Amerigo Vespucci Day

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javaJTwiste, a development and runtime environment for J2EE-compliant rich Java/Swing client applications.

On March 9, 1454 — Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy. Matthias Ringmann, a German mapmaker, named the American continent in his honor.

Roogle

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java blogMagnus — Core J2EE patterns.

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blogScott — Roogle Update.

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linuxRoll Your Own $450 Linux Box. The comments are the most interesting.

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On March 8, 1993 — “Beavis and Butthead” premiered on MTV as a series.

Mobiphobia

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java blogKen — First IDEA Aurora build! (build #802).

java blogMatt — Struts-JSF Demo.

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blogKarl — Metal musicians jailed for Islam.

javaPDA Profile for the J2ME Platform. PalmSource 's proposed final draft of JSR-75.

javaProposed final draft specification for the Java Servlet API 2.4.

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javaJ2EE 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.2.4. Thrilled to bits.

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netAOL Pushes Membership with Communicator Preview. After over two years of development, AOL has made available a preview release of its new e-mail client.

linuxSun may change course on Linux. Sun Microsystems is considering striking up partnerships with mainstream Linux sellers such as Red Hat and SuSE.

moblogErik — MiTAC unveils Smartphone 2002-based Mio 8380.

netInternet speed record smashed.  6.7 gigabytes of data.

netCourt strikes down online porn law. Constitutionally infirm.

java blogJames — Super Search 1.0.2 - Eclipse Plugin.

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java blogDominic — Office Depot: ASP to JSP (Struts) upgrade.

java blogKeith — Java sucks.

blogDave — Jabber.

blogNorman — The solution to the tech job slump: fire people.

javaLinux and Java: Signpost for the Future. If you look toward the not-too-distant future, you'll see that the Linux/Java programming duo will be pushed by an even bigger wave in the IT world: Web services.

netEBay to Shift Half.com Sales to Its Main Site.

technologyCaldera sues IBM for giving Unix secrets to Linux community. This one will run and run.

mobileVeriSign gets into Smartphone, Pocket PC signing. ACS for Smartphone.

javaThe Java Renaissance. The Java Renaissance.

java blogJason— Java Memory Profiling.

blogHaiko — News Roundup.

meMobitopia is doing very well at Daypop. We've had a couple articles in the top 40 already.

March 7, 1933 — The board game Monopoly was invented.

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java blogRuss — J2ME for your Gameboy!

java blogJason — Enhanced properties.

blogScott — Visa USA announces Account Truncation Initiative.

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javaAdvanced Text Indexing with Lucene.

javaUsing Hierarchical Data Sets with Aspire and Tomcat.

java blogMatt— Good MIDlet Tutorial, Take It Further.

blogColor change to $20 bills imminent. Set for March 27.

moblogRuss — The Mega Phone.

blogDave — Camino 0.7 Released.

windowsMicrosoft To Ship Office Beta Monday.

moblogErik — Oracle and Sprint Accelerate Java Development.

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javaJakarta Tapestry 2.4-alpha-4, a web application framework structured around highly reusable
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javaTutorial: Building Dynamic Web sites with WebSphere.

javaTutorial: MIDlet development with the Wireless Toolkit.

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javaJ2EE pathfinder: J2EE technologies for the stateful network. Best practices for choosing the right solution.

javaUsing the Eclipse GUI outside the Eclipse Workbench, Part 3: Adding actions, menus, and toolbars.

javaThe Java Specialists' Newsletter: Wait, Cursor, Wait!

macBeginning AppleScript Studio. A quick tutorial on getting started in AppleScript Studio, resulting in a working application.

blogDavid — BEA: huge adoption curve climbing very fast for Linux.

blogRuss — Apple PowerBook Bluetooth Rocks!

moblogDiego — Are the new handsets selling well?

java blogGlen — Ant, JUnit and SQL.

mobileSony Ericsson P800: available in Bulgaria now. But still weeks away from being available in the US?

javaGenJar, is a specialized Ant task that builds jar files based on class dependencies rather than simply the contents of a directory.

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musicThe guitar hero who can't win a Grammy. But Joe Satriani hasn't lost his touch.

blogKasia — Net::Blogger.

javaSimple 2.2, a comprehensive Java framework for the development of HTTP services.

netReview: News aggregators. Hot Off Your News Clicking Service.

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netHas Jeff Bezos Patented E-Mail Discussion Groups?

javajSMSEngine API 1.0, a open source Java-based API to send and receive SMS messages.

javaNativeJ, generates Win32 native .EXE launchers for Java applications.

blogDave — Konfabrication.

java blogTed — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Follow the Zen.

javaJiBX, XML Data Binding for Java.

moblogJim — Martin Little reviews his P800.

blogCarlos — Software Connectors a Subset of Communicative Acts.

blogMatt — WSDL 1.2 Working Draft.

blogSteven — UML-based code generation? You're nuts.

java blogSimon — Certified J2EE compatible - really???

netAre Video Blogs Ready For Prime Time?

java blogAnonymous Coward3 New JSR's and some controversy?

blogRuss — The Google Dance Is Coming!

wirelessWireless Universal Resource File. The WURFL file contains information regarding wireless devices' configurations, capabilities and features.

moblogSeyed — PDA Fade Away.

linuxTomcat's simple WebXml editor, a simple form-based editor for Tomcat's web.xml files..

mobileSMS text: the new English? “My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we usd 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :- kds FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc.”

javaJUnitEE 1.6.4.

javaPrimitive Collections for Java 1.1, a set of collection classes for primitive data types in Java.

javaJava Service Wrapper 3.0.0, makes it possible to install a Java Application as a Windows NT Service.

moblogErik — HOW 2 SPK TXT.

March 6, 1946 — Ho Chi Minh, the President of Vietnam, struck an agreement with France that recognized his country as an autonomous state within the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.

Buon Ristorante

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java blogMatt — Java Server Faces Demos!

moblogRuss — Nokia and Metrowerks Launch Series 60 Dev Toolkit.

blogRafe — I'm stumped.

wirelessReview of Apple's AirPort Extreme.

moblogErik — New Sony Ericsson Phones Roundup.

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blogEric — Finished Red Hat RPM Guide.

developmentUnderstanding LDAP, Part 2.

blogAlan — Google: Friend or Foe?

moblogRuss — Nokia and Metrowerks Launch Series 60 Dev Toolkit.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b3.

java blogLance — Keep IDEA from Hanging for significant periods of time while doing GC…

musicInternet music services finally sing a better tune. AOL's MusicNet.

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linuxOptimizing GCC. How much faster would gcc compile the kernel if gcc itself was optimized?

linuxIs Linux as vulnerable as Windows? Counting viruses is simplistic, but there is evidence that Windows is becoming more resistant, and Linux is becoming more of a target.

macEnterprise CTO Switches to Mac OS X. ‘Rethink Before You Reinstall’

javaJAXB 1.0 and JAXP 1.3. Java API's for XML Binding and XML Processing Updated.

blogKurt — The new Macromedia.com Launches.

java blogDong — Java profiler.

java blogDanno — Java language triva…

java blogJoe — Lucene is working now..

java blogBob — Don't implement Page-by-Page Iterators using a scrollable ResultSet and jAdvise Article..

java blogMarc — Junit Out of Loop.

moblogMatthew — Mobitopia - day 2.

moblogAra — Sony Ericsson P800.

java blogKenneth — Java Regular Expressions.

java blogDanny — Java Jam 4.

pcDell Widescreen 15.4 inch Laptop. The Dell Inspiron 8500 with a 15.4-inch wide-aspect screen featuring a resolution of up to 1,920 pixels by 1,200 pixels.

javaComputerworld: Java News Shorts.

pdaToshiba's new Pocket PC with a digital camera. The Genio e550c.

booksO'Reilly releases “Google Hacks”.

Mobitopia

moblogErik — T-Mobile to cut wireless-data prices.

blogRogers — Too many specs spoil the broth.

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pcToshiba preps laptop fuel cell.

tvFaith is back on Angel tonight.

java blogDion — Hibernate & JDO.

java blogJoe — Blog Software Status.

blogMatthew — Mozilla: Blogging's Killer App.

moblogJim — Disentanglement or Anticonvergence?

moblogErik — Oracle's Mobile Center.

newsA LifeGem is a certified, high quality diamond created from the carbon of your loved one as a memorial to their unique and wonderful life.

netNet Hacker Tool du Jour: Google. “When your medical records are indexed in Google, something's wrong.”

macDSL provider Covad adds Mac support.

java blogJames — SuperSearch - Eclipse Plug-in.

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javaFail-Safe Interop for Your Enterprise. Discover strategies for invoking distributed services to achieve interoperability and integration among J2EE and .Net components.

javaThe Long and Winding Road. Sun is holding back the Java 1.4 spec release to comply with WS-I's interop guidelines.

javaPutting a New Face on Web Interfaces. The JavaServer Faces technology takes the next step in separating presentation from business logic.

javaReturn Prewritten WSDL. Configure Axis Web Services.

javaBuild a Web Services-Based Interface. See how a collaborative solution demonstrates using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets in a Web-based interface for a retail chain.

javaMapping Java Objects to a Database with Castor-JDO.

javaJThumbnailer, an Image Preview program which contains basic preview function, such as File System Browsing, Thumbnail view, actual size view of Image, resize, rotate, flip, HTML generation.

java blogDavid — Java IDEs: Market Overview..

moblogMatt — Moblogger enabled for this blog.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire 1.0.1b2.

java blogTed — Effective Enterprise Java (System): Use independent JREs.

javaJMyAdmin, a tool written in Java intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web.

technologyBEA provides glimpse of its future direction. Security, application management and process-oriented programming.

gadgetsPowerMate. The Griffin PowerMate is too weird and interesting a gadget to pass up.

gadgetsTrust issues. A portable lie detector called the Handy Truster that analyzes subtle, involuntary changes in voice stress that are supposed to correlate with truthfulness.

javaJoGa , Java Optimizer with Global Analysis.

wirelessWireless Internet startup to bring up to 30,000 “hot spots” to UK this year.

java blogSimon — JavaRanch March newsletter.

moblogJim — BBC reviews P800.

moblogStuart — The term moblog has been there for quite a while now.

java blogPatrick — AspectJ book on Slashdot.

usDinner at il Bacio was excellent. Nothing like authentic italian food.

March 5, 1998 — NASA announced that an orbiting craft had found enough water on the moon to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.

Vik's Bday

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java blogSimon — Thumbs up for JSP/Servlet compatibility (so far).

java blogDanny — CVSGrab Ant task and Eclipse Quick Starts.

javaTech Tip: Using Runtime.exec to Invoke Child Processes.

javaTech Tip: Programming With File Attributes.

java blogJoey — My One Complaint About The Latest Eclipse.

moblogRuss — More on SonyEricsson.

developmentMicrosoft Partners Rally Around Visual Studio .NET. Borland, Groove Networks and AmberPoint…

netAOL Time Warner gets new technology czar. A former CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment…

macAnother Garbage Patent. Apple was rewarded a patent for the “Garbage” icon in Mac OS X.

netGoogle rolls out new online ad program. An automated online advertising program…

moblogErik — My Killer Mobile Screen Display Idea: Projected Displays.

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javaApache Tomcat 4.1.21 Beta, includes many bugfixes and performance tweaks over Tomcat 4.1.18.

java blogCharles — JFileChooser & J2SE 1.4.2.

blogSam — HttpUnit.NET Approved!

blogMatt — Tomcat 5.0.1 Alpha Released! and Ant JMeter Task.

java blogJason — MiniBlog locales on Orion.

java blogEric — Eclipse Tip: Remove Splat Imports.

blogRuss — Mobitopia Lives: The New Mobile Tech Group Blog.

blogBill — RSS already has ads.

java blogJerome — WebWork with Velocity templates…

java blogMatt — Sony Ericsson T610 and JXTA PR, JXTA 2.0.

java blogSteve — Idea TestCase file template.

java blogNorman — Singleton Considered Harmful.

macKudos to Bare Bones Software! BBEdit Lite 6.2 is once again available from the company's site.

mobileNew handsets from Sony Ericsson. T310, T316, T610, T616, T606, T608, A1301S.

mobileCombination GPRS/802.11b card for laptops. Sony Ericsson's GC79.

mobileBluetooth MP3 player/cellphone headset. Sony Ericsson's HBM-30.

mobileSony's Chairman: “I really want to own Palm”.

multimediaMacromedia reports critical hole in Flash player. The flaw affects Version 6 of the Macromedia Flash Player.

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javaJFaceDbc 1.2rc1, a JDBC client application (stand-alone or Eclipse plugin) written in Java.

mobileMobiles disabled to beat thieves. Half a million stolen handsets have been blocked from network signals and disabled in a new street crime initiative.

javaGLUE 4.0 Web Services Platform Announced.

javaJCodeBox J2EE Application/Component Builder Released.

macRomeo: More T68i Remote Control Software.

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java blogTed — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Understand Middleware and Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Follow the Zen.

macChimera Is Dead. Long Live Camino!

java blogJos — Custom XSD validation ant task, extending ant is easy.

musicApple online music service wins kudos. Top executives at the major record companies have finally found an online music service that makes them excited about the digital future.

javaJava Regular Expression Package 1.1.0, includes classes for handling regular expressions and non-deterministic finite state automata (NFAs).

javaJava Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1a, a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility.

usToday is Vicki's Birthday. We're going to give il Bacio a try for dinner.

java blogJoe — WebWork: ParameterAware is *strange*.

javaTrita, a Source Code Beautifier That Learns Your Style.

javaMPXJ, an open source Java implementation of a file handling library to create, read, and write Microsoft Project Exchange files, Project 2002 MSPDI XML files.

javaPERST is very simple object oriented embedded database.

javaWhite Paper: Optimizing your Java Applications for Performance.

blogCarlos — Taxonomy of Software Connectors.

newsTrial to protect ‘Windows’ name delayed. A trial to decide whether Microsoft Corp.'s Windows deserves copyright protection was postponed.

java blogJason — Using MiniBlog with Orion Server.

On March 4, 1789 — The first Congress of the United States met in New York and declared that the U.S. Constitution was in effect.

03.03.03

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java blogErik — Finally…

technologySurvey Says Number Of Web Services Projects Growing.

java blogFred — JSP Insider.

blogGlen — 38 percent of US adults know what Wi-Fi is.

java blogKasia — Bad code annoyance with Java #234840.

java blogMatthew — No 1.4.1 Final for Mac OS X (Yet) & Why Sendmail in Mac OS X.

blogKenneth — The Review of the Sharp LL-T15G3.

javajclassinfo 0.6, a Java Class Information Extractor.

pdaThe best of both. Toshiba e330 Pocket PC.

musicWorld's thinnest MP3 recorder. Rio DR30.

wirelessWest Coast cities tops in wireless. Wireless networking technology is more of a West Coast thing, according to a survey released by Intel.

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java blogMatt — The Debate is flawed: Struts vs. WebWork.

java blogWerner — BEA WebLogic Portal : Webflow or Struts.

blogLeslie — Stop using numbers in your IP addresses.

java blogJoe — Naked Objects.

macApple releases AppleScripts for Sony Ericsson Clicker.

javaTICL 1.1, Tag Interface Component Library.

javaUICompiler v1.0, an integrated User Interface Compiler suite.

technologyMicrosoft quits OpenGL board, signalling an intention to go at it alone with its Direct3D graphics platform.

javaMeYou: New WYSIWYG HTML Editor and Web Blogger.

blogMatt — Why Do Cel Phones In the US Suck?

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javaJakarta Ant 1.5.2 Released!

blogTraining for the Java Black Belt. Sun Microsystems and IDA unveiled an advanced training initiative called the Java Black Belt program.

javaGlider for Eclipse, a J2EE development environment that lets you instantly debug your EJB application.

javaBEA Announces WebLogic Platform 8.1 at BEA eWorld.

java blogSimon — Win a copy of OpenOffice.org 1.0 Resource Kit this week at JavaRanch.

java blogPatrick — Risk Analysis - Struts vs WebWork.

blogDominic — 03-03-03 and 30 for me! Happy Birthday!

java blogJames— commons modeler is worth a look.

blogJim — Spam, spam, spam.

java blogJoey — Cool Use of Jython.

javamyPod 0.2.1, a platform-independent program to manage MP3 files and transfer them to an iPod.

netZoe 0.4.2 adds better RSS and SMTP handling.

newsBiGHA's new touring bicycle. Looks like a nice recumbent bike.

netSecurity flaw in major e-mail system discovered. A flaw in Sendmail.

javaThe future of Java test tools. New technologies add power, complexity.

javaJava in the enterprise: Testing the complexities.

macApple releases March Security Update. Addresses a security issue with sendmail.

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javaEclipse WebApp Plugin 0.9.0, a plugin to support the development and testing of web applications in Eclipse.

javaBEA To Provide Free Development Licenses for the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Platform. BEA announce dev2dev Subscriptions.

java blogDavid — blojsom 1.4 released.

blogMatthew — Blogging your product.

javaJaxMe 1.5.5, a Framework for Java/XML binding based on SAX2.

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javaJDK 1.4.1 for OS/2. OS/2 Kit for Java Beta 5 is available.

blogBill — New WS specs from BEA.

javaJFreeReport 0.8.1, a Java class library for generating reports from tables.

javaVelocity editor plugin for Eclipse 1.0.0, a Velocity editor plugin for Eclipse.

mobileMobiles used to monitor asthma. Asthma suffers could soon benefit from a system which allows them to keep check their condition via mobile phone.

javaBea launches Java development initiative. Bea has launched an initiative aimed to establish a Java community around its WebLogic application server.

blogRuss — Why I Don't Want a New Job.

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javaXMLValidator 1.0, XMLValidator/DTD edition is a Java Xml structure manager.

javaLuxilla Beta 8, Java Propelled XUL Browser.

java blogMatt — Will Apple release JDK 1.4.1 today?

java blogFred — J2ME Optional Packages.

blogBill — OS X Terminal Fun.

blogStu — Bloggers at BEA eWorld?

blogKenneth — NetFlix for Books ?

java blogCostin — JMX clustering.

java blogNorman — Obfuscation Hubris.

development2003 GCC Developer's Summit. Ottawa, Canada from May 25th-27th, 2003.

netAmazon Has Approval To Sell Domain Names. The Internet retailer in early December was accredited as a so-called “domain name registrar”…

multimediaFirst networked DVD player goes on sale. SONICblue is taking pre-orders on the D2730.

mobileWorld's smallest mobile printer. Brother's m-PRINT.

usWe went to see Cradle 2 The Grave on Saturday afternoon.

javaJSX2 0.3.0, a program to export Java object data.

mobile3G goes live in the UK.

javaJava's Programming Ease Comes At A Price. Java's complex functionality forces companies to spend more on development.

javaJakarta Commons Digester 1.4.1 released.

On March 3, 1978 — The first Van Halen nationwide tour began in Chicago, IL.