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Iron Maiden released a new album: Dance Of Death. Sounds like good old maiden to me.

Niel — Free J2ME and Gaming Book.

Jeffrey — eBay SDK 'hello world' in C#.

Ross — Interdependency vs. Reuse.

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Sheldon is looking for some feedback on his J2EE Service Wrapper Pattern Candidate.

Todd — If your thinking about asking for RIAA amnesty better reconsider.

François — PDAs: keyboards coming back!

Matt — HowTo: Using XDoclet's StrutsForm and a 41KB j2ee.jar.

Jeremy — Type Anywhere, On Anything.

Cisco unveils color VoIP phone. 7970G, touch screen, around $1,000.

FCC: Stern's raunchy radio show is a news program.

12-Year-Old Girl Settles With RIAA for $2,000.

SuperWaba 4.01, a Java-like virtual machine for PDAs.

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SCO invites open source people to 'monetize' Linux. An open letter, from SCO boss Darl McBride.

Sun Microsystems' Co-Founder to Resign. Bill Joy is leaving to pursue other interests.

Barnes and Noble Drops Ebooks. Not too surprising.

Matt — A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That.

Russ — Symbian Developer Position.

Jay — Pattern Summaries: Prototype.

Dan — Soaplet Framework.

David — Aurora, build 922 is available.

Joe — On Editing for JDJ, yet again.

James — Groovy is starting to take shape…

John — KaZaA now has a plus version.

Anthony — JDJ Editorials of Interest.

Cedric — Holub is at it again.

Open Snippets: Java Hex Functions.

Sony's wireless home theater-in-a-box. New wireless 5.1 channel surround sound home theater-in-a-box system from Sony.

Happy Birthday, Google! Five years ago, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporated their fledgling startup.

Micro Warehouse flogs North American ops. The mail order reseller is selling its North American business to CDW for $22m.

Matt — My tips o' the day.

'Homeless hacker' surrenders to feds. Adrian Lamo.

Cingular's auto-forwarding cradle for cellphones. Automatically forward calls made to the phone to a landline number.

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Amaya 8.1b, a W3C's Web browser and authoring tool.

Diego — SWT: first impressions.

Carlos — MundoJava is out!

Janne — RSS weather.

Keith — The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing.

Jeremy — Popups Are Legal.

Matt — Is Sun Java Certification all that?

Julian — 12 Thoughts About Making Code More Efficient.

Pierre — sandler - Java Atom API.

Java SOS 3.55, a Java servlets office suite.

RIAA Lawsuits Hit 71 Year Old Grandfather, 12 Year Old Girl. No surprise here…

US Wireless Carriers Adopt Code for Better Service. The largest U.S. wireless carriers voluntarily adopted a list of principles…

Apple Sells 10 Million Songs on Online Music Store.

On September 9, 1850 — California became the 31st state to join the union.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

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Dion — Comparing Java Data Binding Tools.

Russ — I LOVE XPATH!

Andrej — JDeveloper 10G: First attempt.

Simon — Pro JSP 3rd Edition almost out and TagUnit 1.0 beta 1 available - with a user guide!

Hani — Disturbing interviews.

Bill — New vCard site.

Aaron — Froogle Redesign.

Joey — Java Regex APIs and Quoting.

Nelson — Using WSDL for GET.

Cedric — Thousands of bugs in the Character class.

Rafe — Hibernate Performance Challenge.

Charles — How toLowerCase and isLowerCase Interact: Not a Bug.

BBEdit's Version Control, examined by Macworld.

Java 1.4.1 Update 1, available for download through the Software Update preference pane.

Music swappers sued; amnesty program unveiled. 261 lawsuits filed.

Karl-Martin — Python gets bool(eans).

First look at Samsung's i600 Smartphone. No BT?

Microsoft Launches Office Online Site, a repository of free Office user resources on the Web.

Security firm: IE patch does not work.

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Apple introduces new 20GB and 40GB iPods. $399 and $499.

Apple gives iMacs a speed bump, USB 2.0 support.

Niel — Disappointment with Enhydra's XML-RPC Implementation.

Andrej — OracleWorld has started.

Mike — Sponsor me for the National Heart Foundation.

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JXMLPad 1.9.3, a java component for editing XML/HTML document.

Frank — eBay Developer weblog.

Simon — Getter and setter methods are evil.

Java Serialization to XML 2 2.1 . An automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

OpenOffice.org for Linux 1.1 RC4 and OpenOffice.org for Windows 1.1 RC4.

Fred — J2ME UI Library!

RealRadix — Why micro-payment systems won't succeed.

WebSphere Micro Environment Toolkit for PalmOS Developers. Two components: JarToPrc, and a JDWP-compliant debuggers.

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Introducing the Portlet Specification, Part 2.

Why getter and setter methods are evil. The getter/setter idiom is a commonplace feature in many Java programs.

Diego — now with Atom support: java google feeds bridge and  clevercactus bug/feature tracker online.

Russ — PalmOne/IBM get down with Java, Debugging Orion Server in Eclipse and How to 'refresh' your Nokia 3650.

Anthony — Clever Cactus.

Jay — New name for Eclipse!

Matt — Hibernate 2.1 beta 3 Released.

Sheldon — Friends Let Friends Write Singletons.

Hani — Foiled J2ME development attempt.

Werner — Java Serial communications on a RedHat 9 box.

Doug — MoinMT: MoinMoin Wiki Formatting Plugin for Movabletype.

Steven — OpenOffice on Mac OSX: pain.

7-Zip 3.09.01 beta released.

Microsoft settles antitrust suit with Be. Microsoft will pay Be more than $23 million…

On September 8, 1966 — NBC-TV aired the first episode of “Star Trek” entitled “The Man Trap”. The show was canceled on September 2, 1969.

Well, it had to happen…

We went to the vet yesterday afternoon to settle Max's final bill. They had couple cages setup in the lobby for cats in needs of new homes.

You guessed it…

We adopted, Callie, a 2-4 years old beautiful calico domestic shorthair. She was given up by some kid going to college.

I'll take and post some pictures soon.

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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.