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Java Authentication and Authorization Service in Java 2. JAAS in J2SE.

Fred — Usefull Eclipse Plugin.

Jay — Write once, use everywhere.

Gerald — Eclipse now runs on Jikes.

Chris — Xcode: Apple's Answer to Visual Studio.

Windows Media Player 9 for OS X is ‘coming soon’.

17" PC laptops push portability limits, unlike PowerBook.

Todd — Did some of SCO's code come from BSD.

Broadcom, Philips shrink Wi-Fi phone chips. The new chips are based on 802.11b and will target manufacturers of portable devices.

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Matt — age++. Happy Bday!

Diego — the mobile platform wars.

Music piracy amnesty ‘expected’. The US music industry considers offering an amnesty to music swappers if they promise to delete their files.

Carsten — Cocoon 2.1.1 Released.

Blaine prepares for starvation stunt. Illusionist David Blaine is making the final preparations for his latest stunt, which will see him encased in a plastic box over the River Thames.

Alex — Apache Geronimo's ‘State of the Project’.

Charles — PyObjC.

PircBot 1.2.4, a Java package for quickly and easily creating your own IRC bots.

IBM's new Prime-time linux ad. (Video)

Top 50 ‘cellphone’ games. Action Packed.

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THQ launches Java games portal. The Madtap web portal where users can download Java games direct to their mobile handsets.

Python beginner's mistakes. Newbie pitfalls.

Russ — Wanna Work for Google?

David — How does Erik Thauvin choose his entry titles? For the two in question, look at the very first entry of that day. ;-)

Luke — IntelliJ IDEA Aurora Easter Egg.

Brett — Neat Stuff in IntelliJ.

Ted — Python 2.3 .chm files.

Leslie — Quick links.

Kevin — Posix and Java.

Norman — Friends don't let friends write singletons.

JarBuilder 0.8 released.

FreeBSD JDK 1.4.1, the official FreeBSD port of Sun's Java Development Kit.

Sam — Of Singletons and Static classes.

Sheldon — FreeBSD Decaf.

On September 5, 1987 — “American Bandstand,” hosted by Dick Clark, was canceled after 30 years on television.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Macromedia to court J2EE developers. New set of tools build around Flash.

Dave— Tiles is a tough sell.

Brett — DBUnit.

Jess 6.1p5, a light rule engine and scripting environment written entirely in Java.

eBay shuts down iTunes song auction. Bummer.

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“3” locks down A920, in a move to thwart would-be hackers.

Matt — How to run Tomcat on Port 80.

Dominic — WURFL.

Pawn — Reusable Java Components..

Jay — Oracle releases J2EE 1.4 preview.

Daniel — Access USB via Java.

Christoph — Top 10 Myths of Project Management.

JRefactory 2.8.01, my favorite refactoring tool.

FTC: Identity theft strikes 1 in 8 adults.

Notebook growth still outpacing PC market in Q2. HP led the world in notebook shipments, followed by Dell.

World's most notorious cybersquatter arrested. John Zuccarini finally brought down by Feds.

Jakarta Turbine Web App Framework 2.3 Released.

UI development with JavaServer Faces.

JSP best practices: Pack 'em up! JAR your custom taglibs for safer, easier distribution.

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Apple set to go Intel. Apple is prepping for the release of an Intel based PC running “an Apple OS” for January 2004 at Macworld in San Francisco.

Friendster Receives a Helping Hand. $1m from angel investors.

Jay — Is Java Finished?

Russ — More CSS Stuff.

Over 500m handsets to ship next year. Cameraphones bringing back buyers.

Matt — Hibernate's New Site and Good CSS Design at Lee Jeans.

Firm promises all-in-one operating system. Can run programs written for Windows, Linux and Palm?

Todd — Tired of using a paper phone book or calling 411.

Philip — .NET on Linux, part 2 – “It's the API, stupid”.

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Charles — Reverse Engineering Is Not Theft.

Mike — WikiWeblogPIM.

Jay — Marc Fleury: Doing It Wrong, Getting It Right.

Alan — The selfish “java gene”.

After the iPod. Philips' HDD100 , Rio's Karma, iRiver's Hp-100, Toshiba's Gigabeat G20, and Creative's Nomad Jukebox Zen NX.

Israeli boffins crack GSM code. Phreak Like Me.

Simon — Groovy new Bloglines feature.

JacORB 2.0, an Object request broker written in Java.

Eddy — EJB Exception Handling.

99c iTunes song auction bids top $100,000. Test case opportunities a-plenty.

Nick — An interesting web application infrastructure issue.

Greg — Presentations from Sun Tech Days in Seattle.

Russ — Temporary Solutions to Temporary Problems.

Danger licenses Java. Mobile Java Games and Services on Danger hiptop.

On September 4, 1781 — Los Angeles, CA, was founded by Spanish settlers. The original name was “El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula,” which translates as “The Town of the Queen of Angels.”

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The Regexp team announces the availability of Jakarta Regexp 1.3 release.

Java Pro: 50 Articles on Servlets/JSP.

HTTPS for Implementing Web Services Security. Pay attention to the server and client configurations for successful deployment of Web services with transport-layer security

XPath 2.0: The Trouble with Nodes. In a radical change from XPath 1.0, XPath 2.0 changes the way nodes are represented and allows you to incorporate logic into XPath expressions.

JHelpViewer, browse Javadocs in a manner similar to Win CHM help viewer.

RSSOwl ver. 0.6b, a RSS / RDF reader written complete in Java using SWT as fast graphic libary.

Using JSF. Building web forms, managing user input, and binding UI components to JavaBean properties.

Code-Generation Techniques for Java. J2EE is powerful, but it can lead to a lot of repetitive code.

Russ — The Great Debate.

Mathias — Tired of Hani.

Norman — Review: Essential Blogging.

Eudora 6 released.

NYT: Identity Theft Affects Millions, Survey Shows.

New Amphibious Car For The Wealthy. Aquada.

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NetClue, a Java Web Browser.

New PHP License “open source”. Approved by OSI.

Russ — Massive Mobile Post.

Jonas — AspectWerkz announces support for IBM.

Hani — Commons-lang is stupid.

Hans — LinuxWorld Tradeshow Shows Desktop Java.

Anthony — JDJ Editorials of Interest and Re: A new kind of components.

Norman — The ethics of decompilation.

Steve — Reselling an iTune.

Steve — Developer Preview of OC4J 10g Now Available.

Microsoft offers Office vX 10.1.5 update.

Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 0.2, Thunderbird for Mac OS X 0.2 and Thunderbird for Linux 0.2.

Review: Sager's 17-inch laptop.

Matthew — Roxio Toast – No Free Upgrade After 29 Days.

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Germans fine SCO for Linux claims. The SCO Group is to appeal against a €10,000 fine for violating a German court's ruling that it must cease claiming that the Linux source code violates its intellectual property.

Russ — J2ME Developers, Vote on this Bug!

Rusty — Galax 0.31 – an implementation of XQuery 1.0, Conglomerate 0.7.1 – a GUI XML editor for Linux, Commons Lang 2.0 and MyEclipse J2EE Enterprise Workbench 2.6.

Phillip — I can't resist a challenge.

Joe — Where are the components?

Installing JBuilder 9 on OS X (revisited).

Niel — Free Book on Java AI.

a san juan — JavaCard powers US Military Security.

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Russ — Siemens Screws Up.

Frank — Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Car.

Glenn — Tully's Goes with Cometa.

Jon — XWork Editor available for testing.

Jack — August Java Performance News.

Andreas — XMLUnit.

Leslie — Quick links.

Christoph — Another Database editor for Eclipse and New P800 APIs.

AntRunner 2.0, an OpenTool for JBuilder 4 to 9 to use Ant within the IDE.

JGraphpad 3.0, a powerful diagram editor for Swing that offers XML, drag and drop, zoom, automatic layout, print support, and much more.

WiFi Detector vs. WiFi Finder. Kensington's WiFi Finder against SmartID's WFS-1 WiFi Detector.

New flagship model from Sony Ericsson: the Z600.

Kazaa co-founders busy with free VoIP. Skype.

FProfiler, a Java Profiler using BCEL and log4j.

On September 3, 1954 — “The Lone Ranger” was heard on radio for the final time after 2,956 episodes over a period of 21 years.

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Fuel Cells To Appear In Laptops In 2004. Toshiba and NEC will incorporate fuel cells into laptops by 2004.

Steve — Holiday Inn having a clue.

Nelson — One foot extension cord.

EarthLink Co-Founder Gets Prison Term. Investment manager Reed Slatkin was sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison.

DParser is a simple but powerful tool for parsing.

Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 from Dynamism.

Glen — Major release of Commons-Lang.

Overstock.com cuts book pricing to a flat 25% below Amazons prices.

Wi-Fi power to the people—a how-to guide.

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August 2003 Stats: 3454010 pageviews, 75335 unique visitors. More visitors, less views.

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We went to the new Fry's in Renton on Saturday. I bought a PQI 6-in-1 media reader (free, after rebate) and a Maxtor 160GB hard drive ($99, after rebates)

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Kenneth — Searchable Regular Expressions Library Code Snippets for Regexp and regex.

Russ — Wireless Thoughts.

Ben — StringBuffer re-visited.

Chuq — Should Bill O'Reilly's Lawyers be sanctioned?

JMP 0.34, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Tutorial on the SQLExecutor JDBC Framework.

Ted — It shipped!

Lance — Atom 4 U, Atom 4 Me, Atom4J Released.

JBoss Romances Juliet. JBoss hopes to simplify developer's lives with a Java tool for reading, browsing, searching and analyzing source code.

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Aaron — J2ME Recipe Browser.

Mike — DbEdit Eclipse plugin.

Java Email Server 1.2.4, an SMTP POP3 email server.

Tdd — Have you received a Invoice from SCO for owning Linux.

Netcraft: September 2003 Web Server Survey.

AT&T hits MCI with racketeering charges. The great Canadian Gateway Project.

RIAA: U.S. Music Shipments Down 15.8%.

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Sun to Join Java Eclipse Effort? Sun Mulls Joining Java Eclipse Effort.

Sun Signs New Java Licensees. Sun will have distribution of Java on what amounts to 50 percent of the worldwide shipments of PCs.

Cookie Nest, a site for the Java programmer which has recently relaunched.

BeanShell 2.0: A Fully Java Compatible Scripting Language.

Frank — Symbian OS SDK for GNU Linux! and 3G Smartphone Linux.

Russ — XML Text Summarizing, Symbian Dev on Linux, Motorola Redux, Struts RequestProcessor, and Struts SitemapProcessor.

Matt — A Collection of Links.

Dell Axim X3 Details Leaked.

Henri — [Osjava] [ANN] XmlWriter 2.0 and Document management is hard [or why Javadoc is bad].

Dave — A brief review of JIRA 2.4.

Dominic — J2EE vs. .NET ? An Executive Look.

Luke — On checked exceptions – again…

Jay — Telstra goes open-source.

Rusty — jCIFS 0.7.12, an SMB client library, and MRJ Adapter 1.0.2.

Hani — Rickard interview.

Vinny — JMeter – The developer's 2nd best friend.

Neill — Smack (Jabber) API 1.2 released and Instant Messaging Ant Task.

Bob — Announcing BeanShell 2.0 Beta 1.

Rogers — CD settlement leaves millions waiting for $12.63.

On September 2, 1789 — The U.S. Treasury Department was established.

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Diego — a google-rss bridge in java. Cool!

Javier — Profile of a Java Idiot.

Vlad — ActualAccessFlags: an undocumented .class format attribute.

Rogers — Mailinator offers completely disposable email.

JXMLPad 1.9.2, a java component for editing XML/HTML document.

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The battle for Web services. Microsoft's Longhorn takes on J2EE.

Russ — Motorola Madness Continues, Thoughts on Udell's XML Adventures, The Mobile Playing Field and Groovy!

Frank — Nokia and Psion to buy Motorola's Symbian shares, Motorola to focus Java.

Dominic — Janeva put to use in J2EE .NET interop demo.

Jay — IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM.

Hani — Javablogs killfiles and It's official: JBoss has no sense of humour.

Simon — Bubble-era budgets.

Chris — Perl replacement for Ant.

Java Runtime Class Editor Alpha 0.0, a tool which allows all methods for user-defined classes to be altered at runtime.

Todd — Spyware Guide!

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Russ — Mobile Advertising.

X-Lite Beta for Mac OS X.

James — [OS X] Try Poisoned for a great p2p app.

Bells sue FCC over new telecom rules. Big local phone companies have filed a first round of lawsuits charging that federal regulators violated previous court orders.

Java Ref 1.0, a light weight tool for use as a quick reference to the API Name spelling and Parameter lists.

Simon — Learning mod_rewrite.

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. A discussion about the creation of C++, its strengths and what C++ programmers should remember.

Madonna tribute at MTV awards. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera help honour pop queen Madonna at the MTV video awards. Some lip action too.

Keith — Ternary operator in Python and Initialize an array in Java.

FBI to Arrest Teen in Internet Attack. Blaster blasted.

Kurt — Eclipse 3.0M3 is out.

Mitch — Switch!

Use Perl to harness XML data sources. A step by step guide to process the Moreover XML headline feeds.

Apple delays G5 shipments to late September. Dual-2GHz Power Mac G5.

jclasslib, a tool that visualizes all aspects of compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode.

On August 29, 1886 — In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.

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Governator T-Shirts. Hasta La Vista, Davis.

Jim — Nokia 3650 Reviews.

EFF Alert: Congressional Hearings on RIAA Tactics over P2P.

Hani — Javablogs is annoying.

Margaret — J2ME Game Criterion.

Cross compiling for Zaurus. A cross-development primer.

Metaclass programming in Python, Part 2.

Java theory and practice: — Building a better HashMap.

J2EE pathfinder: The many uses of implicit objects.

Eye on performance: Referencing objects.

Glenn — Free Wi-Fi Circles Microsoft.

Rusty — Sun's released version 1.4.2_01 of the JDK and JRE.

Cheah — Stumped by regular expressions? Try the Regex Coach.

Steve — mlMac: OpenSource.

Steven — Internet Sharing over Bluetooth for Palms. (for Macs with BT)

SanDisk offers Extreme CompactFlash, SD cards. SanDisk claims the cards offer higher performance and can be subject to more extreme temperature conditions

Sharp's 1-bit home theater system. SD-PX1.

Not easily portable. HP's Pavilion zd7000 and Toshiba's Satellite P25-S507.

About Push-To-Talk. Push-to-talk (PTT) could be the biggest upgrade to mobile phones…

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Matt — Problems with Gadfly (Python 2.3/Win32).

Alan — Installing MySQL replication between Linux and Mac OSX.

Adrian — Using jython to internationalize a PHP app.

Cameron — Hibernate adds Coherence support.

Erik — Any procmail-tologists in the house?

Keith — regular-expressions.info.

Simon — Python fixed decimal types and immutability.

Christoph — Eclipse Plugins – How To Keep Up To Date.

JPlate 0.5, yet another framework/toolkit to build applications.

Esme — Report on Wi-Fi in France.

a san juan — Apparently, Nokia Thinks it's Selling Hamburgers.

TIBCO sues Apple over trademark infringement. Rendezvous.

EarthLink targets 100 spammers. Launches legal action.

FBI on the trail of worm writers. The FBI is “confident” that it will capture those who are responsible for creating and spreading the latest viruses.

Bugkilla, a J2EE Functional Test Suite.

On August 28, 1907 — “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The companies name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”

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Apple.com to be redesigned by Zeldman, Bowman. Maybe it'll look decent on a PC too now.

Mozilla for Linux 1.5 Beta, Mozilla for Windows 1.5 Beta and Mozilla for Mac OS X 1.5 Beta.

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Primitive Collections for Java, a collections framework for primitive Java types.

Werner — XDoclet resources : a small list.

Danny — Code Paste 'blog'.

The Exilim's four megapixel Exilim EX-Z4. Casio has another upgraded Exilim coming out.

New Pocket PCs from Dell on October 15th? Axim X3.

Share and share alike. TiVo Home Media Option. 

Paul — java.util.prefs.Preferences.systemRoot().

Russ — Thoughts about Qualcomm and BREW.

Jay — Java v Windows: the choice is almost yours.

binner — What to expect from Qt 4.

jSai 0.1, an alternate servlet authentication implementation.

Music Industry Unveils Tracking Methods. Sophisticated forensic techniques…

Ployglot, compiles in seven languages. COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Shell script, 8086.

Diego — clevercactus beta 3 in the oven — and some comments.

How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a Cocktail Party.

Making Media from Scratch, Part 2.

Group Gets Private Data on U.S. Officials. SSN, etc.

Using the Singleton Pattern. Some classes need only a few instances, or only one.

Small Webcasters sue RIAA. A group of small Net radio stations say the trade association tried to push independent music stations offline.

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Jay — Dynamic languages and virtual machines.

Want to visit Britain? Join the fingerprint queue. Biometric visas stamped.

Swimsuit issue stars Albert Einstein. Mental Floss.

IDEA 4.0 EA (Aurora) build 908 released.

Vintage AC/DC Show Hits DVD. Let there be rock!

Handle your JAX.

Match the Right Constructor. Instantiating an object dynamically with a matching constructor.

XPath 2.0: The Donald Sutherland of XML.

Christoph — Eclipse JET – Write Code that Writes Code.

Jean-Yves — The French translation of the RSS 2.0 spec is available.

Java Desktop for XWindow.

Microsoft confirms Virtual PC not G5-compatible. SOL.

WB Series 'Angel' Renewed for Fifth Season. Yeah!

Behrang — 67 Open Bugs in GridBagLayout!!!

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Frank — How to use credit cards without getting screwed and fotokey: New free gallery software.

Russ — Gad XAOX! Finding the True Path to XAOism….

Rusty — XMLStarlet 0.5.1.

Jay — Oracle Recognized for Java Leadership.

Cheah — Free Classics eBooks.

a san juan — Oh, c'mon now! Mobile Karaoke via J2ME apps!

Aaron — Parsing XML in J2ME.

Hani — JDJ Readers Choice Award Farce.

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Andrew — Software Patents.

100-hour DirecTiVo from Samsung. A new 100-hour TiVo for DirecTV from Samsung.

Kevin — iTunes parody make serious point.

Jaxe 1.7.1, a Java XML editor.

Intel ‘may be guilty’ of over-hyping Wi-Fi. Company president confesses.

PalmSource Seeds Palm OS 5.3 to Developers, which adds support for an API for dynamic input areas, QVGA, and Simplified Chinese.

Cellphones will sport Wi-Fi, says industry execs.

On August 27, 1912 — The Edgar Rice Burroughs book “Tarzan of the Apes” was published for the first time.