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Diego — a google-rss bridge in java. Cool!

Javier — Profile of a Java Idiot.

Vlad — ActualAccessFlags: an undocumented .class format attribute.

Rogers — Mailinator offers completely disposable email.

JXMLPad 1.9.2, a java component for editing XML/HTML document.

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The battle for Web services. Microsoft's Longhorn takes on J2EE.

Russ — Motorola Madness Continues, Thoughts on Udell's XML Adventures, The Mobile Playing Field and Groovy!

Frank — Nokia and Psion to buy Motorola's Symbian shares, Motorola to focus Java.

Dominic — Janeva put to use in J2EE .NET interop demo.

Jay — IBM to release new Eclipse to run on Jikes VM.

Hani — Javablogs killfiles and It's official: JBoss has no sense of humour.

Simon — Bubble-era budgets.

Chris — Perl replacement for Ant.

Java Runtime Class Editor Alpha 0.0, a tool which allows all methods for user-defined classes to be altered at runtime.

Todd — Spyware Guide!

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Russ — Mobile Advertising.

X-Lite Beta for Mac OS X.

James — [OS X] Try Poisoned for a great p2p app.

Bells sue FCC over new telecom rules. Big local phone companies have filed a first round of lawsuits charging that federal regulators violated previous court orders.

Java Ref 1.0, a light weight tool for use as a quick reference to the API Name spelling and Parameter lists.

Simon — Learning mod_rewrite.

Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup. A discussion about the creation of C++, its strengths and what C++ programmers should remember.

Madonna tribute at MTV awards. Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera help honour pop queen Madonna at the MTV video awards. Some lip action too.

Keith — Ternary operator in Python and Initialize an array in Java.

FBI to Arrest Teen in Internet Attack. Blaster blasted.

Kurt — Eclipse 3.0M3 is out.

Mitch — Switch!

Use Perl to harness XML data sources. A step by step guide to process the Moreover XML headline feeds.

Apple delays G5 shipments to late September. Dual-2GHz Power Mac G5.

jclasslib, a tool that visualizes all aspects of compiled Java class files and the contained bytecode.

On August 29, 1886 — In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.

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Governator T-Shirts. Hasta La Vista, Davis.

Jim — Nokia 3650 Reviews.

EFF Alert: Congressional Hearings on RIAA Tactics over P2P.

Hani — Javablogs is annoying.

Margaret — J2ME Game Criterion.

Cross compiling for Zaurus. A cross-development primer.

Metaclass programming in Python, Part 2.

Java theory and practice: — Building a better HashMap.

J2EE pathfinder: The many uses of implicit objects.

Eye on performance: Referencing objects.

Glenn — Free Wi-Fi Circles Microsoft.

Rusty — Sun's released version 1.4.2_01 of the JDK and JRE.

Cheah — Stumped by regular expressions? Try the Regex Coach.

Steve — mlMac: OpenSource.

Steven — Internet Sharing over Bluetooth for Palms. (for Macs with BT)

SanDisk offers Extreme CompactFlash, SD cards. SanDisk claims the cards offer higher performance and can be subject to more extreme temperature conditions

Sharp's 1-bit home theater system. SD-PX1.

Not easily portable. HP's Pavilion zd7000 and Toshiba's Satellite P25-S507.

About Push-To-Talk. Push-to-talk (PTT) could be the biggest upgrade to mobile phones…

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Matt — Problems with Gadfly (Python 2.3/Win32).

Alan — Installing MySQL replication between Linux and Mac OSX.

Adrian — Using jython to internationalize a PHP app.

Cameron — Hibernate adds Coherence support.

Erik — Any procmail-tologists in the house?

Keith — regular-expressions.info.

Simon — Python fixed decimal types and immutability.

Christoph — Eclipse Plugins – How To Keep Up To Date.

JPlate 0.5, yet another framework/toolkit to build applications.

Esme — Report on Wi-Fi in France.

a san juan — Apparently, Nokia Thinks it's Selling Hamburgers.

TIBCO sues Apple over trademark infringement. Rendezvous.

EarthLink targets 100 spammers. Launches legal action.

FBI on the trail of worm writers. The FBI is “confident” that it will capture those who are responsible for creating and spreading the latest viruses.

Bugkilla, a J2EE Functional Test Suite.

On August 28, 1907 — “American Messenger Company” was started by two teenagers Jim Casey and Claude Ryan. The companies name was later changed to “United Parcel Service.”

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Apple.com to be redesigned by Zeldman, Bowman. Maybe it'll look decent on a PC too now.

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

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Primitive Collections for Java, a collections framework for primitive Java types.

Werner — XDoclet resources : a small list.

Danny — Code Paste 'blog'.

The Exilim's four megapixel Exilim EX-Z4. Casio has another upgraded Exilim coming out.

New Pocket PCs from Dell on October 15th? Axim X3.

Share and share alike. TiVo Home Media Option. 

Paul — java.util.prefs.Preferences.systemRoot().

Russ — Thoughts about Qualcomm and BREW.

Jay — Java v Windows: the choice is almost yours.

binner — What to expect from Qt 4.

jSai 0.1, an alternate servlet authentication implementation.

Music Industry Unveils Tracking Methods. Sophisticated forensic techniques…

Ployglot, compiles in seven languages. COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, Shell script, 8086.

Diego — clevercactus beta 3 in the oven — and some comments.

How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a Cocktail Party.

Making Media from Scratch, Part 2.

Group Gets Private Data on U.S. Officials. SSN, etc.

Using the Singleton Pattern. Some classes need only a few instances, or only one.

Small Webcasters sue RIAA. A group of small Net radio stations say the trade association tried to push independent music stations offline.

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Jay — Dynamic languages and virtual machines.

Want to visit Britain? Join the fingerprint queue. Biometric visas stamped.

Swimsuit issue stars Albert Einstein. Mental Floss.

IDEA 4.0 EA (Aurora) build 908 released.

Vintage AC/DC Show Hits DVD. Let there be rock!

Handle your JAX.

Match the Right Constructor. Instantiating an object dynamically with a matching constructor.

XPath 2.0: The Donald Sutherland of XML.

Christoph — Eclipse JET – Write Code that Writes Code.

Jean-Yves — The French translation of the RSS 2.0 spec is available.

Java Desktop for XWindow.

Microsoft confirms Virtual PC not G5-compatible. SOL.

WB Series 'Angel' Renewed for Fifth Season. Yeah!

Behrang — 67 Open Bugs in GridBagLayout!!!

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Frank — How to use credit cards without getting screwed and fotokey: New free gallery software.

Russ — Gad XAOX! Finding the True Path to XAOism….

Rusty — XMLStarlet 0.5.1.

Jay — Oracle Recognized for Java Leadership.

Cheah — Free Classics eBooks.

a san juan — Oh, c'mon now! Mobile Karaoke via J2ME apps!

Aaron — Parsing XML in J2ME.

Hani — JDJ Readers Choice Award Farce.

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Andrew — Software Patents.

100-hour DirecTiVo from Samsung. A new 100-hour TiVo for DirecTV from Samsung.

Kevin — iTunes parody make serious point.

Jaxe 1.7.1, a Java XML editor.

Intel ‘may be guilty’ of over-hyping Wi-Fi. Company president confesses.

PalmSource Seeds Palm OS 5.3 to Developers, which adds support for an API for dynamic input areas, QVGA, and Simplified Chinese.

Cellphones will sport Wi-Fi, says industry execs.

On August 27, 1912 — The Edgar Rice Burroughs book “Tarzan of the Apes” was published for the first time.

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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.