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Matt — iPod Goodies and Running a process from a servlet.

Apple offers free WWDC Early Bird Workshops.

Dell to Change Name. Dell Computer, Inc.

Jason — Bad coding day.

Kev — Maven's best/worst features.

XML Benchmark 1.1.1, a C/C++/Java XML parsers benchmarking tool set.

Diego — blogging APIs: a mini how-to.

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Borland Heats Up New, Upgraded Java Tools. JBuilder 9, and Janeva.

Russ — Blogging from Starbucks - sin WiFi, I Need An Office! and Using your Nokia 3650/7650 as a GPRS Modem.

Henri — Open source Java.

Fred — SUN's WTK2.0 Production Release.

Rod — Unit tests with log statements are a code smell.

Arjun — eWeek RSS feeds.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b4.

Niel — CodeNotes for Java.

Danny explains how to SSR-Enable an RSS 2.0 Module. Simple Semantics Resolution. Cool stuff.

Tom — Personal Server.

New AMD Alchemy Au1500 tablet design boasts embedded Linux support.

Apple resolves security flaw at online store.

Hacker suspect nabbed at Net security show. British police have arrested a man suspected of hacking into high-profile Web sites and defacing them with a distinct digital calling card: a “fluffy” pink bunny rabbit.

World's smallest flashlight. IBM's created the world's smallest source of light.

Gadgeteer review of The Digiana Wireless Audio Portable FM Linker from Audia X.

SD Card overtakes Memory Stick. Despite numerous efforts by Sony, supremacy has slipped through the fingers for its Memory Stick format: now, the SD Memory Card format reigns supreme.

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Zaurus Development with Qtopia.

Sync4j 0.1b4, an Open source SyncML server and framework.

Apple sells over 1 million songs in the first week. “In less than one week we've broken every record and become the largest online music company in the world…”

Review: Nokia 6800.

Third alpha of Jakarta Commons HTTPClient 2.0.

NewsBro 2.0, a web application providing usenet news service.

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Java and the Model Driven Architecture. Building distributed, Web-based applications will get easier when you regard target platforms and middleware.

Make Applications Update-Aware. Employ the Java Web Start technology to place JAR files on a Web server to facilitate error-free updates.

Five To-Dos for a Fledgling Java Team Leader. Many new team leaders are compelled to organize their own team's work based on the experience they got when they were programmers.

SWT: A Native Widget Toolkit for Java. Part 2.

The Game API. An API for basic 2D gaming operations.

FastParser 1.6, a Java Xml parser.

Russ — AvantGo for the Nokia 3650 Review and iPods as UI Example for Intelliphones.

Martin — XML-RPC & Blogger.api and Being Mobile.

Petri — In need of a Blogging Detox program? Head for the South Pacific!

Wireless Paris. The Paris project opened on April 1 using antennas outside a dozen Metro stations…

Bernard — Crash Microsoft Browsers with 5 lines of HTML.

Matt — Snookered at the Apple Store, DHCP and Dynamic DNS on Red Hat and [Request] Moblogger on Sourceforge.

Fred — Graphic Speeds MIDP 1.0.

Mike — Java Urban Performance Legends.

Adam — XML weather.

Chris — Wrestling with javadoc.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b3.

Jeremy — Why must I reboot to upgrade QuickTime?

Joi — Joi's Birthday Database.

Scott — A Palm Tungsten C / Mac OS X Disappointment.

Lance — The Undocumented Castor.

Costin — Using the new connector with tomcat 4.1.

Haiko — iPod and Windows, Linux.

In the stands, the wireless instant replay. From Air-Grid Networks.

NYT: Fantastical kitchen gadgets.

Intel's personal server. From Intel, a prototype of a wireless, battery-powered personal server that can automatically connect to any PC or PDA within range.

BenQ's P30 smartphone. Symbian, large 16-bit color display and a built-in digital camera.

New Bluetooth USB Adapters. Belkin Components, IOGEAR and D-Link.

Mutants storm global box office. X-Men 2 earned more than $155m world-wide in its opening weekend.

On May 5, 1821 — Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile.

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We went to see X2 yesterday. Right after the show we stopped by the mall so I could try the free hotspot… It worked.

I even did a little bit of war-mall-driving, in the middle of the food court, using Kismet on my trusted Zed.

Nightcrawler, Colossus and reliable Wi-Fi… What else can you ask for?

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Rational Straddles Java and .NET. General manager Mike Devlin shares his thoughts in a recent interview.

Martin — Being Mobile.

Michael — Unit Testing Web Pages.

Matt — Jabber and Roller.

Dominic — Finally Sun CRTFIED. Congrats!

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b2.

François — Who said we didn't need wireless? :))

Keith — Bruce Eckel has a weblog.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Persistence): Pass data in bulk, Keep data close to processors, Use in-process or local storage to avoid the network, Aggressively release resources and Never assume you own the database or the data.

Torsten — STX vs XSLT.

ProGuard 1.6, a Java Shrinker and Obfuscator.

Sun rises on acquisition speculation. Shares of Sun Microsystemsrose 12.3 percent on speculation the company might be bought by a larger computer rival.

Dotcom survivors come roaring back. After years of ridicule and ruin, Internet stocks are seducing investors again.

X2 makes $33 M on Friday. The show we went to wasn't sold out. A theater employee mentioned that very few of their shows actually were.

On March 4, 1715 — A French manufacturer debuted the first folding umbrella.

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Moblogging from the mall. We just saw X2… It rocks!

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Diego — a review of blogging APIs.

Ejen 1.1pre3, a general purpose code generation system based on Java/XML/XSLT technologies.

Once in a great while spam is actually funny.

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Russ — Handheld Opera Online Aggregator and The 3650's MINE.

Jim — Symbian Exposium: what happened?, Full disclosure and Keynote speeches.

Tobias — Zaurus and Security.

John — How to install basic RedHat in a chroot environment.

Glen — Strong typing.

myPod. You like music? — Good! You have a huge collection of mp3 files and an iPod to hear them? — Even Better! You cannot afford a Mac or are unhappy with iTunes?

The iPod's secret recording mode.

On March 3, 1992 — Five days of rioting and looting ended in Los Angeles, CA. The riots, that killed 53 people, began after the acquittal of police officers in the beating of Rodney King.

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JLCP 0.5.1. Javalobby Community Platform Released.

Russ — Let's Not Forget BREW.

Dan — Jaguar Stable, Apple Utility Not.

Review: Apache Server 2.0: The Complete Reference.

Commentary: One Bad Apple.

Blockbuster Decides to Go Online.

Java: FunWithFileDialogs. AWT FileChooser and Swing Aqua JFileChooser dialogs in Mac OS X.

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Diego — beta update.

Bill — NO! I co-invented RSS!

Tom — Re: Composing Strings.

The world's most expensive cellphone. A diamond-encrusted handset from DBTEL that costs almost $30,000 and comes complete with a three-carat rock as a centerpiece.

Russ — Optimum/Standard Software Choices for the Nokia 7650.

Free Voice over Wi-Fi. FreeWorld Dialup.

Fred — A Flamer Asks for Forgiveness.

Open AMF 0.2.5, Java Flash Remoting.

JavaBean Calendar 1.0, Java calendar for GUI applications.

SCO says it will revoke IBM's AIX license in June. The saga continues…

Net attack crushes SCO Web site. Don't mess with us.

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Developing E-Business Interactions with JAXM.

Startup Writes Language to Replace Java, .NET. Clear Method's Water.

Russ — Even more Symbian, More Symbian Thoughts and Exposium Summary.

Wi-Fi Instant Replay. Instant replays over Wi-Fi networks at NBA basketball games.

Wired: The Wi-Fi Revolution. The wireless Internet has arrived — and now the sky's the limit.

Diego — Don't forget IrDA.

Werner — JBoss 3.2.0 has been released today.

Edwin — BEA Dev2Dev publishes Workshop/BPEL tutorial.

Keith — Search term highlighting on my site.

Carlos — The Perfect Thinking Style for Programming.

Matt — GinGin: Red Hat x86-64 Technology Preview.

Morgan — JDK 1.4, now including the kitchen sink.

Making J2ME applications run on BREW. The world's first implementation of a Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) virtual machine featuring MIDP 2.0 capabilities on Qualcomm's BREW platform.

FindBugs, a Bug Pattern Detector for Java.

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Will the Wi-Fi Bubble hypesters kill Wi-Fi? Dot.com days are here again. They hope.

Nick — Release Early, Release Often, or at least Release!

John — Gforge: Open Source SourceForge.

Wireless spam on its way to the US. Oh goody.

Chuck out your handsets, here come the wristphones. Samsung GPRS wristphone.

Gérard — Multitasking JVM.

Apple planning second Seattle area store. In the University Village mall.

Former KGB man sues Amazon over online review. Suing for libel over a customer book review.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Persistence): An “objects-first” approach preserves your domain model, The “relational-first” approach exposes your relational model, Use a “hierarchical-first” approach to model in documents and "Procedural-first" creates an encapsulation layer.

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jEdit 4.2pre1 is now available.

OOP designs with VB.NET and Java.

Match4J, a match engine, an advanced search engine for searching in structured and semi-structured data.

Jeff — Why doesn't Apple write iTunes in Java? and What should I do with my Eclipse my notes?

Fred — J3DME.

JCalculator 0.1Beta, a GUI calculator written entirely in Java.

Opera for Linux 7.11 Tech Preview 5 Released.

Radio YourWay: TiVo for radio.

Lexar ships 2 GB CompactFlash card.

Nick — 1.5 Million Words in JavaBlogs?

Thomas — OS X jdk 1.4.1 and xdoclet issues resolved.

The Java Specialists' Newsletter: Treating Types Equally - or - Life's Not Fair! and 15.53% knew that i += n is the same as i = (type_of_i)(i + n)

SavaJe Licenses ARM Swerve i3D Client To Deliver Interactive 3D Java Applications On Mobile Phones.

Mark — But now it is somehow my fault.

On May 2, 1941 — The Federal Communications Commission agreed to let regular scheduling of TV broadcasts by commercial TV stations begin on July 1, 1941. This was the start of network television.

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Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0.2b1.

John — Link-o-rama.

New project: Java Controller for iTunes.

Reader says Best Buy selling new iPod.

Sugared water Apple censors Miles Davis. Puritans.

Tutorial: The Socket API in JXTA 2.0.

Sam — MSDN Page Update Request.

IBM denies charges of Unix theft. IBM's 18-page filing in U.S. District Court in Utah, rebutting SCO suit.

Great tips on Mac compatible Bluetooth phones.

RIAA cashes in on file-swapping students. And you thought college loans were bad.

Priceline.com reports first-quarter loss of $8 million.

Russ — More Symbian Thoughts.

Dominic — Tomcat 4.1.24 JSP compiler error solved.

Ray — Looking for a job? Part 2.

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Magic with Merlin: Exercise complete control over your graphics display.

Transferring files with GridFTP. Learn how to use a sample Java class with the Globus Toolkit 2.2.

Secrets of the wireless elite: Tom Hume. Emulating and optimizing the old-fashioned way.

Focus Traversal Policies in Java Version 1.4.

Final Draft 3: JavaServer Pages 2.0 Specification.

Nameless Coward — Just started looking at C# today.

Blaine — Organize your music.

Chris — Fighting for my domain.

Brent — Huevos and iTunes Music Store.

Thomas — Powerbook 17" surpassed easily.

Tom — text.it.

Dan — A pleasant surprise in iTunes 4.

Wireless experts: Give us broadcast spectrum. At a congressional forum, experts debated whether the broadcast spectrum should be sold by the government, leased or free.

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Wireless Messaging with J2ME. JMS, WMA, etc.

Java programming dynamics, Part 1: Classes and class loading.

JSP best practices: Manipulate dynamic content with jsp:include.

Russ — Back at Home.

Michael — Mobile Web Service is the future of Java.

Mike — A hell of a lot of Java words!

Mark — My first cease-and-desist letter.

Chris — Steve Jobs Interview.

Simon — iTunes Web Service?

Steve — Idea generics support is on its way.

CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.0.5, an Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access on an SSH2 session.

The Register: SuSE 8.2 Approaches Computing Nirvana.

OpenOffice.org 1.0: One Year Later.

Morpheus: ‘We're Back’.

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Joe — RSSLibJ continues to improve.

OpenBSD 3.3 released.

‘Erotic gherkin’ for London skyline. Thanks, Russ

Jim — Beyond SMS and MMS.

Orb — And the winner of the WROX lottery is …. Apress???

Simon — Standard libraries - Java vs. Python.

This little blog received 1.2 million hits last month, with close to 20K unique visitors. Thanks.

Bill — Local attorney sues telemarketer.

JarJar ClassLoader 1.0.0, a class loader for JAR files inside other JAR files.

iTunes Music Store — A Success? 275,000 tracks at 99 cents apiece in its first 18 hours.

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Symbian looks to enterprise to drive smartphone biz. Jim says it's a good overview of the show.

Apple Recruits iTunes for Windows Developers.

The Supermarket of the Future. Wireless express checkout.

Mike — WebWork 2 is awesome. MVC is over. We win ;)

Une montre Sauvegarde. USB Watch. 

GeForce FX 5200 Reviewed.

Guy — Time to challenge airline paranoia on wireless.

Nick — Release of Classifier4J.

WSJ: new 3G iPods have less battery life.

On May 1, 1931 — The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and opened. It is 102 stories tall and was the tallest building in the world at the time.

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Dominic — Firebird “JayBird” JDBC driver v1.0 released.

Glen — Processing commandline switches.

Brent — NetNewsWire and Update Checking.

Michael — I almost fell victim to an identity-stealing scam.

Remember that show Knight Rider? Did you really, really like it?

Acer's new budget Pocket PC. n10.

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Re: The false spam you requested. The FTC issued a finding this week that probably won't come as a shock to many: Two-thirds of spam contains false information.

60GB Nomad Jukebox Zen. Move over puny iPod.

GenealogyJ, a full-featured standalone Java application that can handle all of your genealogy information (GEDCOM compliant).

Developing E-Business Interactions with JAXM.

Cooking with Java XP, Part 3.

Creating Richer Hyperlinks with JSP Custom Tags.

Carlos — A Wealth of Resources on Compiler Design.

Bill — Interesting Comments on the Apple Music Store.

New Technology To Allow Airports To Screen Passengers Easily, Thoroughly.

JMemProf 0.3, a Java memory profiler suitable for deployment in Web containers.

Time interviews Steve Jobs. Apple's new iTunes Music Store.

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xReporter 1.1, an open source Avalon/Cocoon-based database reporting framework.

Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition 1.3.1_08 is available!.

Russ — Live From Symbian.

Henri — Reusability bad?

Emmanuel — Libére appartement (paris)…

David — blojsim … blogging via instant messenger (IM).

James — Be careful of JDK 1.4.

Simon — Apache Tomcat Security (Wrox Press).

Jon — Why JUnit does not accept method as argument.

Calvin — Shorthanding Java.

Karl-Martin — Todays Java links.

Chris — Ogg, ACC, and MP3 - more bit rate wars and IDEA Review.

Phillip — Eclipse vs IDEA.

Bryce— Opera for Series 60.

JSch 0.1.5, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Ten Tips to the Top of Google.

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Programming Defensively. A Conversation with Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, Part IX.

Matt — Braindump: Roller, Hosting and Wrox.

Mike — Dynamic Mock objects are god-like for unit testing.

Matthew — XmlWriter: Generating XML from PHP.

Ovidiu — iTunes Music Store rocks!

Charles — Throwing null.

Stefan — Dell cracks the PDA market.

Apple Music Stations. Apple store music kiosks.

Apple's music: Microsoft's sour note?

Tom — Bluetooth Thoughts.

Vicki just told about the King County Library System providing a free Wi-Fi hotspot in one of the local mall. We'll be there on Saturday to see X-Men United. I'll be sure to give it a try.

Allon also told me that Apple Stores generally offer hotspots too. The Bellevue Apple Store will open in May.

Maybe there's more to this public Wi-Fi thing than I originally thought.

On April 30, 1964 — The FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels.

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Symbian 7.0 Released. The new release add multi-tasking, an updated Java implementation, boosted multimedia capabilities and Arabic/Hebrew language support.

Glen — dom4j 1.4.

Buy iTunes Music with a Shopping Cart. One day mistakenly, I will press the Buy Song button and there goes a buck…

Manage Sessions in Web Services. The two accepted techniques of managing session in a Web service are to rely on HTTP and use HTTP cookies, or to use SOAP headers. Axis lets you do both.

Reivew: Programming LEGO Mindstorms With Java.

Product Review: IntelliJ IDEA. A powerful and flexible IDE, but watch out—it's slow.

Linux Voodoo: DRM Still a Bad idea.

Bernard — AnomicFTPD.

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Russ — Live From London.

Werner — Jabber or JXTA and XDoclet : how to specify security for the remove method of your entity bean.

Leslie — iTunes Does Indeed Do DRM.

Chris — AAC vs. MP3 revisted.

Matt — Damn Small Linux.

Tom — More photos from today's Symbian Expo.

Apple posts WWDC Enterprise IT details.

iTunes Music Store DRM Summary. A summary of what you can and can not do.

iTunes for Windows is Coming. Apple is hiring for a Windows iTunes Programmer.

Seattle Times Wants Break from Post-Intelligencer.

The Jakarta Jetspeed development team has released the latest version of the Jetspeed Portal Server, version 1.4 Beta 4 (1.4b4).

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Korea Adopts Java for Wireless Standard. Sun signs agreement with Seoul.

The OpenAMF Project, Open-source Java Flash Remoting.

Alan — A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer…

Diego — music moves.

Matt — Hibernate Upgrade (1.2.4 to 2.0 rc1) Redux.

Joe — RSS formatting and specs.

Chris — AAC 128bit vs. MP3.

Mark — More on Apple's New Online Music System.

Cedric — Windows Server 2003 launch.

Stefan — Blockbuster finally taking on Netflix.

Steve — Apple's New Music service.

Are you buying from the iTunes Music Store? and Why I will still rip songs as MP3s.

MetroWerks to offer SX1 devkit. Siemens and Metrowerks have collaborated to create CodeWarrior Wireless Development Kit for Symbian OS.

RIAA IMs: We're Watching You.

ThSteve Jobs blesses DRM, and nothing happens.

Nokia Gives Series 60s a Boost. Borland C++ Mobile Edition for Series 60.

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Bill — What Would You Ask James Gosling?

Proxool 0.7.2, a Proxy JDBC Connection Pool.

Apple, readers offer iTunes 4 details.

Ericsson cuts 7,000 more jobs.

Matt — Hibernate Book Review.

Tom — Apple and its tune.

Java XTools 1.0, a collection of functions for Java and Java 3D.

Palm Desktop 4.1 released with new Droplet.

My AvantGo for Series 60 is official.

Qwest, Comcast Duel Over DSL Ads.

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Fortune: Inside the Apple iTunes Music Store.

Andrew — typing from the Mac Store.

Apple, analysts on the new music service.

The Register: Apple launches 99c a song music service. AAC, 128Kbps, etc.

StringBuffer helps you reduce Java overhead.

David — FoneBlog demo server.

Kasia — What is wrong with Netflix?

Memory watch. 128MB flash memory.

Oracle9iAS Built-in Interoperability Bridges J2EE and .NET. According to Gartner, more than 75 percent of Fortune 2000 enterprises will use both Microsoft and Java technologies in their IT systems.

A do-it-yourself framework for Grid Computing. Learn to build your own grid computing application using open source tools.

Simply Singleton. Navigate the deceptively simple Singleton pattern.

Jeremy — Apple could learn a lot from Amazon.com.

On April 29, 1990 — The destruction of the Berlin Wall began.