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Erik's Pulse has been published.

JSP best practices: Create custom attributes for your JSP tags.

MIDlet music: Add sound with WTK.

XMOJO, an open source JMX implementation.

Macromedia-JRun rumor false. Started by two guys who are disgruntled with Macromedia.

Dominic — WASP for Eclipse-based Web Services development.

Andrej — IBM sues SCO.

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

Pawn — Liferay Portlet Building.

Hani — The trouble with webwork(2).

Erb — The immensity of the JRE.

Cedric — EJB 3.0.

CNET posts ‘ultimate iPod accessories’ roundup.

Judge orders eBay to pay $29.5 million.

PC Magazine Review: Hitachi SH-G1000.

Bluetooth headset roundup. Jabra BT200 v1, Nokia HDW-2, Nextlink Bluespoon Digital, Sony Ericsson HBH-60 and Bluetake BT400 GII.

RIAA ignores court battles, picks Verizon to host site. The one thing we didn't want to happen.

Google Adds Related Searches In Place Of AdSense Ads. I've yet to decided if I liked it or not.

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Schwarzenegger and the American dream. The life and career of Arnold Schwarzenegger has been one of inexorable rise.

Survey: Would you vote for Governor Arnie?

Russ — Rich Dad, Poor Dad.

Christoph — Eclipse J2ME Wireless Development with Sony Ericsson P800.

Intel faces $600m bill for unpaid tax. IRS challenges US-made chip count.

Sun – Apple rumors set markets jangling. But what could they possibly want from each other?

Danny — Making the web pay.

BlueJ 1.3.0, a Java Development Environment aimed at teaching .

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I watched Arnie announce his candidacy on Jay Leno. He was funny. I think he'll make a good Governor.

Diego — too late to raise a white flag and apple's direction.

Matt — First impressions of the ZX7.

Dominic — Blogging Network: Blogging for the masses.

Jack — The House That Jack Built.

Stuart — How to hire based on a brief interview.

Bill — Solving the Junk Mail Problem by redefining it.

Nick — Will any name stick for the successor of RSS?

Charles — Mophun Sucks and Could Marc Fleury be Any Worse at PR?

Ted — Editorial Irresponsibility.

Review: Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer.

On August 7, 1914 — Germany invaded France.

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SCO Targets US Government, TiVo. Even the Zaurus.

The Java Speech API, Part 1.

Behind JEMBlazer: Java on the GameBoy Advance.

Schwarzenegger announces bid for governor. On the Tonight Show.

Erik — FTPeel 1.0. Looks nice, but seems a little buggy.

NYT: AOL's Makeover Reviewed.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 2 – The Nature of the Beast.

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Macromedia de-emphasizing JRun. JRun's future uncertain.

Russ — XQuery: What you probably don't know and Series 60 HTTP Server.

Hani — JBoss takes it up the ass.

Erik — Struts/XDoclet final installment.

Chuq — Apple updates open source license.

AirPort 3.1.1 drivers released.

AT&T Web store opens for downloads. More than 40,000 software titles.

CheckFree stock falls over online bill-payment shift worries. The stock fell $5.31, or 20 percent.

US Navy buys Linux on Apple kit. Biggest ever Xserve sale.

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Jim — None of the above.

Philip — Java vs. .NET, part 1 – Usability.

Kenneth — PNG The Definitive Guide and Compressing with pngcrush.

Memory sticks are the latest security risk. Up to a point. Didn't you see The Recruit?

Wide Load Laptops. Lardtops or Flabtops?

Rogers — Disney ports Photoshop to Linux.

Luke — Batman – Dead End.

Gentoo Linux 1.4 released.

AMD buys Nat Semi Geode chip. x86 for PDAs, anyone?

Real to build open source media player. Linux, Unix, and Solaris.

javabot 0.1.1, a Java IRC-bot just like eggdrop or any other IRC-bot.

Simon — Professional JSP, 3rd Edition (Apress) to be released soon.

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Diego — how to know when you support a format and google news search —in your email.

Marc— MIDP 1.0 2.0 aka the migration hell.

NewsForge reader listens in on SCO conference call. No followups.

EU ‘gives last chance’ to Microsoft. The EU executive says the US software giant has a final chance to comment before action is taken against ‘market abuses’.

Jeremy — Checking the Pulse of Blogging With a Mallet.

Fred — Java Comes to 64-bit Systems.

Hugo — Geronimo: is the open-source J2EE community on fire?

No JVM sharing in 1.5. Bummer.

The ‘Golden Age of Free Music’ v ‘Copying is Stealing’. Burn This.

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Kevin — Patterns.

AMD Demonstrates Linux-Based PDA at LinuxWorld. OpenPDA.

Wi-Fi in the sky. Hughes Network Systems launched a Wi-fi service that originates from satellites circling as high as 24,400 miles above the earth.

Glenn — SBC to Offer Hot Spots with Wayport.

Study Reveals Bad Password Habits. A survey of 3,000 administrators, managers and security specialists.

RIM Loses NTP Case, To Pay $53 Million.

Werner — Apache Geronimo J2EE project : no current JBoss developer is participating.

Leslie — Quick links.

Two reviews of HP's iPAQ h1940 Pocket PC. High marks.

Frank — Steve Mallet doesn't get Safari.

Al — My PDA Cafe MEGA BEAMFEST 2003.

SCO sets steep charge for Linux license. That's one way to garnish your defense fund ;-)

Rusty — Version 1.1.1 of the Kaffe open source Java virtual machine.

jNotes 1.0, a Java desktop application for personal information management.

Simon — More links.

We watched our first episode of Spooks/MI-5 yesterday. I'll reserve my final judgment until we've seen a few more. As Vicki elegantly put it; it felt a little too “soap opera”-ish.

Jeremy — Don't Smile At Me, SMS My Teddy.

On August 6, 1806 — The Holy Roman Empire went out of existence as Emperor Francis I abdicated.

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YourKit Memory Profiler 1.0 released.

JSP deployments rapidly growing. 94% increase in JSP deployments since July 2002.

Red Hat Linux 9 and Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.4.2: A Winning Combination.

Matt — Apache J2EE Project and Pie/Echo/Atom 0.2 Snapshot.

Carlos — A Monopoly Creates Less Jobs.

Review: Palm Tungsten T2.

Motorola's fall lineup. Phonescoop feature.

Mats — PoseidonUML reaches 2.0(beta).

Joe — Bileblog sucks. And it's contaminating you, too.

Max — Hibern8IDE 0.9.

Ugo — Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?

Hani — The joys of premature optimisation.

Carlos — Why does Gnome prefers C#?

Jason — Ant hack: How to debug paths.

Sam — Secure Hash Algorithm 1.

Jeremy — WiFi To Go.

Jcrontab-1.4, a scheduler system written in Java.

First MySQL Database Appliance Debuts. The appliance is a preconfigured, integrated hardware/software gadget that packages the MySQL database with hardware from Pogo Linux.

Macromedia Regroups With ColdFusion6.1 Release.

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Matt — SAP DB Becomes MaxDB.

Fred — JVMs in Telematics.

JavaBDD 0.5, a Java library for manipulating binary decision diagrams.

JGraph 2.2.2, a graph component for Swing.

Metrowerks announces CodeWarrior Development Studio 9.0.

Siemens unveils ST55 camera phone. Integrated VGA camera, with 65,536-color TFT display.

BestBuy database said to list new Palms. The mystical world of model numbers.

Hacker hit parade goes live. A list of the top security problems on the internet which is updated regularly has been published.

Rusty — The XML Apache Project has released version 2.5 of Xerces-J.

David — Multi-user blojsom progress.

Syndigator 0.11,a RSS reader/aggregator.

CodeWarrior Development Studio for Sharp Zaurus Application Development, Version 1.

AOL Launches New Stand-Alone Communicator. Combines e-mail, instant messaging and an address book into one integrated suite.

Millions getting rid of landline phones. The curly-corded phone is starting to seem like a relic.

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Last month stats: 3737940 pageviews. 56455 unique visitors. Thanks to Matt for pointing out that I was underrating myself by saying “hits” instead of “pageviews”.

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Ewan — Mobi/AAS Meet Next Tuesday!

Will — A Saga of Palm Java Development.

Sergio — Jazilla M2 released.

Kasia — Microsoft bashing. always a good topic.

Aaron — Lucene.Net 1.3.rc1 now available.

Christoph — Java 1.5: New Language Features by example.

Steven — MIDP on Mac OS X.

MockEjb 0.4. Lightweight framework for running EJBs outside of the container for testing purposes.

IBM Chooses SourceForge for Internal Linux Group. With security its main concern, Big Blue chooses VA Software's enterprise edition software for its internal open-source group.

Airlines warned of ‘gadgets’. Officials: Electronic devices may hide airline threat.

The EFF vs. The RIAA. USA Today profile.

Davide — Bad Smells in Code.

Jason — [rsslibj] updates for rss 2.0 feeds.

Simon — Building desktop clients for Mac OS X with Swing.

MSN junks Monster for CareerBuilder.com. Bit of a trend.

FCC Goes WiFi. Free to visitors 

Danny — Really Simple Blogging with the Atom API.

Classifier4J 0.4, a java library that provides an API for automatic classification of text.

CRN Interview: MySQL Chief Martin Mickos.

File-swappers ignore RIAA threats. Don't know, don't care.

On August 5, 1861 — The U.S. federal government levied its first income tax. The tax was 3% of all incomes over $800. The wartime measure was rescinded in 1872.

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Interview with Miguel. Ximian's lead primate.

SMS Simple Quiz. Pick up your diploma.

Dave — Software success.

Eugene — I'm a Dad!!!  Congrats! 

Brent — TypePad pricing.

Cedric — WebLogic AOP Framework Restored.

J2ME VNC Client Alpha 2.9.2.

JHexDump 1.0, a 100% Java HexDump program.

JXP 1.2, a fast Java API for XPath 1.0.

Bill — Sun, Apple, and J2ME, Oh My!

Mark — Patterns for Projects.

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Daniel — Java Events.

Macromedia Releases a Java RSS Parsing Library. RSS Untangle (RSSU) as part of volume 4 of the Macromedia DevNet Resource Kit.

JIm — London as a wiki.

Diego — novell buys ximian.

Matt — mytop 1.4, Nokia 6800: In The Wild and PyCon DC 2004.

Eclipse J2ME plugin, new project.

Glenn — Kensington WiFi Loser?

Matt — Tomcat Updates.

Greg — Open Source JDBC Driver for XML Found.

Simon — Blogging on java.net.

Leslie — MiniPCs, Wave of the Future and Final round of voting for pie/atom/(n)echo name?.

Ben — Dr. Java.

Rogers — Teach yourself to scare programming novices.

Chuq — book review: Mac OS X for Java Geeks.

Fred — Eclipse Logging Plugin and Red Hat Shores UP GPL and Hits SCO Group Hard.

Andy Review of Virtual PC for OS X and JBoss hires former Sun Employee, Remy Maucherat of Apache Tomcat.

Martin — “Copying is Theft …”

CNN: Some junk disks, opt for keychain memory. USB thumb or pen drives.

Todd — Trillian Pro 2.0 beta announced for instant messaging. Jabber support, yeah!

4GB CompactFlash memory card. $1,499.

Rumor: A BlackBerry iPAQ?.

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Jim — Dog days of summer.

The Fortnightly Symbian magazine. Free by email every other Monday.

Jon — Using cocoa and java without interface builder.

François — Apprendre le calendrier par coeur XX(.

Christoph — database driven FAQ system and Eclipse Database Modelling with Clay Plugin.

JPim b1-r1, a Java email and contact management tool.

Freecell 1.1 for Mac OS X.

Wikipedia: The know-it-all Web site.

Spammers Make Profits Without Making A Sale. Don't click.

RealRadix — The N-Gage killer app?

Dispute exposes bitter power struggle behind Web logs. The great RSS controversy.

CPU sales rose 8.2% during Q2. Good annual, poor sequential gains.

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Pixory beta-3, a personal image server.

eBay architects J2EE to do 1 BILLION page views a day.

Fast Native Eclipse with GTK+ Looks. The gcj team created a natively compiled build of the Eclipse IDE.

Diego — what time is it?

Matt — Mobile Market Roundup and Quick Roundup.

Carlos — Corporate Open Source Repositories You Never Knew Existed.

David — Chronicle Lite 1.2.002 available.

Greg — (No) JDBC Drivers For XML.

Hugo — JBoss J2EE Certification. What is JBoss, after all?

Hani — Profile of a Java Idiot and Gerald Bauer crowned village idiot.

Nick — J2EE lagging behind .Net?

Marc — My Top5 Java Books.

Keith — PHP 5 overview.

Cedric — “inheritance considered evil” considered evil.

Mark — textile4j 1.10 released.

jEdit 4.2pre4 now available.

Todd — Kensington WiFi Finder not all cracked up to be!

Four new MP3 players from Rio. The Fuse, the Cali, the Chiba, and the Karma.

Sync4j 1.0, an open source SyncML server and framework.

On August 4, 1735 — Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that “the truth is not libelous.”

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Behrang — CodeNotes.com happy porting their website from Java to .NET.

Bill — Geek fame.

Brian — What Happened To My IDEA Classpath?

Jim — pyBlosxom 0.8rc1.

Matt — Typepad: Go For Launch, ZigBee: Personal Area Network and Rendezvous/Zeroconf: On More Platforms.

Motorola's P800 Killer – the A920.

Danno — Open Position at My Employer.

Greg — Free J2EE Online Course, 3rd Session.

Simon — Page Readability Bookmarks.

Andy — Sorry Simon.

Steven — P800 Settings.

TightVNC 1.2.9. My favorite VNC client/server.

Proguard 1.7, a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator. I used it with Antenna. 

Todd — Gonna fly have your background checked!

K. Paul — Apache mod_rewrite Primer.

Daniel — Impressive 500.

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Apache Tomcat 4.1.27.

Sun, SuSE Make Linux Pact. SuSE gets JVM.

BEA targets IBM with app server plan. Trying to regain the lead in the application server market.

Introducing the Portlet Specification, Part 1.

Java ToolboxWhy extends is evil. Improve your code by replacing concrete base classes with interfaces.

Matt — Jython 2.2 Alpha.

Henri — Coding is poetry…

Dave — Erik Hatcher on XDoclet and the Struts Validator..

Charles — NetBeans 3.5.1 -updated-.

Ryan — What to do with Java-Frameworks?

Hani — As stable and maintainable as jelly.

Erik — How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure.

Brent — RSSJobs.com.

Jason — Russell Chooses Struts.

Darren — Java has GUID's built in.

RealRadix — Removing the iPod 100dB EU limit.

Andy — Simon Phipps debunked…again.

Bryce — Treo 270 for a Song.

Pete — Use Bluetooth for SMS in OS X.

Scott — Rendevous for Windows.

Martin — Coder or killer?

jConfig 2.2, a configuration manager in Java that works with xml files, an URL or a LDAP repository.

PMD 1.2.1, a Java source code analyzer. Bug fix release.

FindBugs 0.6.2, a program to find bugs in Java programs.

More Panther 7B21 Details. Screenshots galore.

Sprint's Game Pad. Who needs Nokia's N-Gage?

Bluetooth digital pen from Maxell.

Did Loyola University lose its innocence to the RIAA? Lawyer calls for some privacy.

McDonald's New High-Tech Burger Flipper. Order your own junk food.

Vanessa — One more Java vs .NET post.

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Adam — politically incorrect blog. It's MT, the rss is here.

Alan — Unmaintainable Java Technique.

Moviemaker for P800 now available for OS X. Makayama Software.

Intel adds motherboard security. Intel has signed a deal to integrate security software into motherboards…

Simon — IT the EasyJet way.

End of the road for SMTP? The protocol that has defined e-mail for more than two decades may have a fatal flaw: It trusts you.

Mobile phone handset sales picking up. Cameraphones, smartphones attracting consumers again.

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The Jakarta Commons HttpClient 2.0 BETA development has been concluded.

Diego — early-morning linking.

Dominic — OpenCard Framework.

Mark — Atom API primer.

Jeremy — Bill Maher Uses MovableType?

Bryce — Spamotomy.com.

Conor — Atomic increment in Java.

Netcraft: August 2003 Web Server Survey.

RIAA challenged by ISP. Excessive punishment.

Jatomix-Depot, a Java persistence layer.

Bill — Relentless.

Werner — JBoss : going back in time with Marc's bio.

US court rules Telsim owners guilty of fraud. Orders Uzans to pay $4.3bn, issues arrest warrant.

Open-source gurus reject SCO. Linus Torvalds and Eben Moglen.

On August 1, 1790 — The first U.S. census was completed. The population of the 17 states was 3,929,214.

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Matt — CheckRDF.

Eye on performance: Improve your development processes

J2EE pathfinder: Create and manage stateful Web apps

Fred— 2 Wrongs+1 Right=MS's New SmartPhone Strategy.

Aaron — Futurama: Using Java Technology to Build Robots That Can See, Hear Speak, and Move.

Jeremy — Sony Goes It Alone, Again.

US Senate blocks net tax. A new bill in the Senate proposes to make internet services permanently free from tax.

U.S. Suspends WorldCom from New Government Contracts. Investigation found the company had not adequately addressed its accounting and business ethics weaknesses.

Senator launches investigation into RIAA piracy crackdown. Calling the campaign “excessive.”

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Survey: Do you find Google Ads on blogs annoying?

License Manager 2.0.0, a Java tool for file encryption & licensing.

Netgear raises $98 million in IPO. The networking-gear maker begins trading publicly after a second attempt at an initial public offering.

Duran Duran returns older, wiser and live. '80s band on tour for first time in 18 years.

The Blue Angels have been practicing all day for Seafair. We can hear them (and see them from our balcony) when they fly by.

IBM: There are ‘forces’ trying to wreck Linux. Gates and his allies are after us.

Disposable Digital Cameras Have Arrived. $10.99, including 4x6" prints and Photo CD.

Glider PRO For Free. Cool! I used to love that game.

Dell yanks Axim Pocket PC patch after hackers crack it. Pocket PC 2003.

Experts fear possible Web attack. Apply those patches!

UK bans iPod gadget. N Micro's iTrip.

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Sorry for the lack of updates today. I'm spring cleaning my aggregator. The process took longer than I expected. Everything should be back to normal very soon.