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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.

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David — Camera Phones Considered Harmful.

Sam — Eye of the Tiger - Generics in J2SE 1.5.

Mark — jive releases smack beta 3.

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

ROXES XmlWrite 1.4 released as Freeware.

Sketsa 1.5 released, a WYSIWYG SVG Editor.

Iogear introduces BOSS network appliance.

Fedora Linux Advisory: kernel. Fedora Security Update Notification.

James — The Peter Principle: software developers version.

Geert — Funniest blog comment.

Feet Up! — TGV.

Anthony — File.length() in loops.

Jon — DevPartner Studio.

"2003 Foot in Mouth Award". Donald Rumsfeld.

Rogers — Deprecating unused RSS 2.0 tags.

Michael — Morning Coffee Links.

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

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

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

Daniel — Are Open Source tools worth the price?

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

DIET Agents, a multi-agent platform in Java.

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

Carlos — Surprise! Blogging Roller in Technorati Top 100!

Jim — SchemaWeb.

Matt — OpenPGP in Python and What's Your Number?

Frank — Sony Clie PEG-UX50 Review.

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

Rusty — Mark Lindner has posted the Jolt JVM Daemon 0.3.

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

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

Ken — Jay Leno drives the SLR.

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

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (X) - Mobicq.

Laszlo — jFreeSafe 0.2.1.

Chris — Interesting article on choosing Python.

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

Nelson — Packet sniffing in Python.

Netcraft: December 2003 Web Server Survey.

Review — Sony Ericsson P900 smartphone.

MP3.com archive is destroyed. What a waste.

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

Haiko — Plain English, please.

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

Precompiled 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.

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

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

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (IX) - kCommand.

Dan — Really Good Article on FreeBSD and OS X.

Andy — I bought a Hybrid Civic.

Norman — Goodbye blogshares .

Chris — Death to DynaBeans.

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

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

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

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

Bertrand — XSLT syntax still sucks.

Dave — "Wireless Music Done Right".

The 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.

Glen — Keeping iTunes on top.

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

Evan — P.V.C.S. is C.R.A.P.

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Daniel — Debuggers are a wasteful Timesink.

Apple Answers to LDAP DHCP Exploit. Configure Directory Access to Protect Your Mac From a Malicious DHCP Server.

Optimizing Web Services Using Java, Part I - Generic Java and Web services.

Carlos — Eclipse Embeds OSGi Based MicroKernel.

Jim — Mobitopia Postings and Symbian OS Developer Days.

Matt — Xine: 1.0 is Approaching.

Russ — S60 Bluejacking: Send A URL!.

Anil — iMode vs. iMode : the difference between the East and the West.

Pete — Generic Search Engine Safe URL's on Apache.

Danno — Some Code Never Dies.

Michael — Micro Payments.

Simon — Ahh crufty code.

Patrick — Lots of OpenSymphony Releases.

Juan — Installing Java on Debian.

Hani — Awkward download links.

Chris — What is the most dynamic language?

Brent — Developers and users perspectives.

Luke — MTBlacklist Updater 1.0.

Norman — Rewriting the classpath at runtime.

Cedric — It's all about ease of use.

Rogers — Java coders have lost their POJO.

Steven — Best Tab Ever.

T-Mobile buys world's fourth biggest Wi-Fi provider. Snaps up Metronet.

RIAA wins round in file-swapping suit. Change of venue.

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This blog started 3 years ago.

Distcc Compiler. A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler.

JTextCheck, a spell-checking API for Java.

Java EPS Graphics2D package.

What's Wrong with the Open Source Community? "But sometimes, the Open Source community can be its own worst enemy."

Ewan — Thoughts on the Symbian Dev Day Keynotes.

Matt — Sendo X and The Stability of MIDP 2.0.

Alan — We have Applets, Servlets and MIDlets, we now need CARlets.

Simon — Abstract classes are not types.

Matt — Struts Menu 2.0 Released!

Mathias — SiteMesh 2.0 released!

Tim — Classpaths in Executable JAR Files.

Vincent — JUnit in Action - book signing in Paris.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Markus — Eclipse switching to new runtime.

Don — How BitTorrent Works.

David — Theory of Compatibility (Part 1).

Pierre — jsFind - Static Web Page indexing.

Martin — Wordsmith.

WinCvs 1.3b14 released.

JFreeChart Version 0.9.15 released.

Jameleon 1.6, an automation testing framework.

.name registry site hacked. Apache exploit causes embarrassment.

Asian Pirates Sell Microsoft's Next Windows System. Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Windows years before it is supposed to be on sale.

An Open Letter to Music Pirates and "DVD Jon".

If he wasn't actually serious, it would be laughable.

Fair use is about removing arbitrary DRM restrictions on digital media, which, by the way, is legal. It has nothing to do with pirating.

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Regular Expressions in J2SE. JDK 1.4 supports regular expressions in the java.util.regex package.

Java vs. .NET Security, Part 1.

Carlos — Ulterior Motive Behind BEA and IBM Joint Spec?.

François — Sendo X unveiled.

Martin — Business2 International Petition.

Matthew — MobiCon - just a rumor!?

Russ — Neat Use of iTunes.

Preview: Sendo X.

Dion — Opinion: Encapsulation or Representation.

Matt — My Favorite Eclipse Plugins (Download v1.0).

Prabhu — Free Windows Installer.

Paul — Ideas for Series60 Developers.

Mark — IBM and BEA reinvent the Web.

CNET Plans To Relaunch MP3.com As A New Indie Music Download Site.

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Dion — Eclipse 3.0 M5 Released.

Mathias — Clickstream 1.0.1.

Senate Postpones Web Tax Vote. Legislation banning taxes on Internet access won't be voted on this year.

Public Wi-Fi still has look and feel of dead duck. Grand Unification Theory.

JASA 0.23, a high-performance auction simulation software.

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Jim — The King is Dead, long live the King.

Dave — Experimenting with Erik's XML encoding methods. You can download/view the class I donated from here too.

Matt — Unix Utils for Windows.

JCache alpha 4, a Java Caching Service.

Folks paying for music downloads doubled in H1. 10M Americans pay for music downloads in Q2.

Anil — Nokia Multimedia Converter.

Jeremy — Macromedia Central and Internet 2.0.

Daniel — Fahrin's Questions.

Michael — Morning Coffee Lazy-Links.

We Are TiVo. Jim Lynch discovers the TiVolution and becomes an instant convert.

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Tutorial: Build a Java Web App Using HttpUnit and the Test-driven Methodology, Part I.

Carlos — The Secret World of Exception Handling Frameworks .

Matt — Thoughts on Mobile Multimedia.

Sendo webcast of X launch at 1500 GMT. Watch out for the AAS chaps in the audience.

Eric — FExplorer WINS build!

Alan — An Anti-Spam web service is what we need.

Rusty — Frederic Lavigne posted version 1.2.7 of his Skin Look And Feel for Java. .

Joe — Berkeley DB for Java.

James — Continuations in Java: Brakes and RIFE look cool.

Tobias — Captious Chained Exception Handling.

Jonathan — New Site : www.JavaWebStart.NET.

Ted — Hello World from Mac OS X.

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (VII) - MathFP and JMFP.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Alison — Effective XML.

Mats — Automatic code inspection is a pipe dream.

Kasia — Brought to you by the letter $.

Keith — JPie.

Rui — Edengraph.

Using LDAP to Secure J2EE Applications in WebSphere Studio Application Developer V5.

Bill Joy spurned job at 'out of control' Google. Toys R'Us.

On November 26, 1941 — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. In 1939 Roosevelt had signed a bill that changed the celebration of Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of November.

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Daniel — Garbage Collection.

Matt — View Your Site Under Safari.

Zohar — A Hole in the 2.3 Servlet Spec - Closed in 2.4 Final!

Jim — Code rage.

Matt — Fedora like OS X?

Andrew — Nokia 3650 GPRS connection with Mac OS X .

Kevin — Glorius!

Mark — HTTP Error 447: Gone until I get the attention I deserve.

Jeremy — Update: More DRM Woes For Online Music.

Bill — More Reasons to Despise the CA DMV.

Rui — AT Commands.

Morgan — Belkin Voice Recorder for iPod.

US approves anti-spam legislation. US Senators adopted the "Can-Spam Act" following a recent vote by the House of Representatives.

Commentary: Giving Java a jolt.

Feds simulate terrorist cyberattack. Livewire.

Top Tip: Defrag in Linux?

Netcraft: Growth in Hostnames, IP Addresses and Web Facing Servers 1999-2003.

Independent Film Producers Sue MPAA Over Screener Ban. The argument they make is that in banning the screeners, it will be harder for independent films to win awards.

MPAA, RIAA seek permanent antitrust exemption. Get out of jail free.

Scripting flaws pose severe risk for IE users. Disable now.

The Java Specialists' Newsletter: Catching Exceptions in GUI Code.

Mike — Donating Tunes.

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Moving from HTML 4.01 to XHTML 1.1. HTML 4.01 has evolved into a new markup language dubbed XHTML, based on the XML standard developed by the W3C.

Get the Current Host Info. This program prints out the name and the address of the local host.

Bug patrol. Automate your software improvement process.

QuickServer, a Java library for creation of a multi-threaded, multi-client TCP server applications.

Microsoft Retires NetMeeting. Office Live Meeting pushed for online meetings.

Review: Java Frameworks and Components.

Tutorial: Using Maven to build your J2EE Projects.

Matt — XPostFacto Boots Panther On Older Macs.

Sharp confirms next-gen Linux PDA specs. Zaurus SL-6000 to ship next month.

Number Portability Day One: Switchers Hesitant. The first reports are in from the first day of number portability.

Tobias — J2EE 1.4 is final.

Bill — Answer Your MIDP 2.0 Questions.

John — Java Servlet v2.4 and JavaServer Pages (JSP) v2.0 "Final" Specifications released.

Mike — Our book is out!

Juan — I don't want to hear about it Mr. dotnet.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Bruce — SPO: Solve the Problem Once.

Norman — My impressions of the "Java" Desktop System demo.

Chris — RBL's : Easynet's throwing in the towel.

Bryan — Sun javadoc comments entertain again.

Rui — SVG.

Microsoft-Lindows battle delayed. The court case, over Microsoft's ownership of the word 'windows', has been delayed for at least another three months.

HP's Clarke Resigns. Executive Vice President Jeffrey Clarke, former Compaq CFO and a key figure in the HP-Compaq merger, has resigned, effective immediately.