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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.

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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.