What Java Skills Employers Want. For Java developers changing jobs or looking for work, find out which skills are most desired.

Russ — Upgrading to OrionServer 2.0.1 and You can call me an Asshole.

Bernard — Java Gotchas and Java Preferences Library.

Luke — Goodbye Tivo, I hardly knew ya…

Andrej — J2EE version 1.4.

Mike — IDEA Switch Campaign.

Keith — Jeremy's article on MySQL 4.x.

Simon — javascriptMD5.

John — Java Begins Updating Their Downloads Page Again.

Review of ZR-5600 by BargainPDA. Sharp's latest Zaurus.

Wireless television from Sharp. AQUOS LC-15L1.

On April 20, 1999 — 13 people were killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO, when two teenagers opened fire on them with shotguns and pipebombs. The two gunmen then killed themselves.

5 Ways to Kill a Project. Technology doesn't kill projects; people do.

Russ — Nokia 7650 J2ME Sockets Fun.

Samsung Profits Down 41%.

Emmanuel — JBoss : Bleu Blanc Rouge.

Jon — Nanning 0.2 released.

Laszlo — Playing with Java and C.

Andy — Eclipse 2.1 on OS X.

Stefan — Netflix Numbers Q1/2003.

SuperWaba 3.5, a JavaVM for PalmOS devices.

WWDC conference schedule released.

PC Magazine PDA roundup.

CompactFlash's successor: the Compact USB Disk.

Celebrity Blogs Catching On.

Belgium Rolls Out Java ID Cards.

On April 19, 1933 — The U.S. went off of the gold standard.

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jPortlet 1.0, an open-source Portlet Container.

Henri — Old JSP article, but still relevant.

William — Post Your Java Resume FREE!

Gérard — The problem with Netbeans.

Matt — DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding.

antenna 0.9.9, a set of Ant tasks for developing J2ME/MIDP applications based on the J2ME Wireless Toolkit.

Review of Sharp SL-5600 Linux PDA.

Safari Beta 2 includes AppleScript to JavaScript bridge. A new do JavaScript command that enables AppleScript to communicate with the browser via JavaScript.

Format LDIF file for Address Book import.

Darwin 6.5 source code posted.

Apple confirms USB bug in Mac OS X 10.2.5.

Gadgets go back to basics. Manufacturers will be challenged to go back to basics at an international conference looking at the design of new technologies.

Neema — Great Batch File Renamer.

Request for Submissions for Open Source Reference Book 2003.

Dell Takes Back Top PC Seller Spot. The demise of the dude hasn't hurt Dell.

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How Does Your Salary Stack Up? VSM's Summer 2003 Salary Survey.

Jeff — Free Tomcat Book.

Greg — Regexp Search Plugin for Eclipse.

Mike — JavaBlogs Networking Problems.

jNotes 1.0, an open source Java-based PIM.

Office Depots web sales grow 23% in Q1 while total sales remain flat.

New device for diabetics checks blood sugar levels without drawing blood. Developed by Toshiba.

The iRiver iHP-100, a 10GB MP3 player with analog/digitial audio inputs.

Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen. Security? What's that?

.NOT now, please: Lamenting vacuum, Microsoft renames products. MS dumps .NET tag in latest Windows Server name change.

On April 18, 1906 — San Francisco, CA, was hit with an earthquake. The event was responsible for about 700 deaths.

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Java Extreme Programming Cookbook Excerpts: Cooking with Java XP.

Jason — Why I stopped using vim and started using IntelliJ.

David — Standalone SWT libraries available.

Greg — Linux+Apache+Tomcat Setup at klebus.com.

Thomas — SCJP Java 1.4 Certification - New Free Web Site - Test Your Java Knowledge.

Dan — Making the most of your computer.

Calvin — JBlogLib BloggerAPI Release.

JRioUtil 1.0, a GUI utility that interfaces with Sonicblue's line of MP3 players.

Gateway Reports $200 Million Loss In First Quarter.

Russ — I DID IT!!!

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A JSTL primer: Presentation is everything.

JSP best practices: Improve your look and feel with the JSP include mechanism.

Securing 802.11 transmissions, Part 1.

NoUnit, measure your JUnit Test Coverage and Effectiveness.

Jester, the jUnit test tester.

Beyond Wi-Fi: The 5 next big things. Ultrawideband, Mesh Networks, Software-Defined Radio, Wireless Personal Area Networks, Adaptive Radio.

Matt — Cool Java Certification Site and What's coming in XHTML 2.0.

Jason — A call to Open Source developers…

Niel — CodeNotes for Java.

PMD 1.0.5, a Java source code analyzer.

WinCvs 1.3b13 released.

Java Aspect Components 0.10.1, a Java framework for distributed aspect oriented programming.

Visual Studio .NET 2003 Available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads.

Net spurned by 25% of Americans. One in four Americans say they do not go online and have no intention of doing so, a study finds.

Re-Code.com Is No-Code.com As They Shut Down.

Should You Hire a Hacker? Mitnick, he say yes.

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Jakarta Commons Validator 1.0.2. This release includes only bug fixes.

Jim — London Pub Meet - Tues 29th April.

Henri — SuSE 8.2.

Matt — Windows 2003 Server for $45.

Joi — Moblogging conference in Tokyo - July 5.

Kasia — Classifying programmers.

Matt — Meld: Visual Diff/Merge.

Is cellphone porn hot or not? Conflicting stories.

Cisco to ship Wi-Fi mobile phone in June. Model number 7920 with IEEE 802.11b.

Unemployed Man Files (And Gets!) $1.5M Tax Refund.

Samsung debuts surround sound MP3 player. The YP-55 sports SRS Labs' WOW surround sound simulator.

Paul Allen Plans Sci-Fi Shrine in Seattle. Complete With Aliens.

NetBeans IDE 3.5 Beta. Codenamed Tegal.

Nokia hangs on to its lead. Nokia has posted robust profits, but warned that sales were weak and the outlook uncertain.

In case you didn't know, Kelly Clarkson's new album, Thankful, is out.

Tom — A list of J2ME devices, together with in-depth specs.

On April 17, 1967 — The FBI lab reported that it could not determine the lyrics to “Louie Louie.”

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Bellevue Apple Store set for a May opening.

Fred — J2ME Dev Portal Listing.

David — blojsom 1.7.2 released.

Raible — Cool Customer Service from AT&T.

Damien — Comments on “Pocket PC vs. Palm: Which is Really Easier?”

Andy — Should JavaBlogs be just about Java? I agree. I want to read about everything, not just Java related material.

Java Calculator Suite 1/10^2, a collection of Java classes related to equation calculators.

Nokia camera sends a cell message. A wall-mounted surveillance camera that can send images directly to a cell phone will be available in the US this summer.

NYT: Camera-Cellphones Reviewed. Nokia 3650 (from T-Mobile or AT&T Wireless), Panasonic GU87 (AT&T Wireless), Samsung V205 (T-Mobile) and Sanyo 5300 (Sprint PCS)

Wireless Porn Won't Be Hot, Analyst Firm Says.

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Netcraft Java Servlet Engines Report. Tomcat and Resin, the #1 servers.

Matt — MailTo: Links.

Neema — Syndirella Retired.

Ryan — Starting the free J2EE course.

Sun Microsystems Posts Small 3Q Profit, despite a 10 percent drop in sales.

Apple posts $14 million profit, or 4 cents per diluted share.

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Jakarta Commons Discovery (pre-)release 0.2, a component for discovering, or finding, implementations for pluggable interfaces.

JFormula 2.0, a Java Library for evaluating mathematical expressions.

J2EE 1.4 Platform Specification Proposed Final Draft 3 Available.

Matt — What I learned from this weekend's re-design.

Dominic — Tablet PC Developer site.

Simon — Bye bye Radio Userland.

Jiri — How many development tools do you need?

Jason — Ant framework.

Carlos — Mathematical Modeling of SARS.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Security): Always validate input.

FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.4, a TV guide program written in Java.

A very quick introduction to Java… Control iTunes with Java. 

Mitac's Mio338 Plus Pocket PC.

Why Pocket PC isn't WinCE? When is Windows CE not Windows CE? When it's part of Pocket PC, it seems.

Bill — Use compression on your web server.

Brent — Safari and NetNewsWire.

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JUI 0.6, a tool for creating Java GUI layout components.

Dominic — Phoenix browser name change/rippoff.

Keith — Norah Jones live streamable/downloadable music.

Corel debuts new WordPerfect.

In Searching the Web, Google Finds Riches. The band of technoinsurgents who run Google are striking a blow against the giant Web portals by rewriting the rules of Internet advertising.

Mike — JavaBlogs read statistics and Java + Lego to solve Rubik's Cube?

Pocket PC vs. Palm: Which is Really Easier?

Apache crashed while we were in California. Funny how it always seems to happen when we're out of town.

Rational Straddles Java and .NET. How will IBM's acquisition of Rational change the acknowledged leader in modeling and lifecycle tools?

Tricks with Static Initializers. Don't be limited to simple expressions when initializing static values. Static initializers provide more complex processing for initializing classes

Top Java Programming Prize Winner. David Arthur, a junior at Duke University, has won this year's Sun Microsystems and TopCoder Collegiate Challenge.

Serialize Java Data Objects to XML. Save and Restore Java data objects to a compact, robust, and reusable XML form.

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

On April 16, 1996 — Kiss announced a reunion tour with makeup.

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Mats — Why the “Elements of Java Style” book drives me crazy.

Diego — a chat with russ.

Andres — JBoss setup under Redhat Linux.

Michael — ask.yahoo.com RSS beta.

O'Reilly releases ‘The Web Programming CD Bookshelf’.

Intel sales flatter than a pancake. A little better than expected.

UPS all wrapped up in wireless. From Bluetooth to Wi-Fi…

Philips iPronto does it with Linux. “The iPronto combines audio/video, home automation, and home network control capabilities in an easy-to-manage device that offers consumers a new solution for controlling a wide range of devices in the connected home.”

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MontaVista wins Panasonic Linux deal. Panasonic has selected MontaVista Software to provide the operating system for its new Broadnow Internet-enabled television set-top box.

Sony Ericsson T306 For $.01.

Simon — Free code snippets at javaalmanac.com.

Matt — Tomcat Included in Netware 6.5.

MySQL Control Center 0.9.1, a GUI client for MySQL databases.

Interview with Jordan Hubbard of Apple and OpenDarwin.

Vendors upgrade instant messaging offerings. Enterprise IM from GTV, IMlogic Inc. and SurfControl PLC.

Liberty Alliance Releases Draft Of Phase 2 Identity Spec.

America Online sues spammers. The lawsuits seek at least $10 million in total damages along with court orders to immediately stop the alleged practices.

AMD Ready to Drop the Hammer. Opteron.

T-Mobile, Kinko's hook up for hot spots. Wi-Fi at 1,100 Kinko's stores.

Wireless industry argues against letting customers keep cell numbers when switching carriers.

Study: Techies could use some PR.

Scholar solves $1m question 100 years on. Grigori Perelman believes that he has proved the Poincaré Conjecture.

Fred — Motorola Doesnt Understand Developers.

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IBM releases complex spreadsheet generator. SheetPages from IBM's alphaWorks. 

Salary Survey: Java Still Hot. What recession? Annual survey finds top Java skills pay more than ever.

Retrieve Volume Information. Create a class that encapsulates OS API calls to let your app's managed code retrieve information about the user's hard drive.

Unmaintained Free Software: javaldap 0.20. A functional, small, embeddable LDAP server written in Java.

Jim — BuddyZoo - FOAF for AIM users?

Apple Ships 150,000 802.11g Units.

Jeff — Setting up Apache, Tomcat and Mod_JK.

Henri — Dreamweaver + JSP.

Diego — when abstractions don't work.

Sam — Win2VNC.

David — Ariadna, build#700 is available.

Matt — Blogging from Starbucks.

Dominic — Java Database Best Practices.

Jason — Having a healthy FOAF.

Ugo — Mike's back.

Daniel — Java for GameBoy Advance.

Dave — Safari Beta 2.

François — Ma meilleure raison de ne PAS acheter de PDA!

Niel — Fun with Java (Java AIM Bot).

Rogers — Column: Using XML-RPC with Java.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Security): Establish a threat model, Security is not just prevention and Security is a process, not a product.

Costin— JAAS and TextInputCallback.

JXBeans 1.0 beta, an open-source framework that leverages the power of JavaBeans and XML to rapidly build XML processing applications, business process models and web services.

Microsoft, and now Apple, Consider Universal Music Purchase.

Intel Recalls New Pentium 4 Processor. 3GHz Pentium 4.

Judge: No Class Action in Microsoft Suit.

Happy 13th, TidBITS.

Who are the Fastest Growing Hosting Providers?

On April 15, 1850 — The city of San Francisco was incorporated.

We're going to California for the weekend to attend my partner's wedding. Regular programming will resume on Tuesday morning.