PalmSpring

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blogFrançois — Unsubscribring from spam *NOT*.

java blogAnthony — Core Developers Network.

java blogDavid — Needed: generic in-memory cache for java objects.

java blogDominic — .NET Petshop 3.x Design Patterns and Architecture.

java blogBlaine — JBoss group has lost 7 members…

java blogOliver — A tenuous argument, but….

java blogBob — jAdvise Article.

moblogJoi — SO 505i and 4 1/2 mice at MacWorld for Kung-Log.

blogKeith — Palm to Handspring: You my bitch!

java blogAndy — What if JBoss ditched J2EE??

macWozniak, Jobs, and Pirates. An interview with Woz…

pdaHandspring leaks photo of Treo 600 picture.

maciSync update: beware. iLossy.

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javaRe-Introducing QuickTime for Java, Part 2.

javaMaking Sense of Java's Dates. Measuring time is easy.

java blogMike — JBoss Group Forks and Clover 1.2 - now with IDEA plugin!

java blogJay — Are Java Developers Ready for Hunting Tiger?

netNet awaits Webby winners. Preparations are being made for the handing out of the net's most prestigious awards.

windowsFirst Win 2003 patch is really for IE. Critical fix becomes moderate problem.

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java blogMatt — Struts BSF (Scriptable Actions) 0.3.

java blogWerner — Core developers network : competition for JBossGroup coming from the source.

java blogDominic — JBoss knives and forks.

java blogAndrej — OSS.

blogBruce — How I got started in programming.

java blogMike — Payback.

java blogSteven — Core Developers Network.

java blogJoey — No (Apparent) Love Lost In JBoss Group Split.

pdaSharp Zaurus C750 Review and English Conversion Pictures/Info.

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javaParsing, indexing, and searching XML with Digester and Lucene.

javaOverview: Java Vendors Look To Add Jolt To Tech. Can you smell what JavaOne's cooking?

java blogMatthew — JBoss Group forks.

blogMatt — Draggable IFRAMEs.

java blogFred — JBosss FUD.

java blogBob — Backround printing PDF files from Java on Windows..

java blogCameron — Core?

blogBrent — Good-looking wikis.

java blogChiara — SF Java By The Bay - JavaOne PARTY !!!

java blogCarlos — PHP Moving Towards Tighter Integration With Java.

java blogMatt — JBoss Fork/Coup: Hurting Open Source?

java blogAra — 'edit/compile/debug/startup cycle for people on various J2EE projects'.

java blogRickard— JBoss Group fork.

java blogMark — textile4j 1.0 released.

blogKevin — The big story of 2003-2004.

blogMartin — MeasuringProductivity.

wirelessZDNet Bluetooth special report: “The truth gets worse”.

blogTodd — Is the New York Time Guessing.

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javaSun plays up Java for gaming. Sun is forming a new division aimed at encouraging the use of Java for games developers, on the desktop as well as for mobile devices.

java blogDiego — palm buys handspring!

mobileAT&T Wireless and American Idol Set Global Records in Text Messaging.

java blogMatt — Hibernate 2.0 Final this weekend?

java blogWerner — Eclipse : working with CVS branches.

java blogSimon — Meet some of the JavaRanch family at JavaOne.

blogPadraic — LiveHTTPHeaders for IE?

java blogMichael — The tales of two Eclipse books.

java blogJay — Six new ‘Core J2EE Patterns’ Launch at JavaOne.

java blogCarlos — Java Is a Language for the Masses.

java blogCedric — JavaOne update.

java blogRickard — Flashy JavaScript/Velocity.

moblogMarc— Russ — please help Adam.

javaedit-on JavaBean SDK 1.0.34, an XHMTL/XML WYSIWYG editor JavaBean component.

musicMetallica relent over internet music. Heavy metal band Metallica are offering fans the chance to listen to their music on the internet.

technology.NET ‘more secure’ than WebSphere. Says MS-funded study.

javaFinancial sector opts for J2EE. Websphere has commanding lead.

netAOL members to instant message MSN? If AOL Time Warner and rival Microsoft agree to collaborate, instant messaging services could see a boom.

On June 4, 1984 — Bruce Springsteen released his "Born In The U.S.A." album.

#mobitopia

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javaImprove Data Display With CSS for Java

javaSun Software CTO Challenges .NET Mag. Sun Software CTO John Fowler writes to .NET Magazine to weigh in on the .NET vs. Java debate.

blogDiego — grade school CMS lessons.

mobileSony Ericsson Announces T226. A color screen dual-band GSM/GPRS handset for America.

blogMatt — Struts Menu now support tabbed menus!

java blogDominic — XPathNavigator and JXPath.

blogKasia — How to core dump spamassassin.

java blogNiel — Charles's Corner: Java Technology Pointers.

javaJava+ Preprocessor 2.0, a Java pre-processor.

wirelessBluetooth hands-free system for cars. DriveBlue.

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windowsMicrosoft Delivers BizTalk Server 2004 Beta.

moblogJim — IRC fun.

moblogMatthew — Fun times.

wirelessIOGEAR Bites Away At Bluetooth Confusion. A jargon-free guide.

blogPhilippe Just saw a Segway in the streets !.

java blogMatt — Java Server Faces Resources.

blogBill — IE lost it's PNG support?

blogMatt — Fire at Rackshack.

blogScott — $32,000 a second - for a year.

moblogBryce — SQWERL.

javaJZlib 1.0.2, zlib rewritten in Java.

newsLaunch of ‘do-not-call’ list rushed. Federal regulators are speeding up the launch of a national do-not-call list that will block many unwanted telemarketing calls.

multimediaReview: ATI Mobility Radon 9600.

musicRIAA Launches New Lawsuit Against Morpheus. For An Un Feature.

technologyMySQL AB Secures $19.5 Million Investment Round.

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javaJetBrains Debuts New IntelliJ IDEA at JavaOne.

java blogJoe — Great link on Java's target audience.

java blogThomas — Are DynaBeans Not JavaBeans?

java blogCedric — Operator overloading and Processing text with emacs.

macBluetooth update adds support for Symbian OS phones. Bluetooth 1.2.1

macQuicktime 6.3 and iSync 1.1. New Releases.

moblogRuss — Quicktime + 3GPP is Here!!

blogMatt — Reclaim the Public Domain.

humorGoofing with Credit Cards. People don't seem to care what you sign on a receipt.

mobileAT&T Pledges $500M Upgrades, Wi-Fi Too. AT&T wants to provide business customers Wi-Fi access to their networks as part of wide-raging list of next generation improvements

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moblogRuss — Mobitopia Group Chat. #mobitopia on irc.freenode.net. Be there or be square.

mobileA Writer's View of the Linux Wireless Dream, Part 1.

blogMatt — Tabbed Menus — now with DHTML!

java blogMike — JIRA 2.1 released!

macJonathan Ive Named Designer of the Year. The man behind the iMac and iPod. 

blogScott — Really Good Thoughts on Software Localization.

blogMarc — Keanu gives Matrix F/X guys millions each.

javaJava code review tools. Java code analyzers ease the pain.

javaJava Weather Library. jweather is a Java library for parsing raw weather data.

javaSun to Unveil J2SE 1.5 at JavaOne. The new version of the Java platform is designed to be easier to use, with new language features, including generics and metadata.

javaBorland’s Janeva Weds J2EE, .NET. Borland has introduced software that connects .NET front ends to CORBA and J2EE-based applications.

blogJoi — IRC meets Wiki.

java blogMatt — Java becoming a LanguageForSmartPeople, not a LanguageForTheMasses?

mobileMobile phone sales up in Q1 2003. Despite lowered expectations, mobile phone manufacturers saw an 18 percent increase in sales during the first quarter of 2003.

On June 3, 1800 — John Adams moved to Washington, DC. He was the first President to live in what later became the capital of the United States.

Exaggeration

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blogAndres — Revolution OS.

java blogSimon — Reference guide for Caucho Resin and So Wiley bought 36 Wrox titles?.

java blogDion — AOL: Are you being billed every month without knowing?

blogMatt — IBM Trading Halted.

blogScott — Pssst … Want an Email Alias ?

java blogBryan — Review of the Gateway Java Symposium.

developmentDr. Dobb's Python-URL!

pcHP Retains Notebook Lead. Hewlett-Packard Co. retained its lead in the overall notebook market.

blogArjun— uninstall TurboTax if ur done with your taxes!

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blogDiego — what does it take to destroy something good?

mobileRIM's first color BlackBerry, the 7230.

java blogJonathan — My Top Ten Wireless Destinations at JavaOne 2003.

javaQA with Bill Day. Web and Game Development Languages.

mobile javaEasy J2ME Development: The Complexity of Developing Mobile Networked Data Services, J2ME Wireless Connection Wizard For Sun ONE Studio.

mobile javaUnderstanding JSR 185: Java Technology for the Wireless Industry.

java blogMatt — Tomcat/Oracle Connectivity Problems.

java blogFred — SymbianOS Series 60 gets Jazzelle!

java blogDominic — The JDO Learning Tools.

java blogAndres — scwcd…passed!

java blogSam — IntelliJ IDEA on MacOSX.

java blogKevin — Java Unit Testing Tips.

java blogJohn — Quick Graphics In Java.

blogSteve — F*#K! Those Bastards!

netApple, Amazon working on music service deal, according to the New York Post.

multimediaArchos personal video player. The AV300 comes in 20GB and 40GB varieties.

mobileCameraphones do's and don'ts. Some do's and do not do's on using cameraphones in public.

mobilePicture passwords for cameraphones. The phone uses face recognition technology.

netSearch Engine Disclosure Ratings: May 2003.

pdaFossil puts back Palm Wrist PDA launch to 2004. MS SPOT-based alternative still on time?

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macApple drops 12, 15-inch PowerBook prices up to $300. Apple's price cuts have been designed to feed the momentum of PowerBook sales.

mobileIntel fixes Centrino glitch. Incompatibilities with Nortel Networks' VPN software fixed.

java blogFred — Number of Classes Matter in J2Me.

java blogSimon — Java NIO (O'Reilly).

blogScott — Drupal 4.2 is Coming.

javaIPK Export Plugin for Eclipse 0.0.1. IPK is the archive format used on the Zaurus.

netE-mail virus uses Bill Gates. A virus masquerading as an e-mail from Bill Gates is spreading rapidly, computer experts warn.

pcIntel's 3.2GHz Pentium 4 to ship 23 June, or maybe 16 June.

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blogRuss — Spanish Tech Market in Business Week.

blogBernard — Views and Forms.

tvAlly McBeal Creator to Produce 24. David E. Kelly.

javaNumericalChameleon 1.5.0 is live on the web!

moblogThomas — Matt Peterson, gourou du Wi-Fi.

java blogBernard— Subclipse - The Eclipse plugin for Subversion.

java blogScott — Java Codebase Management Strategy Guidelines.

java blogJon — Excited.

java blogOliver — Second Generation IDEs.

java blogCarlos — JINI Service Container Service.

musicGrowing pains fading for satellite radio. Satellite radio comes from space bearing gifts…

mobile2,400 Employees Laid Off By Text Message. U R FIRED.

netMake way for the contender to Google's crown. Turbo 10.

mobileNokia N-Gage games phone now available in UK.

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blogCam — Six Degrees of Weblogs.

blogRogers — Some webloggers have class.

blogFrank — inAudible.com revisited.

java blogAndrej — Yet another update of the volano report.

javaJakarta Commons HttpClient 2.0 beta 1.

blogRuss — Urgh! Steve, we all want a Mac Tablet!

pdaPocket Blogger. Pocket Blog extends your weblog to any Pocket PC device.

java blogDavid — blojsom 1.9 available.

java blogWerner — JBoss 4.0 Developer Release 1 has just been released.

java blogDominic — Java Search Engine.

blogArjun — Why FireBird rocks!

java blogPadraic — s / vi / eclipse /.

blogJohn — TiVo On A Roll.

java blogKasia — Java exception handling.

blogHaiko — The Future of IE, Mozilla: Other Voices.

java blogAaron — ResourceBundles.

pdaThree weeks until Pocket PC 2003.

On June 2, 1897 — Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying “the report of my death was an exaggeration.” He was responding to the rumors that he had died.

It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's...

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java blogBrian — Naked Objects.

java blogDiego — more bluetooth and java.

blogJim — What a Waste.

blogFrank — Apple still #1 quality wise.

technologySeattle's Talking Signs. Seattle's Sound Transit is trying out a new gizmo; Talking Signs.

moblogDiego — 4G coming up.

moblogJim — PMG Seminar.

moblogPetri — Residential WiFi Business Plan.

moblogMichael— Any warnings before I buy a Nokia 3650.

java blogMatt — Hibernate PlugIn for Struts.

java blogMatt — Tapestry, Now Officially In Jakarta.

java blogLeslie — Quick links.

blogCameron — Funniest Thing Ever!

blogLance — Good tool for Debugging IE Dom…

blogMatt — Gates and Jobs Coverage.

blogSteve — An AppleScript rule to check Mail against blackhole lists.

blogMarc — Jon Udell is really smart.

java blogAaron— Tomcat: The Definitive Guide.

javaANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.3.

blogRob — IE won't be free any more…who could have guessed?

pdaNew thumb keyboard for iPAQs. Coming soon from HP.

pdaFossil Palm OS Wrist Watch Available Now!

mobileReview: Nokia 5100.

meWe went to see The Italian Job yesterday which apparently made it to #3 at the box office.

On June 1, 1938 — Superman, the world's first super hero, appeared in the first issue of Action Comics.

Reality

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meI've dumped all of my blog shares. Gifted them to my investors. Gifted my investments back to their owners.

Like Jim said: “One problem is that everyone is too rich and there's little liquidity…”

The other problem is that the ranking doesn't reflect anything real. It's fun, but ultimately all fake.

We're getting ready to go watch Vicki's niece play in a little league game. Now, there's something I could bet on. ;-)

Dum-da-dum-dum

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javaClash over Java standard heats up. The JBoss Group will debut a new release of its application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun over Java standard compliance.

java blogDiego — bluetooth on java.

java blogChris — Java SQLite wrapper.

blogDan — Great Resource for Handling Spam, Email.

javaJBookmarks, a Java-based bookmark manager.

macCorel axes Bryce for Mac development. “Through our research we have found that sales for Corel Bryce 5 are strongest with Windows customers…‘

booksO'Reilly publishes Head First Java.

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blogFrank — The $21 question.

mobileO2 Active to rival Vodafone Live. In a bid to compete with Vodafone and its rival Vodafone Live service…

java blogDavid — Roller 0.9.7 finally available to “the masses”.

java blogDavid — IntelliJ Ariadna, build #818 is available.

java blogMatt — Hotels.com powered by Struts!

java blogFred — Challenge of Multiple APIs-J2Me.

java blogTobias — Swing applications that just work — part 2

java blogDominic — Castor articles galore and Microsoft embracing their blogging community.

blogJames — OS X tip of the day: the open command.

java blogSimon — java.blogs meetup at JavaOne?

java blogEugene — New IDEA ads in the works.

java blogIan — Elliotte Rusty Harold on XML APIs.

java blogCarlos — OpenWings 1.0 Service Oriented Framework Released.

java blogMatt — J2SE 1.4.2 Bugfixes and Interview with Fyodor.

musicMusic Services, Round Two. AOL's MusicNet and FullAudio's MusicNow offer burnable downloads and fewer copy-protection restrictions.

wirelessWireless remote receiver for the iPod. Someone's gone ahead and built a wireless remote control module for those new iPods.

mobileWristomo Wrist Phone sells like crazy! 1000 in less than 20.

netDon't Ask Jeeves Anymore. The company bows out of the competitive enterprise search market.

pcServer market slumps in Q1. IBM and Dell make gains.

javajEdit 4.2pre2 is out.

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blogArjun — Dot NET equivalent of Eric's blog. That's EriK. ;-)

blogMike — What CEOs can learn from Architects — and vice versa.

java blogMatt — Writing IDEA Plugins.

java blogStu — Ever have trouble with classloaders in Servlets/JSP?

java blogPierre — Techno-blog.

java blogJulian — Java File Searching.

mobileWhat is the etiquette for using a cell phone?

pcIntel's Centrino may crash Windows when used with VPNs. Intel's Centrino  can cause "blue screen" operating system crashes in Nortel's VPN.

mobileThe Register on the Sony Ericsson P800. Lengthy review.

mobileMiniSD cards debut in Japan. Small enough to easily lose.

pdaTech TV on HP's iPAQ h5450. HP's flagship Pocket PC.

technologySpecial Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged. Technology workers say their jobs are increasingly going to foreign workers who enter the US under a little-known visa.

May 30, 1431 — Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

Working on the Pulse

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blogGarth — Nullsoft WASTE escapes!

blogDiego — microsoft competes… with itself.

java blogMatt — Mavenizing Moblogger.

blogArjun — Blogs and porn?

blogHaiko — 11111 Bytes Text Content.

newsZD Net: Why the FCC is wrong on media ownership.

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meErik's Pulse, my weekly column featured in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter has been published.

javaJames Gosling. Mastermind of Java on OS X.

javaDemystifying Extreme Programming: The right (XP) tool for the job.

java blogAnthony Scripting Languages and Java.

java blogDominic — Altova XSLT engine available and Web Services and SOA site.

blogArjun — Overlooking the obvious RSS feed! and Epilogue of Browser Wars!

java blogVlad — A case for cross-compilation.

blogBen — iComic.

blogKevin — My httpd.conf is Better Than Yours!

blogJoey — Nothing But Whitespace!

blogJeff — Maintainable Code.

blogChuq — Setting up BIND/DNS on Mac OS X 10.2.

java blogAndy — Jakarta Tapestry Promoted.

java blogFrank — Recoverable Remote Exceptions with Jini.

blogMarc — Annother one bites the dust.

blogFrançois — mySQL 3.23 is making me sick!

javaSSHVnc 0.1.0 beta released.

musicAmazon vs. Apple in music downloads? Amazon.com could be one of the likeliest candidates to take the next crack at the retail music-download business.

pdaPalm adds VoIP, more to Tungsten C. Palm has partnered with several other companies to beef up support for VoIP, etc.

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javaEclipse Java tools will swallow Tiger. Eclipse will launch a new set of tools next year, which will incorporate the latest Java specification — code-named Tiger.

javaMagic with Merlin: J2SE 1.4.2 gets two new look-and-feel designs.

javaJSP best practices: Update your JSP pages with JSTL.

javaJava theory and practice: Hashing it out.

net3 Tools That Bulletproof Your Web Servers. Web Application Security Lockdown.

blogFrançois — Qu'est-il advenu des Network Computers?

blogMatt — PHP 4.3.2.

java blogAlan — Tips For Using Java booleans.

netIomega offers 30-day free trial of Internet storage. iStorage.

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javaWebJMS, an HTTP to JMS bridge.

booksReview — Technical Java: Applications for Science and Engineering.

blogJim — Waste not, want!

java blogRuss — No OSS Bluetooth Stacks for Java? and ADM Latency Tester.

wirelessTop 40 Wireless terms defined.

java blogFred — SonyEricsson J2ME SDK Final Version.

java blogRoman — Exploring unfamiliar code.

java blogMike — iReport for JasperReports and Are your co-developers morons? :)

blogMerrick — UML Book Recommendations.

blogChris — Collocation here I come!

blogMatt — Nullsoft's Waste.

blogSeyed — Software patents are the kiss of death for innovation.

java blogCedric — New javac prototype available.

blogPhillip — BlogCount counts blogs.

java blogMatt — New JDK1.5 early-access compiler, and "variance" in Generics.

pdaTwo new Loox Pocket PCs. GPRS built-in, etc.

mobileLong-Term Review: Sony-Ericsson P800 smartphone.

mobileCellphone shipments grow up to 49 per cent in Q1. Not necessarily good news for the biz.

netBroadband ‘boom’ in music and porn, in Europe.

On May 29, 1911 — The first running of the Indianapolis 500 took place.