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Simon — Review of Mac OS X for Java Geeks (O'Reilly).

Jeremy — gzip vs. bzip2.

Jar Browser 0.9, a Swing app for searching across a collection of jars.

Banks Upgrade Check Fraud Detection. A positive-payee system to identify checks with changes to the payee line.

Cameron — Session IDs: A brief how-to.

Rogers — Microsoft offers free trial of Virtual PC.

Hollywood Lines Up Plenty Of Friends Against Morpheus, Grokster. Friend of the court…

Virgin scores 550 times. Sprint PCS prepaid phones.

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Rusty — MRJ Adapter 1.0 and The FreeBSD foundation has released Caffe Diable, a port of the Java Development Kit 1.3.1.

Glenn — Hogs Get Wi-Fi.

Jay — Open source protestors take to the streets.

Tracking Down Yahoo!'s Millionaires. 25 people who sold their companies to Yahoo!

Cedric — Python replacing Visual Basic? Nah and Components in Java.

JSch 0.1.7, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Arjun — Eric Raymond's Blog.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 5 – Rich thin clients.

Jeremy — Yahoo! News RSS Feeds Launched.

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D-Link Supports Hotspots with AirSpot. Public Hotspot Gateway.

a san juan — Screwed by the Microsoft JVM.

‘Experts’: Be wary of tech analysts. Analysts are simply getting it wrong these days.

Starting Development for the Series 60 Platform for the absolute beginner.

15 day evaluation of CodeWarrior Development Studio for Symbian OS.

Apache Tomcat 5.0.9 Beta Released.

Arjun — Java FTP client libraries.

Hani — A bile interview with Marc Fleury.

Jim — Brave New World. Jim's got a new blog.

Ant Shell 20030826, a command shell executing Ant tasks.

Amazon Goes After the Flim-Flam Man. 11 lawsuits in the U.S. and Canada against spammers.

SoBig Lacks Originality. Most viruses do. Luckily we've yet to see a true masterpiece.

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LDBC Liberty Database Connectivity, a vendor-independent JDBC driver.

Russ — Struts Target Naming Conventions and Mobile Devices.

Nelson — Python on Windows is complete enough to be a real alternative to Visual Basic.

Ransom demand by SMS. This appears to be the first case of extortion by text messaging.

Fred — SonyEricsson New J2ME SDK.

Rogers — Florida may tax computer networks.

Simon — 118 whatever.

Christoph — HTTP Throttling Reverse Proxy as Web App debugging tool.

Perl 5.8.0 for the SL-5500.

Netgear's 108Mbps WiFi gear. Wireless access points and laptop cards.

David — blojsom 2.0 available or Happy Birthday to me!

Mark — My Briefcase: living from a Zip disk.

On August 26, 1842 — The first fiscal year was established by the U.S. Congress to start on July 1st.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Dave — Dreamweaver: what's the point?

Mac OpenOffice ‘delay’ debunked. Get coding…

California Supremes issue DVD crack setback. Both Hollywood, EFF claim victory.

Todd — Connecting your TiVo Series 2 via WiFi.

Jason — Conductor is go!

Did Scammers Get A Better Do-No-Call Number Than The FTC? 1-800-DO-NOT-CALL

Boingo Adds STSN, 1,300 hot spots. Neck-to-neck with T-Mobile.

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Henri — NullPointerException….

a san juan — FreeBSD embraces Java.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.4.

Matt — September 25th is Free Wi-Fi Day in the US.

Andreas — Weblog temporary closed: Online Demonstration Against Software Patents.

Hackers cut off SCO Web site.  Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

jSMSEngine, an open source API, which can be used to send and receive SMS messages through a mobile phone or GSM modem.

PyGopherD, a Python Gopher server, also serves up WAP.

Mobicq 0.1 beta-5, an ICQ client for mobile devices.

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New Java DocTree released. 1521 packages and 20,054 classes.

Interview with Marc Fleury. Q&A.

James — Following URLs.

Rusty — JXMLPad 1.9 and Just4Log.

Hitachi's 4GB microdrive. 1-inch drive.

Dion — BEA adds XML tool to development environment.

SGI, SuSE Announce OEM Alliance, Development Agreement.

Toyota's self-parking car. Park Without Dings — or Drivers.

DVD-copying tools launch under protest. Despite staunch legal opposition from Hollywood, a new package of DVD-copying software is headed for online and offline retail shelves.

JFreeReport 0.8.3f, a Java class library for generating reports.

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Designing by Dictatorship, Examples, and Tests. Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses the benefits of a having single decision maker for an API design and insights gained through writing examples that use the API.

Macromedia courts mainstream developers. The first major update of its MX line of Web development and design tools.

Charles: Web Debugging Tool, HTTP Monitor, Reverse Proxy.

Five XQuery and XPath Working Drafts Published.

Diego — on google and the markets and hyperreality TV.

Matt — Why I'm Happy With T-Mobile (All Over the World) and LOAF.py.

Werner — JBoss-3.2.2 RC3 available on sourceforge.

Christoph — MDA Model Driven Architecture with Eclipse – GMT and Clover 1.2.1 released – Code Coverage Analyzer for Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ.

Steven — Points of Interest.

Java Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.8, a automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

Music Industry Problems: Maybe The Music Just Sucks. I said the exact same thing a year ago.

Developers get first taste of Longhorn. After months of speculation, Microsoft plans to give developers their first hard look at the next version of Windows, in October.

Hani — XP debunked.

On August 25, 1972 — In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.

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Diego — openoffice for OS X… in 2006, novell's strategy and diego's excellent symbian adventure, part two.

Matt — Craig's List Via RSS!

Review: HP iPaq 5550/5555.

Henri — Norbert 0.1.

Rusty — DocBook 4.3, docbook2X 0.8.2 and ArgoUML 0.14.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.4fc1 and MDJ Power 25.

Damien — Nice DHTML hack.

Christoph — Subversion release 0.28 – the better CVS – also for Eclipse.

ViewSonic's new V37 Pocket PC.

We went to see The Medallion yesterday afternoon.

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Java to XML and Back Again. For those who need a solution for Java and XML conversion, Jato can be applied across a wide variety of documents and code.

Perl Modules as RPM Packages. RPMPAN.

IMAP Spam Begone, a script that makes it easy to scan an IMAP inbox for spam using SpamAssassin and get your spam moved to another folder.

Russ — Getting familiar with .Net Compact.

Matt — Regex, Books, Mail, Guis, Coding, and Rawdog and Widescreen NetNewsWire.

Ted — Python and Ruby compared and contrasted.

Gordon — Network sniffing for .NET.

Keith — Pretend a string is a file in Perl.

Lance — Atom4J.

J2ME connects corporate data to wireless devices. Sacrificing proprietary gimmicks for software portability, J2ME leads the way.

SAS to Join Eclipse. SAS becomes the first of the major business intelligence software vendors to join the IBM-led initiative to develop an open-source application development tool platform.

US Congress decrees Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.

Christoph — Eclipse – more language support plugins.

Corel Goes Private. Acquired by Vector Capital Corp. for $124m.

Diego — is it symbian-bashing?

Rusty — David Hovemeyer has posted FindBugs 0.6.5.

On August 23, 1962 — The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.

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‘Java everywhere’ is for world domination. Why the latest wireless buzz matters to all developers.

Open Source at TiVo. TiVo co-founder Jim Barton explains how the company relies on open source technologies.

Palm Raises $18 Million Through Private Institutional Investor.

Jason — Re: WebWork2/XWork Definition Editor.

Mike — Eclipse Help Tip.

Macworld Review: Xserve.

Microsoft pledges allegiance to Outlook Express. Microsoft never ditched Outlook Express. Never updated it either.

Mark — POT.py 1.3.

Norman — Java incompatibility, a maddening NoClassDefError.

Russ — How AT&T Moved to GSM (and on to EDGE).

Matt — PHP vs. Java - which is better?

Chris — mondrian.

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RSS Utilities: A Tutorial.

Russ — J2ME Device Database.

Rusty — ObjectWeb has released Octopus 2.1.

Hani — Cracking java apps.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 4 – Java is a language, .NET is not.

Blaine — Wired article – extreme programming (XP).

Giulio — Fun with Jython.

Russ — Corporate Mobile Thoughts and Mobile Goodness.

David — An update expected for the Java Runtime on OSX?

Arjun — Trouble brewing in Java.net.

Joshua — Swing Hack: Window Snapping.

Leslie — Scraping HTML with curl, tidy, and XSL.

Eric Raymond: An Open Letter to Darl McBride.

KisMAC 0.05d4, a wireless sniffer for Mac OS X.

Exercise out-muscle diabetes. The muscles of people with type 2 diabetes cannot absorb glucose or insulin…

JFig 1.1, a configuration utility that provides functionality for managing one or more configurations in a Java environment.

Kournikova, Bezos tout sports bra. Shock-absorbing sports bras. I'll get one if she comes with it.

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Russ — Java and XSLT Chapter 5.

Jim — Different numbers.

Using RSS to deliver Newsletters (and avoid spam filters!)

How to get legally FREE Java MIDP for your Microsoft smartphone.

Henri — robots.txt and robots.txt in the real world.

Matt — Make money drinking beer and discussing MySQL.

Mike — Minor JavaBlogs fixes. How about fixing the Recenty Added Blogs feed? It's only been broken for months.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 3 – Open Standards.

a san juan — Red Hat and Sun to launch open source Java?

Leslie — Quick links.

Keith — Flash Player Detection Techniques Unearthed.

Cedric — Stallman, Gosling and a bit of emacs history.

Haiko — FreeMind mind mapper.

David — No Mac OS X-specific virus has yet appeared.

dnsjava 1.4.0, an implementation of the DNS protocol in Java.

JavaHMO for TiVo Alpha 3, an implementation of the TiVo Home Media Option.

Eclipse Instant Messenger Plugin 0.8. MSN, YAHOO, ICQ, AIM, etc.

Java AIM Bot 1.3, a modular architecture for providing services through an AIM client.

Eric Raymond: Maybe SCO had a point.

SmartID's WiFi Detector works. WFS-1 from SmartID.

Pitfalls of J2ME development. Vague specs and hardware differences pose problems for programmers.

NYT: F.C.C. Discloses New Rules for Telecom Industry.

Motorola launches first Linux smartphone. First to two secret ‘weapons’, too…

Boeing launches antispam spinoff. A commercialized version of the software Boeing uses internally to fight unsolicited e-mail.

National Slackder Day 2003. Stand up for your right to sit back down again!

On August 22, 1932 — The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.

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Zohar — Where .NET is better then Java.

Hani — The happy idiot syndrome.

Hani is quickly turning into the Bill O'Reilly of blogging. He excels at identifying problems but is quite incapable (or is it unwilling?) of providing any viable solutions.

Vanessa — Is Sun trying to take over the Java world?

Keith — Python snippet of the day.

7-Zip 3.08.03 Beta Released.

Diego — it's not the users.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.4b3.

Christoph— Free Google AdSense Web Tool.

Gateway touts new $799 notebook. The M305S comes with a 2GHz Celeron, a 14-inch display, 128MB RAM, a 20GB HD and a DVD-ROM drive.

Canon's new inexpensive digital SLR. EOS Digital Rebel.

JNumeric 0.1a3, a port of Numerical Python to Jython.

File Swapper Files Lawsuit Against RIAA. Same grounds as PacBell/SBC.

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Review: Nokia 3300.

Nokia and SNAP: Details about what Nokia bought.

Key FCC broadband rules expected soon. The controversial rules may shape the future of the broadband and telecommunications business.

Pocket PC Magazine: What is a Windows Smartphone?

Matt — Tomcat 5.0.9 Alpha is now available for testing..

Rafe — Eric Sink on building your career.

Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse — Confirmed.

RIAA's Subpoena Strategy is Chilling Downloads: NPD. Down to 10.4 million households in June.

US Frequency Allocation Chart. Radio Frequency Spectrum Allocations in the US.

Werner — Juliet: great for exploring a codebase of an opensource project.

Lars — BloGTK 0.5 released.

There is a light that never goes out. Lightbulbs that continue to glow in the dark after they're switched off.

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Symbian revenues surge 55%. Mobile phone software firm Symbian see its revenues more than double as more handsets featuring its technology are shipped.

New Toshiba HDD MP3 Player Thinner Than Apple iPod. Toshiba Gigabeat G20.

RIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5. The author of xMule has been shutdown.

Russ — XMLEnabled.

IBM promises to combine Rational with Eclipse. Details at the Rational conference next week.

David — Re: RSS Search (in blojsom).

JSP best practices: Error handling in custom tags.

The X + V language. XHTML + Voice.

Refactoring: The key to unraveling spaghetti code.

Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 2.

Dynamic JNLP. Java Network Launch Protocol.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 3 – Open Standards.

Trailer: The Matrix Revolutions.

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Memoization in Java Using Dynamic Proxy Classes. Memoization is a technique giving functions a memory of previously computed values.

Diego — email-less.

Jim — Python Gutenberg E-text Project.

Russ — Symbian Kicking Ass.

rdfxml.py, a very lightweight RDF/XML Parser in Python.

Mike — Great interview with Hydra developers.

Pawn — Hibernate Impressions.

Kevin — ArsDigita's Java Performance Optimization tips and Python descriptors.

Eugene — A very funny online game.

Daniel — Cub reporters. Submit your news stories to java.net?

Ted — Python and Gtk.

Chiara — My take on Weblogic XMLBeans.

Rogers — Quitting Microsoft cold turkey is a Ball.

Christoph — Eclipse – A Java IDE?

The SCO Group responds to Torvalds. Or did they?

Forget California, it's time to recall Microsoft. Enough already with the patching…

On August 21, 1878 — The American Bar Association was formed by a group of lawyers, judges and law professors in Saratoga, NY.

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Russ — RSS Search.

Long wait for Mac OpenOffice. But you're probably used to waiting already…

Joi  — Kevin Marks leaves Apple. A regular on #mobitopia too.

Ted — Why are we doing this?

Matt — AT&T Wireless will have Unlimited Data soon!

Mike — 3 bugs per feature?

Vanessa — Why Richard Stallman doesn't like Java.

Kenneth — Mozilla Firebird Plugins.

Gabe — Write Once Run Everywhere.

It took close to 8 hours to compile Mozilla 1.4 on my PowerBook under YDL:

Time spent in user mode (CPU seconds) : 22329.350s
Time spent in kernel mode (CPU seconds) : 1310.480s
Total time : 7:46:11.92s
CPU utilisation (percentage) : 84.5%
Times the process was swapped : 0
Times of major page faults : 9545280
Times of minor page faults : 13265272

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Matt — Tired of copying paths?

Dave — Links.

Dominic — MSDN Mobility and Embedded Developer Center.

Sergio — The SWT Browser widget.

MakeTorrent 2.0 Beta 5. A complete Win32 rewrite of CompleteDir.

Fred — Another J2ME Resource.

Atom (or whatever it is called now) is suffering from the “Too many chiefs, not enough indians” syndrome.

The Power of Patterns. Enterprises can use patterns to extend the reach of Java experts to all development projects.

The 2003 Java Pro Technology Roundtable. Java industry insiders set a course for tripling the developer base, advancing the standard, and blocking .Net—and that's just for starters

Fetching Objects. Implement resource loaders that handle both DOM and JDOM objects.

Diego — upgrade or die. Just another M$ ploy.

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J2EE vs. .Net: Choice depends on your needs.

Did you know that O'Reilly has a Wireless DevCenter?

Siemens SL56: The American Cousin of the SL55.

Palm OS 6: Sneak Peak.

Jay — BEA Blows Away Competition in Head-to-Head Review by PC Magazine.

Niel — BREW vs J2ME.

JDebugTool 3.1, a graphical Java debugger.

Ferry Service to Trial Wifi in Washington State. Plans to offer a full commercial service on a revenue share basis.

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Gerry Power pointed me to the TIOBE Programming Community, which among other things, keeps track of popularity of programming languages.

François — Focus on the First Derivative.

Frank — Diego is mad — and it's starting here, too. Me three.

Russ — DotText and XAOism Continued.

Edd Dumbill's Gnome Bluetooth Subsystem.

Jay — Linux projects gaining momentum on java.net.

Brian — Firebird Bugs, Benevolent Dictatorships and Mouse Wheels.

Codestriker 1.7.4, a collaborative code reviewer.

My Zaurus is out of commission. I inadvertently removed libc trying to manually upgrade a package.

I had to flash the ROM since I could no longer execute any commands.

To make the matter worse, I thought I would be smart and try the new Sharp ROM instead of OpenZaurus. The flash ROM image that I copied on my CF card is corrupted and I no longer have a way to access it.

Double Duh!

I just ordered a Dazzle Media Reader.

Linux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off. Getting a MBA.

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Class Libraries Java Programming Language. A kind of portal found using Google that seems to have lot's of interesting links.

Making Media from Scratch, Part 1. Java & QuickTime. 

Stored Procedures for Java Programmers. This article explains how to use DBMS stored procedures.

Review: Zaurus C760.

Pete — MyIE2 – IE Based fast web browser …

Dominic — .NET for Java Developers: Migrating to C#.

Neill — article: writing a Jabber IM log4j appender.

Fred — GenericCionnectinFramework in J2ME.

Todd — RIAA the world is Falling BULLSH$T and Google Tricks Re-Visited.

Nokia to acquire Sega.com. Game on!

RIAA, MPAA appeal against ‘Grokster is legal’ ruling. Precedent schmecedent.

FTC head: Antispam plan lacks punch. Antispam proposals in Congress are not strict enough and would do more harm than good…

Bush Campaign Reaching Out to Bloggers. Feeds for the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop.

On August 20, 1967 — The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.