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java blogBrian — Naked Objects.

java blogDiego — more bluetooth and java.

blogJim — What a Waste.

blogFrank — Apple still #1 quality wise.

technologySeattle's Talking Signs. Seattle's Sound Transit is trying out a new gizmo; Talking Signs.

moblogDiego — 4G coming up.

moblogJim — PMG Seminar.

moblogPetri — Residential WiFi Business Plan.

moblogMichael— Any warnings before I buy a Nokia 3650.

java blogMatt — Hibernate PlugIn for Struts.

java blogMatt — Tapestry, Now Officially In Jakarta.

java blogLeslie — Quick links.

blogCameron — Funniest Thing Ever!

blogLance — Good tool for Debugging IE Dom…

blogMatt — Gates and Jobs Coverage.

blogSteve — An AppleScript rule to check Mail against blackhole lists.

blogMarc — Jon Udell is really smart.

java blogAaron— Tomcat: The Definitive Guide.

javaANTLR plugin for Eclipse 1.0.3.

blogRob — IE won't be free any more…who could have guessed?

pdaNew thumb keyboard for iPAQs. Coming soon from HP.

pdaFossil Palm OS Wrist Watch Available Now!

mobileReview: Nokia 5100.

meWe went to see The Italian Job yesterday which apparently made it to #3 at the box office.

On June 1, 1938 — Superman, the world's first super hero, appeared in the first issue of Action Comics.

Reality

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meI've dumped all of my blog shares. Gifted them to my investors. Gifted my investments back to their owners.

Like Jim said: “One problem is that everyone is too rich and there's little liquidity…”

The other problem is that the ranking doesn't reflect anything real. It's fun, but ultimately all fake.

We're getting ready to go watch Vicki's niece play in a little league game. Now, there's something I could bet on. ;-)

Dum-da-dum-dum

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javaClash over Java standard heats up. The JBoss Group will debut a new release of its application server software amid a growing dispute with Sun over Java standard compliance.

java blogDiego — bluetooth on java.

java blogChris — Java SQLite wrapper.

blogDan — Great Resource for Handling Spam, Email.

javaJBookmarks, a Java-based bookmark manager.

macCorel axes Bryce for Mac development. “Through our research we have found that sales for Corel Bryce 5 are strongest with Windows customers…‘

booksO'Reilly publishes Head First Java.

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blogFrank — The $21 question.

mobileO2 Active to rival Vodafone Live. In a bid to compete with Vodafone and its rival Vodafone Live service…

java blogDavid — Roller 0.9.7 finally available to “the masses”.

java blogDavid — IntelliJ Ariadna, build #818 is available.

java blogMatt — Hotels.com powered by Struts!

java blogFred — Challenge of Multiple APIs-J2Me.

java blogTobias — Swing applications that just work — part 2

java blogDominic — Castor articles galore and Microsoft embracing their blogging community.

blogJames — OS X tip of the day: the open command.

java blogSimon — java.blogs meetup at JavaOne?

java blogEugene — New IDEA ads in the works.

java blogIan — Elliotte Rusty Harold on XML APIs.

java blogCarlos — OpenWings 1.0 Service Oriented Framework Released.

java blogMatt — J2SE 1.4.2 Bugfixes and Interview with Fyodor.

musicMusic Services, Round Two. AOL's MusicNet and FullAudio's MusicNow offer burnable downloads and fewer copy-protection restrictions.

wirelessWireless remote receiver for the iPod. Someone's gone ahead and built a wireless remote control module for those new iPods.

mobileWristomo Wrist Phone sells like crazy! 1000 in less than 20.

netDon't Ask Jeeves Anymore. The company bows out of the competitive enterprise search market.

pcServer market slumps in Q1. IBM and Dell make gains.

javajEdit 4.2pre2 is out.

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blogArjun — Dot NET equivalent of Eric's blog. That's EriK. ;-)

blogMike — What CEOs can learn from Architects — and vice versa.

java blogMatt — Writing IDEA Plugins.

java blogStu — Ever have trouble with classloaders in Servlets/JSP?

java blogPierre — Techno-blog.

java blogJulian — Java File Searching.

mobileWhat is the etiquette for using a cell phone?

pcIntel's Centrino may crash Windows when used with VPNs. Intel's Centrino  can cause "blue screen" operating system crashes in Nortel's VPN.

mobileThe Register on the Sony Ericsson P800. Lengthy review.

mobileMiniSD cards debut in Japan. Small enough to easily lose.

pdaTech TV on HP's iPAQ h5450. HP's flagship Pocket PC.

technologySpecial Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged. Technology workers say their jobs are increasingly going to foreign workers who enter the US under a little-known visa.

May 30, 1431 — Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

Working on the Pulse

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blogGarth — Nullsoft WASTE escapes!

blogDiego — microsoft competes… with itself.

java blogMatt — Mavenizing Moblogger.

blogArjun — Blogs and porn?

blogHaiko — 11111 Bytes Text Content.

newsZD Net: Why the FCC is wrong on media ownership.

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meErik's Pulse, my weekly column featured in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter has been published.

javaJames Gosling. Mastermind of Java on OS X.

javaDemystifying Extreme Programming: The right (XP) tool for the job.

java blogAnthony Scripting Languages and Java.

java blogDominic — Altova XSLT engine available and Web Services and SOA site.

blogArjun — Overlooking the obvious RSS feed! and Epilogue of Browser Wars!

java blogVlad — A case for cross-compilation.

blogBen — iComic.

blogKevin — My httpd.conf is Better Than Yours!

blogJoey — Nothing But Whitespace!

blogJeff — Maintainable Code.

blogChuq — Setting up BIND/DNS on Mac OS X 10.2.

java blogAndy — Jakarta Tapestry Promoted.

java blogFrank — Recoverable Remote Exceptions with Jini.

blogMarc — Annother one bites the dust.

blogFrançois — mySQL 3.23 is making me sick!

javaSSHVnc 0.1.0 beta released.

musicAmazon vs. Apple in music downloads? Amazon.com could be one of the likeliest candidates to take the next crack at the retail music-download business.

pdaPalm adds VoIP, more to Tungsten C. Palm has partnered with several other companies to beef up support for VoIP, etc.

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javaEclipse Java tools will swallow Tiger. Eclipse will launch a new set of tools next year, which will incorporate the latest Java specification — code-named Tiger.

javaMagic with Merlin: J2SE 1.4.2 gets two new look-and-feel designs.

javaJSP best practices: Update your JSP pages with JSTL.

javaJava theory and practice: Hashing it out.

net3 Tools That Bulletproof Your Web Servers. Web Application Security Lockdown.

blogFrançois — Qu'est-il advenu des Network Computers?

blogMatt — PHP 4.3.2.

java blogAlan — Tips For Using Java booleans.

netIomega offers 30-day free trial of Internet storage. iStorage.

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javaWebJMS, an HTTP to JMS bridge.

booksReview — Technical Java: Applications for Science and Engineering.

blogJim — Waste not, want!

java blogRuss — No OSS Bluetooth Stacks for Java? and ADM Latency Tester.

wirelessTop 40 Wireless terms defined.

java blogFred — SonyEricsson J2ME SDK Final Version.

java blogRoman — Exploring unfamiliar code.

java blogMike — iReport for JasperReports and Are your co-developers morons? :)

blogMerrick — UML Book Recommendations.

blogChris — Collocation here I come!

blogMatt — Nullsoft's Waste.

blogSeyed — Software patents are the kiss of death for innovation.

java blogCedric — New javac prototype available.

blogPhillip — BlogCount counts blogs.

java blogMatt — New JDK1.5 early-access compiler, and "variance" in Generics.

pdaTwo new Loox Pocket PCs. GPRS built-in, etc.

mobileLong-Term Review: Sony-Ericsson P800 smartphone.

mobileCellphone shipments grow up to 49 per cent in Q1. Not necessarily good news for the biz.

netBroadband ‘boom’ in music and porn, in Europe.

On May 29, 1911 — The first running of the Indianapolis 500 took place.

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.