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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.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Russ — Nokia: Mobile Media.

64-bit Laptops Reviewed. PC Notebook Panther 4HR and Voodoo PC Envy m:855.

Danno — Thick and Rich Like Snickers Cake.

Simon — PostgreSQL 7.4.

DataBrowser 3.2.3, a Java-based tool for browsing virtually any database.

Rio Karma 20GB Reviewed. The Rio Karma has been out on the market for over a month now with very little mainstream press…

Vinny — Struts Book Roundup.

Haiko — Quickl Links, November 24.

SCO: Without Fear and Without Research. Just the facts?

Matthew — How Far Away Is A G5 XServer or Laptop.

jmon 0.01, a system monitor with server and client programs to monitor ethernet interface statistics, memory and swap status, CPU load, and the status of TCP connections.

Matt — CERT Quarterly Update.

Matthew — Playing with Spring & WebWork2 — Yes, Together.

JXTA Instant Messenger 0.1g, a server-free instant messenger for JXTA/Java.

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Daniel — Nothing but Java?

J2SE 1.4 for the Enterprise Developer: File Management Made Easier.

J2EE 1.4 spec leads write an open letter to the community. Bill Shannon and Mark Hapner.

Jeff — Why can't IDEs use Ant as their project files?

Alan — .net community is as strong in many respects as the java community.

Rusty — Tip of the day.

Juan — Web app framework comparison chart.

Mike — Ant Anitdote.

Simon — Pragmatic Programmer t-shirts.

Martin — Entertainment Marketing 101.

jsXe 0.1.43, an XML Editor.

Tool debugs C/C++, Java concurrently. CodeRoad JNI Bridge 2.0.

Review: Nokia 6600.

U.S. tech job losses slow in 2003. Annual study shows employment increased in research and development in 2002.

Former HP/Compaq server guru heads to Nokia. Compaq clan shrinking.

Jim — Wiki love.

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Exploit Code on Trial. Publicity shots.

Archive.org to Vivendi: we'll host MP3.com's files. Save the music.

JILetters 0.0.2, a Java-based alphabet learning assistant.

Paul — Happy Birthday to Who.

JFaceDbc 2.1.1, is a JDBC plugin for Eclipse.

MS scorns Israeli OpenOffice defection. 'Immature and unproven software package'

Michael — This Just in…

Barbecue 1.0.6, a Java barcode generator.

Azureus 2.0.4.2, a Java BitTorrent Client.

Jim — Mobile keyboards, not yet extinct.

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Open Source Document Processor Babeldoc Announces v1.2.

Diego — Cairo (and WinFS) revisited.

Matt — cgi_buffer and Ivy.

Russ — Nokia 6600 - Series 60 a Year Later.

PC Magazine Names "Best of COMDEX 2003".

Anthony — System Icons.

Danno — Thick Client : Thin Client :: Red Pill : Blue Pill?

Glen — Thick or thin.

Brian — Event-Based Logging.

Charles — NetBeans re-write creates a fast NetBeans.

Magnus — Cactus 1.5.

Doug — User-Mode Linux: Run your own Linux box for $20.

Vincent — I want an IDE that manage his projects by using Ant!

Simon — Servlets are for integration.

James — Eclipse Startup Parameters.

Werner — JBoss-IDE 1.2.2 has been released.

Wendong — J2ME Open Source Projects (VI) - Thinlet.

iTunes copy protection sort of hacked by guy who did DeCSS decryption for DVDs. [via Amy's Robot Link Factory]

Andrew — OS X Startup Items.

Cedric — Syntax highlighting.

Charles — Jar File Hell.

jRPM 0.8beta, a Java version of RPM.

Java Tool Vendors Unite in Battle Against .Net. Java Tools Community.

Congress Passes Bill That Will Limit Spam. Congress moved significantly closer to the first-ever federal protections against unwanted commercial e-mails when the House passed a bill to impose new limits on sending offers on the Internet.

Simon — Tail for Windows.

I went to see Revolutions last Friday night. I liked it better than Reloaded. Overall, I think it would have made a good mini-series on the Sci-Fi channel. As a movie, it just wasn't that good.

Charles — Guerilla Anti-iPod Advertising.

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Daniel — Deadlines.

Bug patrol. Automate your software improvement process.

Matt — Thoughts on Series 90 SDK 2.0.

Matthew — LinkedIn - missing link?

NYT:  Congress Poised for Vote on Anti-Spam Bill.

Jeff — Eclipse 3.0 M5 is out.

Blaine — Decompile with a right click in windows.

Magnus — Messing with XDoclet's JMX support for JBoss.

David — A common misconception about laptop computers.

Simon — Using mock naming contexts for testing.

Jesus — eWeek Fedora Review.

Matt — RE: Compressing and Caching in your webapps.

Hani — Die petstores die.

Andrew — Diary of a switcher #8.

Chris — RedHat transition, up2date, etc.

Dan — Mark Liyanage Has Nifty OS X LAMP Software Resources.

Sam — RSS Test Technician.

Wal-Mart to write own name on notebooks. Wal-book?

Where's WiFi now? Forbes roundup of the different WiFi gadgets like printers, digital cameras, DVD players, and digital media adapters.

Internet Growth Slows, But Still Strong. The number of global Internet users continued to increase in 2002, although the growth was somewhat slower than in 2001.

Microsoft Settles Tennessee Class Action Lawsuit. $64 million.

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I installed GnuPG earlier today and converted my old PGP key. Surprisingly MacGPG is years ahead of its Windows conterpart, WinPT.

Sam — Proper Exception Handling.

Bertrand — Java, Flash and BeanShell: winning team!

Matt — New Series 90 SDK On Its Way.

James — codeja vu.

Fred — Sendo X-Where are the devloper Tools, Sendo?

Vattekkat — Quick Links.

Leslie — Quick Links.

JADC 1.0.005, Java Advanced Digital Clock.

US album sales show recovery. Album sales have rebounded in the US, with hip hop releases helping to end a sales slump.

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Tutorial: UI development with JavaServer Faces.

Magic with Merlin: Indeterminate progress bars.

Navigate the JNDI maze. Learn to find your bean's home interface without fuss.

Equipping SWT applications with Content Assistants. Boost end-user convenience and productivity with intelligent context-sensitive content completion proposals.

JSynoptic renders information graphically.

SSHWebProxy, a Servlet that enables access to SSH Shell sessions and SSH File Transfer sessions using a web browser.

RIAA Threatens 15-Year-Old. She was on the local news a couple days ago. Claimed she didn't know KaZaa was automatically sharing files.

Patrick — Java Open Source Progamming Book In Stores.

Matt — Setting up my Fedora box with Out-of-the-Box.

Derek — Send back your MP3s!

Nick — New Release - XDoclet Support for Struts DynaForms.

Wendong — BREW 3.0! and J2ME Open Source Projects (V) - MicroEmulator.

Niel — Review of X10 Java Libraries.

US agencies arrest 125 in Operation Cyber Sweep. Net fraud crackdown.

Bill Aims to Protect Phone Numbers of Wireless Customers. "I don't want the world to know my cell phone number."

Jython taglib for Tomcat. A generic taglib which can be used to embed Jython code into JSP pages.

Is Russia a Haven for Software Pirates? Allegations surface that another application is being shared illegally.

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Daniel — Securing the Wire.

Russ — Back in the Land of the Living, Mobile Quick Thoughts: AT&T, Symbian and Palm and AT&T Wireless RealOne for mMode Review.

Jim — London Pub Meet - Friday 28th November.

Rusty — QuickTime for Java Update 2.0 for Mac OS X 10.2.x, Jakarta Commons DbUtils and JSch 0.1.9.

Gilles — Best enterprise development tools and resources.

Norman — Why do free weblogs exist?

Steven — WebDesktop 2.1.

WinMerge beta 2.1.4.0, an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms.

Interview with Sun Java Desktop Group.

SBC challenges RIAA over subpoenas. Courtroom face off.

JPacker, an Automatic Java Packing Solution.

AT&T sues PayPal, eBay. Phone giant says firms payment systems violates patent.

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Kazaa Launches Legitimacy Campaign. A $1 million advertising campaign.

Carlos — The Exception Debate: Why Gosling and Hejlsberg are Both In Error.

Jim — SmallUrls.

Matt — Python At LinuxWorld.

Paul — Why does Open Source software exist?

Leslie — Quick Links.

Chris — Peek-a-boo logic in MySQL.

Rui — VNC.

JSynoptic 0.4, a graphical sheet editor.

SpamCop Getting Bought? Apparently, SpamCop is in the process of being bought by IronPort…

SanDisk delays Wi-Fi SD card Palm support to Q1 '04. Technical and non-technical reasons.

Norman — "Hello, J2EE" in 2 minutes for OS X.

Another Music Label That Gets It. Giving away free MP3s.

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Jagzilla, a Java-based set of components built around Bugzilla.

William — Re: Readable Java 1.5.

Two Servlet Filters Every Web Application Should Have. Compression and Cache filters.

Best Practices for Exception Handling. One of the problems with exception handling is knowing when and how to use it.

Matt — Inklog: What's That Scribble? and WordPress: Impressive!

Anil — Borland Mobile Development for i-Mode.

Review: Pocket Tunes 2.1.

Dominic — What Linux distro will your business use?

Paul — Linux, Open Source, and the Truth.

Wendong  — J2ME Open Source Projects (IV) - Antenna, Antic and JUnitME.

Jeremy — PostgreSQL 7.4 Release Thoughts.

Nelson — The Matrix: Revisited.

sjg 1.0, a framework for small Java games.

SwingWT 0.72, a implementation of the Java Swing API which drives SWT applications.

Jeremy — megg(site|thinlets|webwork2) updates.

Canoo to port ULC Visual Editor to new Eclipse framework.

Joe — I think people miss the point about EJBs.