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Chris — Happy birthday GNU!

Mohd — Application Logging 2.

Washington Apple Store having special iPod giveaway. Why didn't they do something like that for the one in Bellevue?

Juvenile arrested in release of Blaster worm variant. Another local script-kiddie.

Andreas — IBM releases WebSphere SDK for Web Services 5.1.

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The Cerulean Studio guys have released a Trillian 2.0 beta patch for the Yahoo! Messenger service. Seems to work like a charm.

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Java 1.4.1 System Properties for Mac OS X.

Geert — RIFE v0.6.57 has been released.

Vincent — Using rollbacks for unit testing database code?

Ben — Practical observations of why the phrase RTFM was developed.

Marc — Here we go - Restaurant Reviews…..

Mitch — Linus Torvalds on Microsoft.

7-Zip 3.10 released.

JBeanVAM 1.0, a JavaBeans based Visual Authoring Model.

JBidwatcher 0.9.2, an auction site (eBay, Yahoo, etc.) bidding, sniping, and tracking tool.

Mozilla for Windows 1.5 RC2, Mozilla for Mac OS X 1.5 RC2 and Mozilla for Linux 1.5 RC2.

On September 27, 1954 — The “Tonight!” show made its debut on NBC-TV with Steve Allen as host.

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Shana Tova U'Metuka.

Tech Tips: Using ChoiceFormat for Handling Plural Messages and Component Orientation in Swing User Interfaces.

Joshua — Swing Hack 3: Overlay Graphics.

Apple To Update Logo and Apple's Laptop Marketshare Up 2 Percentage Points.

Tim — 15-year old males losing the war on free pr0n.

Kazaa files copyright complaint against RIAA, others. Sharman Networks charges the RIAA and its representatives of using Kazaa Lite…

Getting Started: Java Card Applets and Smart Card Host Application. Part 2 and 3.

J2EE: Getting Started with Client Provisioning.

François — Progress bar…

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Java theory and practice: Characterizing thread safety.

XSLT: Grab headlines from a remote RSS file.

Parsing XML data with the kXML library. Using kXML to access XML files on J2ME devices.

Integrating Struts, Tiles, and JavaServer Faces. Bring the power, flexibility, and manageability of the three technologies together.

Rusty — J2SE 1.3.1_09 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris.

Philipp — RMI sucked for me, so I wrote my on RMI.

JFtp 1.37, a Java-based FTP client. 

Java Serialization to XML 2 2.1.1, an automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

Russ — JavaOne Online Redux.

Anthony — LOL.

Siemens to launch networked digital music player. Pocket-size digital music player that can download songs from online music services when hooked up to a cellular telephone.

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Martin — Matrix Revolutions Trailers.

Jay — IBM, JBoss Deny Java Connection.

Bharanidharan — Groupware for "YahooGroups".

Mark — DocBook Build Management…

Hani — simple-jndi shoots self in foot.

Erik — If I told you, I'd have to…

Keith — ActiveState acquired by Sophos.

Matt — Java books I'm considering.

Rafe — Yahoo kills Trillian.

Files New Claims Against SCO in Linux Case. New counterclaims.

I've posted pictures of Callie.

Octopus 2.2, a simple Java-based Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) tool.

Event Handling In Java and Part II.

Kevin — Do Not Call list stopped again.

SwingSet 0.5.0-alpha, an open source Java toolkit that allows the standard Java Swing components to be made database-aware.

Segway recalled! Too many people are falling; 6,000 recalled.

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Fred — List of J2ME Emulators.

EclipseME 0.0.2, a J2ME plugin for Eclipse.

Matt — .java to .exe on win32 with Cygwin.

Congress votes for do-not-call registry. Acting swiftly, for once.

Should a Windows user buy an iPod? 10-15% less wonderful on Windows.

Overcome J2SE 1.3-1.4 incompatibilities. Get help from the Reflection API and Ant.

Java Design PatternsAdopt Adapter. Understand how adapters let disparate systems work together.

Laszlo builds flashy Web apps. LPS 1.0 dazzles with Flash clients, but could use stronger tools on the back end.

Russ— Series 60 Platform Community Awards 2003.

Frank — Fired for talking bad about Microsoft?

Guy — I can't believe it's not iPod: Zen NX jukebox launches.

Matt — Does Apple's Cinema Display have some new competition? L rocks!

Simon — Nokia Does Jewelery.

Janne — Ow!

Charles — font.jp.org.

Paul — Doctor Who Returns.

Tim — New Mac.

80's singer Robert Palmer has passed away. 54, heart attack.

Souris Bluetooth Apple, Premier témoignage. Bluetooth mouse.

Amazon confirms launch of A9 search service. A subsidiary called A9.com, which will develop technology designed to help search for products online.

Tundra buys PowerPC tech for $20m. Bridge building.

On September 26, 1914 — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission was established.

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Keeping Those Links Up-to-Date. Internet users face a common problem: there are so many interesting links…

Anup — Microsoft converting Java classes to DLLs.. Patented?

Patrick — Servlet Specification Pitfalls.

Keith — Layout Management.

Michael — Uniden TRU5885-2.

Rogers — JavaSound users make some noise.

Steven — CandyBar 1.5.4.

Iomega ships new USB 2.0 flash memory drives. The Mini 512MB USB 2.0 Drive ($200) and the Mini 1GB USB 2.0 Drive ($380).

Opera's mobile browser gets a tune-up. Version 6.2 for P800.

Jean-Yves — Version 2.0 of the Apple Public Source License.

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Russ — What to think about Palm.

Unwired Day. Nationwide free WiFi.

Fed — Motorola's i-JV J2ME Engine.

Matt — Samba 3.0.0 Released.

Matt — RE: IDEA vs Eclipse and Tomcat Service Manager for Windows.

Hani — No Experts in Servlet Expert Group.

Embedded Java taking over in consumer, mobile devices.

First look at Dell's Axim X3.

First photo of Dell's Digital Jukebox MP3 player. Dell is also announcing an online music store to compete with Apple's.

Amazon.com drops Fossil Wrist PDA. Update Delayed again.

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Jim — RDF and iCalendar and Nokia go crazy.

Russ — More Nokia Coolness: Digital Picture Frame and I Take It Back: Nokia Announces the 7600.

Behrang — BeOS might see a full implementation of Java soon.

Jay — Upcoming.org events site and RSS calendaring.

Marcus — Functional Test Updated.

Matt — Thunderbird mail client understands maths!

JavaBot TNG 0.2, a Java IRC bot.

JNIWrapper 1.4, a bridge between Java and native code.

David — Design for Reuse: Source Directory Structures for Java Projects.

Leslie — Quick links.

Mozilla Thunderbird for Windows 0.3 Alpha Released.

UK retailer accidentally leaks details about Palm's new handhelds. Tungsten E and T3.

Java panel pondering Web services, portal proposals.

Intel ships 3.2GHz Mobile P4 with HT tech. And a 2.7GHz desktop Celeron.

AAS nominated in Nokia Series 60 Community Awards. Congrats!

On September 25, 1725 — Nicolas Joseph Cugnot was born. He was the inventor and builder of two steam-propelled tractors. They are considered to be the world's first automobiles.

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Java Object Cache 1.1, a library which provides basic Object caching.

Glen — jFreeChart.

Readable Java 1.5. Java 1.5 promises several exciting new features: an improved for loop, generics, and improved typing through variance.

Kevin — Updated Eclipse 3.0 Plan.

Ted — Eclipse CVS and SSH.

Gillette Pumps $1 Million Into Portable Fuel Cell Technology. Duracell is a subsidiary of Gillette.

David — It's all about the XPath query.

GoDaddy sues VeriSign over Site Finder. (Warning PDF)

Aaron — Highlighting search results with Lucene 1.3.

Julian — ReplaceSubstring Redux.

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Gerald — GNU Classpath 0.06 Now Out.

Prabhu — Upload bean.

Steven — European software patents.

Palm OS 6 to be ready by the end of the year.

Jay — Another Open Source J2EE App Server.

Review: Microsoft's new 802.11g wireless networking gear.

Do Not Call List Ruled Illegal. A federal judge in Oklahoma now says the list is illegal and FTC has no authority to create such a list.

Adrian — This rocks : Bugzilla plugin for Eclipse!

Carlos — Rule Engines Written In Java.

KaZaA sues RIAA for copyright infringement. Dog bites pigopolist.

David — blojsom merchandise or "Your t-shirts will be ready in a week".

Adrian — Code comprehension plugins for Eclipse.

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AspectJ 1.1.1 and plugin updates.

Jim — 2.G and 3G - stuck between two stools?

BeOS Max Edition v3.0 Released.

Perl 5.8.1 RC5 Release.

Matthew — Russ vs. Scoble.

Matt — __magic__ Variable Conventions.

Jim — Jabber grows and grows.

Mike — What is Macromedia FlashCast?

oxygen XML editor 2.0.4, a Java editor that supports XML, XSD, XSL, and DTD.

European patents approved. The European Parliament has approved the patent directive by a vote of 364 to 153.

Rusty — I18N FAQ has released jchardet, a port of the Mozilla character encoding detection algorithm to Java.

Niel — PersonalBlog Mobility is Coming Along Well.

More On The New Apple Keyboards. Only available with BTO.

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Russ — Lunch with Anil.

Ross — Skype's Business Model.

Apple pulls 10.2.8 update; cites Ethernet problem.

Getting the Right Data with SQL Joins. Find out how correctly applying joins can help you understand and avoid these mysterious data returns.

Python 2.3.1. No new features have been added, just bug fixes.

PalmVNC 2.0, high resolution VNC client for Palm OS.

Dave — Java is a minivan..

Miguel — Geeks Rule!: The Philippine Software Developers Conference.

Martin — MSN shuts down its chatrooms.

Open Office Software Development Kit 1.1rc4, tools and documentation for programming the OpenOffice.org APIs.

RIAA Admits They Accused Someone By Mistake… But They're Still Watching Her.

HP to Protect Customers From Linux Claims. Protect customers against SCO's intellectual property claims.

Opera releases 7.20 browser for Windows. Linux RSN…

On September 24, 1960 — The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier was launched. The USS Enterprise set out from Newport News, VA.

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CodeGuide 6.1, a Java IDE.

JFaceDbc 2.0.2, a JDBC client.

Leslie — Quick links.

Russ — Using RDBs and XML-DBs.

California Moves to Ban Unsolicited E-Mail Spam. Outlaws sending most commercial e-mail to or from the state that the recipient did not explicitly request.

Anthony — Link Extractor.

Charles — Paid By the Keystroke?

JMP 0.35, a JVM runtime profiler, with object and method stats.

Motorola veut se débarasser des Power PC. Is Moto trying to get rid of the PowerPC?

JSF Central, JavaServer Faces Community.

Simon — TagUnit 1.0 beta 2 available.

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Lars — How I've got WebSphere 4.0 running on Gentoo 1.4.

Dell to name its own tunes. New portable music player.

Siemens SX1 delayed. Fourth quarter.

Yahoo! launches shopping search site. Price comparison.

GeoTools 2.0 Beta 1, the java GIS toolkit.

VeriSign Now Snooping With SiteFinder. SiteFinder site to track visitor's web browsing habits.

Matt — Display Tag 1.0 beta 1 Released! and CVS Spam has a new release.

Rafe — SpamAssassin 2.60.

Jury convicts DirecTV pirate on DMCA charges. Unlawful decryption device.

First word of a 2004 Pocket PC. Early word of a new Pocket PC from Fujitsu-Siemens code-named "Barnabas."

Dion — OpenSymphony Announces OSCache 2.0.

Hani — Greenspun unspun.

Liste des problèmes recensés avec la 10.2.8. Incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.2.8.

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FCC Approves ASUSTeK GPRS CompactFlash Card. Heading for the American market?

Glen — DataStudio (useful query tool).

Jeremy — An evening with Tim Berners-Lee.

Chris — Java and SUV BS.

Philip — Fallout from the Java = SUV posting.

Sun signs up five more hardware makers for Java. Acer, Gateway, Toshiba and Tsinghua Tongfang.

JSyntaxColor 1.2.1, a library for coloring user text in real time.

JBoss 3.2.2RC4 released.

JXMLPad 1.9.4, a Java component for editing XML/HTML documents.

iReport 0.2.2, a visual reporting tool based on JasperReports.

Frank — Nokia and Visa EU work together to take mobile payments to a new level.

Openwave Phone Suite Version 7 for Linux.

On September 23, 1952 — The first Pay Television sporting event took place. The Marciano-Walcott fight was seen in 49 theaters in 31 cities.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Russ — Server Side MVC vs. Plain JSP/JSTL: Overblown vs. Underutilized.

David — Anna Nicole and Ozzy grok application integration.

Dominic — Pankaj's J2EE Security book.

Matt — What is the fastest way to transfer data between PowerBooks?

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.5.

Ara — RE XDoclet is a miserable failure!

Matt — Roundup: Athlon64, G5, Wireless, Java, Python, Storage, and Design (Oh My!).

Vinu — Jakarta Tomcat 5.0.12 Beta released.

JCap 0.7.3 , a Java photo captioning software.

Java Binary Enhancement Tool 3r1, a Java assembler, dissassembler, and binary editor.

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Carlos — Assess Your Software Process Ignorance Quotient.

Hani — XDoclet is a miserable failure!

Jeremy — Maven Networks Launches.

Ray — Top-notch Software Developers needed in the Boston area.

Tom — Converting InputStream to String.

Stay away from these gadgets! Lexmark's Z605 Color Jetprinter, iRock's 730i…

Creative's Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra. A larger screen…

Mitac Preps Widescreen PC. Desktop's components are hidden inside the base of the display.

Rusty —  JGAP 1.0 has been released.

AWStats 5.9, a web server logfile analyzer.

Help us get Michael Powell to read Gizmodo. Gadget freaks unite.

Jason — MyEclipse.

Apple launches new Hot Deals Web site.

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Kevin — Use the servlet filter to protect static& dynamic web contents.

Matt — Catchup Roundup.

Erik — Lazy.

Chris — Stop Verislime, Sign the petition!

Macromedia announces MAX 2003 Conference. DevCon + UCON.

John — Roku.

J2ME VNC Client Alpha 2.9.4 released.

Broadband users face download limits. A Philadelphia Comcast broadband subscriber got a letter from his service provider, telling him he'd been using the Internet too much.

Leigh — MusicBrainz Java API beta-1.

Palm Powered device sales surpass 30 million units. Worldwide.

EFF Alert: IEEE & E-Voting Machines Vote.

Fred — Free J2ME Game Programming Book.

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We went to see Underworld on Saturday afternoon. It has taken the US box office by storm.

Ole-Martin — JavaZone over.

Ted — Anders on Virtual and Contracts.

ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding. Asked to voluntarily suspend the service.

Reseller 'leaks' iBook G4 specs. New model sporting 15in display, apparently.

XBN Java 0.8b, a collection of generically useful Java Code.

François — Learning the JavaScript debugger Venkman.

ApacheTop 0.1, a curses-based top-like display for Apache.

Tomcat Manager Plugin 0.7.0 for Eclipse.

JWebEdixx HTML Editor Applet V1.1 Released.

jStart32 0.2, a Win32-EXE wrapper.

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Build Reporting Into Apps. Generating human-consumable output for your J2EE applications doesn't have to be like pulling teeth.

Enterprise Buyer's Guide. Before you make those difficult purchasing decisions for your enterprise, take a look at JavaPro's comprehensive buyer's guide.

Jim — Schadenfreude.

François — Salaires des cadres informatiques selon L'Expansion and XML vs. Relational Databases.

Russ — Symbian Developer Days.

Jay — Sun touts Fast Web Services plan.

Karl-Martin — Computer Stupidities.

Kumar — J2SE: Taking screen snapshots in JAVA.

Fred — personalJava on PDAs-javacheck.spc file and Synclast UI-J2ME New Release.

Andy — JCP Survey.

Chris — Optimizing reflection.

Charles — NAT and Security.

7-Zip 3.09.02 released.

JavaHMO 1.0 Alpha 7 for TiVo.

Intel helps fingers type faster. Intel is backing a novel way to make it easier to input text on mobile handsets.

Jason — Who or what is JavaRSS?

Primetime Emmys 2003: Winners.

On September 22, 1792 — The French Republic was proclaimed.

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Jay — JBoss joins JCP.

JML 4.1 release candidate. Java Modeling Language.

Review: Sun StarOffice 7.

Bull launches NovaScale blade servers. Not that interesting, but my dad worked for Bull until he retired.

Chris — Using the 3GPP AMR decoder.

Glenn — Apple Sports Bluetooth 1.2 Features.

Sony's personal video player. Just a prototype, for now.

Keith — How to burn ISOs in Windows.

Apple Expo 2003 Keynote Stream. Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered the opening Apple Expo keynote address…

Motorola Chairman and CEO Retiring. Chris Galvin says it's time to move on after frustration with the company's pace, strategy and progress.

Matt — Vanity URLs in Struts.

Werner — JBoss-3.2.2 RC4 is available.

Simon — Auto-complete text boxes.

Sun's Schwartz Speaks Out on Linux, SCO. Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, sat down with eWEEK senior editor Peter Galli.

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Magic with Merlin: SpringLayout manager.

Parsing XML in J2ME apps. Combine mobile data and mobile code on your mobile device.

Java programming dynamics, Part 4: Class transformation with Javassist.

Diego — Karlin on AdSense.

Aaron — Jabber Journal Notes.

Java Performance TestClient 0.2.2, a tool for testing the performance of Java code.

JSch 0.1.8 , a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

CNet: Microsoft charging for MSN messenger for phones.

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Rusty — Today is the official release date for Effective XML.

What's New in Java Web Services Developer Pack 1.2. Everything you wanted to know about the highlights of the Java WSDP 1.2.

Mobitopia ahoy! News me hearties, links and opinions about mobile and wireless technologies arrr.

Dominic — Windows Mobile Developer Power Toys.

Quotient: Possible ZOE Imitation.

Slides & Whitepapers from OracleWorld 2003 Posted.

David — blojsom Trackback Auto-Discovery plugin available.

Leigh — JBoss Documentation Wiki.

Simon — Pebble 1.3 ready for release.

Anselm — Google Dance Tool.

Windows Media 9 coming to mobile phones. Oplayo has announced its commitment to develop a J2ME-based mobile phone video player using Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series.

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Diego — java xml pull and push: a comparison and what's the solution again?

Anselm — Windows to Power ATMs in 2005 Slammer & Code Red…

Romeo, an open source Mac Bluetooth application.

Jay — People behind this year's most talked-about technologies.

Frank — PeopleAggregator.com is out.

Steve — Best 404 msg e v e r.

Chris — Document, Damn You!

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Underwold starts today!

Jobs is 78th richest person in America. 2.3 billion in 2003.

Toby — Relational Database Guidelines For MMOGs.

Glenn — Floppy Disk Antenna.

Dave — Roller 0.9.8 on the way.

Tim — Angle-Grinder Man, 1 Million Dollar Keyboard, Monty Python And Isabel.

Nokia's 3660? Circular keyboard be gone!

Today is Talk Like A Pirate Day.

Senator Takes a Swing at RIAA. A Kansas senator introduced legislation that could deal a blow to the music industry in its ongoing battle with file-sharing fans.

On September 19, 1983 — The final episode of "M*A*S*H" was aired on CBS-TV.