a wireless mouse on an airplane. BS with a capital B.

US nabs teen hacker in securities fraud scheme. A 19-year-old who allegedly took control of an investor's brokerage account using a Trojan.

Parents Sue School Over Wireless Network. Worried that exposure to the network's radio waves could harm their children.

Opera for Windows 7.21 Release Candidate 4 (w/out Java) Released.

New iPod Commercial Airs On TV. I've seen it a few times already.

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JDBC and XML usage report. What JDBC 3.0 features matter?

Goolge Bolsters Ad Tools. Added three new features to AdWords.

Nokia announces Series 60 based 3660, 3620. No surprise here.

Samsung Delays Release of SGH-i500 Palm-Based PDA Phone in US. But why?

Sam — My Article on OnJava.com.

Laszlo — First release of jFreeSafe.

Matthew — XRampSSL.com for Cheap SSL Certificates - Opinions? Any Recommended SSL Providers?

Dan — Why I hate C, reason #4,348.

JRefactory 2.8.9, a refactoring/pretty printer tool.

vCard4J 1.1.1, a toolkit to manipulate vCards (RFC 2426) in Java.

JFtp 1.38, a Java-based FTP client.

Intuit Apologizes For TurboTax Debacle. Bad activation scheme.

EMusic buyer to kill off unlimited download offer. "EMusic will remain the only service providing customers the flexibility and portability that comes with the open MP3 format."

Kevin — Suing your customers is bad.

Napster launches, minus the revolution. So yesterday.

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I'm planning on releasing the first public version of the Google Tag Library later on today.

Will — Mac OS X JNI Revisited.

Russ — Mobile Innovation.

Apple should have used Intel chips, Sculley says.

Matt — ZeroConf Under Linux.

Russ — OS as a Subscription Service.

Leslie — Quick links.

Ted — I'm jealous…

Opera for Windows without Java 7.21 Release Candidate 3 Released.

Orange, Smart launch Bluetooth car. I believe the new SAAB has BT built-in.

Bill Gates answers cop's child porn plea. Helping cops do their jobs.

Frank — WIRELESS magazine.

Review: Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book. Putting Stan Lee in his place.

Diego — feedster search plugin for Mozilla Firebird.

Smart Playlists.com launches for Apple iTunes. A new Web site has launched which focuses on Apple's iTunes Smart Playlists…

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I've released a minor update to IP Monitor for Java. Mostly dealing with Java 1.4.1 under Mac OS X.

Sue — Practical JSTL, Part 1.

Danno — SCO Group Sheds Light on Code Theft Case.

Jayson — Blog, blog, blog, why would a professional J2EE developer do this?.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.6b1.

Christoph — Multitasking Overhead - Costly Context Switching.

Eclipse EditorList Plug-in 1.0.5 , an Eclipse editor management plug-in.

Yahoo profits double again. $65m.

Do-Not-Call site has AT&T web bug. Trust us - we're a phone company.

Oracle offers up database to the little guys. Five-user license under $1,000.

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Java Live: What's new in Javadoc.

Matt — Roundup: From Mobiles to Grids and Mandrake 9.1 on the HP ze4430us.

Russ — Load Acrobat Faster and LookSmart: Burned By the Borg.

Better Mac to Symbian Sync with iSync 1.2.1. Improved support for Nokia series 60 devices and SE P800's.

The Coolest Gadgets from Demomobile. Tapwave Zodiac.

Kevin — Mac OS X 10.3 coming October 24 and Limitations of Java generics.

Simon — File access in EJB.

Matt — Panther coming in 14 days.

Vattekkat — Jodd.

Jeremy — Load Acrobat Faster…use Flash Paper.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell: Gizmodo reader. Cool!

Keeping track of all the new PDAs. Helpful chart.

First look at the Voq. Voq Smartphone from Sierra Wireless.

CNET removes anti spam software 'made by spammers'. Spam Remedy.

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Anil — N-Gage Network Performance.

MIDP Emulators. List of J2ME Emulators.

Dion — Windows install of Maven now easier.

Ted — More on the 15" AlBook and JBoss and "Professional Open Source".

Chris — J2EE developers needed.

Vasanth — Java Desktop For X Window and Recycle Eclipse.

Vinny — Can't wait for IntelliJ IDEA 4.0.

Leslie — Quick links.

Jeremy — Russell Beattie Discovers the Flash Platform.

JFig 1.2, a configuration utility.

FCC issues guidelines for number portability. The guidelines are non-binding.

Frank — Scoble explains what Microsoft considers innovation.

Simon — Scroll Lock.

Macworld Expo San Francisco registration open. January 5-9 at the Moscone Center.

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Microsoft extends Java VM support. Through September 2004, a nine-month extension.

Matt — Installing Debian on a HP ze4430us.

Russ — Speaking at O'Reilly ETech 2004 and ECMA-262 Edition 4.

Matt — What's the best way to test Tag Libraries?

Simon — How do you test tag libraries?

Alan — Java Desktop Review (MadHatter Preview CD).

Gerald — Kaffe 1.1.2 Now Playing.

Steve — RIAA Member Database/Page.

Haiko — Boys need Toys.

Simon — Unstructured linkage.

PMD 1.2.2, a Java source code analyzer.

Microsoft To Change IE in Wake of Patent Judgment. Most of the changes will be included in new retail versions of IE, no service pack planned.

The Treo 600 arrives. $599.

Anti-RIAA group calls for CD boycott. Halloween Raves to feature only shared songs.

Brent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.5.

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If you're a Kalifornia resident, get off your arse and go vote. This way you'll have something to bitch about when your candidate doesn't get elected.

Kazi Abrar emailed me about a list of free Networking Tools and MakeMSI.

Simon — Web applications and date entry.

JAG 2.1, a J2EE Java Application Generator.

Toshiba demos cellphone fuel cell. Make a phone call or light a cigarette, your choice.

jCIFS 0.7.14 , a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

Sony shows off hybrid PlayStation. Sony's all-in-one gaming and entertainment system, the PSX, goes on sale in Japan later in the year.

Simon — How I obtained my US Visa.

Ewan — developer.symbian.com?

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Matt — Wi-Fi Zone WAP Site: Is it Useful?

Russ — Mobile Email.

Simon — HttpClient - another great Jakarta Commons component.

Opera for Windows without Java 7.21 Release Candidate 1 Released.

Day the music died at MP3.com. The domain remains the same.

MSN Drops LookSmart. LookSmart's distribution and licensing deal with Microsoft for search listings will end in January.

Court overturns cable-modem rules. Competition is good.

Mike — Spin Java Petition - what a waste of time.

Vinny  — My Griffin iTrip finally ships.

Leslie — Quick links.

First look at the Pocket LOOX 610. Will Fujitsu release it outside Japan?

Napster 2.0 Launches this Week with Napster MP3 Player YP-910.

Matt — Exploring the syntax in the JDK1.5 early access compiler.

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Java Developer's Journal:

• One IDE to Rule Them All
• From Within the Java Community Process Program
• Multiple Inheritance in Java
• The Location API
• Java & Stream Ciphers
• Java Games Development
• I Love Logging!
• Zip Objects, Zap Wait Time
• Easing the Pain of Enterprise Application Deployment

Matt — Upgrading to Rawdog 1.3.

Rusty — Frederic Lavigne posted version 1.2.5 of his Skin Look And Feel for Java.

Mark — Should Sun Spin Off Java.

Dion — JOnAS 3.3 Released.

Luke — IDEA#.NET.

Matt — Java Infested Week.

Hani — Javadoc horrors.

Erik — JDwA on your Resume!

Seyed — BlogAds and Google AdSense.

Cedric — Bill Joy on the future.

7-Zip 3.11 released.

Java Vision Toolkit 2.3.0, an advanced imaging toolkit.

World's largest plasma TV. South Korean manufacturer LG Electronics.

UK teenager accused of 'electronic sabotage' against US port . Houston, we have a problem.

Nokia to sell 'several million' N-Gages in 2004. Launches midnight tonight.

Motorola to spin off chip unit. PowerPC: Go your own way.

Jim — Taco time.

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Informa, a RSS library.

Elemenope, a messaging framework.

Janne— Technorati hits 1 million mark.

Carsten — Hackathon Update.

Jim — Prepare to N-Gage - we have!

Kevin — Bloggercon roundup.

Review of new Moto M$ phone. MPx200/

SlideServlet 2.8, a Java servlet that allows you to share documents.

Matt — Chilly Roundup.

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Interview with Bill Joy. What's next? 

Rusty — FProfiler 0.6.1 and GNU Source-highlight 1.8.

Bill — Loading resources from the classpath.

Brian — Do-It-Yourself MIDP on Mac OS X.

Stefan — 9 VC-backed IPOs in Q3 /2003.

Charles — NetNewsWire Diff Feature.

Pierre — AdNonSense. My Google Tales in French.

Picking a TiVo. Raffi Krikorian, author of TiVo Hacks.

New Palms reviews roundup. Tungsten T3, Tungsten E and Zire 21.

Why Handspring came home to Palm. Family reunion at Treo 600 launch.

'Blogosphere' to reach 10 million, almost all dead - report. Teenage kicks.

Adrian — Ant goodies : extracting info from Eclipse .classpath.

Andreas — Downloads for Sony Ericsson P800.

Jeremy — RSS-Data and Feed Notifcation.

MacOS X Hacks: An Open Call. Have you found something cool that everyone should know about?

Tiger mauls Siegfried and Roy illusionist. Yeah, duh… Tigers are wild animals, not house pets.

Jude, a new tool which supports object-oriented software designing in Java and UML.

J2SE 1.4.2 Performance, a whitepaper.

JPluck X. Converts web sites & RSS feeds for offline reading on handhelds.

Matt — Lost in Translation.

Anthony — Donate to Sourceforge.

Dave — Blojsom vs. Roller.

Rusty— Mark Hale has posted version 0.91 of JSci, a class library containing many useful mathematical and scientific functions such as complex arithmetic.

David — Re: blojsom vs. Roller.

Luke — On Object/Relational Mapping Tools.

Matt — Dynamic Queries with Hibernate.

Chris — Immutable beans.

Fred — Cashing IN-J2ME.

Hani — Mock obsession.

Keith — Perl is awesome.

DbUnit 1.5.6, a JUnit extension targeted for database-driven projects.

Jarpend 0.8 beta, a tool to create jar-files containing all Java classes required by a given set of classes.

Putting the G5 through its paces. ComputerWorld puts the new dual-processor Apple G5 desktop through its paces.

Google Testing Frequent Searcher Program. Ever wonder just how often you use Google in a day?

Intel CEO admits: jobs aren't coming back to US. Barrett's offshore confession.

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Carlos — Is JetBrains Selling Arms to the Enemy?

Simon — Mac OS X 10.2.8 available.

Sean — Programmer Indicted on Charges of Shady Code Accounting.

Gordon — A quick primer on SOAP.

Pankaj — Cool site on SSH.

Rogers — Singing the praises of JSP taglibs.

Dave — JRoller.com.

Brian — He Should Call It 3650 Hints.

With all that Google NonSense I forgot to post last month's stats: 3854460 page views and 115910 unique visitors.

Beware the dangers of generic Exceptions. Catching and throwing generic Exceptions can get you into trouble quickly and quietly.

Discover new dimensions of scripted Java. BeanShell scripts become real Java classes.

What's your time zone? Get a handle on Java date and time classes.

Zohar — The Repetitive Test Injury Pattern.

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Hani — Really, really bad code.

Microsoft faces fresh lawsuit. Windows represents a "global security risk".

ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder and VeriSign Freezes Search Service.

New Psion NetBook runs Windows CE. Psion Teklogix's NetBook Pro.

Mers Kutt — the Canadian who invented the microcomputer. It was introduced a year before the MITS Altair 8800.

Bharanidharan — Classloader and Application Classloading.

Python 2.3.2 (final).

Jim — One step forwards, one step back….

Anil — Firmware upgrades?

Matt — Time to hook up the Senior J2EE Developers in Denver.

Guillermo — Should we sign the Spin Java Petition?

Resin 3.0, JSP 1.2 and Servlet 2.3 engine.

USB Gadgets May Not Work Fast As Claims. Differences between "full-speed" and "hi-speed" USB 2.0.

Bruce — UML Tool Survey.

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Julian — WiFi news sources.

Dave — Holy grail of Java web development?

David — What if I was blogger-in-chief for the NYTimes?

Matt — Simple "workaround" for exporting with the displaytag using Tiles.

Alan — The first brave souls sign the Spin Java Petition. Didn't even notice I was the first one to sign.

Julian — Testing Avant Browser. I like MyIE better.

Erik — Hubba Hubba.

JavaDICT 1.4, a server for the DICT protocol.

Use method overloading in Java. Overloading is the ability to have a class that has multiple methods with the same name that are differentiated by the number and type of arguments passed into the method.

Violet, a UML editor.

Matt — Linkdump Roundup.

Kev — Why didn't I think of that.

Bernard — Webwork - NoCacheInterceptor.

Rusty — Cocoon 2.1.2 and Saxon 7.7.

Aaron — How to increase heap size in eclipse (java.lang.OutOfMemoryError).

Joshua — Swing Hack 4: The universal right click.

Fred — New J2ME News Site and HowTO: Getting Windows J2ME sdks onto Linux/Unix.

Simon — Introduction to the J2EE Connector Architecture (and accessing flat files).

Alan — Tips for Java Guerrilla Warfare #3.

Jeremy — An RSS-Data / Namespace Experiment.

Niel — Beware of J2ME Email Clients.

Cedric— Objects that should budge.

Interview: SCO sets out its defense. PC Pro interviews SCO PR director Blake Stowell.

Opera for Windows 7.21 Preview 1 Released (w/ Java).

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Frank — MobileMT.

Henri — Commons-Lang: Justify your existence.

Dominic — Xen and the Art of Virtualization.

Joshua — I have seen the light.

Matt — Packaging Velocity.

Ross — My Eclipse Wish List.

Eugene — Back to work. Future projects.

JavaBot TNG 0.3, a Java IRC bot.

New Microsoft Smartphone on October 8th. Samsung's i600?

Allaire on Lookout for Hot Technologies . Jeremy talks about what he feels are the industry's hot trends.

Sculley: Still looking for the 'wow'. From where he sits, John Sculley enjoys a panoramic view of the IT landscape.

Jim — P900 On The Launch Pad.

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Andrew Orlowski at The Register has written an article recounting my Google AdSense tales.

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Create Web services using Apache Axis and Castor. How to integrate Axis and Castor in a Document-style Web service client and server.

Build and implement a single sign-on solution. Integrate an open source, Java-based authentication component into a Web portal.

Embedding the HSQLDB database server into Eclipse, Part 1. How to write a plug-in that integrates the HSQLDB database server into the Eclipse Workbench.

JOnAS 3.3, an Open Source implementation of the J2EE specification.

Flux 5.1 Job Scheduler, a full-featured job scheduler with completely open Java, J2EE, XML, and web services APIs.

OpenCms, an Open Source Website Content Management System.

SCO to Yank SGI's Unix License. In line to become the next target.

Matt — The Laptop Has Landed and The Xen Virtual Machine Monitor.

Russ — Sun is Hiring and Google Tightens The Screws.

Fred — Updated WME toolkit.

Patrick — Where there is Smoke, there's usually fire (Maven releases).

Hani — More maven bashing.

Prabhu — Get a List of IP Addresses assigned to an interface card and PackageForTheWeb from installshield.

Brent — Stuffit Expander 8 Bug.

Niel — Simple and Practical J2ME Applications and MIDP 1.0 is Still Relevant.

Exchanger XML Browser 1.1, an XML browser framework written in Java.

Eclipse (12 million downloads) shows big progress. Typical download day: 30K kits.

ZoneCheck 2.0.0b8, a DNS zone checking tool.

James Bond cigarette lighter camera. JB1.

Apple seeks Wi-Fi hotspot promoter. Wants to show wireless doesn't end with Centrino.

Mobility Resources. Resources for Wireless Java Technology Developers.

Alan — Please sign new Spin Java Petition.

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Dion — Maven bashing.

Dominic — LonghornBlogs is live.

Leslie — Quick links.

Jeremy — Sweet Google Justice and Injustice.

Keith — Angel. Good start.

Norman — Java Virtual Machine != Java Language.

Todd — Ring Ring "Hello" this is the RIAA calling!

HP's next Tablet PC. TC1100.

Alan — Wake me up when the JVM actually ships with Palm.

Diego — breaking news: email is broken and more on rss-data.

Russ — RSS-Data: Pull Based Method Calls for Client Apps.

Guy — Official: hackers have broken into GPRS billing.

Hybrids Can Be Cheap to Make, Toyota Says.

Markus — SearchAssist is pretty cool.

European web hosting company launches in US. 1&1 Internet.

On October 2, 1959 — “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.