Erik's Weblog

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.

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Java

Slow News Day

23 years ago

4 min read

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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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Java

Thursday?

23 years ago

6 min read

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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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News

Bellevue Apple Store

23 years ago

1 min read

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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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