Tips 'N Tricks: Pushing JButtonGroup.

Bring business logic to light. JRules 4.5 tames business rules with friendly tools.

Client quality reporting for J2EE Web services. Use SOAP attachments to report client response times for Web services.

jvider 1.6, a Java Visual Interface Designer.

Download 5 free chapters of Java servlet/JSP book. Murach's Java Servlets and JSP.

Diego — update on rss autodiscovery.

Russ — Formatting Forms in XHTML/CSS.

Dion — BEA hire Mr. AspectWerkz: getting even more serious about AOP?

Matt — Test driving the new PowerBooks.

a san juan — Sun does the right thing and cuts 1000 jobs worldwide.

Derek — Referer or referrer?

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.5fc1.

RSSOwl 0.62b , a RSS reader which uses SWT.

New supersmall USB 2.0 hard drive from Archos. ARCDisk.

[@748]

Matt — PC Expo: A Poor Showing and Pre-Hurricane Roundup.

Russ — Neat RSS + XSL Trick.

Leslie — Quick links.

Frank — IOU Micropayment and No honor among thieves.

IzPack 3.2.0, a free Java software installer builder.

Fred — SonyEricsson J2ME SDK1.2.07.

Steve — New XML Schema Visual Editor in JDev 10g.

Mozilla for Windows 1.5 RC1, Mozilla for Mac OS X 1.5 RC1 and Mozilla for Linux 1.5 RC1.

Carlos — Weblogic Workshop's Asynchronous Components.

Cedric — The ultimate View technology.

Samsung's extra-large LCD monitor. The SyncMaster 243T will cost around $3029.

[@565]

Russ — StAX: XML Pull API.

Brett — Maven RC1 approaches.

Ted — StAX + XMLBeans == Java XML APIs.

Julian — Testing ReplaceSubstring Functions in Java.

Scott — Visa, MasterCard lose anti-trust ruling.

Bob — Server-side XSLT.

XMLStarlet 0.6.0, a command-line XML toolkit.

More senators question DMCA subpoenas. Three more U.S. senators have questioned a provision in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act…

Chris — Permalinks have a little story to tell..

Charles — SneakerNet Lives.

Yahoo! Messenger Upgrade Cuts Off Outsiders. A mandatory upgrade to Yahoo! Messenger may leave some users in the dark.

On September 18, 1987 — KISS released the album “Crazy Nights.”
On September 18, 1983 — The members of Kiss appeared on MTV without makeup.
On September 18, 1983 — The album “Lick It Up” was released by KISS.
On September 18, 1978 — The members of KISS all released solo albums. The members at the time were Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Peter Criss.

[@142]

Create Desktop Applications with Java-Based Web Technologies and Mac OS X.

Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE, Part 2.

Tom — Approaching the Mobile Internet.

Dion — JDO Maintenance Release: JDO 1.0.1.

Philip — Building software that matters.

Matt — Booting from my iPod.

Crowbar — Hibernate Joins JBoss Group.

Rafe — Hibernate now part of JBoss.

Anselm — Google Code JAM 2003Tough problems. Intense competition….

J2ME VNC Client Alpha 2.9.3 released.

House passes Internet tax ban. A bill that would permanently ban governments in the U.S. from levying taxes unique to the Internet.

We're stuck with ICANN: Official. Historic moment in Internet's history.

[@823]

Joey — Mixer Remixed.

Russ — Using your Nokia 3650 as a Portable Office.

Skype 0.91 Beta Released.

Enhydra XMLC 2.2.1, an alternative to JSP.

The OpenSSH exploit and Mac OS X. An explanation…

[@686]

KDE 3.1.4 Released. It's the fourth maintenance release and ships with many bugfixes and improved translations.

Matt — PowerBooks aren't cheap.

Adrian — Real life Jakarta Velocity - simple optimizations.

Jason — Java distributed caching.

Simon — Dive Into Python reborn.

Java Vision Toolkit 2.2.0, an advanced imaging toolkit.

John Ritter's sitcom will go on without him. I heard John Lovitz was going to take the role over.

PCMCIA Group Releases New ExpressCard Standard. First cards are expected in the second half of 2004.

Matthew — Cocoon in a nutshell.

jvider 1.6, a Java Swing GUI builder.

[@515]

Altova Takes on XML Database Mapping. MapForce 2004.

a san juan — Amazon.com historical survey comparison: The web services hype subsides.

Andreas — OXF - The XML Platform (and Cocoon alternative?)

Chris — Borland using wxWindows.

Bill — Cocoon's Competitors.

Tim — The RIAA For Dummies - 60 Second Edition.

Qtopia 1.7 gains Mac OS X desktop support. Trolltech today announced the release of Qtopia Desktop 1.7.0 for Mac OS X.

Thomas — McDo France propose du Wi-Fi.

On September 17, 1963 — “The Fugitive” premiered on ABC-TV.
On September 17, 1964 — “Bewitched” premiered on ABC-TV.
On September 17, 1965 — “Hogan's Heroes” debuted on CBS-TV.
On September 17, 1966 — “Mission Impossible” premiered on CBS-TV.
On September 17, 1972 — “M*A*S*H” premiered on CBS-TV.

[@182]

Russ — Sun Gets It Together.

Rusty — freebxml.org has released ebxmlrr 2.1, an open source ebXML Registry.

Miguel — Windows 2003 + Eclipse, Crypto, Jabber.

Mark — IDEA EAP #929 Out.

Chris — No Sony Ericsson T610 for me.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.5b2.

Adam — Jamon — compile-time templating.

Cedric — Log analyzer in Ruby.

Keith — Open Source Software in Africa.

DocBook Doclet 0.50, a tool to create DocBook SGML or XML code from Java source documentation or HTML.

Apple to open second Seattle-area store next week. That's a good location.

[@766]

Jim — Verisign - Domain Hijackers extraordinaire.

Jay — Grid computing is good, but…

AWStats 5.8 released. My favorite web server logfile analyzer.

JFreeReport 0.8.3g and 0.8.4, a a Java class library for generating reports.

JRat 0.6, a Java runtime profiling toolkit.

Sun discloses pricing for Project Orion, Project Mad Hatter. Java stack for $100 per employee.

Dominic — Pro JSP and Core Servlets and JSP, 2e.

OpenSSH 3.7 released. This version fixes a buffer management error which may, or may not be exploitable.

[@546]

MRJ Adapter 1.0.3. This version contains two fixes which pertain to the 1.4.1 VM on Mac OS X.

Mike — WW2 Quick Start Guide.

RIAA Phone Prank. Hello. I just downloaded some illegal MP3s…

Vinny — XMLBeans arrive @ Apache.

Today_is.pl and holidays.awk. Job scheduling around holidays has always been a pain.

A Pocket PC from Motorola? Motorola says that there's a Pocket PC in their future as well.

iPod Competition. Size does matter?

Ted — Let my people fork…

StrutsDoc 0.4, an Ant task that creates docs from a Struts config file.

Matthew — New from Apple.

Jcrontab-1.4.1 released.

On September 16, 1630 — The village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.

[@189]

Erik's Pulse has been published.

Does C# Measure Up? Windows::Developer is offering a detailed, quantitative examination of C#'s performance versus Java, C, C++ and D.

Matt — Jabber 2.7: Corporate Messaging and OETrends Roundup.

MySQL Database Server 3.23.58. Mostly bug fixes.

iTunes For Windows: Mid-October according to MSNBC.

Mike — The SFGate has a good interview with Scott McNealy.

[@050]

Sun uncovers Project Orion and Project Mad Hatter. Grid, P2P technology missing from Project Orion.

Borland Releases New C++ Toolkit. Borland C++BuilderX.

Head Of Homeland Cybersecurity Named. Amit Yoran.

Matthew — English language Open Source magazines.

Tom — 80% of movies found on file sharing systems come from internal studio versions. And how many of them are "released" by studios to generate positive "buzz"?

Russ — Has Nokia Phone Design Stalled?

Henri — Commons-Lang, a bile answer.

Dave — New Java books..

Rusty — ROXES Ant Tasks 1.0, a collection of three open source ant tasks.

Thomas — More, Better JavaBean Utilities.

Matt — Hypersonic PC Sucks! and SSL switching with web.xml.

Andreas — Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide.

Joey — By Popular Demand, I Give You… Mixer!

Niel — Fix for Enhydra's XML-RPC Library.

Cedric — Open Source and Documentation.

Simon — Interactive Python.

[@704]

The state of Python-XML. Roundup.

In-flight SMS. Commercial two-way SMS service.

Rusty — J2SSH 0.2.5 and JCSC 0.9.5 (Java Coding Standard Checker).

James — London Java Meetup — just come along!

Gadgets you can't have. The latest and greatest cool gear from Japan.

Jay — Wily Tech Launches Groundbreaking Study on Java Application Performance.

Rod — Kudos to Jakarta Commons FileUpload.

JMail 0.8.6 RC2, a mail client written in Java.

JFtp 1.35 , a graphical network browser supporting FTP, SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and local I/O.

What wiring should I put in a new house? Cat 5?

Marc — Laszlo OPML viewer, XML and apple pie.

Mark — BaseHTTPServer for unit tests.

[@669]

Danny — Earthquake!

Russ — Mobile Food For Thought and XAOism in the Real World.

Thomas — Allemagne, capitale européenne du Wi-Fi.

FCC, Music Biz Face Showdowns This Week. The media and entertainment industries face a pair of big policy hurdles this week.

Jim — FoafMobile some suggestions and Phone Mast Stupidity.

YourKit Java Memory Profiler 1.0.1 , a new generation of memory profiling tools.

PyRSS2Gen. Generating RSS 2 in Python.

Petri — Antenna Tree.

Todd — Microsoft Guide to Security Patch Management.

Diego — microsoft-motorola announcement coming up.

Matt — Persistence Options with existing SQL.

[@526]

We went to see Once Upon A Time In Mexico on Saturday. We also rented Shanghai Knights, which was a major dud.

[@513]

JSmooth, a Java Executable Wrapper that makes a standard Windows executable binary (.exe) from a jar file.

Martin — Ryuichi Sakamoto and Online Aggregators.

Matt — WebEnvironment.py and Geekzone.co.nz Bluetooth Guide.

Toby — Finding a client-side technology.

Andrej — J2eecertificate.com.

Jay — A new and improved Architectslobby.org.

Rusty — Jaxen 1.1, an open source XPath library for Java.

Dominic — Miguel de Icaza on J2EE vs .NET.

Michael — The future of mobile Java games (thoughts from the game conference).

Matt — Struts Resume 0.8 Released!

Ted — Feed algebras and Embrace and Extend.

Vinny — The Tomcat Bible - A must own book for anyone using Tomcat.

Chris — NerdBooks - still the best online (and offline!) bookstore.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.5b1.

Jeremy — Scrmabeld Txet.

Marc — iPod in a car.

Kevin — Java XPIs for Mozilla .

Christoph — Opera to use Google AdWords.

Java Class File Editor 2.2, a Java class file binary to view or edit strings, attributes, methods, etc.

JDebugTool 3.2 , a graphical Java debugger.

Complete MySQL: simple database installation for Mac OS X.

AT&T Offers Windows-Based Smartphone. Device features Microsoft software and Motorola hardware.

On September 15, 2003 — Madonna's children's book “The English Roses” went on sale.

[@222]

Diego — on rss autodiscovery.

Anthony — Sign of the Times.

Henri — JFreeChart JSP Taglib.

Brian — Windows Look and Feel Fidelity 0.3 Released.

Andreas — Foreign High-Tech Workers: a Scapegoat for a sagging Economy? I don't think So.

David — Aurora, build 926 is available.

Simon — Jump!

Suing parents for kids' file sharing could be difficult. "And in general, if you win an action against a kid, you don't get to collect against the parent…"

Erik — Media.

[@040]

SAAJ: No strings attached. Send and receive binary Web services content using SAAJ 1.2.

Java Web services for various client types. Use attachments from Java, .Net, and browser clients for FOP Web services.

Diego — you like your myths rare or well done?

Matt — XMLSpy 2004 and XML in Emacs.

Rusty — IBM's alphaWorks has released the Backward Compatibility Tester, a "tool for testing the backward compatibility of Java Archive (JAR) files.

Dominic — Upcoming books.

Matt — HowTo: Check for JUnit in $ANT_HOME/lib.

Jeremy — RSS Auto-Discovery 2.0.

TagUnit 1.0-beta1, a framework whereby custom tags can be tested inside the container.

J2SSH 0.2.5, a Java SSH version 2 API implementation.

FindBugs 0.6.6, a program to find bugs in Java programs.

Ex-Apple employee says company a 'failure'. Apple today is "the eccentric elderly uncle of the computer industry — still interesting, still beloved, but no longer truly powerful…"

Linux on desktop not cost-effective for most, says Gartner. Next week: analysts do it in harmony…

Russ — RSS and Commercial Aggregators.

[@702]

Vinny — My Love Affair With JRockit.

Jean-Yves — Mal communiqué sur MacOS X.

Oracle First-Quarter Net Jumps 28 Percent. A 28 percent jump in quarterly profit on a small rise in revenue.

Exposing Personal Information in the Whois Database. Letter to U.S. Representatives.

Jim — Yet more Foaf updates. I updated my foaf accordingly.

XM Completes $150M Stock Offering. Satellite radio firm to use funds to build new satellite if $400M insurance claim is denied.

Sue Microsoft? The latest major flaw in Windows is prompting some to ask whether the company should be held liable for its buggy software.

Running Individual Test Cases from Ant. JUnit and Ant.

[@553]

TV actor John Ritter dies. 54.

Python 2.3. Byte takes a look at what's new in Python 2.3.

Developing Applications for Windows Mobile: FAQ.

Matthew — More advice for Russ.

Andreas — New Bon Jovi Album: "This Left Feels Right".

JFaceDbc 2.0, a plugin for Eclipse. It allows you to view the structure and the content of any JDBC compliant database, issue SQL commands, etc.

JUnit in Action 0.2. The complete source code for all chapters of the book.

Johnny Cash has died too. 71.

Sam — Ganymede - Log4J Logging inside eclipse.

JFreeChart 0.9.12, a chart library.

Java Image Studio 2, a enhanced painting program.

On September 12, 1983 — Arnold Schwarzenegger became a U.S. citizen. He had emigrated from Austria 14 years earlier.

[@261]

Ensemble Glider, an integrated development toolkit that accelerates J2EE development.

Matt — Intel is Wasting Time With 802.11a Centrino.

Jay — Sun's new CEO, Papadopoulos, first interview .

Prabhu — EJB Performance tuning tips and JGo: Java diagram graphics libraries.

MicroWarehouse files for bankruptcy. MacWarehouse, PCWarehouse.

Christian Bale cast as new 'Batman'. Good choice.

RumorMill: Toshiba Planning New Pocket PC with Wi-Fi, Large Screen.

Steve — Petition Congress for Fair Copyright Enforcement.

Jeremy — Google Copycat.

Todd — Forty Million U.S. Broadband Users.

[@042]

Designing and Writing Java Action Games. Learn the essentials of Java action game development.

Kevin — JHelpDev open source JavaHelp editor.

Blaine — How to keep your job - preparations for the future.

Joe — JDJ's role in the community: entertainment or information?

Carlos — Jason's interview at TSS.

Zulfikar — Duke.

Steve — Linux/J2EE Causes Colon Cancer.

Mark — Why do some people call the taskbar the "tray?"

Cedric — More on components and classes.

Ovidiu — nXML - new XML editing mode for Emacs.

Steven — PDA Parade.

DrPython 1.1.3, a small cross-platform IDE to aid programming in Python.

PC-programmable universal remote. Harmony SST-659.

Java Zaurus Sync 0.03, a sync program for the Sharp Zaurus.

Bill Joy's greatest gift to man - the vi editor. Forget BSD Unix and NFS.

Sun Tables J2EE 1.4 Source Code. J2EE 1.4 beta and software development kits.

Apple sued by The Beatles over iPod, ITMS.

Lars — Vim as XML Editor.

[@675]

Matt — Linux Kernel 2.6: An Embedded Perspective and Windows Server 2003 On The Rise.

Russ — Learning about CDMA.

Jay — Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE.

Enhance Ant with XSL transformations. Real-world examples of Ant's power and flexibility.

Refactoring for everyone. How and why to use Eclipse's automated refactoring features.

Simplify enterprise Java authentication with single-sign on. Design secure client/server Java applications that use GSS-API and Kerberos tickets to implement SSO.

Using Java technology with Globus Grid Security Infrastructure. Generating grid credentials using the Java CoG Kit 1.1.

The reading lounge: Programming Wireless Devices with the Java 2 Platform Micro Edition.

Working with the Echo Web Framework: A two-part series.

[@574]

Frank — Steve's Declaration of Independence from the RIAA.

Mathew — Mobile replacement.

Dan — MS Abandoning VB!

NoUnit 0.7, measures your JUnit tests using XML and XSLT.

Java Service Wrapper 3.0.5, a configurable tool which allows Java applications to be installed and controlled like native NT or Unix services.

Rafe — Software Locking and smartphones.

Artists Blast The RIAA's Tactics. Recording artists across the board think the music industry should find a way to work with the Internet instead of suing people who have downloaded music.

Simon — PostgreSQL Performance Optimisation.

[@406]

Managing Complexity: Keeping a Large Java Project on Track.

Intel delays Wi-Fi part for Centrino. Here we go again.

David — blojsom 2.01 available.

Dan Shafer — Blogger Pro Now Free: Not Necessarily the Good News.

Rafe — Developing Eclipse plug-ins.

Limewire 3.5.7 offers iTunes integration. Better downloading and skins.

Bertrand — Eric Raymond and Bruce Perens answer to SCO.

Ross — Chapter 1.

NewzCrawler v1.5 RC2 has been released.

File-Sharing Companies Offer to Pay Girl's Settlement. A coalition of companies that run Internet song-sharing services offered yesterday to pick up the cost…

[@092]

Write Once, Run… Where? Does it really matter that Java code is completely portable?

Grasping Handlers. Define a complete service that demonstrates just how useful JAX-RPC handlers can be for you.

Daniel — [Ann] Subclipse 0.8.0 Released.

Microsoft really is cheaper than Linux, according to a new report by Gartner.

RIAA Sued For Amnesty Offer. The suit claims that the amnesty is "designed to induce members of the general public… to incriminate themselves… while (receiving)… no legally binding release of claims…"

Carlos — Components are Like Runtime Classes.

Torvalds to McBride: Grow up. Thank you so much for your letter.

Seybold, OracleWorld hit with bomb scare. Seybold and OracleWorld conference attendees were evacuated from San Francisco's Moscone convention center due to a bomb threat…

[@956]

Sun may offer Java customers SCO relief. Can fear of SCO help Java grow? Sun thinks it just might.

Fad Watch: 'Reflectoporn' is new craze on eBay.

Inside the GNOME 2.4 Desktop & Developer Platform. This marks the third major release of the GNOME 2 platform.

Diego — the new Swing GTK look and feel in JDK 1.4.2.

Jim — Foaf on the move.

François — Fast rollovers, no preload needed.

Kevin — Looking at Java Swing GUI frameworks.

Dion — New Research: J2EE bigger than .NET in Europe.

Mike — SourceID.org - when Open Source just plain isn't.

Doug — RSS Feeds for Chronicle's Job Listings. (For Russ)

Keith — Programmer tools.

Review: Java Web Services in a Nutshell.

Martin — EtymologyOfRefactoring.

Cedric — From classes to components.

Can rip-proof CDs save the music biz? Coming soon: The untouchable compact disc.

Alaska Air's digEplayer. First class handheld video and audio player.

Music lobby frightens Congress with P2P kiddie-porn nightmares. KaZaA promotes child rape.

FCC OKs Digital Cable Accord on TV Cards. A deal between television manufacturers and cable operators to replace digital signal converter boxes with a small card that slots into new televisions.

[@647]

Python modules for Mac OS X. CFPreferences API, etc.

Fill up with T-Mobile Wi-Fi at Texaco. A tank of petrol, a bag of crisps and my email please.

Today in Entertainment History. The Trust is Out There!

Fear May Not Spur CD Sales. Heavy-handed tactics are unlikely to prove effective over the long run.

Making Money in the Wireless World. A broad view of the complex and rapidly evolving marketplace.

James — [OS X] more OS X goodies - PathFinder rocks.

Jim — Motorola A920 - Ugly Duckling, Swan or Dead Duck?

2002 SAGE Salary Survey Finally Released. How does your salary stack up in the post-crash economy?

Congress questions DMCA subpoenas. Come up with an alternative way to protect songs and movies on the Internet…

[@580]

Working with SocketChannels and Understanding AffineTransform.

jEdit 4.2pre5 is now available.

Scoot — JUnit, Kinda Open Source and Abandonment as a Virtue.

Adina — Texas resident sues DirecTV under RICO.

Seattle to Gain 250 Wi-Fi Hotspots. Cometa Networks' 250 new hotspots will afford the city the highest density of public Wi-Fi access in the nation.

Pattern Summaries: Prototype. The Prototype pattern enables a class to create objects that implement a known interface by giving it a prototypical instance of each kind of object it will create.

Flash Player 7, MX 2004 trials available from Macromedia.

Jodd, a generic purpose open-source Java library.

KISS WiFi Plasma TV. 802.11g.

Martin — Blogger Pro, It's Time To Go.

Russ — Mobile Jobs.

File swappers face data limits. Need bigger pipes.

Matt — The Eight Cent Rut.

Microsoft to Open Windows Media Video. If accepted, the WMV 9 codec will become an international standard.

On September 10, 1897 — British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.