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Ten Reasons for Java Expertise: Why Java is Important, Even for CF and .NET Developers.

Wi-Fi Testing in Paris and London. Lee Dembart of the International Herald Tribune has done a little road testing of one of the first Wi-Fi hot spots in Paris.

Matt — Help re-name XDoclet.

Brent — TigerLaunch 1.0.1.

Joi — Defending Creative Commons.

Charles — JBoss vs JDJ Celebrity Deathmatch.

Diego — open standards — or just open?

Mike — Farcical Java vendor polls.

Java Supplements 1.2.0, a library of Java utility classes to alleviate repetitive development tasks.

Verizon unwires New York with Wi-Fi access points.

Seyed — In defence of the Creative Commons license.

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Sega Mobile Delivers J2ME Games through Handango.

David  — The JIRA t-shirt competition? What ever happened?

Matt — Java Treats.

Tech — I18N of java.blogs?

Matthew — Wireless Java.

Cedric — Iterating.

Rogers — Taking a swing at Vijay Singh.

Playing iTunes' AAC-encoded music on a PC.

Bluetooth GPS receiver. TomTom Navigator Bluetooth GPS.

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Sun unveils Java Card Protection Profile.

Preferences Editor, a small utility to browse and edit the user and system preferences, which are accessible via the new package java.util.prefs.

Jim — Mobile micro payments?

Alan — Marc Fleury … JBoss's own worse enemy.

Scott — How to initialize a class without an object - Ant source.

Gregory — Okay Java on OSX needs tweaking.

Keith— Angel renewed, Smallville moves to Wednesday.

Scott — Online Debit for Internet Payments?

Charles — L Ron Jobs and the Church of Macintosh.

Wil — Top Ten.

#Jonas — O7.11.

Frank — VISA sued over authentication mechanism.

JXHTMLEDIT 2.0.001, a cross-platform WYSIWYG HTML/XHTML content authoring tool.

Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-5600.

AMD Ships Athlon XP 3200+; Bus Boosted To 400-MHz.

Pocket Bluetooth modem. BlueGate 56k Modem.

Simple SMTP Client.

Jini Starter Kit 2.0 tightens Jini's security framework. Introducing Jini's new security features.

Still parsing to generate your JavaBeans' XML representation? Delegate this job to a JavaBean-XML mapping component.

On May 13, 1999 — In Moscow, the impeachment of Russian President Boris Yeltsin began.

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The first official release of Jakarta Commons Codec, which contains a number of phonetic encoders, a Hex implementation, and a Base64 implementation.

Krysalis barcode, a flexible generator for barcodes written in Java.

Diego — (simple) roundtrip weblog/RSS/email integration.

Russ — First Day in The Office.

Dominic — M7 for J2EE development.

Ryan — Map, List or Collection?

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2.

Michael — Hebrew Computing on Mac OS X.

Janne — Hero.

Bryce — Zaurus .NET and CF w/o Visual Studio.

SpamAssassin 2.5.4 released.

Moving iTunes Music Store To Windows Faces Obstacles & Challenges.

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Maurizio — Another WiFi joke.

Tom — New Scientist on 3G vs DAB.

Jim — SMS - Death throes?

David — Social Software Alliance.

William — Focus on Java Newsletter 05/12/03.

Matt — RE: Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces.

James — JIRA.

Andres — Google for hackers.

Jonas — AspectWerkz 0.5 has been released.

Cedric — Beautiful code.

Steve — Dear Apple Canada.

J2EE Certificate Authority, EJBCA 2.0.1.

JetBrains Adds IDE to JBoss Community. IDEA will now be integrated with JBoss Group's application server offering.

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JavaWorld announces finalists in Editors' Choice Awards.

Work more efficiently with Perl Regular Expressions.

JDK 1.4 lets you ‘assert’ yourself in debugging.

Cracking Java byte-code encryption. Why Java obfuscation schemes based on byte-code encryption won't work.

New Java Browser: WebWindow 2.1.1.

Diego — why the new install system for JDK 1.4.2 is bad.

François — Trendspotting: mobile SPAM :(

Russ — BlogPlanet Rules: J2ME Blogging MIDlet for 3650s, What IS Moblogging? and My Progress.

Julian — Verizon Plans Wireless Access Via Pay Phones.

Bluetooth wireless for your car from Sony Ericsson. Andrew Eden has written a review of the Sony Ericsson HCB-30 Bluetooth car kit.

David — RSSLibJ in Roller? and Weekend of RSS fun.

Bernard — JHotDraw.

David — blojsim 0.9.

William — Java Profiles: James Gosling Bio.

Philippe — A good naming convention for tables in a database.

Matt — StrutsTestCase v2.0 Released!, Roller 0.9.7.2 Released! and New Hibernate Versions (1.2.5 and 2.0 RC2).

Fred — Java JREs on Debian and J2ME Resources For the Poor Developer.

Dominic — Free book chapters by category.

Anonymous Coward — A new profiler on Eclipse arena: from Hyades team.

Simon — J2EE applications can be lightweight.

Daniel — Code style auto-formatting in two clicks.

Benoit — Les futures extensions du JDK…

Yakuu — Abstract Classes vs. Interfaces.

Bertrand — LogFactor5.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2fc1.

Keith — Awesome Matrix Reloaded review.

Seyed — RSS and News aggregators.

Ovidiu — Cocoon flow controller implemented in Java and More on advanced XSLT usage.

Scott — MySQL creator contemplates RAM-only databases.

Alan — Klingon and Java Coding Standards.

JDAVMail, WebDAV JavaMail provider.

JGraph 2.1.1 (For Java 1.3).

JProftpd 1.1, a simple graphic frontend written in Java for the proftpd FTP server.

Major release of the Jargon File — 4.4.0, now with cartoons.

Bellevue Apple Store opening video.

Study: Mobile phones seen as ‘essential’.

USB 1.1 vs USB 2.0 flash drives: is there any difference?

Where is the Matrix Phone?

NEC Builds a Bigger PDA. MobilePro 900.

David — Technorati API 0.9.

Public Wi-Fi has look and feel of a dead duck. T-Mobile swallows the bill.

Ian — FoafNews.

Anybody noticed that The Matrix is starting on a Thursday in the U.S?

On May 12, 1978 — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women.

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Not quite sure it was worth waiting an hour and half in line for the 20 minutes we spent into the Apple Store, but it was an interesting experience.

The store is located in the Bellevue Square downtown mall. Ironically, just a few miles from Microsoft Redmond's HQ.

First impression — A lot smaller than I'd imagined. But I have to admit that they did a terrific job with the layout, considering the small space.

Quite a few people traveled from out of state for the event. Vicki even met a couple guys from Canada which were planning to buy and transfer songs from the iTunes Music Store to their iPods. Clever canucks, hey?

The whole purpose of the visit was to play with toys, specifically the new iPod. I had seen the old models, but never got a chance to actually use one. A table was setup with about 10 of them, which gave us both a chance to try them extensively.

iBook — We first tried a couple 14in iBooks. Vicki really digs them. I think they look cheap, but I really liked the keyboard.

iMac — Still ugly, even with a 17inch monitor. The eMac form factor is sooo much nicer.

iPod — The interface sucks. It reminds me of one of the OS X Finder view by columns option, which I despise too. The circular touchpad is a good marketing ploy but far from intuitive. It seriously lacks precise control abilities. It took me a while to figure it out, and I think Vicki's still working at it. ;-)

The experience left us perplexed especially considering we weren't the only ones struggling.

The 60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen is looking better by the minute.

PowerBook — The 17incher is already on my wish list. Sweet.

Cinema Display — Watching The Matrix trailer on a 23inch Cinema Display was the highlight of the day. The 21inch model was impressive too. Still a little pricey for my taste, though.

Speakers — Vicki also liked the Apple Pro Speakers. We had fun blasting a few sample tunes from the Music Store.

Vicki was really hopping for a free mouse pad but they gave us a couple commemorative el-cheapo t-shirts on our way out.

At least the Wi-Fi connection was good and strong.

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Mallblogging again… Waiting in line to get to the new Bellevue Apple Store . The line is extending outside the mall into the street. Gotta love grand opening days. ;-)

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O'Reilly: Mac OS X for Java Geeks.

Leverage a Coding Cheat Sheet. Total .NET SourceBook is a handy code-sample repository that has excellent potential for encouraging development standards.

IM for WiFi from Trepia.

Bernard — The Tao Of Programming.

Luke — New Java language features.

Gregory — JDK1.5 Enhanced For Loop - THANK YOU SUN!

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b8.

Carlos — Is there Hope for C#?

Chuq — Sendmail and Mac OS X.

JWarp 1.0.5, aa component framework that helps building large servlet applications.

JHDL 0.3.28, a Java-based Hardware Description Language.

Yet another review of the Sharp Zaurus 5600.

What's a Wiki? While blogs are the hot topic in Web-based communication forums, wikis are growing in popularity and are unique forums in a number of ways.

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I just finished updating my FOAF file. Thanks Jim for the help.

Russ — Opera for Series 60: Not Ready For Prime Time.

Frank — Siemens and Universal to offer mobile content for UMTS.

Martin — T-Mobile Offer WiFi Subscription On Cellular Bill.

Matt — I dig the redesign… and How to control access with Jabber?

Andres — j2SE 1.5 features discussed.

Audible.com offers specials for new iPod owners. Buy a new iPod from Apple and you'll receive a one-month trial of AudibleListener from Audible.com.

Apple removing songs from iTunes Music Store? Apple may have added over 3,200 new tracks to the iTunes Music Store on Tuesday, but it seems that they are also removing songs too…

O'Reilly ‘Mac OS X Innovators Contest’ open for entries.

Use Your PDA As A Secure 'Wallet'. Infrared Financial Messaging (IrFM) Point & Pay.

Fred — How Many Independent Developers Join JCP? and Free Research in Wireless and Mobile.

Stefan — Europe's Top 100 Startups.

Bionic Eye Can Allow Blind To See. Forget Lasik, get ready to just throw out your eyes.

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Millions of .Net Passport Accounts Put at Risk.

O2 Invites Java Developers. O2 announced that Revolution opened its doors to Java application developers.

Russell — Those who Live by Google…

David — Google to create blog search engine?

Bernard — Microsoft Admits Passport Security Flaw.

Matt — Where to put the password in moblogger-enabled e-mails?

Mike — Cool Maven Plugin Tutorial.

Brent — Second Mac OS X Innovators Contest.

François— Google & BlogNoise.

Carlos — A Subscription Plan for Eclipse.

Scott — PayPal growth continues.

Gateway shifts from PCs to TVs. The computer maker, battered in recent years by competition from Dell and HP, vows to transform itself into a consumer electronics brand.

Amazon CFO calls sales tax on Internet purchases “inevitable”.

AOL 2 for Pocket PCs now out.

NYT: TiVo to License Basic Service for DVD Players.

Nvidia admits GeForce FX 5800 ‘not successful’.

On May 9, 2000 — A U.S. federal appeals court upheld a $5.4 million jury decision that Michael Bolton had plagiarized parts of the song “Love is a Wonderful Thing.” The original song, of the same name, was released in 1966 by the Isley Brothers.

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Diego — (re)loading… and syncml and palm.

Jim — FoaF update.

Russ — What Mobile Services NOT to target for the ‘Third Screen’ and What a FANTASTIC looking Palm!!

AT&T Wireless First To Offer Text Messaging-Based Directory Assistance Service in the U.S.

William — Post Your Free Java Resume!

Matt — Windows Media Player Blogging Plug-In.

Blaine — J2EE Porting update - WebLogic 8.1(Success). WebLogic6.0(Failure).

Arjun — Palm and RSS readers.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b7.

Scott — Credit card micropayments.

Matt — Looking for Lucene coder.

WWDC ‘Early Bird’ workshops announced.

T-Mobile bundles Wi-Fi charges with voice services. The move is seen as an effort to stop customer churn, which affects all wireless carriers.

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Charming Jython. Jython is a 100% Pure Java implementation of the Python programming language.

J2EE pathfinder: Persistent data management, Part 2

IBM's Java MPEG-4 Efforts Bear Fruit. IBM's alphaWorks has a new all-java MPEG-4 toolkit and it is sweet.

Kurt — Denim: a Java tool for drawing out websites.

Matt — Blogger API and Titles.

Gregory — LWJGL OSX (Gaming in Java).

Rafe — LinkedIn. The invite is in the mail ;-)

Blaine — Get your iButton.

Zaurus Mac Sync 0.1a. Cool!

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Debugging with the Eclipse Platform. Debugging is something that programmers can't avoid.

Jim — LinkedIn.

Review: Better late than never: Siemens S55.

Frank — Wireless parking in Edinburgh.

Matt — Host your blog for free?

Jason — RSSLibJ — A possible new development.

Nick — Egothor — A Java Based Search Engine.

Scott — Watch this Blog Today.

Normal — dotnet cool.

Apple stores open Sat. in Bellevue, Wa., Long Island.

The Street: Jobs tops 2002 executive compensation list.

Steve Jobs to kickoff WWDC 2003 in SF.

eMachines goes wide. M5305 2.2Ghz laptop, 15.4-inch widescreen LCD with a 16:10 aspect ratio.

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Jim — Tankerton Community Access Network.

Review: Java 1.4 Tutorial.

Jeff — New Photo Albums online…

David — Eclipse books start to hit the racks.

Mats — MyEclipse IDE… is it worth it?

Dominic — Presenting XML framework.

Greg — Free Book On Testing and I18n.

Anthony — JaNET vaporware announced.

Simon — Sample chapter from "Apache Tomcat Security" available at TSS and JavaRanch newsletter for May 2003.

Joi — Mac OS X 10.2.6 fixes problem with NTT DoCoMo FOMA P2401… sort of.

Keith — Regex coach.

Sam — Gumpy GUI.

Tom — LinkFest!.

Stefan — No, that's not a Mac.

NetSpell, a free spell checking engine for the .NET framework.

EarthLink wins $16 million settlement in spam case.

Run your own Car Diagnostics. Reset that pesky service light.

New folding keyboards for iPAQs and Clies. Think Outside's Stowaway XT folding keyboard.

WiFi printer from Samsung. Connects to LAN over 802.11b.

On May 8, 1794 — The United States Post Office was established.

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O2 expands Revolution to support Java. O2 has announced that its Revolution service will now accept submission of mobile Java applications.

Black Box Web Testing with HttpUnit. No matter how much unit testing you do, how do you know your web site meets your customers' real needs?

Russ — I'm Linked In, More On DoCoMo and E3: Mobile Gaming.

Diego — The future of Handspring, and Palm OS 6.

Listing of Libraries with free WiFi in the US.

Patrick — Will Blog for Food.

Matt — StrutsTestCase v2.0 Released!

Martin — Looking for internet access for a week in England (dialup).

Leslie — iTunes Music Store RSS Feeds.

Scott — Comments on Day 3 Under Linux.

Julian — What's Your Selling Point?

Marc — Make Contact.

Ultra-Thin Screen A step towards Electronic Newspaper.

W3C brushes up SOAP standard.

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Diego — metaweblog gets updated.

Martin — Wireless Development Overview Summaries.

Joe — Javadoc : Use the “-use” tag at all times.

Matt — WebWork and XWork Mavenized.

Arjun — RSS reader on a Ipod ;)

Neill — jivesoft smack api for jabber.

Cameron — Java Binary Tree Iterator.

Jeremy — To the moron at 12.119.251.194 and Going after telemarketers.

Glenn — Wi-Fi / Cellular Convergence.

Various IDEA Plugins. TabSwitch-0.2 is out.

Tenants Tune Into Free Wi-Fi. The owners of an office building in San Diego are offering free Wi-Fi to all tenants.

Sun Coaxes Jini Out of the Bottle. Jini networking technology is gaining momentum despite rumors about its demise.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b6.

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Fancy yourself as a mixmaster? Marillion are offering you the chance to remix their last album, Anoraknophobia.

Alan — Our BOF session at JavaOne.

Jasonbell — RSS - the true meaning.

Norman — XDoclet book review.

Frank — Apple's DRM.

Non-availability of SL-5600 in the UK (from Sharp).

Guy — Apple's wireless “leadership” shows a chink in armour.

Siemens subsidiary Roke Manor Research has developed a tri-band GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz CompactFlash card with GPRS capabilities, compatible with Pocket PCs.

Andres — Eclipse WSDL2Java plugin.

IBM takes java server crown from BEA. IBM is the biggest supplier of java application server software, having taken the top spot from BEA Systems.

David — Azure - a weblog client for your phone.

JDJ: SWT, A Native Widget Toolkit for Java—Part 2.

Phillip — Handling authentication in Lucene.

Rafe — Response time for web apps. That's how I do it on my guestbook.

Scott — Mac OSX Help Requested!

Open Source Initiative president responds to SCO's DoS claims. Eric S. Raymond.

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Interview: CA Favors Java Over .NET.

Product Review: JProbe.

Does UML Make Sense?

Holding the Bag With XML DOM. The XML bag repository stores state information and offers cross-platform compatibility.

Do Java and .NET Really Compete?

Interview: Eric Stahl of BEA.

Design Pattern: Java Value Types.

JavaServer Faces: A standard-based solution of Java Web Applications.

Tips: Using the native2ascii Tool and Local Classes.

Matt — Cannot load JDBC driver class ‘null’ and JSPs compiled by Jikes.

Chris — Countering .Net ‘advantages”.

Mac pr0n. A Mac-themed porno site that's dedicated to “the inevitable fusion of hot bodies and hot Macs.”

Cell Phones Costing Las Vegas Casinos Big Bucks. Gambling Wi-Fi? 

Certification for Java Wireless Applications. From Siemmens.

MyMap Navigator for 3G Handsets.

Stuart — Bad chars.

Russ — Steal This One Too. I did.

James  — Microsoft's bluetooth mouse rocks on OS X. All 17.

Chris — Using CVS to sync your common config files.

JFtp 1.27, a file transfer application supporting FTP, SMB, SFTP, and local file transfers.

On May 7, 1968 — Reginald Dwight decided to change his name to Elton John.

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Russ — What's on my Nokia 3650.

Class Action Against Nokia. Faulty LCD screens.

David— java.blogs badge.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b5.

Jeremy — Sony Airboard Wi-Fi / Flat-Panel Device.

Kev — Rupert - An eclipse jar manager.

Carlos — Four .NET Advantages Debunked.

Niel — O'Reilly's Open Source Directory.

Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.6 via the Software Update preference pane.

Bevy of new ICQ vulnerabilities surface.

Doing The Right Thing: Apple UI history.

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Mary Jo — Microsoft Trains Its Consultants in Linux, Java.

JBuilder 9 bundles Java tools. OptimizeIt and source control.

Bernard — Greebo.

Martin— CVS ssh2 plugin for eclipse. Yippie!

Mike — Profiling code with dynamic proxies.

Chris — Caller ID displayed on Mac from your Bluetooth phone.

Matt — Coderally.

Karl — IRON MAIDEN, DIO, MOTOumlRHEAD dates announced.

Rafe — Adam Engst on the iTunes Music Store.

The top 75 security tools from Insecure.org.

Tip: Set the default location of Terminal windows.

Program Lets P2P Users Roam Free. An application that blocks the IP address of certain companies and organizations, like the RIAA.

AT&T Wireless Debuts GoPhone. No contracts, no credit check.

Barcodes: The Number of the Beast.

.Net develops advantages over Java.

JBoss 3.2.1, an Enterprise JavaBeans application server.

Study: Visual Basic use may be slipping.

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Converting XML documents to Java objects with Castor XML.

KavaChart, an extensive collection of tools for creating various charts.

Petri — CeBIT Australia 2003 Highlights.

Alan — That time again … editorial time!.

Joe — Bayesian Filters for TechNews.

Simon — Selling used Java books?

Nick — LDAPd - A Java LDAP Server.

Chris — They've slipped tiger. Bummer.

Chris — iTunes User Agent string.

Scott — Apple's iTunes Music Store.

Julian — Java Class to Access the Clipboard.

Nouveaux eMac! or Apple release new eMacs.

The NetDisk. The NetDisk Portable and the NetDisk Removable are external hard drives with Ethernet ports that connect directly to a local area network.

Netcraft: May 2003 Web Server Survey.

AMD ships Athlon MP 2800+. For those who think Operton too pricey.

The NetBeans Project has released NetBeans 3.5 RC1.

Transparently cache XSL transformations with JAXP. Boost performance and retain usability by implementing implicit caching inside transformer factories.

Datastructures and algorithms, Part 1. Explore datastructures, algorithms, flowcharts, pseudocode, and arrays.

On May 6, 1840 — The first adhesive postage stamps went on sale in Great Britain.