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Tech Tips: Drawing Dashed Lines with Stroke and Generating Custom Doclets.

Transforming iCal Calendars with Java. Apple is using human readable text files to store the data from some of its most popular applications.

Mike — Prevalyer - would YOU use it?

NEC to use Linux as 3G mobile phone OS. MontaVista Linux.

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Diego — googling your weblog.

Fred — Unix History.

Cameron — One-Upped by Carlos.

Brent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.3 Ships.

Simon — Defeating IE5 CSS bugs with the help of jwz.

New Linux PDAs Blur the Lines Between Laptop & PDA. The Zaurus devices run Linux—which has made them popular among devotees of that platform.

Leading Java tools and technologies. A list of finalists for the 2003 JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.

The Matrix Phone sells out. The new Matrix-themed phone from Samsung, the SPH-N270, has already sold out on the Samsung Matrix Online Store.

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WWDC Early Bird Registration ends Friday.

USPS Extends Bill Paying Services. Postal Service offers business users ability to make online payments.

Simon — Attended the London Java Meetup last night.

Cameron — The saga continues: Benchmarking with IBM JIT and I love JEdit.

Open Source Is Not a Magic Bullet. Java developers like open source software.

Review: Effective Java Programming Language Guide.

Review: Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME.

Which Language When? So many languages, so little time. How best to evaluate them?

The Story of the tech.net.ru Crackers. The Washington Post is running a story detailing the events of the arrest of two Russian crackers, Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov.

Nokia Announces 6108 — Pen Based Phone.

Patrick — MVC debate, continued…

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As Arjun noticed, I am the author of a weekly column now appearing in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter.

Alan approached me late last week with the idea. We brainstormed a little and got the ball rolling pretty quick.

A copy of my first column can also be found in the stories section of this blog.

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Mike — New MockObjects Releases — Finally!

Erik — JavaOne here I come!

Kevin — No OSS Java at JavaOne.

Glen — Fun with Decompilers.

Aaron — Couple good articles in JDJ this month.

Three tools make Java code review painless. PMD, Checkstyle, and Jalopy.

Vald — ActualAccessFlags: an undocumented .class format attribute.

Amtek's new Tablet PC. The T-1100 ID comes with either a 10.4 or 12.1-inch display, a 1.0GHz processor, up to 768MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, 802.11b, USB 2.0 and Firewire.

Wi-Fi Bike. Anyone with a wireless enabled laptop or device can connect to the Internet if the Magic Bike is nearby.

The fear war against Linux. Microsoft's connection to the anti-Linux campaign being waged by the SCO Group is becoming clear.

Dan — Borland Developer Survey.

SpamAssassin 2.55, a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.

Werner — JBoss : Marc's reaction on sun's double vision.

Kevin — JAXP.

Matthew — iSync and 3650.

Papers written by Googlers.

Jim — Euro in the UK.

Apple Stores turn two; Tokyo, Chicago & San Fran locations announced.

XMLTask 1.6, provides the facility for automatic editing of XML files as part of an Ant build.

On May 20, 1993 — The final episode of “Cheers” was aired on NBC.

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Bluetooth LCD screen for eyeglasses. MicroOptical Demos Bluetooth Eyewear Viewers.

Benchmarks comparing 10.2.5 to 10.2.6. Comparing Mac OS X 10.2.5 and 10.2.6.

XOM 1.0d14, a tree-based API for processing XML with Java.

IBM's Rational cooks up Java plan. IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool.

Russ — Happy Moof Day! Happy Bday!

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Microsoft to purchase UNIX rights from SCO.

Russ — No More Cocoon For Me.

Siemens SX1 Preview Review.

Partick — Web architecture, Struts, Spring and WebWork2.

Eric — Only Five Java Databases?

Joe — Aqua Data Studio rocks!

Lars — Tips 'n' Tricks: How to keep JSP compilation results with JBoss/Jetty.

Vlad — Java class encryption: don't trust it.

Cameron — Now optimized, .NET test still falls behind Java.

Jeremy — No stand-alone market for Wi-Fi access.

Matt — Amazon Web Services.

Scott — MasterCard's 10-Q available online.

Simon — Syntax Highlighting with Javascript.

W3C Proposes SOAP Standard. SOAP 1.2

Napster reborn! Roxio buys PressPlay.

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Aqua Data Studio 3.0, a universal database tool for building, managing and maintaining enterprise relational databases.

Carlos — Refactoring to Aspects.

Thomas — Tools help us write better code….or worse.

I bought Java Performance Tunning yesterday. It should be an interesting read.

Vicki and I watched Equilibrium last night. While not the greatest movie, it had some of the best fight scenes I've seen in a long while. The Wachowski brothers could have learned a thing or two from it.

Reborn as Firebird, Mozilla Phoenix goes OS X.

.org registry vanishes into thin air. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

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CodeRally, a Java-based, real-time programming game based on the Eclipse platform.

WebWindow 2.1.1, a Java web browsing component.

IXED, a Web-based XML Editor for JSP.

Diego — blogging APIs - part 2 and some comments on the cactus release.

David — Only 5 Java-based databases?

Kurt — Hibernate + XDoclet Tutorial.

Werner — Eclipse “getting connected” preview : who will be there (May 22nd/23rd 2003, Brussels).

Mats — Yes, .Net is toast and Why the “Elements of Java Style” book drives me crazy.

Michael — J2ME versus .NET: Reloaded.

Andrew — POI 2.0-pre1 Released.

Paul — How (Not) to Get a Job.

Matt — Java performance myths / Reflection.

dIon — Maven gets WebSphere integration.

Cameron — Top Ten Reasons to use Java.

Carlos — Top Ten Reasons to Use .NET Debunked! and The Imminent Demise of .NET.

Charles — The Open Source Prime Directive.

PMD-jEdit-2.1, a Java source code analyzer plugin for jEdit.

Apple's own collection of iTunes4 tricks and tips.

Opera goes gold with version 7.11 for Linux.

Mac vs. PC: Which is better for business?

On May 19, 1911 — The first American criminal conviction that was based on fingerprint evidence occurred in New York City.

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Moblogging from the Regional Bellevue Library while Vicki is picking up some books. Maybe I'll go check their programming section while I'm here.

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Vicki and I went to see The Matrix Reloaded yesterday. She enjoyed it, I didn't.

• Neo: I'll fight a few dozen agents and just fly away.
• Morpheus: I'll just make another boring speech.
• Trinity: I'll just keep falling in slow motion.
• All: We'll just dance the night away.

Seriously… Everything felt stretched, re-used to death. The good parts definitely didn't outweigh the bad ones.

Very disappointing.

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Jon — Nanning 0.5 Released.

Adam — lotto ad.

Cameron — Top Ten Reasons to Use .NET.

Mark — The big day. Congrats!

Haiko — Mozilla Firebird 0.6 is out.

AspectJ for NetBeans 1.1rc2 released.

PDA-Search.net. A new search engine just for PDA-related searches.

Dell Axim X5 As Low As $152.23 Shipped. $248.63 for the 400MHz model.

'Matrix' magic rakes in a record $42.5M. Move over, Spider-Man.

On May 17, 1932 — The U.S. Congress changed the name “Porto Rico” to “Puerto Rico.”

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Jim — OPL, good, bad or ugly?

Fred — JavaOne Reject JavaBlog Party 2003.

Simon — Mac OS X : The Missing Manual.

Arjun — Very Good XML resource for developers.

Karl-Martin — IRC RSS aggregator.

Hakim — J2ME Floating Point Libraries.

Matt — Wi-Fi Zones.

Mock Objects 0.08, a generic unit testing framework and methodology for testing any kind of code.

A comparison of J2ME and the .NET compact framework. Part 2.

Sharp adds two new Zaurus Linux PDAs to SL-C7xx lineup. SL-C750 and SL-C760.

Journalist revisits iTunes quality issues. MSNBC's Gary Krakow.

FCC does wireless spectrum shuffle. The FCC is taking steps to make more efficient use of the available wireless spectrum.

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Arjun — Book Bonanza - List of free java books to download.

Fred — Guru.com sold for les than 1/10th value.

What's on my iPod? Steven Berlin Johnson wants to know how some Duran Duran and Depeche Mode songs mysteriously ended up on his iPod.

Dion — Beautiful Code.

Cameron — .NET performance still seriously lags Java.

Cedric — Boring is not beautiful.

Bryce — SL-5500 ROM Update.

Joust 0.9: Java OSCAR (AIM) libraries.

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Novell to Extend Java support. Web application development suite can now be ported across all J2EE servers.

Tony — WiFi and the Law.

Henri — What I hate about Java.

Ole-Martin — findBugs.

Eric — Red Hat RPM Guide is Out and Java Databases.

Sam — Caching Grammars with Xerces.

Carlso — Six Degrees of Iterator.

Change Safari's default search engine — revisited.

Apple releases Java update for Oracle. Apple has posted Java 1.3.1 Update for Oracle.

Net crime crackdown: 130 charged.

2GB on a keychain. The new USB 2.0 KanguruMicroDrive might weigh just 21 grams, but it'll set you back about $1300.

Sun Preps Another J2EE 1.4 Beta.

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T-Mobile drops Microsoft's Smartphone UPDATE: Or maybe they haven't.

TI, Nokia gang up on Qualcomm. CDMA R'Us

JDJ and JBoss: Two Influential Bodies in the Industry Today Cement a New Beginning.

Java Compatible and Java Verified Products Reflect Increased Demand for Java Solutions.

String Processing with Perl.

Diego — clevercactus lives!

Russ — Getting up to speed with Mobile Markup.

Daniel — Closures/Blocks in Java.

Cameron — Beautiful Code.

Jeremy— Weblog Burnout Rate?

Carlos — Refactoring To Patterns.

Matthew — Jax windup.

Charles— Closures and Java: a Tutorial.

Danny — Happy Birthday CSS2 and Pragmatic Programmers.

Coldtags suite 1.40, a custom JSP tags suite.

Can Ogg Vorbis change digital audio? When consumers refer to digital music, they usually mean the MP3 format.

Java Theory and Practice: Urban Performance Legend.

WiFi 101. Make sense of 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g.

Brighthand on Samsung's new Pocket PC Phone. SCH-i700 Pocket PC Phone from Samsung.

E3: N-Gage boss talks price points and more.

Fred— SmartPhone-Disaster in The Making.

Matt — Jabber Journal #11.

Top officials press to keep Net tax ban.

On May 16, 1985 — Michael Jordan was named Rookie of the Year in the NBA.

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Joe — My thoughts on the new import syntax…

Apple releases new Safari beta. Safari 1.0 Beta 2 (v74)

Mobile Side Effects. What have cell phone done to us?

Simon — Running CVS/SSH with IntelliJ on Mac OS X.

Internet is dying — Prof. Lessig. Now what?

Simon — CSS2 is five years old.

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Jim — N-Gage to bomb - or is it?

Mike — Roll The Presses.

JSP best practices: Combine JavaBeans components and JSP technology.

Java generics without the pain, Part 4.

Develop UI Components using MIDP 2.0.

Create native, cross-platform GUI applications, revisited. Windows, GNOME, and SWT 2.0.

Review: Java Enterprise In A Nutshell.

Nokia 8910i: For your eyes…only!

Russ — Nokia Software Updates.

Henri — Open Source Java Communities?

Fred — Sun finally does RSS?

Odyssey Takes on iPod. The e.Digital Odyssey 1000 may be the only MP3 player that comes close to the Apple iPod.

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David — IntelliJ Aurora build #815 is available.

Karl-Martin — The Magic Roundabout.

Seyed — LinkedIn - A Gentlemen's Club of the Net.

Scott — PHP Help Requested.

Toshiba e335 Pocket PC $132.49. Yet another great deal.

Intuit announces TurboTax will drop anti-piracy feature.

Apple 23" Cinema HD is ‘king of all flat screen monitors’.

webEye. Just by pointing the phones infrared port towards the webEye unit the user gets instant information.

T-Mobile drops Microsoft's Smartphone. Another big setback for Microsoft.

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Erik — Caffeine!!!!

New 30 GB Apple iPod MP3 Player $404.10 shipped.

Russ — How much are you paid?

Patrick — Risk Analysis - Struts vs WebWork.

Just got tickets for The Matrix Reloaded from Fandango. Saturday, 4:30pm.

The Boys Of Summer. The Ataris.

Microsoft launches MSN for Mac OS X.

Notes from Apple's recent SEC filing.

Bernard — NoUnit.

Lars — Creating DMG files from a directory in the Terminal.

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Russ — XHTML and CSS Prove Their Worth.

Patrick — Struts 1.1 RC1 - what exactly has changed?

Matt — GCC 3.3 and Squeak 3.5.

Apple Makes Mobile QuickTime Moves. Support for 3GPP.

A Gentle Re-Introduction to QuickTime for Java.

How Servlet Containers Work. Having explained how a Java web server works, Budi Kurniawan turns his attention to servlet containers.

Tony — International WiFi Chapters.

Rafe — October launch for Nokia N-Gage at $299.

Patrick — Deploying web apps with Ant - Using Antelope w/ SSH and SCP.

Scott — Weblogic 7 JNDI bug.

Luke — SharpReader 0.9.0.2.

Daniel — Yet another opinion on the Java 1.5 changes.

Arjun — Have we become google addicts?.

Brent — NetNewsWire Feature Ideas.

Carlos — A Big Jar of String.

Philip — Mac OS X SSH configuration.

Jeremy — Executive Compensation.

What does the “G” in G-string stand for?

Marc — Nice explanation of Liberty Alliance.

jclassinfo 0.15, a Java Class Information Extractor.

Motorola's WiFi phones. Motorola is “not far” from releasing several cellphones with built-in Wi-Fi.

First cellphone with built-in WiFi.  Calypso Wireless C1250i handset has built-in 802.11b.

Sun eyes network computing focus at JavaOne. Company also sets release date for app server.

PC Market Shows Signs Of A Slow Recovery. Sales are on the rise, says Gartner.

SCO invokes RIAA in Linux jihad. ‘Rabid’

Verisign granted DNS lookup patent. Mind your forks.

On May 15, 1930 — Ellen Church became the first airline stewardess.

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Professional File Transfer with proFTPD.

X-Men plugin, an XML plugin for Eclipse.

assisiplugins V4ALL, a Visual Builder for Eclipse.

Jim — S55 firmware upgrade.

Wi-Fi in SD Slot. SyChip has announced a Wi-Fi chipset for the Secure Digital (SD) form factor.

Jeff — Free WYSIWYG XML Editor for Windows users…

Alan — The infamous JBoss thread.

Anthony — Been Busy.

Patrick — Duplication vs Indirection - Ant vs Maven.

Matt — Open Source Testing.

Fred — GC Tuning.

Dominic — Maverick, OSCache and JSPs and Dynamic queries vs Stored Procedures debate.

Jason — Change Activism.

Bill — Top secret markup.

Matt — Blogshares via XML-RPC and Jabber/XMPP vs. SIP/SIMPLE.

Seyed — Code Monkeys.

Kenneth — Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions is a Builder with a nice GUI.

‘Mac OS X Hints’ book released.

Apple Sells 1.4 Songs Per Second. Sold over 2 million songs in the first 16 days of the iTunes Music Store.

The Matrix phone now available. The n270, featured in the second episode of the Matrix Trilogy.

Handspring says company faces Nasdaq delisting. Its shares may be delisted from the Nasdaq National Market.

Japple 2.3.1rc1, a Java Web application development environment.

FindBugs 0.5.4, a program to find bugs in Java programs.

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Plug and Play With Java. Leverage object-oriented design patterns, Java reflection, and XML to create a customizable application framework.

A Conversation With Guy Steele. Sun Fellow and cocreator of the Java language spec.

Make Mobile Phones Smarter. With J2ME becoming the most common wireless app development platform, can the latest standards help you overcome its inconsistency across devices?

SourceCafe: Generate Java Code for Databases.

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Not laptop, not PDA: Should you buy a tweener?

Kevin — Must be a trend.

Jim — Sputnik rocks.

Russ — Developing Without A Net.

Alan — JBoss: The missing votes … explained!

Kurt — Ben Forta on the next version of CF.

Matt — Our new Tivo.

Simon — Java Extreme Programming Cookbook giveaway.

Chris — What I Hate About Your Programming Language.

JRat 0.4.1, a Java runtime analysis toolkit.

Highlights from Apple's quarterly SEC filing.

Verizon Sets Up Internet Phone Booths.

Traffic news and views on your GPRS phone. Jam today -none tomorrow?

On May 14, 1998 — The final episode of the TV series “Seinfeld” aired after nine years on NBC.