Wi-Fi Day

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

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

moblogChris — WiFi Anywhere: The Pocket Router.

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

java blogDaniel — Holiday Pictures.

blogKasia — Best billboard ever.

blogDan — Voice over IP. Or not.

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

netCanada 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.

mobileWalt 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…

wirelessWiFi 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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Wi-Fi Day

java blogRuss — From Amazing to Plumbing: A year of WiFi.

java blogDominic — It's winter, time to Hibernate.

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

blogRuss — Geek TV.

javaJML 4.1_rc4, Java Modeling Language.

javaMacromedia: Java Developers Wanted!

java blogAnil — A Java Wrist Watch.

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

blogDon — Spoofing for Dummies.

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

netHow do Internet phone calls work? VoIP explained.

moblogEmily — Cell Phones' Bad Rap.

java blogPatrick — Another Web Framework - Shocks.

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

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

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

moblogDavid — Starbucks and WiFi in the UK.

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

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

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

blogRogers — Regular expressions are beautifully ugly.

moblogRafe — Inexplicable WiFi problems?

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

javaBeyond MVC: A New Look at the Servlet Infrastructure.

VoIP

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

pythonCharming Python: Review of Python IDEs.

javaEye on performance: Micro performance benchmarking.

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

javaMore About Handling Exceptions and Using HTML in Swing Components.

moblogJim — Wi-Fi Day.

python blogDave — IronPython.

java blogKevin — Groovy 1.0 beta 1 is available!

java blogKumar — J2SE: Update On J2SE 1.5 Early Access on Dec15th?

java blogMatt — Export JSPWiki pages to HTML using Hula.

blogBill — Tivo rc.sysinit.author.

blogAaron — Search By Number.

java blogBryan — Sun javadoc comments entertain again.

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

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

newsOffshore outsourcing: Little effect on US jobs?

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

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

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

java blogGregg — JCreator 3.0.

java blogM — Uploading SIP Services.

blogRoss — io.

javaJSch 0.1.12, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

java blogMark — blojsim 0.9 released.

netSecurity Experts Doubt SCO Was Attacked. Or was it?

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

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

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

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javaEclipse plugin Verion Tree 1.0 released.

javaCrionics announces jPDF Template, Merger, Parser and Encryption.

blogMatt — MythTV 0.13, KnoppMyth and MiniMyth.

moblogMike — Sun finally becoming active in mobile space.

netVoIP 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.

java blogMark — blojsim v0.5 support's blojsom 1.8.

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

windowsMicrosoft takes Lindows fight to Sweden. Wins restraining order.

blogBill — Need better WiFi coverage?

blogJeremy — A New Search Toolbar — From Copernic.

java blogMike — Formatted Dataset API.

linuxTrolltech offers Qt Solutions developer tools suite.

moblogRui — Mozilla/Extensions/wmlbrowser.

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

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moblogAlan — SanDisk.

java blogKumar — Java Desktop System is here.

blogLeslie — Quick Links.

java blogEric — One Awesome IDE — CodeGuide.

blogKeith — Hire me.

blogSimon — My first SitePoint article.

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

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

perlpENC 1.01, a Perl Source Code Encryptor.

netReport: AT&T to offer Internet calling.

technologySun 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.

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

blogRuss — Big Decisions. Congrats!

blogMatthew — Google goes India.

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

java blogMatt — Hibernate 2.1 Final Released!

java blogNick — Why No Java Interface for JVMPI?

blogJeremy — Music Formats And The Death Of Ownership.

blogSimon — A major contribution to road safety.

java blogMark — blojsom turns 1.7.

Half Baked

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developmentCollective 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.

java blogDaniel — CS for Poets.

javaObjectWeb 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.

javaUnderstanding JAXB: Java Binding Customization.

javaJava vs. .NET Security, Part 2.

blogMatthew — eCommerce will fail - in Germany.

moblogTom — Coping with SMS spam.

moblogMatt — Bluetooth keyboards for your mobile: one step closer?

blogAnthony — Cleaning Your iPod.

java blogRusty — The JBoss Project has released JBoss 3.2.3, an open source Enterprise JavaBeans application server implemented in pure Java.

blogDavid — Personalized (RSS) feeds or "Choose Your Own Adventure".

java blogDion — Interviews: J2EE Questions No One Else Dared to Ask.

java blogEmerson — Eclipse Open-gl Plugin.

java blogJohn — Microsoft Clarifies Intentions to Retire JVM-Based Products.

blogNeema — Dick Tracy Watch.

java blogPaul — My IoC article on JDJ.

java blogMatt — Upgrading Hibernate, Struts and Display Tag.

java blogKevin — Mozilla 1.6b Breaks Java.

netDenial-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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meExpect smaller/slower than usual updates… I'm not quite all there yet.

javaEADP for WSAD and VA Java. A development platform for building, with bean customization instead of programming, WebSphere applications that use servlets and JSPs.

javaDefensive coding and unit testing "rules of the road". Scott Will, Ted Rivera, and Adam Tate discuss some basic "defensive" coding and unit testing practices.

java blogDaniel — Play along at home.

javaJapo, a modular java preprocessor.

mobile javaJ2ME 101, Part 1: Introduction to MIDP's high-level user interface.

blogMatthew — Trend Watch 2004: eSports.

moblogJim — 3G: Three and Vodafone's different approaches.

blogPete — xcopy - Handy tool on windows.

netMozilla 1.6 Beta Released.

blogLowem — Worm gets into Windows ATM's.

java blogMichael — Java2Html rocks.

blogPatrick — Thick, Thin client ?

blogRob — CVS 1.12.4 - live on the cutting edge.

java blogSimon — Getting MIME types with java.net.FileNameMap.

java blogBrian — Query By Critera Library For JDBC.

java blogWerner — JBossCache out of the bag.

moblogWendong — MIDP 2.0 Phone Watch.

blogBob — XSLT and XPath Quick Reference.

blogHaiko — Quick Links, December 10.

blogJeremy — MySQL Geek Cruise?

blogKeith — web-sniffer.net.

java blogSimon — How to compile subversion javahl bindings on a Gentoo system.

javaJMP 0.37, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

netSmall 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.

Alive and almost kicking...

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meI 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.

Fever

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meI'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.

AaaaChuuuu!!!

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moblogDavid — Camera Phones Considered Harmful.

java blogSam — Eye of the Tiger - Generics in J2SE 1.5.

java blogMark — jive releases smack beta 3.

java blogPaul — How to Call an External Program from Java and Deal with Streams and Return Codes.

javaROXES XmlWrite 1.4 released as Freeware.

javaSketsa 1.5 released, a WYSIWYG SVG Editor.

pcIogear introduces BOSS network appliance.

linuxFedora Linux Advisory: kernel. Fedora Security Update Notification.

blogJames — The Peter Principle: software developers version.

java blogGeert — Funniest blog comment.

blogFeet Up! — TGV.

java blogAnthony — File.length() in loops.

blogJon — DevPartner Studio.

humor"2003 Foot in Mouth Award". Donald Rumsfeld.

blogRogers — Deprecating unused RSS 2.0 tags.

blogMichael — Morning Coffee Links.

mobileMaybe cell phones aren't so portable. Carriers typically place network restrictions, along with long-term service contracts, on phones they give away free or with substantial discounts.

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pythonMX4J 2.0 supports Jython. MX4J is a project to build an Open Source implementation of the JMX and JMX Remote API specifications.

javaLoad Testing with Apache JMeter. Got handle on how much your Website can handle?

mobileBuilding a Commercial App Part III: Getting Started with Source Code. Building, testing, and selling a small commercial BREW-based app.

java blogDaniel — Are Open Source tools worth the price?

javaFollow, a simple Java application which allows a user to monitor several log files concurrently.

javaDIET Agents, a multi-agent platform in Java.

netFCC Chairman Powell Wants Regulation Free Internet and VoIP. Powell believes in maintaining an Internet free from government regulation.

blogCarlos — Surprise! Blogging Roller in Technorati Top 100!

blogJim — SchemaWeb.

python blogMatt — OpenPGP in Python and What's Your Number?

moblogFrank — Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Review.

java blogAlan — www.javawebstart.net launched to promote java apps.

java blogRusty — Mark Lindner has posted the Jolt JVM Daemon 0.3.

java blogRichard — IBM and BEA: Are they thumbing their noses at the JCP?

java blogAndreas — Debuggers: a modern 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.

blogKen — Jay Leno drives the SLR.

java blogTim — Loading arbitrary classes from arbitrary places…. a lesson in Class Loaders..

java blogWendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (X) - Mobicq.

java blogLaszlo — jFreeSafe 0.2.1.

python blogChris — Interesting article on choosing Python.

blogChris — 'Right tool for the job' is stupid.

python blogNelson — Packet sniffing in Python.

netNetcraft: December 2003 Web Server Survey.

mobileReview — Sony Ericsson P900 smartphone.

netMP3.com archive is destroyed. What a waste.

newsJapanese Train Sets A Speed Record Of 581 kph. Maglev.

blogHaiko — Plain English, please.

Flu

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meVicki and I both have the flu. Though she's doing a lot worse than I am.

developmentPrecompiled headers. One of the features appearing in the upcoming GCC-3.4 release is so-called precompiled headers, which enables you to build applications at a faster pace.

java.NET and Oracle Java Stored Procedures. Bridging the Gap with XML.

moblogRuss — Carrier Choice Redux: Still Torn and GSM Phone Source.

java blogWendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (IX) - kCommand.

blogDan — Really Good Article on FreeBSD and OS X.

blogAndy — I bought a Hybrid Civic.

blogNorman — Goodbye blogshares .

java blogChris — Death to DynaBeans.

blogSimon — HTML entities for email addresses: don't bother.

linuxEric Raymond on Microsoft. Transcript of a recent conference call.

netWhen Free Isn't Really Free. Web giveaways increasingly come at a steep price…

linuxHackers used unpatched server to breach Debian. brk()ing and entering.

blogBertrand — XSLT syntax still sucks.

blogDave — "Wireless Music Done Right".

netThe Wells Fargo example. A new law took effect in California, that requires all companies to promptly notify individuals whose personal information was compromised by a cyber attack.

blogGlen — Keeping iTunes on top.

newsBell 'did not invent telephone'. German research scientist Philipp Reis.

blogEvan — P.V.C.S. is C.R.A.P.