Erik's Weblog

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We're going to Vicki's sister later in the afternoon. I'll be making a "Roti de Bœuf avec des Pommes Fondantes" for her Birthday dinner.

Russ — Mobile Multimedia.

Sam — Second article on RSS and Java up.

Stefan — Profile on MySQL, the Company.

Apple to address Jaguar security problems. Apple said that it will fix the security flaws in Mac OS X Jaguar.

Kevin — 1.4 String.matches is dumb.

Apple blames Oxford chip set for Panther users' woes. Apple has acknowledged that there can be data loss on external FireWire 800 drives connected to Apple computers running Panther, but…

Prabhu — Java Service Wrapper.

Eudora update fixes Panther issues and more. Eudora X 6.0.1.

Daniel — RSS and Java.

Matt — Great G3 Desktop Deals.

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I'd like to thank Bruce Bolden, Deepak Mehta, Lars Hoss, François Nonnenmacher and Tom Dyson for helping me getting Java 1.4.1 back on my Mac.

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BeautyJ, yet another source code beautifier.

Java Financial Library, an API and application for converting between monetary currencies and fetching stock quotes from the Internet for use in your Java programs.

Vinu — Tomcat 4.1.29 Stable and Tomcat 5.0.14 Beta released.

Rusty — Sun has also posted version 1.4.1_05 of the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) and Xalan-Java 2.5.2.

Hani — 12 paths to build.xml nirvana.

Steve — Dell's Management Secrets.

Jatha 1.5.4, a Java LISP library.

Howard Stern: Treo 600 owner. He was showing off his new Treo 600 to the gang this morning.

Windows Mobile 2003-based Smartphone Developer Kit. $499.

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Eye on performance: A load of stress.

Java theory and practice: A brief history of garbage collection.

Charming Python: Numerical Python.

Lock down J2ME applications with Kerberos, Part 1.

2.4 Servlet Spec Reviewed. Core Developers Network have reviewed the good, the bad and the ugly of the 2.4 servlet specification being produced by JSR154.

Carlos — Is Longhorn All Bull or Full of Holes?

Diego — why sun should change the Java app icon.

Matt — Skype 0.94 and Drooling Over Whidbey.

Russ — The Last All Nighter.

NYT: Microsoft and Google: Partners or Rivals?

Glenn — Apple Adds WPA Security.

Karl-Martin — And the number is 64, six four.

Patrick — JAVA resources.

Matt — Hibernate 2.1 Beta 5 Released!

Brian — Forays into Groovy.

Dan — Palm Sync Broken in Panther.

Kevin — pythonmac.org - Mac OS X Python Resources.

Charles — Obfuscated Python.

Sam — Disney's RSS 0.93.

The RIAA Is Suddenly A Fan Of Ratings. An incredibly obvious attempt at pitching parents on one more reason they should stop their kids from using KaZaa.

Mac OS X Innovators Contest Winners Announced. OmniOutliner and iBlog.

Anil — Mobile Blogging in Java.

Jameleon 1.4.1.3, an automation testing framework without the problems of automated testing.

My blog is featured in next month's Atlassian Update newsletter. Thanks, Mike & Co.!

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Still Java-less...

22 years ago

3 min read

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Rusty — XML Benchmark 1.2.2 has been released.

Daniel — Load Testing.

Paper offers Nokia N-Gage for 1p. No wonder game retailers can't shift it.

Get Published on OTN! Do you have an opinion, experience, or technique you want to share with OTN's 3 million members?

DALP: Database Access Libraries for PDAs.

Rod — The Jakarta Commons Problem in a Nutshell.

Fred — Nokia Series 60 and Series 90 MIDP2.0.

Java Date Picker 1.0, a Swing component.

Mac OS X refund suit gets preliminary nod. I've received the settlement offer in the mail a little while back.

Machines reject new $20 bills. Vicki showed me a new $20 yesterday. I was expecting more. But I guess they didn't want to make a radical change.

Berners-Lee comes out fighting to save Web. Father of the Web insists US patent office reviews vital case.

SuSE 9 Hits American Shores. About time…

Microsoft Revises 'Critical' Patches. Again.

Kevin — Eclipse 3.0 due in June 2004.

Michael — Creating Unicode Characters from Hex Codes in Windows.

JPTC 0.2.3. Java Performance TestClient.

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Nobody came forward with my plea for Java 1.4.1. Not too suprising… I don't think many people actually downloaded the packages as they were available directly via Software Update.

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Al — Series 90 Explained.

Page Navigation in JavaServer Faces. JSF provides an easy-to-update page navigation model in its Application Configuration file.

Anthony — Plone.

Andrej — Using oracle ref cursors in java.

T-Mobile USA offers free PPC 2003 upgrade. Free OS upgrades to their Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition customers.

Matt — Panther ships with postfix instead of sendmail.

Leslie — Quick links.

Bertrand — Word to XML converter.

Sebastiano — Calendar.getFirstDayOfWeek() gotchas.

Ara — Groooovy!

Stefan — CSS 101.

Charles — Why the "Hacker Logo" is stupid.

JavaCat 0.9beta, a file searcher/cataloger.

Overview: Symbian Development with C++ BuilderX.

Finally, a Useful Bluetooth Device. Audio over Bluetooth.

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22 years ago

3 min read

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Carlos — Has Java Reached The Inefficiency Phase?

Matt — Hello World on Series 90 (Nokia 7700) and MIDP 2.0 Examples on Series 90.

Matt — Apache 2.0.48 and 1.3.29 Released!

Dion — JCP Watch: JMX Remote API, Enterprise Media Beans, and more.

Bob — Best Keyboard Ever.

Trio of flaws found in Mac OS X. $129 to fix, if you can install Panther.

Russ — How do you know if your world revolves around your weblog?

Ovidiu — mod_jk2 problems.

WinSCP 3.4, a SFTP and SCP client for Windows using SSH.

Daniel — Added bits and pieces.

Dave — MyEclipseBugs..

Hani — OpenSymphony dirty laundry.

Mike — New Hibernate Example.

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Arghhh! Now that I finally have re-installed 10.2, come to find out that Java 1.4.1 is no longer available. Can someone call Apple and tell them to get their act together?

Update: If anybody has downloaded the Java 1.4.1 (and update) packages from Apple when they were available, and is willing to send them to me, please email me. — Thanks.

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Russ — N-Gage Thoughts.

JKMapIME 0.9.1-rev1 , a Java-based input method engine and keyboard mapper.

Charles — How to Get Kicked Out of Microsoft for Blogging.

Today is NetDay. NetDay wants to students to go to its Web site today and complete a short survey as part of its first "Speak Up Day."

We watched the season premiere of 24 yesterday. I was afraid it was going to be one of those "seen it, done it before" 3rd season opener, but they actually managed to keep it fresh.

Joe — Article Policy Change at JDJ.

cgi-irc 0.5.3. CGI:IRC.

Napster 2.0 goes live. The cat's back.

No public Longhorn preview, says MS - developers only. And they have to ask for it first.

No PDA market growth in Q3 without HP. Saturation point reached?

Sharp preps upgraded, rugged Linux PDA. El Reg on the SL-6000.

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Panther: Come Again.

22 years ago

4 min read

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Daniel — Distributed Jams.

Dion — Give your DB a break.

Matt — LinuxWorld New York.

Charles — class.class.

Keith — Code Outline Plugin 0.0.1 for IDEA released.

Matt — Mozilla 1.5 Released!

Emerson — Geronimo and Eclipse Configuration and How-to.

Pankaj — SunJCE is broken in J2SDK1.4.2.

Pierre — P6Spy JDBC logger.

Apple releases Panther security update. A potential vulnerability in the implementation of QuickTime Java in Mac OS X v10.3 and Mac OS X Server v10.3.

Apple releases source code for Darwin 7.0. Panther (aka MacOS 10.3)

Thieves steal Michelle Branch's gadgets. Michelle Branch's laptop, cellphone, and iPod stolen.

Feds Grant Just A Few DMCA Exceptions. The Copyright Office has the ability to allow certain areas where it's okay to crack copy protection without fear of a DMCA lawsuit.

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Jim — Nokia 6600 - Nokia under pressure?

Matthew — Cellular Radar.

Matt — Nokia's Mobile Media 7700.

David — Don Park's experience with Roller Weblogger.

Don — JDK Installer Trash.

Wired: The Panther Roars (in Pain).

World's smallest PDA. Credit Card-size, from Citizen.

Rafe — RIAA Radar.

Rusty — The second beta of Ant 1.6.

Hani — JGraph complexity obsession.

Nokia's 7700 'media device' - first shot in the PDA wars? But it's not a Communicator. Well, not exactly, just nearly…

Microsoft settles with six more states. Halfway to freedom.

Fred — Obfuscators.

Scott — MacOS X is my Java development environment.

Matt — Panther vs. Jaguar ~ The results are in!

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Send Form Data from Java: A Painless Solution.

Matt — Longhorn Roundup.

Dave — So far, not impressed with MyEclipse.

David — SmartCVS 2.4.2 available. Nice!

Will — Java and TiVo - Ready To Go.

Kurt — My Fav Free OS X Apps.

Fred — Quantum DB Eclipse Plugin.

Alan — How To Re-read log4j.properties.

GPL unenforceable, void, unconstitutional - SCO. Gloves off.

Dell debuts iPod killer, music store. Twice the battery life, $100 cheaper.

Anil — Nokia "Series 90" 7700 mobile media phone.

RIAA nemesis, Senator Coleman voices his thoughts online. 'Law and technology are not in sync'.

I tried to upgrade one of our Mac to Panther. What a disaster.

Just like Matt, the installer failed leaving me with a dead machine.
A clean install failed too. I even tried removing all third-party RAM and peripherals, as suggested by MacFixIt. No cigar.
Looking at the various support boards, I'm not the only one with these kind of problems.
To make the matter even worse, it looks like one of my 10.2 disk is hosed.
Apple better get ready to issue massive refunds.

Nokia launches 5 EDGE phones.

Matt — Panther ships with Ant, XDoclet and JBoss!

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Re-XP

22 years ago

4 min read

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Rusty — Bodo Tasche has posted JCalendar 0.6…

Matt — Mono BOF at the PDC.

Daniel — That trick never works.

Rick — Who IS this blogger?

Jeremy — Software: An Alternative Firewall to ZoneAlarm?

Mike — Microsoft Smartphone launched here in the US!

Proxool: Proxy JDBC Connection Pool. Version 0.8.1 released.

CodeSugar Eclipse Plugin 0.0.5. An Eclipse plugin for generating methods like equals() and toString().

American Express adopts Linux. Swab did in June.

IBM to Award More than $1 Million to Eclipse Developers. IBM's Eclipse Innovation Grant.

Matthew — Cool IntelliJ Plugin!

Matt — Jaguary vs. Panther - performance numbers.

Brian — Atlanta Java Software Symposium: The Anti-EJB.

Matthew — $87 Billion In Perspective.

Matt — khtml2png: Create Thumbnails of Webpages.

I've re-installed XP on my workstation over the weekend. I can't believe how much faster everything is.

I've opted for the bare-minimum and will only install apps only as I actually need them.
I gambled and decided to keep just a very few settings, re-installing every app from scratch. It's funny how things just work that way.
I have to admit that junction is making everything a lot easier. All of my important data is now located on my secondary drive.

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JavaBluetooth Stack 2003-10-22, a Java implementation of the Bluetooth specifications and the JSR-82 API.

Minimize Java Distributions with an Automated, Custom JAR File. Larger applications frequently get loaded down with a heavy burden of unused library files.

Matt — Apple's Panther Developer Deal and Dial-A-Song.

Russ — Another Week, Another Hotel.

Longest. Review. Ever. The P900. Mobile Burn reviews the P900.

Glen — Limited Free Bay Area Wi-Fi at McDonald's.

Simon — The difference between POST and GET.

Henri — 'State of the Sandbox'.

Dave — MyEclipse for Eclipse 3.0 M4 and No Panther for this cat..

Magnus — Cactus 1.5rc1.

Emerson — Backup with Mysql.

Joe — Games in Java.

Jason — Art vs Commercialism in Java App Servers.

Jesus — DST.

Luke — New version of SharpReader coming soon…

Matt — The upgrade saga continues…

Cheah — New IE smells like Mozilla.

Adam — new playboy pix.

Dave — Safari 1.1 and Safari 1.1, Part 2.

jEdit 4.2pre6 now available.

Virtual Dimension 0.92, a virtual desktop manager for Windows..

RIAA Says Backlash From Lawsuits Was Less Than Expected. Yeah, right.

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Platitudinous

22 years ago

4 min read

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Phones smarter than PDAs? Smartphones are tipped to take marketshare from PDAs next year according to Gartner.

LingPipe, a suite of Java tools designed to perform linguistic analysis on natural language data.

Matt — C# Language Spec 2.0.

Apple releases iSync 1.3.

Rusty — Frederic Laurent has released Lantern 1.0.

Daniel — Asynchronous and Synchronous.

Rick — Sun "merging" with Fujitsu? and New install4J - darned good value!

Fred — Eclipse-TimeTrack Plugin.

Geert — IBM SDK 1.4.1 SR1 … at last!

Bob — Strut like WebWork (sort of).

Simon — The average Playboy centrefold, by decade.

Review of Fujitsu's new Tablet PC. LifeBook T3010.

A renegade member of the N-Gage Special Forces speaks out. "Low sales figures are pretty accurate."

Spammers Fined $2 Million. California is getting ready to enact their controversial anti-spam law.

YourKit released Java Memory Profiler 1.0.2.

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Xcode: The future of Mac development tools.

Philips introduces new handsets: Fisio 350, 530.

Matt — How can I import local html/text files into a JSP page?

Bringing your Java Application to Mac OS X. Part Three.

jCIFS 0.7.15 , a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

Conan's ratings are surpassing Letterman's, even though C. is on an hour later.

The Ten Most Abused Words in Tech. Words, Words, Words.

Java State Machine Framework 0.0.5, a framework for modeling any event processing system as a state machine.

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Prototype Zaurus SL-6000 reported on Zaurus User Group. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as well as a USB host and a bigger screen than the current SL series Zaurus models.

Marc — Poor Macromedia - my heart goes out to them.

Glen — Symbolic links into windows? It is possible.

Matt — A Very Simple CamelCase Parser in Python, 6.02x10^23, Baby! and Dive Into Panther.

Doug — Intro Multimedia/Computing Course with Jython.

Amazon now lets you search the FULL text of 120,000 books. Try it here.

OpenWFE, a workflow engine.

MIDP 2.0 for PocketPC. Kada Systems has released it's MIDP 2.0 KVM on the Windows 2000, Pocket PC 2003 and Pocket PC 2002 platforms.

How Would You Like A $39,000 Phone Bill? Ouch!

Jus — Documenting Tag Libraries.

Rick — JRoller Needs You! Shape the future of the system…

Geert — RIFE framework gets early adopters.

Anselm — Spybot Search and Destroy 1.3 Beta 4.