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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Marc— $5 an hour…. $8 all day ….. ain't bad.

Apache Ant 1.5.4. The last JDK 1.1 compatible version.

Intel launches mainstream 800MHz FSB chipset. i848P debuts.

Iomega to re-enter removable hard drive biz. 2.5in disk offers 35GB.

Bananas. New Deep Purple album.

On August 13, 1846 — The American Flag was raised for the first time in Los Angeles, CA.

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Matt — Amok! Amok! Amok!

Anthony — IRC APIs.

Blaine — Virtual Desktop software for windows. I'm going to give it a try.

Henri — Arrival of C760 Zaurus.

Behrang — Is Borland going to destroy Together?

Cedric — Announcing EJBGen 2.15.

Garth — test.py - a self-testing test script runner.

Steven — Java Poop.

WinCVS 1.3b13-2, Python 2.3 support!

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Sun joins JDOCentral as a charter member. JDO 2.0 work begins.

WS-I releases Basic Profile 1.0, a set of specifications that guarantees Web services interoperability.

Diego in praise of RMI and reverse engineering: a case study.

Jim — JabRSS growth and Mobile Content – Where's it going?

Russ — Using the Nokia 3650 as a GPRS Modem.

Ewan — Camera Phones Save Lives.

Matt — Athlon 64 Logo and Google Calculator.

MS Hit by Patent Violation on IE. Must pay $1.47 per copy ‘sold’. That's around $520,000,000.

Henri — New OSJava releases.

Matt — Cool JSP Tag: State Tag.

Rusty — MockEjb and  Authorization Toolkit for Java.

Hani — A present to Andy: Bile by request.

Martin — Interesting debate about Java and PHP interaction.

Andres — NewzCrawler 1.5. My favorite aggregator.

Bertrand — OSX for geeks tips.

Rogers — Seven million identity thieves a year.

Simon — Processing RSS in Java and WebSphere Development Studio Client 5.1.

Charles — Gosling on Java.

Todd — Ouch… my zipper is stuck!

Gateway's Pocket PC: DOA? Gateway's 100X Pocket PC indefinitely delayed.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

On August 12, 1958 — Billboard magazine introduced the “Hot 100” singles chart.

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Jay — Java jobs making a slight comeback.

Steve — Top Ten Toys for Java Coders in JDeveloper 9.0.5.

Jeremy — A Way To Avoid The Messaging Nasties. I use ZoneAlarm on my Windows box.

NYT: AOL Time Warner Considers Cutting 'AOL' From Name.

Judge Rejects RIAA Subpoenas. A bump in the road?

DevWiki 0.9.7, an application of Webtrans which is an editable website.

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Rio reveals 20GB Ogg Vorbis network music player. Karma, Nitrus, Cali, Chiba , Chiba and Rio Fuse.

Joshua — Where are my free JavaBeans?!

Rusty — version 0.2.9 of XML Indent, JXP 1.3 and second release candidate of JavaHelp 2.0.

Jeremy — HP Means HapPy.

JCards 4.0rc1, a free Java application designed to store and manage data in any format.

Many Bluetooth gadgets open to wireless snooping. Duh!

GPL goes to court. IBM's SCO counter suit breaks cover.

Joi — Is streamripping illegal?

JMeter 1.9 final version released.

Matt — RSS Owl 0.51b.

Matt — Tomcat 5.0.7 Alpha.

Andrej — 9.0.5 equals 10G.

Jeremy — Talk Directly to the Unix Yahoo! Messenger Team.

Orb — java.blogs best practices.

Andy— Open Source gets a lobbying group.

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Javarules, free online Java book available.

Jikes Bytecode Toolkit, a 100% Java class library that enables Java programs to create, read, and write binary Java class files.

JAR Class Finder, a WSAD/Eclipse plug-in utility for finding JAR files containing a given class.

GCC 3.3.1 Released.

Jim — Vodafone, wake up!

Russ — URIs, Java Packages and Domain Names, Storing Markup, The Job Search and Java Almanac Reminder.

Matt — Mono Python Bindings.

Carlos — Pair Programming With Yourself!

Al — Siemens SX-1 new info and images.

Henri — JBoss Group commits PR gaff.

David — blojsom 2.0 codebase seeded.

Matt — AppFuse 0.9 Released!

Arjun — Java.net and weblogs: The Road ahead.

James — JBoss, Elba, Geronimo! FudBucket!

Eugene — A nasty trick with the mouse wheel.

Kirk — How free is your IDE?

Hani — The evils of commons-logging.jar and its ilk.

Daniel — Just a Little JXTA Muse.

Andreas — AndroMDA - MDA Code Generation Framework.

Bertrand — There's no such thing as a blank namespace.

Kevin — Dear Mr Schwarzenegger.

Simon — Code personalities.

Kenneth — bash csh ksh Shell Resources at SHELLdorado.

Steve — How to survive a slashdotting.

Luke — Hella cool.

Keith — Eclipse 3.0 M2 on Linux.

Gaim 0.1 for Zaurus.

JaxMeJS 1.12,a JaxMe JavaSource generation framework.

‘TRON’ finally spawns game. Only took 21 years.

The Cyclic Ketogenic Diet. Looks interesting.

Actor-dancer Gregory Hines dead at 57. Cancer sucks.

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We went to see S.W.A.T on Saturday. We both really liked it. It has a very realistic feel to it, which is quite unusual for the action genre.

On August 11, 1874 — A patent for the sprinkler head was given to Harry S. Parmelee.

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Sun Java2 1.4.1 ported to OS/2. Golden Code Development Corp.

Mats — java.blogs inherent flaw.

Joe — Found a VM for the Jornada.

Arjun — Artima's Technology Buzz.

Thomas — Debian PPC? How about using Yellow Dog Linux?

Orb — Code Generation in Action.

Steve — How do you debug a web application running under Tomcat using JDeveloper?

Nokia Developer's Suite for J2ME 2.0. Nokia Series 40 MIDP Concept SDK, etc.

Retailer offers petition for Mac GPS support. Trying to get GPS companies to support the Mac.

The Memory Mouse. IOGEAR's Memory Mouse, a USB mouse with 32MB of flash memory built-in.

Smartly load your properties. Strive for disk location-independent code nirvana.

JMS 1.1 server JORAM 3.6 Released with J2ME Connectivity.

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Neill — ibm wsad 5.1 out now (eclipse 2.1).

Christoph — new Sony Ericsson Developer forum.

jCSV 0.9, a Java library for processing documents in CSV (Comma Separated Values) format.

Lindows unveils $449 PC. Consumer KooBox.

Chocolate for XDoclet. Integrated XDoclet tag editing with Borland JBuilder

Fred — Application security in MIDP2.0.

Warner — RE: Call for Comparisons.

When good software goes bad. Survey finds widespread dissatisfaction with tech support.

Joe — Starting down J2ME.

Cedric — Staying sharp.

Anders — IntelliJ 3.0.5 is out.

Kevin — Winer Wishes Woes.

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Brett — Maven IntelliJ Aurora plugin.

Linux Kernel Code Seems to be Copied. Deutsche Bank Securities said after visiting SCO.

Tiniest Linux system at LinuxWorld? Cyclades TS100 device server.

Will Java Roast on An Open Fire? To help itself, Sun may finally relax its grip on the net's programming language.

J2EE AntiPatterns Book Sample Chapters posted.

Russ — The New Generation Web Design.

Carlos — The Fallacies of Inheritance.

Smart mob storms London. The flash mob phenomenon has hit London.

Henri — Geronimo.

Matt — What a 3 GHz Processor will do for you.

Michael — Standards, Stability, and Confusion.

Bill — Why is Maven a top level project?

Bertrand — All your CVS access belong to us.

Jim — London Flash Mob #1 - Sofa So Good or Sfa S Gd.

Cameron — Session models.

Frank — Looking for old notebook that can boot from USB stick.

Guy — SD WiFi card debuts from Sandisk – slow, say reviewers.

Joe — Geronimo, Elba, JBoss notes.

Matt — Clover plugins for Eclipse and NetBeans.

Can you really redeem coupons? Cash value 1/100¢.

Jeremy — Now You Can Keep A Tag On Your ‘Loved Ones’.

JFreeChart 0.9.11, a class library for generating charts.

Games for Eclipse 1.0. Have fun while you code?

viPlugin 0.1.21 for Eclipse.

Java Service Wrapper 3.0.4, allows Java applications to be run as Unix daemon processes.

Ant Shell 20030807, a command shell executing Ant tasks.

GreenThumb 1060336327, a Java Jabber client applet.

Study: There's six degrees of separation.

Microsoft says .Net usage passes Java. Upcoming technologies are touted.

On August 8, 1899 — The refrigerator was patented by A.T. Marshall.

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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.