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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.

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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.