[@287] Erik's Pulse has been published. Ewan — Same Game Launched. Congrats! Garth— How To Keep Your Job. FindBugs 0.6.1, a Java-bug finder. ReplayTV caves in. Stripping out all of the commercial-skipping and show-sharing features that were pissing off the entertainment industry. SCO Copyright Claims Questioned. The Free Software Foundation hit back. Michael Jackson Slams The Idea Of Putting File Traders In Jail. MJ is against the ACCOPS Act. [@981] Macromedia renews J2EE license. Renews J2EE License Agreement for JRun. Russ — Out To Lunch. Matt — Blosxom 2.0 Released. Rod — How to access funky characters on your Zaurus. Matt — Which new laptop would you buy? I left a comment. Rusty — Version 4.0.2 of ICEMail… Erb — Java 1.5: The end of Java? Niel — J2ME Development With Eclipse and Antenna (HOWTO). Fossil/Palm PDA Watch Reviewed. Walt Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal. Review: Small Hornet PC Stacks Up Well. Samsung debuts ‘world's fastest’ PDA CPU. Beats XScale by 133MHz Real Basic to target Linux. Compilation support coming but no IDE for now. Dominic — Eric Giguere and J2MEDeveloper.com. [@938] I just got a call from Moreover.com. They will be shutting this page down.

Apparently the free feed ride is over. I've always wondered how they made any money considering that so many of their services were free.

[@685] Apple: Pods Unite. Rusty — JXV 0.4. James — more OS X stuff: VoodooPad. Mike — In Search of Stupidity. Mark — Open Source and Quality Assurance. IBM Adds ‘Traffic Cop’ Feature to WebSphere. Automatically monitors application workloads and routes traffic from one server to another. Dominic — TuxMobil: Linux on mobile computers. Bruce — Interview and Weak Typing. Hani — JSR 168, the sucky bits. [@583] Matt — Typical Sunday Roundup. Access Denied: RIAA, MPAA Blocked From Techfocus. Python and the Tipping Point. A Conversation with Bruce Eckel, Part IV. Matt — RSS Creator and New Samsung Mobile Chip. Glenn — Woz Tracks You—Slowly. Charles — The Fifteen Minute Test. Norm — IE Rules. Christoph — Eclipse 3.0 M2 – New and Noteworthy. Pat — OpenSymphony gaining momentum. Jean-Yves — Server-Side Java with the Struts Framework on Mac OS X. Yamaha's MusicCast wireless digital audio system. I just saw them in the latest Good Guys catalog. Lycos Offers “Second Opinion” Search Results. New utility displays Lycos search results next to results from Google, Yahoo, etc. Fossil Wrist PDA delayed to 30 Sept. Embarrassing. On July 21, 2002 — WorldCom Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. At the time it was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.

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David — OSCache 2.0.0 (beta 1) available.

Fred — Confusion over J2ME on ARM and PocketPC.

JRefactory 2.7.06, my favorite Java code refactoring tool.

SCO readies new Linux licensing program. InfoWorld speculates…

“Bad Boys’ take custody of box office. $46.7 million.

Ewan — OPL Over The Air.

Bruce — The Ideal Programmer.

Hani — J2EE deployment woes and Week in review.

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Morphon XML-Editor and Morphon CSS-Editor. Both now offered under a free license.

SQL Entity EJB Wrapper to Simplify EJB Development. This article shares a design pattern that generalizes the use of entity EJBs to simplify EJB development.

Carlos — Will Software Patents Destroy The U.S. Software Industry? and Why Can't Locking Be Abstracted Away?

Petri — Both mobile network sales and courage are down.

Cartsen — The best persistence framework?

Rusty — Sun's posted the second proposed final draft J2ME Web Services Specification.

Scott — JUnit ClassLoader proposed fix.

Luke — RSS moves a step.

Jason — RSSLibJ Taglib Update.

Mark — Beggegator 0.14.

Zulfikar — Alternative Names for Open Source Java Projects.

Matt — John Robb Is Back.

Bill — Satellite and Tivo?

Joi — Software and music piracy linked to terrorism.

Mitch — Nokia 3650 Phone and ATT Wireless, or Why do I Feel Like Such a Dummy?

Rafe — New Eclipse features.

JTopas 0.7, Java tokenizer and parser tools.

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We went to see Bad Boys II this afternoon. What a ride! Not much of a storyline, but lots of laughs and some kicking action scenes.

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A Taste of Perl 6. Perl 6 has more power, less syntax, and the same great Perl Flavor.

Matt — Code Reading.

Streamline Data Delivery in Java. Retrieve data without resorting to resource-intensive database polling.

Carlos — Have EJB Vendors Just Discovered O/R Mapping?

Dominic — Gizmodo: possible blogging business model.

Daniel — All Mathematicians: forget prime numbers…

Mark — Scale the Requests Down.

Vanessa — Javapedia – Individuals.

Bill — How to deal with 15,000 messages a day at the White House: Bayesian Filters.

Sam — Atom Mailing List.

Charles — On Specs and Brown M&Ms.

Julian — Free eBooks from Microsoft — at What Price?.

Music firms subpoena IDs in Web downloads. At least 871 are obtained in plan to file civil suits.

On July 19, 2003 — People collectively decided to stop buying Music CDs and stick it to the RIAA.

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Sony Confirms the US Release of Two UX Clies. The UX40 and UX50, available in September.

Simon — Core J2EE Patterns, 2nd edition (Prentice Hall).

Rod — LGPL and Java: More confused than ever.

Chuq — Dear Dave (again….) and The spam wars escalate.

Andy — RSS 2.0 goes to Harvard.

Kevin — RSS goings-on.

Brent — RSS Spec Moves to Berkman, Advisory Board Formed and More questions answered.

The French have a word for it: ‘E-mail’ is now ‘courriel’.

Matt — Preorder Your N-Gage and Python 2.3c1: Release Candidate.

Fred — MicroJava.com Name Change.

Greg — A Free J2EE 1.3 Compliant Server.

Neema — Nice tool for finding cheap flights.

Cameron — Filters: Static AOP for Servlets.

Garth — It's 0530. What does the 0 stand for?

An interesting interview with Jeffrey Zeldman. AppleMatters has an interesting interview…

InstallShield sues competitor Wise Solutions for electronic espionage.

SMART ID's WiFi detector. Kensington is not alone.

No more Computer for Dell. An Inc. will do.

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Jean-Yves — Good news about RSS2.0.

New Clie UX50 uses a sony-designed ARM-based chip. Sony handheld, Sony chip.

Carsten — Public Review of Portlet Spec.

Rusty — DTDDoc 0.0.9.

Matt — Backup your Powerbook on your iPod.

Dominic J2ME Ant Tasks by Stampysoft and Ant, Antenna and Eclipse for J2ME development.

Dion — OSCON Java sessions are now available for download.

Derek — Core J2EE Pattern Defeated – JMS ServiceLocator.

Andy — Unemployed? Want $4000 worth of training for $150?

Aaron — Java Collection Types & ColdFusion.

Joe — Design by contract: testing implementations of interfaces.

Jeremy — Man Beats Donkey.

Beta testers sought for next version of QuickBooks. Intuit is recruiting Macintosh beta testers.

Todd — PowerToys for Windows XP.

RCA's new gadgets. MP3 players with SD card, a wireless digital audio system, a DVD player with a 7-inch screen, and a slot-loading progressive scan DVD player.

101 reasons not to get a Tablet PC. “It can't get wet.”

NYT: PeopleSoft Completes Deal for J.D. Edwards.

Bush's e-mail faces DOS attack. New site crippled.

jLo, yet another logging framework.

Bertrand — jfor 0.7.2rc1.

Charles — T2: The Director's Cut.

On July 18, 1936 — The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company's factory in Chicago, IL.

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Ogg Vorbis decoder chip a reality. Oggastic!

Allon — Most “Redicurous” Item of the Week.

Dominic — W3Schools .NET Tutorials.

Rogers — Lycos, Amazon seek weblog trademarks.

Andy — Oh shit. I've been slashdotted.

Congressman pocketed $18,000 for RIAA ‘lobbying trip’. Ethics probe call needs your help.

Henri — LGPL/Java blah blah.

Apple CFO joins eBay board of directors. Fred Anderson.

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J2ME CDC for PocketPC ARM and Sun J2ME's last stand on Pocket PC. Get off your collective arses!

Fool.com: Nokia shares down approx 20% this afternoon.

Matt — HowTo: Upgrade your app to JSP 2.0 and An XForms Tutorial.

Dion — Hibernate & Cocobase: Open source and the law and New way to learn MVC. View a sing-song.

Hani — More distressing symptoms: Werkflow.

Rafe — Microsoft Monitor on Office XML.

HP's old Bluestone team found off New Jersey Turnpike. Oracle makes XML tools grab.

Mary Jo — Windows Server 2003 Gaining at the Expense of Linux.

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Magic with Merlin: Focus, focus, focus. Focus is the art of managing what component receives keyboard input and when it receives it.

Java programming dynamics, Part 3: Applied reflection. Command line argument processing is one of those nasty chores that seems to keep coming around no matter how many times you've dealt with it in the past.

Developing Web Applications With JavaServer Pages 2.0, provides a fast track, code-intensive tutorial to get you started with JSP 2.0.

Matt — mjabber Does Not Work on My 3650.

Fred — New Nokia MIDP Tips Tutorial.

Jon — Nanning 0.9 Released.

Bill — Extracting files from RPMs.

Scott — Wireless broadband everywhere: WiMAX.

Norman — XDoclet in Action on amazon.

Marc — Here comes AOL journals.

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Jabber XML-RPC for Java, an implementation in java of the XML-RPC protocol, on top of Jabber instant messaging layer.

mjabber, a J2ME Jabber instant-messaging client.

Matt — 240-kbit Over EDGE and Kensington WiFi Finder: Cheaper Than You Think.

New Clie Announced – Welcome the Sony Clie UX-50.

Rusty — JaxMe 1.64 and Big Faceless Report Generator 1.1.8.

Jonathan — Java VM Management, a modest proposal…

Cedric — Objective C.

Charles — It's Time to Fork the LGPL.

Andy — what to do about the LGPL in Java.

Nathan — j2me devices.

Apple Posts PowerMac G5 TV Ad.

Todd — PC sales surge in second quarter.

CNET on the Onebox Media Center. The living room PC from Niveus.

New Bill Seeks Prison Time for File Swappers. The bill carries penalties of up to 5 in prison and a $250,000 fine for uploading a copyrighted file to a P2P network.

Review: Viewsonic V35 Pocket PC.

Microsoft issues doubleplus critical security fix. Secured Win 2003 systems among the vulnerable.

Nokia profit plunges by 28 percent, sales flat.

Windows device development faster, cheaper than Linux? But if so, why are so many outfits committing suicide?

Slackware Turns 10. Happy Birthday!

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I ran Sun's Doc Check Doclet on some of our projects. It did find some problems I would have probably never found otherwise.

The results are output to HTML documents. Unfortunately there is no way to directly open the faulty documents. The process of correcting problems is thus quite intensive.

Someone needs to incorporate similar functionality into IDEA/Eclipse.

[@514]

Jakarta Velocity Tools 1.0, a collection of Velocity subprojects offering servlets and tools for rapid web development.

Dion — WebLogic the Platform. Is that what we needed?

Fred — A J2SE SmartPhone?

Stephan — Another reason for NOT using CocoBase.

Chris — What's The Refresh Rate On Your Tongue?

Vanessa — How to find the answer to your Java question in 3 simple steps.

Leslie — Email notification of the Googledance and Changes in my link blogging.

Jeremy — On Buying Feedster.

Keith Writing realistic job descriptions.

Simon — New PHP experiment, inspired by ColdFusion and The Google Browser.

Calvin — Java and LGPL.

RealRadix — Radio Shark.

Aaron — ColdFusion Whois client using Jakarta Commons/Net lib.

Jeremy — Beware The Trojan and Update: The Citibank Robbery.

O'Reilly updates popular Linux reference book. Linux in a Nutshell.

Missing Sync for Pocket PC. Synchronize with iCal, Mac OS X Address Book and AvantGo, as well as transfer music and photos from within iTunes and iPhoto.

DELL Axim X5 Review and Dell Axim Problem Found.

Music piracy probe stepped up. US record industry officials send subpoenas to internet providers in a crackdown on music piracy.

Jim — Metadata roundup.

Hotspots – cold turkey or Big Mac?. Why not try selling more food?

DirecTV dragnet snares innocent techies. Dolphins in the Tuna Net.

Matt — Multitasking.

On July 17, 1979 — Gary Moore left Thin Lizzy and was replaced by Midge Ure.

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Diego — the limits of MIDP.

XML Publishing with Cocoon 2, Part 2.

Michael — LGPL code in jar files places some restrictions.

Greg — How to Become a Java Guru.

Simon — Google exercises editorial control.

Chris — Great KVM solution.

Andy — LGPL clarification.

antenna 0.9.10, J2ME/MIDP ant tasks.

Apple reports $19 million profit, or 5 cents a share.

Buy.com confirms ‘iMusic’ store. All The iMusic You Can Buy.com.

Critical Flaw Leaves Windows Server 2003 Vulnerable. Microsoft has issued a patch for a serious vulnerability found in Windows Server 2003.

[@874]

The Promise of Java Everywhere. What does it take to bring Java into all parts of your operation?

Is Sun making a mistake? What is Sun doing?

Ewan — Letting Go Of Code.

Diego — Symbian's Achilles' Heel.

David — Any chance Radeox license could change from LGPL?

Rod — The [L]GPL, Java and Asymmetry.

Paul — Is programming in the US just going to be a hobby?

Kevin — LGPL code in jar files is viral!

Hani — Stupid project of the day: Just4log.

Luis — What Really Works.

Kevin — Zelda Tilts Her Head Quizzically.

Rafe — I hate Oracle.

Ross — Just4Log.

Lance — Re: Roller and GPL.

Janne — LGPL viral for Java?

Oliver — java tuning.

GSL's new Palm-powered smartphone. Xplore G18.

BEA Releases WebLogic 8.1 Platform.

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Tobias — Running Java as OS Service.

Jeremy — More Java awards…

Rusty — Sun has posted beta 2 of the Doc Check Doclet 1.2.

Cameron — Servlet Container Events.

Andy — LGPL in Java.

Marcus — Google Frontends!

Macromedia Contribute 2 offers PayPal, Mac OS X support.

Todd — Wireless Hotspots and hiding from the RIAA.

Diego — the best movie you've never heard of.

GPRS networks vulnerable to DOS attacks. GPRS network could be hacked.

Tom — MTV launching mobile content…

David — For Java, LGPL is viral.

RealRadix — Bluetooth vs Infra Red speeds.

Jim — N-Gage the knockout gaming device?

[@605]

What a difference a day make. Max just woke up and she seems to be doing a lot better. She ate a little and jumped right on the bed. The pill we gave her knocked her out for quite a few hours, but she needed the rest.

[@563]

JSpell, a spell checker API for Java.

XMLmind Spell-Checker / SDK edition, a Development Kit designed to add spell-checking functionalities in Java applications.

XDE's Spell Checker, a spell checker Java applet and HTML only spell checker client.

Sentry Spelling Checker Engine, a class library developers can use to add a spell checker to their Java applications, applets, and servlets.

New in-flight cell phone technology on the horizon. WirelessCabin.

Businesses See Wi-Fi as Potential Lure. Restaurants, hotels wooing customers with wireless access

ROK Files for Java Patent. For its secure Java-based mobile gaming download technology.

Choose the Right Object Persistence. Making a choice among JDBC, CMP, and JDO can be critical in enterprise application design.

Matt — Roundup: Moz, Perl, Digital and Tomcat.

Siemens SX-1 has digital zoom.

Jeff— Tomcat4 and Runaway processes? and New 30gig iPOD.

Dominic — JXTA and JXME and Payment processing via the web and J2ME.

Simon — TagUnit 1.0 nearing completion.

Derek — Who's maintaining maven.org?

Chris — Legacy code smells: double meanings.

Stuart — Accessing the WIndows clipboard with Python.

Charles — The Battle Of Who Could Care Less…

Aahz — Typing: Strong vs. Weak, Static vs. Dynamic.

Bryce — theKompany.rom.

Mike — Is there any bloody value in coding standards?

JavaWizardComponent 1.1, a Java Swing component for creating wizards.

Programming your TiVo via AOL. AOL members can now remotely program their Series 2 TiVos for free.

Take the cellphone test. Need help picking a cellphone?

The Nokia Spy Camera Phone. Observation.

Transmeta powers first sub-$800 Tablet PC. VIA Antaur version too.

GSM to overtake CDMA in USA. Within two years.

Diego — comments: to close or not to close?

On July 16, 1979 — Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.

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Damien — Giving up. I made the cut. ;-)

Jeremy — Morpheus Drops the Spyware.

Matt — Upgrading to latest WebTest and Cactus.

Joi — I'm not Joi Ito, that's just my name.

How to stay in sync with CVS. An alternative to Apple's Backup and iSync.

Apple airs new Power Mac G5 commercial. Features a Mac user literally being “blown away” by the new system…

[@091]

Tech Tips: Using the Preferences API and Interfaces and Constants.

Russ — Neat Trillian Pro Trick. Russ discovers old IRC tricks.

Intel doubles earnings in Q2. Happy birthday! Free PCs!

Matt — Fun with Tomcat 5.0.4.

Doug — Netscape is Dead.

Java Email Server 2.0 Alpha 2, an SMTP/POP3 email server.

Microsoft to revise Office v.X with new editions, price cuts.

Lavigne offers exclusive music through ITMS. I listened to the samples, not her best *live* stuff by a long shot.

Handspring's new Blazer 3.0 browser to be powered by ACCESS. Based on ACCESS NetFront 3.0, sports features like Web page display optimization for the Handspring Treo 600.

Motorola posts $119 million profit on lower sales.

[@951]

Matt — A Bluetooth Keyboard For My Phone and CA Gets Sonar.

Appeals Court Hands Down Split Decision. Microsoft won’t have to carry Java, but did violate Sun’s copyrights.

Diego — cc beta2 r2 & other things.

Eugene — Beggregator 0.1 available.

Dave — Mozilla Foundation.

Chris — Python Web Frameworks.

Norman — Rent a Fool.

Apple Stores offer Windows-Mac QuickBooks conversion.

OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC coming to OS X soon.

The Quiet Car. Cellphone-free.

Microsoft Targets J2EE Users with JLCA 2.0. Java Language Conversion Assistant.

Rod — my pet bug, or another example of how sun doesn't get community development.

Niel — Unlimited Has Secret Limits for Sprint. Qwest does the same thing with their unlimited long distance plan, which is really 5000 minutes.

Bob — We will not ship shit.

Russ — A Thought About Java and Python.

Martin — Di a Death.

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We just got from the vet. She gave us some pills (pain killers) and recommended that we increase the IV to 100/150cc per day.

[@765]

Fujitsu creates 800x600 PDA LCD. It's all in the backlighting.

Eric — Perl From Eclipse IDE?

Rusty — The third beta of BlueJ 1.3 has been posted.

AAS Experimental Handango New Software RSS Feeds. List software newly listed on the Handango website.

Rusty — Jakarta Element Construction Set 1.4.2, a Java class library for generating markup code.

Cedric — Thoughts on Google's AdSense. I have noticed the same trend.

Linux Rules the Day at CA World. CA is working on a range of new Linux deals, initiatives and products, including an upcoming partnership with Ximian Inc.

Toshiba enters 17in notebook market. Like a PowerBook only cheaper.

Sucks.com issue rears ugly head again. Free speech or trademark infringement?

Dominic — Receive a fax on a J2ME phone.

Eric — Red Hat RPM Guide is Out.

Jakarta Cactus 1.5-beta1, a unit testing framework for testing server side java code.

Staying alive. BusinessWeek article on what the cellular carriers have to do to survive once number portability goes into effect on November 24.

[@631]

Our cat, Max, is not doing well at all. She spent most of the night meowing in pain, and we're powerless. Hopefully the vet will know of something else we can do.

[@619]

Buy.com to start music service. Retailer hopes to copy Apple's iTunes success.

Walmart.com offers Microtel PC with Linux. Wal-Mart Stores' online shop is offering a PC with a bundle of preloaded open-source software products from SuSE Linux.

Spy on Your Car. The CharChip monitors your engine's internal sensors…

Conor — Ant 1.6 is cooking.

Adam — matrixXP.

OpenOffice 1.1 RC 1 Released.

Kevin — Hiptop Available In Canada Soon.

Alan — Still Too Many EJBs.

Jon — Test-driven development.

Jeremy — News: Legal Eagles in MP3 format.

[@567]

Orbeon ships version 2.0 of the Open XML Framework (OXF).

Hitachi Selects The Mind Electric Web Services Technology. TME GLUE and TME GAIA.

Bill — A Browser in Zero Lines with WebKit.

Heinz — Once Upon an Oak…

Java FileMover 0.6.2, a regular expression mass file renaming and moving utility featuring a Swing UI.

Corel founder slams ‘pathetic’ bid. Best wishes to rebels.

Alan — 13 days … JDJ = porn? … linuxworld … 61 and Don't panic … you don't need to know everything.

Werner — JDK 1.4.2 Performance whitepaper.

Big Blue puts big investment in Linux. More programmers hired to improve operating system on Power processors.

JEncoder 3.69, yet another Java obfuscator.

Jameleon 1.2. A new HttpUnit plugin was added.

Tom — Mobile content and DRM and Amazon faked an employee weblog.

Tobias — JSP is not VB.

Mark — SMS Jabber Transport.

Simon — Visual Basic to Python.

Sony-Ericsson stops the rot. Sales, shipments climb again.

iPod and Volkswagen Beetle unite. Buy a beetle get a pod.

Russ — Lunching With Moof.

On July 15, 1965 — The spacecraft Mariner IV sent back the first close-up pictures of the planet Mars.