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Java

Irgendwie Irgendwo Irgendwann

22 years ago

4 min read

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Java Tip: Fast math with JNI.

Metrowerks: All’s Clear On Embedded Linux Front. CodeWarrior Development Studio for Sharp Zaurus Application Development 1.0

Matt — Most Reliable Web Hosts Still Run FreeBSD.

T-Mobile posts strong earnings growth. 19% subscriber growth against a year ago.

Fred — KnowledgeBase Up for Motorola Handsets-J2ME.

Hani — Fred Grott guest blog!

AWStats 5.7 released. I use it to generate the stats for all of my sites.

qpe-gaim 0.2. Gaim for Qtopia, an official port of the multi-protocol instant messenger client Gaim for the Zaurus and other PDAs running Qtopia.

Windows XP SP2 Delayed Until Late 2004. Third quarter of 2004.

BoxPlugin 0.1 for IDEA. Conversion intentions from one type to another.

Three vids for Anyplace, Anywhere, Anytime.

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I wrote down the steps I took to configure a NETGEAR MA410 wi-fi card on my PowerBook G3 Wallstreet under Yellow Dog Linux.

Jeremy — What happened to Yahoo's Millionaires?

JFtp 1.34, a graphical network browser supporting FTP, SMB, SFTP, NFS, HTTP, and local I/O.

It's summertime for silly gadgets. Wi-Fi chair, Toilet paper printer, etc.

Wireless Networks Still Work in Blackout. Thank god for backup generators.

James — Cory on Trademarks.

McDonald's Offering Prizes for Use of McWiFi. Free laptops and Palm Tungsten C's.

Jason — More thoughts on JCP spec leads.

Joe — LANMP3 source posted.

Microsoft's plan to beat the worm. Bye-Bye IP.

Rod — Commons Logging was my fault.

Brian — Final Countdown to JDeveloper 10g Preview.

Debian Hits Double Digits on August 16th! A decade, already?

[@770]

François — Introducing i18n and l10n.

Matt — PocketFeed 0.6.

Dave — JSP-based tree controls?

Andy — Find a jar part III.

Hackers Explained: The Techniques (PART II).

Werner — Finding and deleting files recursively on linux.

Bill — Ant's junit task is too verbose.

ZDNet Aussie: Seventeen-inch LCD monitor roundup.

When wireless fails, callers turn to landlines. The regular public telephone network generally kept working after the power went out in parts of six states…

Complete List of Emmy Nominations and List of Emmy Winners. Is that a placeholder?

[@503]

Anyplace, anywhere, anytime. Nena feat. Kim Wilde.

Jeremy — Do they really work?

Matt — Roundup: I'd Rather Be Whistling In The Dark.

Martin — WiFi In Edinburgh Update.

Henri — Fixing Java on the Zaurus C760.

Dominic — Fast Web Services.

JSVN, Java Subversion Client.

Svn-Up, a java interface for the subversion api and a multiplatform gui for Subversion and a plugin to connect subversion to the Idea IDE.

SuperVision, another project aiming to develop a Java/Swing based visual client for the Subversion version control system.

Henri — Debugging a Zaurus Java app.

Dominic — Toshiba e355 for $200.

Vinny — GenJar – Java app deployment made easy.

Matthew — WebWork2/XWork Beta.

Jim — The Darkness.

Guy — Exactly how do you talk on a wrist-phone?

New Sharp Mebius Notebooks Play DVDs Without Booting! Mebius Notebooks PC-SV1-7DB and PC-SV1-5CB.

On August 15, 1949 — In San Francisco, a stunt leap off the Golden Gate Bridge was performed for the first time.

#linkblog

News

Underworld

22 years ago

4 min read

[@096]

Diego — “weblog” is one word.

Matt — Power Outages and Blackout Moblog.

Matt — AppFuse 0.9.1 Released.

Fred — EclipseTechnologies at AlphaWorks.

Erik — Nutch - Google in a JAR.

McBlog — unsynchronized StringBuffer – let the Tiger in!

Kevin — WyPy the Minuscule Wiki.

Rafe — Natively compiled Eclipse.

Norman — Java and shell scripts.

Steven — P800 & GPRS.

SCO's Licensing Fight Turns a Profit. $7.3 million of revenue from its controversial Unix-licensing efforts.

Fred — Legal Expert Claims SCO Group Claims Against Linux Fraudulent.

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I wonder if support for Google Calculator is going to be implemented in the Google APIs at some point.

Biggest. Ugliest. Wristphone. Ever! Say no to Wristomo.

Mike — Bye Struts-Dev.

JMP 0.33, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

What's coming up in GNOME 2.4. A look at GNOME 2.

OpenOffice.org for Windows 1.1 RC3 and OpenOffice.org for Linux 1.1 RC3 Released.

Outlook Express On Life Support? Typical Microsoft… hook 'em, then sink 'em.

The reading lounge: Java NIO.

Make the most of Xerces-C++, Part 1.

Magic with Merlin: Formatting numbers and currency.

Instant logging: Harness the power of log4j with Jabber.

Quick Office for Series 60. Word Processor and Powerpoint Viewer.

Rusty — JSR 184: Mobile 3D Graphics API for J2ME, JSR-185: Java Technology for the Wireless Industry (JTWI), JSR-195: Information Module Profile and JSR 114: JDBC Rowset Implementations.

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Jonaz — AspectWerkz 0.8 is released.

802.11g drives Wi-Fi sales. But 802.11b still rules the roost.

Janne — Penthouse Goes Bankrupt, Americans Fleeing To Canada and Europe.

Office In Three Flavors. VirtualPC bundled in Professional edition.

Microsoft beats Apple iTunes Music Store to Europe. Partnership with music industry darling, OD2.

Roman — JetBrains T-Shirts and Mugs.

Simon — Python & Java: a Side-by-Side Comparison.

SuSE putting dents in Microsoft's armor. Richard Seibt, CEO.

JavaScript Exception Handling. It's sad but true — error-free code is still largely a Utopian dream.

[@470]

Thanks to all the people who have expressed their sympathies regarding Max. We both really appreciate it.

IBM refreshes Java tool. WebSphere Studio update.

Blaine — Don't use Virtual Dimension. I like it, works great for me. The transparency options are ubber cool.

Russ — Explosion and The Realities of Connecting via GPRS.

Fx — Fred, what about a comment …

Todd — Crazy Cool Dealz.

I forgot to mention it then but we saw a trailer for Underworld last Saturday. It looks mighty good.

Charles — Trust and Non-Public Members.

Mike — No One's Buying Tablet Computers. Yeap, not too suprising.

Rusty — IzPack 3.1.0 and JSP TestRunner.

Martin — Things You Never Knew Existed.

RIAA undeterred by subpoena setback. “This is a minor procedural issue…”

On August 14, 1989 — Bon Jovi's “New Jersey” album became the first U.S. album to be released legally in the Soviet Union. The Russian label Melodiya paid the group with a truckload of firewood since rubles can't leave Russia.

#linkblog

News

Bad Days

22 years ago

4 min read

[@208]

Jim — I won't be back!

Matt — Chiba and Boa Constructor.

Hasta La Vista, Mobi! Schwarzenegger said to be investor in Israeli mobile startup.

Henri — Zaurus details page.

Dave — Wiki asshole on the attack.

David — 1500 downloads and counting.

Michael — Abandon Java for VB.NET?

Mark — XMLMind XML-Editor 2.4 available.

Steve — Java “a Plus” Working at MSDN.

Nick — C++… Such a waste of time!

Jeremy — Intel withdraws sponsorship of SCO trade show.

Keith — I hate PHP.

Simon — PHP Library Tips.

Sylvain — Cocoon 2.1 released.

Norman — Confessions of a Java Zealot.

Andy — Simple utility to find a class in a set of jars recursively.

Aaron — ColdFusion Developer's Journal: Writing a Java-based CFX Tag.

JEdit: Now with Wiki goodness.

Apple Issues OS X Refunds For Some. Tentative settlement.

Glen — Idea editor tricks I just discovered.

Matt — On verbosity, Ant's syntax and XML.

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Max was put to sleep at 5:45pm. We'll miss her.

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Java Pro 2003 Enterprise Buyer's Guide. Look at it before making those difficult enterprise purchasing decisions.

Cluster Resources in Containers. Develop a simple resource manager interface that accommodates XML and other object groups stored in arbitrary containers.

JMX for Managing Java Applications. Without a distributed services layer, management help from JMX may be limited.

Event Triggering XSLT Magic. Conduct e-business the contemporary way—reuse XSLT rules in components without code replication.

[@730]

JAX-RPC on the Sun ONE Web Services Platform Developer Edition, Part 2.

Who is Dave Winer? Pay $500 and find out…

Henri — Manual for the c760.

Debashish — Javaranch Wiki.

Nick — A Java bug worthy of your vote.

Darren — Coolest keyboard ever.

Charles — Fred Grott: Which meial?

Evolution 2.0 weblog.

Panther Server To Include JBoss.

Boot-able DiskOnKey USB Flash Drive. M-Systems, using FreeDOS.

Dong— Java RMI.

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We moved our next vet appointment for Max to today. She's no longer able to hold her bladder

She has hardly ate anything in days and has no strength left in her back legs.
When Vicki called the vet yesterday, she was basically told they did not think she would last this long.
Unless they have some kind of booster shot, I don't think it would be fair to prolong her agony.

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AntFit, a FIT task for Ant.

JComboEditor, RTF & Text Editor-EMailer Combo.

Omniscient Debugging, a timestamp-based debugger.

Guy — Burger-surfing: McDonalds announces "biggest WiFi move yet" in Chicago.

Henri — c760 continued…

David — IntelliJ Aurora build 896 is available.

Matt — Using the T68i as a GRPS Modem.

Michael — Java games discussion on JDJ.

John — GNOME (Metacity) Keyboard Shortcuts.

Simon — 10 Python pitfalls.

Dan — IP masquerading made easy.