Red Square

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blogDiego — animatrix rocks.

blogPatrick — I love the smell of Code Generation in the morning, smells like…

java blogMatt — Apache 2.0.46 Released.

blogDominic — IBM XML Certification (Test 141) article.

java blogJay — J2SE 1.4.2: Bug Fixes and Upgrades.

macApple's .Mac mail problems continue.

javaJBoss Optimizations 101. First make it work, then make it fast.

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blogPartick — Smarter Project Management — Throwing away the plans and MVC debate, continued…

java blogJusten — Java Database Best Practices.

java blogNiel — I Choose JasperReports.

musicRealNetworks launches 79-cent music download service. Price war is good.

pdaGuide to WiFi and PDAs from PDA Street.

javaEclipse Plugin: JavaScript Editor.

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blogRuss — Massive Headache.

moblogFrank — SonyEricsson releases Camera and Vibration API for P800.

java blogSimon — Jakarta Lucene is amazing — my blog is searchable!

moblogJim — The Symbian Diaries.

wirelessFCC Allows Spectrum License Trading.

java blogMatt — News you can use — Quartz Plugin for Struts.

java blogDominic — Struts and JDO integration.

javaEuroBudget, a Free Java Accounting Tool.

pdaRetail consumer PDA sales drove 34.6% growth in April. European market research.

mobileTracking Billboard Reach With GPS. American Idol.

meNow you've done it! Over 2 million hits and counting! Thanks :-)

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mobileOperators in Sweden, Hong Kong launch MS Smartphone. Qtek 7070 tri-band phone offers GPRS capabilities.

javaEmploy Visual Text-Editing Features in JEditor. Use the power of Java 1.4 regular expressions to build advanced tokenizers.

booksReview — Core JSTL: Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library.

blogDiego — little poor AOL.

java blogRuss — I'll be signing autographs…

java blogWilliam — Free Java Swing Book Online!

java blogFred — PlugIN for J2ME Brew Emulator.

blogDominic — Are you a Software Architect?

java blogAnthony — java encryption performance crushes c#.

blogJeremy — Beginner's Linux Book Recommendation?

blogSimon — Fun with links.

java blogAaron — xPetstore 3.1 Released.

musicCNN/Money says iTunes sales figures aren't justified. Not that impressive.

maciTunes update disables Internet playlist sharing. iTunes 4.0.1

pdaTwo new Clies from Sony. NX80V and NX73V.

netEBay Told to Pay $35 Million Over Patents. A federal jury said that it was impermissibly using a company's innovations for conducting sales over the Internet.

windowsMicrosoft Slashes Office XP Prices. A a “customer-driven move,” not motivated by the Linux/open-source threat.

javaJSourcery, generates an HTML version of Java source code with embedded links.

On May 28, 1987 — Mathias Rust, a 19-year-old West German pilot, landed a private plane in Moscow's Red Square after evading Soviet air defenses. He was released August 3, 1988.

This Space For Rent

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meIn April, Rep. Diana DeGette, co-chair of the House Diabetes Caucus, introduced H.R. 1916, the Diabetes Prevention and Access to Care (DPAC) Act.

Please ask your member of the U.S. House of Representatives to sign on as a co-sponsor of H.R. 1916.

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java blogMatthew — Editing HTML in Eclipse and Open source — have you missed the boat?

moblogTom — LinkFest! and I-mode and Vodafone live!

moblogAlan — P800 Battery life …

java blogEvan — Eclipse Tail.

java blogMichael — Vi Plugin for Eclipse.

java blogPatrick — Web architecture, Struts, Spring and WebWork2.

blogBlaine — CSS for link buttons.

java blogLars — Apple's portables for Java developers?

blogCedric — Scripting languages.

java blogRickard — JSTL portlets.

blogMarc — RVW and FOAF.

blogSteve — best 404 ever.

pdaOne million Zires sold since last October.

newsAMD cuts Athlon XP prices by up to 31.8 per cent. Follows Intel's Celeron price cuts.

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javaJava 1.4.1 Development for Mac OS X. Highlights the differences between Java development on Mac OS X and other platforms.

javaQDCocoaComponent. How to use com.apple.eawt.CocoaComponent to display a QuickDraw port in a Java canvas running on Mac OS X.

javaWhat version is your Java code? Write and compile code targeting different Java versions.

java blogRuss— Off to JavaExpo 2003.

java blogPatrick — Risk Analysis — Struts vs WebWork.

java blogSimon — The Struts Framework book giveaway.

java blogMike — Apache Forrest and the JIRA documentation.

java blogVincent — Book: JUnit In Action.

blogKasia — JavaScript gurus?

java blogMark — I am writing another Java book.

macApple releases IP over FireWire Preview Release.

macListen to RSS feeds on your iPod using NetNewsWire.

macShrook RSS reader debuts.

mobileSony Ericsson T610 recalled. Speaker defect.

mobileEarly review of the Matrix Phone. Samsung's SPH-n270.

netAOL Founder Said to Consider a Spinoff. Steve is on the case.

moblogTom — More Wi-Fi hype.

On May 27, 1937 — The Golden Gate Bridge was opened to the public.

Happy Memorial Day, Spring Bank

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moblogRuss — IHT: i-mode not happening in Europe.

mobileIntel's Handheld Personal Server. Wireless, pocket-sized.

blogBernard — Cross-Browser Rich Text Editor.

java blogMerrick — More JAXB Tips and Tricks.

java blogSean — GC Analysis Tool from Sun.

java blogCarlos — A Critique of One Hot J2EE Book.

blogMatt — Flushing the Buffer.

blogRogers — XML-RPC support offered for WebObjects.

blogHaiko — Holy Moly, 80000 Volts.

blogMarc — AOL and Jabber.

netWeb poker player wins $2.5 million. An accountant named Moneymaker.

developmentAn Introduction to C++ Templates.

pdaTwo new Pocket PCs from Asus. Mypal A620 and A710.

musicRCA's iPod clone. Lyra HD.

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javaPerformance Inspector Open Source Project from IBM developerWorks.

javaCall JavaBean methods from JSP 2.0 pages. Develop custom tags with dynamic attributes.

blogDiego — weblogs and web services (or blogging APIs cont.) and more cc comments.

blogJim — Spring Bank Holiday.

moblogRuss — The Writing On The Wall for PDAs and More on Vodafone Live!

blogMatthew — SAP gives up on databases.

blogFrank — Best EULA ever.

netKazaa reaches 2.5 million downloads last week.

mobileAmerican Idol sways Americans into texting. Nearly 2.5 million customers cast their votes by SMS.

java blogDavid — HEADS UP: MySQL Connector/J v3.0.7 infinite loop problem.

moblogWilliam — Java Enabled Nokia 3585i Cellular Phone Review.

java blogDominic — The Beancontainer.com - Cheap EJB hosting.

java blogOliver — Checkstyle 3.1 released.

blogDoug — List of WYSIWYG Browser-Based Editors.

java blogGlen — DotNet Java tools.

java blogKevin — How do you do Applet Scripting in JDK 1.3?

blogTom — OPML and XSL.

blogAlan — Psyco — Python, only Twice As Fast.

java blogCay — Irritating Interfaces and Iterators.

booksReview: Murach's Java Servlets and JSP.

blogRogers — Google ranks itself lower than AltaVista.

java blogMike — JIRA 2.1 updates and a ripper review.

On May 26, 1805 — Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned king of Italy.

WAP

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javaJava Performance Tuning Newsletter.

moblogRuss— The Projection Keyboard Actually Works!

moblogTom — One for cameraphone owners.

java blogFred — Another Sign of the JavaDesktop ReAwakening-Jazilla.

java blogGreg — Portal / CMS Tools in Java.

java blogAndres — JSTL's web resource.

blogArjun — Interesting tidbits on memorial day.

javaFriki, a Java Wiki.

netCalifornia senate passes antispam bill. Not waiting for the U.S. Congress…

pdaIs Palm doomed? Charlie Demerjian explains why he thinks Palm is doomed.

meJason Brome (of the nntp//rss fame) pointed me to the Openwave Developer Program and mentioned that “Their WAP browser is embedded in a large number of phones.”

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meYesterday I started looking into what was needed to create WAP/WML pages. Here are some of the useful resources I found so far:

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blogArjun — Why do we say “God bless you” after a sneeze?

java blogVincent — Maven plugin for Cactus 3.0 in CVS.

blogMatt — Groove DevZone.

blogSimon — CSS Tutorial: feedback so far.

java blogAaron — CJAN: CPAN for Java.

booksO'Reilly releases “C++ in a Nutshell.”

wirelessFCC proposal could boost Wi-Fi. More bandwidth may result in higher density of use, channels for apps.

pdaPC Magazine Review: Sharp Zaurus SL5600.

javaEnhance persistent application properties in your Java application.

java blogDominic — Exadel does Struts and JDO.

java blogSteven — Let's see how many lines Tom needs.

java blogAaron— Eclipse SSH Plugin.

wirelessApple says final 802.11g standard misleading.

On May 24, 1878 — The first American bicycle race was held in Boston.

T*IF

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javaJumpi, a simple, protocol agnostic, and extensible message passing communications API written in Java.

java blogMerrick — The Case for Entity Beans and CMP.

java blogKarl-Martin — Todays links.

netOpenOffice.org 1.1 beta2 released.

java blogDominic — JDO's future?

netState Senate OKs spam ban. E-mail Ads Measure Barely Passes.

javaJava trends: Scripting languages. BeanShell and Jess.

javaDeveloping Web Applications with JavaServer Faces. If you want to build Web applications with robust user interfaces, come learn about the nuts-and-bolts of JavaServer Faces…

java blogDiego — 'Visual Java'?

java blogBernard — JadClipse.

java blogDavid — IntelliJ Aurora, build #816 available.

javaPatrick — Struts CookBook Review — “With a Little Help From My Friends”.

java blogFred — Dukes Public Birthday.

javaASC Joins Eclipse Board. SWTworkbench. 

blogDan — James — Apache's Java Mail Server.

javaHakim — In brief — J2ME plugin, spreadsheet FAQ.

java blogJon — Nanning 0.6 Released.

blogKenneth — BitTorrent Linux Client Torrents From Command Line.

java blogCalvin — My Thoughts on JAXB.

blogMike — Macromedia licenses Flash to two more Device manufacturers..

macApple to Sell TiVo's? Apple broadens their sales items.

netButtons for your Blog. Cool!

pcAtari sells 1 million Matrix games. Enter the Matrix.

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javaJava Board Streamlines its Approval Process. JCP said it has radically altered the way the Java code will evolve.

javaElips, an opensource java/jsp bug tracker.

java blogFred — Maybe SUN is listening.

javaHighlights of Eclipse Project DRAFT 3.0 Plan.

blogJoi — Spotme.

javaJChassis 0.1, a lightweight Java component framework.

javaSecond release candidate of NetBeans 3.5.

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java blogChris — Playing with JIRA.

java7 Keys to Secure Java Software. Java has some security features, but it's still easy to write insecure apps.

blogRuss — Too bad it's in black only…

java blogPatrick — Amazing Story of Kudzu er… Maven and Don't swim against the tide, without good reason..

java blogScott MyEclipse.

blogNorman — topcoder kata.

java blogDan — Java Email Client.

moblogKarl-Martin — Helical antenna for 802.11b.

java blogOliver — Checkclipse — looks great.

java blogBill — Dear Java Programmer.

blogCameron — Funniest Thing Ever!

java blogAlan — And another thing wrong with J2EE…

pdaDell slashes Axim prices. $25 to $50 off.

On May 23, 1922 — “Daylight Saving Time” was debated in the first debate ever to be heard on radio in Washington, DC.

Great Train Robbery

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javaSun Java tool targets Microsoft. Sun will show off a new, simplified Java development tool next month intended to steal programmers from rival Microsoft's camp.

javaEclipse Checkstyle v3.1 released.

blogDiego — there is no spoon: a review of Matrix Reloaded.

mobileHandango Announces Annual Handango Champion Award Finalists.

javaClustered JDBC 1.0alpha2, a cluster of databases through JDBC.

netCongress slams spam. Spam costs U.S. businesses $10 billion each year in lost productivity.

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moblogPhilip — Wireless Internet in the US = Neo-Feudalism?

mobile javaAzure, a weblog client for your phone.

java blogFred — J2ME Bug 4834025 and The RDF.NET Challenge.

java blogJoe — OrionSupport beta status.

java blogArjun — More free books ;)

java blogJoey — Jython Is Just Too Useful.

blogJon — Googling for social security numbers.

wirelessWireless helps cuts net costs. Wireless technology could help people cut the cost of broadband by sharing the connection with neighbours.

javaJSwat 2.1.7, a a graphical, stand-alone Java debugger built on top of the Java Platform Debugger Architecture.

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wirelessWireless Virtualization: Data and Databases.

javaJDBC query logging made easy.

javaEnhance J2EE component reuse with XDoclets. XDoclet enables simplified continuous integration with component-oriented development using attribute-oriented programming.

javaDeveloping JFace wizards. Regardless of the language you're using to develop a GUI application, an interactive mechanism to gather user's input is essential.

javaData binding with JAXB. Learn how to use data binding to easily map data stored in XML documents to Java objects and back again.

javaA JSTL primer, Part 4: Accessing SQL and XML content.

linuxXmlStarlet 0.2.0, a set of command line utilities which can be used to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents.

blogJim — Better blogging.

java blogFred — HotSpot for J2ME.

java blogDominic — Free JDO book PDF.

blogBlaine — AnyEdit — free IDE for many languages.

java blogMerrick — JAXB Redux.

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blogMatt — Typepad Update.

blogScott — My Palm Tungsten C Experiences.

netE-mail spam costs business £3bn. A survey by Yahoo finds junk e-mails will exceed legitimate ones in the next two months…

pcNew desktops coming from Sony. A whole bunch of new Vaio desktop PCs coming from Sony.

macDevelopers: WWDC Early-Bird Registration Ends Friday.

javaSun to Bridge the Java Skills Gap and boost Java developers to 10 million.

javaOrinoco, a Java API to generate PDF documents..

javaJava Excel API, a Java API for reading and generating Excel spreadsheets dynamically.

moblogJim — The future of public wireless access points? and More Python blogging tools.

java blogHenri — JIRA!

java blogWerner — Eclipse “getting connected” more info as we get along.

java blogMartin — SWT Links.

java blogSimon — JavaOne ticket for $100 on eBay.

java blogGérard — The opensource advantage over Java.

java blogTenney — Create the Jike dependencies report using Ant.

java blogHakim — IntelliJ IDEA — first impressions.

java blogSimon — ‘Point-and-click’ programming.

moblogPaul — Here's a nice article on camera phones and MMS.

java EJOSA Template 1.2 , Enterprise Java Open Source Architecture.

wireless802.11g close to standards approval, according to c|net…

mobileNext for cell phones: nudity. Pictures of Playboy models will be available for download on European cell phones.

tvReplayTV might remove commercial skipping. New ReplayTV Models May Skip Some Features .

On May 22, 1868 — The “Great Train Robbery” took place in Indiana. The robbery was worth $96,000 in cash, gold and bonds to the seven members of the Reno gang.

Late Start

4 min read

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javaA Java Programmer Looks at C# Delegates. Steven Lewis and Wilhelm Fitzpatrick explain delegates and provide a working Java implementation.

blogKevin — My BBEdit Contest Entry.

java blogDanny — Quick References.

mobile javaJ2ME VNC Client Alpha 2.9 released.

netOpera wails about MSN problem. MSN says the problem, if any, is perfectly innocent.

java blogRuss — Borland's Looking for a J2ME QA Person.

java blogMike — JettyPlus looks cool!

blogScott — Apple's Half Note?

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java blogPatrick — Why we use Struts.

java blogAndres — Accumulating Dust and JBoss setup under Redhat Linux.

java blogBlaine — KickJava — Java APIs with Examples & free Java book downloads.

blogRick — Matrix Sunglasses.

javaJDO Learning Tools 1.0 beta 1, a set of tools that demonstrate the behavior of Sun's Java Data Objects.

blogDiego — more on SCO v. Linux.

java blogAndy — I'd have to agree.

javaMock Objects 0.09, generic unit testing framework and methodology for testing any kind of code.

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meI installed Opera 6 on my Zaurus using the OperaCreator for linux. It required a little bit of tweaking, but it all worked in the end.

booksReview — Java Enterprise in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference.

moblogDiego — 'push to talk' goes global.

java blogDavid — Re: Velocity? Jython? What do they think?

java blogLuke — Lies, Damn Lies, Benchmarks and Carlos Perez.

javaJMP 0.30, a Java Memory Profiler.

javaSun has posted the first beta of the Java Access Bridge for Windows 1.0.4.

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blogDiego — browsers galore.

mobilePlayboy is coming to your handset. Playboy has announced a global deal to bring the magic of bunnies to your handset.

java blogDominic — J2EE XDoclet article.

java blogSimon — Java Extreme Programming Cookbook (O'Reilly).

blogPrashant — Mozilla Plugins.

blogArjun — Re: Very Good XML resource for developers.

java blogLars — What's coming in JDK 1.4.2?

blogFrançois — Comment accélérer le développement logiciel…

java blogCarlos — JDK 1.4.2-beta Now The Numerical Speed Leader.

blogMatt — www2003.

java blogHeinz — "hi there".equals("cheers !") == true.

pdaCNET review of Sharp's Zaurus SL-5600 Linux-powered PDA.

mobile javaPicture this. View Web camera snapshots using a J2ME-capable phone.

wirelessTime is right for WiFi successor, study claims. 802.16a or WiMAX.

netW3C Adopts Patent Policy. After years of wrangling, the World Wide Web Consortium adopts a patent policy…

technologyOASIS Ratifies UDDI 2 as Open Standard.

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javaProve It, Don't Compute It. Don't change your Java code when your business rules change.

mobile javaNew Java Components for Go.Web. GoAmerica's new Java components simplify the creation of wireless-enabled applications.

javaCompetition Heats JavaOne Stew. The stew that is JavaOne promises to be tasty this year.

mobileWomen text more than men. According to a survey conducted by the Mobile Data Association UK, 74% of women say they have used text messaging…

java blogMats — Cool thing about the XML editor in IntelliJ.

java blogRane — Database. The mother of all patterns..

java blogArjun — Freebook Bonanza - II.

java blogPadraic — Debugging HTTP Made Easy.

javaBeginning Eclipse for Advanced Developers. Transitioning from emacs to the Eclipse IDE.

musicBoycott-RIAA.com Web Site.

On May 21, 1975 — Elton John became the first Western pop star to play in the U.S.S.R.