Late Summer Holiday

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meErik's Pulse has been published.

java blogDave — Dreamweaver: what's the point?

macMac OpenOffice ‘delay’ debunked. Get coding…

newsCalifornia Supremes issue DVD crack setback. Both Hollywood, EFF claim victory.

moblogTodd — Connecting your TiVo Series 2 via WiFi.

java blogJason — Conductor is go!

newsDid Scammers Get A Better Do-No-Call Number Than The FTC? 1-800-DO-NOT-CALL

wirelessBoingo Adds STSN, 1,300 hot spots. Neck-to-neck with T-Mobile.

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java blogHenri — NullPointerException….

java bloga san juan — FreeBSD embraces Java.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire 1.0.4.

moblogMatt — September 25th is Free Wi-Fi Day in the US.

blogAndreas — Weblog temporary closed: Online Demonstration Against Software Patents.

netHackers cut off SCO Web site.  Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

javajSMSEngine, an open source API, which can be used to send and receive SMS messages through a mobile phone or GSM modem.

pythonPyGopherD, a Python Gopher server, also serves up WAP.

mobile javaMobicq 0.1 beta-5, an ICQ client for mobile devices.

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javaNew Java DocTree released. 1521 packages and 20,054 classes.

javaInterview with Marc Fleury. Q&A.

java blogJames — Following URLs.

java blogRusty — JXMLPad 1.9 and Just4Log.

pcHitachi's 4GB microdrive. 1-inch drive.

java blogDion — BEA adds XML tool to development environment.

linuxSGI, SuSE Announce OEM Alliance, Development Agreement.

technologyToyota's self-parking car. Park Without Dings — or Drivers.

technologyDVD-copying tools launch under protest. Despite staunch legal opposition from Hollywood, a new package of DVD-copying software is headed for online and offline retail shelves.

javaJFreeReport 0.8.3f, a Java class library for generating reports.

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developmentDesigning by Dictatorship, Examples, and Tests. Elliotte Rusty Harold discusses the benefits of a having single decision maker for an API design and insights gained through writing examples that use the API.

technologyMacromedia courts mainstream developers. The first major update of its MX line of Web development and design tools.

javaCharles: Web Debugging Tool, HTTP Monitor, Reverse Proxy.

technologyFive XQuery and XPath Working Drafts Published.

blogDiego — on google and the markets and hyperreality TV.

moblogMatt — Why I'm Happy With T-Mobile (All Over the World) and LOAF.py.

java blogWerner — JBoss-3.2.2 RC3 available on sourceforge.

java blogChristoph — MDA Model Driven Architecture with Eclipse – GMT and Clover 1.2.1 released – Code Coverage Analyzer for Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ.

blogSteven — Points of Interest.

javaJava Serialization to XML 2 2.0.9.8, a automated object-XML mapping for distribution, persistence, and processing.

musicMusic Industry Problems: Maybe The Music Just Sucks. I said the exact same thing a year ago.

windowsDevelopers get first taste of Longhorn. After months of speculation, Microsoft plans to give developers their first hard look at the next version of Windows, in October.

blogHani — XP debunked.

On August 25, 1972 — In Great Britain, computerized axial tomography (CAT scan) was introduced.

Not So Big...

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javaJava to XML and Back Again. For those who need a solution for Java and XML conversion, Jato can be applied across a wide variety of documents and code.

perlPerl Modules as RPM Packages. RPMPAN.

pythonIMAP Spam Begone, a script that makes it easy to scan an IMAP inbox for spam using SpamAssassin and get your spam moved to another folder.

moblogRuss — Getting familiar with .Net Compact.

java blogMatt — Regex, Books, Mail, Guis, Coding, and Rawdog and Widescreen NetNewsWire.

python blogTed — Python and Ruby compared and contrasted.

blogGordon — Network sniffing for .NET.

blogKeith — Pretend a string is a file in Perl.

java blogLance — Atom4J.

mobile javaJ2ME connects corporate data to wireless devices. Sacrificing proprietary gimmicks for software portability, J2ME leads the way.

technologySAS to Join Eclipse. SAS becomes the first of the major business intelligence software vendors to join the IBM-led initiative to develop an open-source application development tool platform.

newsUS Congress decrees Antonio Meucci invented the telephone.

java blogChristoph — Eclipse – more language support plugins.

technologyCorel Goes Private. Acquired by Vector Capital Corp. for $124m.

moblogDiego — is it symbian-bashing?

java blogRusty — David Hovemeyer has posted FindBugs 0.6.5.

On August 23, 1962 — The first live TV program was relayed between the U.S. and Europe through the U.S. Telstar satellite.

National Slacker Day

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java‘Java everywhere’ is for world domination. Why the latest wireless buzz matters to all developers.

tvOpen Source at TiVo. TiVo co-founder Jim Barton explains how the company relies on open source technologies.

pdaPalm Raises $18 Million Through Private Institutional Investor.

java blogJason — Re: WebWork2/XWork Definition Editor.

java blogMike — Eclipse Help Tip.

macMacworld Review: Xserve.

windowsMicrosoft pledges allegiance to Outlook Express. Microsoft never ditched Outlook Express. Never updated it either.

python blogMark — POT.py 1.3.

java blogNorman — Java incompatibility, a maddening NoClassDefError.

moblogRuss — How AT&T Moved to GSM (and on to EDGE).

java blogMatt — PHP vs. Java - which is better?

blogChris — mondrian.

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javaRSS Utilities: A Tutorial.

java blogRuss — J2ME Device Database.

java blogRusty — ObjectWeb has released Octopus 2.1.

java blogHani — Cracking java apps.

java blogPhilip — Java vs. .NET, part 4 – Java is a language, .NET is not.

blogBlaine — Wired article – extreme programming (XP).

java blogGiulio — Fun with Jython.

java blogRuss — Corporate Mobile Thoughts and Mobile Goodness.

java blogDavid — An update expected for the Java Runtime on OSX?

java blogArjun — Trouble brewing in Java.net.

java blogJoshua — Swing Hack: Window Snapping.

java blogLeslie — Scraping HTML with curl, tidy, and XSL.

linuxEric Raymond: An Open Letter to Darl McBride.

macKisMAC 0.05d4, a wireless sniffer for Mac OS X.

newsExercise out-muscle diabetes. The muscles of people with type 2 diabetes cannot absorb glucose or insulin…

javaJFig 1.1, a configuration utility that provides functionality for managing one or more configurations in a Java environment.

netKournikova, Bezos tout sports bra. Shock-absorbing sports bras. I'll get one if she comes with it.

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java blogRuss — Java and XSLT Chapter 5.

moblogJim — Different numbers.

netUsing RSS to deliver Newsletters (and avoid spam filters!)

mobile javaHow to get legally FREE Java MIDP for your Microsoft smartphone.

java blogHenri — robots.txt and robots.txt in the real world.

blogMatt — Make money drinking beer and discussing MySQL.

java blogMike — Minor JavaBlogs fixes. How about fixing the Recenty Added Blogs feed? It's only been broken for months.

java blogPhilip — Java vs. .NET, part 3 – Open Standards.

java bloga san juan — Red Hat and Sun to launch open source Java?

python blogLeslie — Quick links.

blogKeith — Flash Player Detection Techniques Unearthed.

blogCedric — Stallman, Gosling and a bit of emacs history.

blogHaiko — FreeMind mind mapper.

blogDavid — No Mac OS X-specific virus has yet appeared.

javadnsjava 1.4.0, an implementation of the DNS protocol in Java.

javaJavaHMO for TiVo Alpha 3, an implementation of the TiVo Home Media Option.

javaEclipse Instant Messenger Plugin 0.8. MSN, YAHOO, ICQ, AIM, etc.

javaJava AIM Bot 1.3, a modular architecture for providing services through an AIM client.

linuxEric Raymond: Maybe SCO had a point.

wirelessSmartID's WiFi Detector works. WFS-1 from SmartID.

mobile javaPitfalls of J2ME development. Vague specs and hardware differences pose problems for programmers.

technologyNYT: F.C.C. Discloses New Rules for Telecom Industry.

mobileMotorola launches first Linux smartphone. First to two secret ‘weapons’, too…

netBoeing launches antispam spinoff. A commercialized version of the software Boeing uses internally to fight unsolicited e-mail.

newsNational Slackder Day 2003. Stand up for your right to sit back down again!

On August 22, 1932 — The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) began its first TV broadcast in England.

Bar-None

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java blogZohar — Where .NET is better then Java.

java blogHani — The happy idiot syndrome.

Hani is quickly turning into the Bill O'Reilly of blogging. He excels at identifying problems but is quite incapable (or is it unwilling?) of providing any viable solutions.

java blogVanessa — Is Sun trying to take over the Java world?

python blogKeith — Python snippet of the day.

windows7-Zip 3.08.03 Beta Released.

blogDiego — it's not the users.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire 1.0.4b3.

blogChristoph— Free Google AdSense Web Tool.

pcGateway touts new $799 notebook. The M305S comes with a 2GHz Celeron, a 14-inch display, 128MB RAM, a 20GB HD and a DVD-ROM drive.

photosCanon's new inexpensive digital SLR. EOS Digital Rebel.

javaJNumeric 0.1a3, a port of Numerical Python to Jython.

musicFile Swapper Files Lawsuit Against RIAA. Same grounds as PacBell/SBC.

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mobileReview: Nokia 3300.

mobileNokia and SNAP: Details about what Nokia bought.

netKey FCC broadband rules expected soon. The controversial rules may shape the future of the broadband and telecommunications business.

mobilePocket PC Magazine: What is a Windows Smartphone?

java blogMatt — Tomcat 5.0.9 Alpha is now available for testing..

blogRafe — Eric Sink on building your career.

macApple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse — Confirmed.

musicRIAA's Subpoena Strategy is Chilling Downloads: NPD. Down to 10.4 million households in June.

wirelessUS Frequency Allocation Chart. Radio Frequency Spectrum Allocations in the US.

java blogWerner — Juliet: great for exploring a codebase of an opensource project.

blogLars — BloGTK 0.5 released.

gadgetsThere is a light that never goes out. Lightbulbs that continue to glow in the dark after they're switched off.

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mobileSymbian revenues surge 55%. Mobile phone software firm Symbian see its revenues more than double as more handsets featuring its technology are shipped.

musicNew Toshiba HDD MP3 Player Thinner Than Apple iPod. Toshiba Gigabeat G20.

musicRIAA/MPAA vs. xMule Author, EarthStation 5. The author of xMule has been shutdown.

java blogRuss — XMLEnabled.

javaIBM promises to combine Rational with Eclipse. Details at the Rational conference next week.

java blogDavid — Re: RSS Search (in blojsom).

javaJSP best practices: Error handling in custom tags.

mobileThe X + V language. XHTML + Voice.

javaRefactoring: The key to unraveling spaghetti code.

developmentMake the most of Xerces-C++, Part 2.

javaDynamic JNLP. Java Network Launch Protocol.

java blogPhilip — Java vs. .NET, part 3 – Open Standards.

moviesTrailer: The Matrix Revolutions.

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javaMemoization in Java Using Dynamic Proxy Classes. Memoization is a technique giving functions a memory of previously computed values.

blogDiego — email-less.

blogJim — Python Gutenberg E-text Project.

java blogRuss — Symbian Kicking Ass.

pythonrdfxml.py, a very lightweight RDF/XML Parser in Python.

blogMike — Great interview with Hydra developers.

java blogPawn — Hibernate Impressions.

java blogKevin — ArsDigita's Java Performance Optimization tips and Python descriptors.

blogEugene — A very funny online game.

java blogDaniel — Cub reporters. Submit your news stories to java.net?

blogTed — Python and Gtk.

java blogChiara — My take on Weblogic XMLBeans.

blogRogers — Quitting Microsoft cold turkey is a Ball.

java blogChristoph — Eclipse – A Java IDE?

linuxThe SCO Group responds to Torvalds. Or did they?

windowsForget California, it's time to recall Microsoft. Enough already with the patching…

On August 21, 1878 — The American Bar Association was formed by a group of lawyers, judges and law professors in Saratoga, NY.

Z Failure

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blogRuss — RSS Search.

macLong wait for Mac OpenOffice. But you're probably used to waiting already…

blogJoi  — Kevin Marks leaves Apple. A regular on #mobitopia too.

java blogTed — Why are we doing this?

java blogMatt — AT&T Wireless will have Unlimited Data soon!

blogMike — 3 bugs per feature?

java blogVanessa — Why Richard Stallman doesn't like Java.

blogKenneth — Mozilla Firebird Plugins.

java blogGabe — Write Once Run Everywhere.

meIt took close to 8 hours to compile Mozilla 1.4 on my PowerBook under YDL:

Time spent in user mode (CPU seconds) : 22329.350s
Time spent in kernel mode (CPU seconds) : 1310.480s
Total time : 7:46:11.92s
CPU utilisation (percentage) : 84.5%
Times the process was swapped : 0
Times of major page faults : 9545280
Times of minor page faults : 13265272

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blogMatt — Tired of copying paths?

java blogDave — Links.

moblogDominic — MSDN Mobility and Embedded Developer Center.

java blogSergio — The SWT Browser widget.

windowsMakeTorrent 2.0 Beta 5. A complete Win32 rewrite of CompleteDir.

java blogFred — Another J2ME Resource.

meAtom (or whatever it is called now) is suffering from the “Too many chiefs, not enough indians” syndrome.

javaThe Power of Patterns. Enterprises can use patterns to extend the reach of Java experts to all development projects.

javaThe 2003 Java Pro Technology Roundtable. Java industry insiders set a course for tripling the developer base, advancing the standard, and blocking .Net—and that's just for starters

javaFetching Objects. Implement resource loaders that handle both DOM and JDOM objects.

blogDiego — upgrade or die. Just another M$ ploy.

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javaJ2EE vs. .Net: Choice depends on your needs.

mobileDid you know that O'Reilly has a Wireless DevCenter?

mobileSiemens SL56: The American Cousin of the SL55.

pdaPalm OS 6: Sneak Peak.

java blogJay — BEA Blows Away Competition in Head-to-Head Review by PC Magazine.

java blogNiel — BREW vs J2ME.

javaJDebugTool 3.1, a graphical Java debugger.

mobileFerry Service to Trial Wifi in Washington State. Plans to offer a full commercial service on a revenue share basis.

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developmentGerry Power pointed me to the TIOBE Programming Community, which among other things, keeps track of popularity of programming languages.

blogFrançois — Focus on the First Derivative.

blogFrank — Diego is mad — and it's starting here, too. Me three.

java blogRuss — DotText and XAOism Continued.

linuxEdd Dumbill's Gnome Bluetooth Subsystem.

java blogJay — Linux projects gaining momentum on java.net.

blogBrian — Firebird Bugs, Benevolent Dictatorships and Mouse Wheels.

developmentCodestriker 1.7.4, a collaborative code reviewer.

meMy Zaurus is out of commission. I inadvertently removed libc trying to manually upgrade a package.

I had to flash the ROM since I could no longer execute any commands.

To make the matter worse, I thought I would be smart and try the new Sharp ROM instead of OpenZaurus. The flash ROM image that I copied on my CF card is corrupted and I no longer have a way to access it.

Double Duh!

I just ordered a Dazzle Media Reader.

linuxLinux Guru Alan Cox Takes A Year Off. Getting a MBA.

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javaClass Libraries Java Programming Language. A kind of portal found using Google that seems to have lot's of interesting links.

javaMaking Media from Scratch, Part 1. Java & QuickTime. 

javaStored Procedures for Java Programmers. This article explains how to use DBMS stored procedures.

zaurusReview: Zaurus C760.

blogPete — MyIE2 – IE Based fast web browser …

java blogDominic — .NET for Java Developers: Migrating to C#.

java blogNeill — article: writing a Jabber IM log4j appender.

java blogFred — GenericCionnectinFramework in J2ME.

blogTodd — RIAA the world is Falling BULLSH$T and Google Tricks Re-Visited.

mobileNokia to acquire Sega.com. Game on!

musicRIAA, MPAA appeal against ‘Grokster is legal’ ruling. Precedent schmecedent.

netFTC head: Antispam plan lacks punch. Antispam proposals in Congress are not strict enough and would do more harm than good…

netBush Campaign Reaching Out to Bloggers. Feeds for the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop.

On August 20, 1967 — The New York Times reported about a noise reduction system for album and tape recording developed by technicians R. and D.W. Dolby. Elektra Record's subsidiary, Checkmate Records became the first label to use the new Dolby process in its recordings.

Goodnight, Angels...

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moblogRuss — Oracle's head of mobile products video interview on TSS.

blogMatt — YAR: Yet Another Roundup.

java blogMatt — I got blasted today and Building high-content web applications.

java blogTed — Doesn't IBM know that Java developers need their Porsches too?

blogSteven — iPod Insomnia.

windows7-Zip 3.08 beta released.

windowsMicrosoft: Windows XP SP2 Will Ship Before Third Quarter 2004. Make up your mind, will ya?

blogTodd — FCC lifts AOL messaging limits.

mobileThe first cellphone with Smartphone 2003. Dopod 515.

pdaFirst look at the new Loox. Pocket Loox 610 series.

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javaJDBC-LDAP, OpenLDAP Bridge Driver.

mobile javaLurker's Guide to J2ME. News, links, etc.

linuxWhy SCO won't show the code. At SCO's annual reseller show, the company's execs put up a couple of slides as a way of demonstrating how Unix code had been “stolen” and put into Linux.

pythonGuido van Rossum Speaks. The creator of the Python programming language.

macTidBITS: A Mac user guide to the command line.

mobileThe SpyFinder. Can supposedly locate and detect any kind of hidden camera…

java blogTobias — Calling a new port.

java blogKevin — Black Sun eclipse plugins.

blogRogers — We might already be a winner.

windowsEmail worm joins Blaster attack on Windows. Shot by both sides.

blogDiego — yep, that's the one.

linuxLinus on McBride's latest claim. “He's lying.”

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java blogTed — Hjelsberg on Checked Exceptions, Java and C#.

blogSimon — WyPy: A Minimal Python Wiki.

mobileSony Ericsson P800 successor appears on web. Official launch any day now?

java blogRuss — It's not obtuse enough yet! and The JVM needs to be thought of like the CLR.

java blogRusty — JiBX, yet another open source framework for binding XML data to Java objects using your own class structures.

java blogJoe — Editorial Guidelines at JDJ.

java bloga san juan — Now, how the $%$#! do you make money with J2ME!???!!!

blogSimon — Python – just say NO!

java blogCrowbar — Chocolate – At Last – An XDoclet Plugin For JBuilder.

blogSteve — Interesting idea: Sic SpamAssassin on your RSS feeds.

java blogChristoph — Hyades 1.0.2 GA release – Testing and ASQ for Eclipse.

mobile javaEclipseME 0.0.1a, a cross-platform Eclipse IDE plugin or plugins to facilitate development of J2ME applications.

javajGnash 1.6, a personal finance application written in Java.

java blogChris — JIRA 2.4 released.

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javaOpen-Source Engine Gets Java Jolt. SleppyCat.

javaTech Tips: Unloading and Reloading Classes and Formatting Messages With Variable Content.

java blogMatt — Struts Menu 1.3 Released!

moblogDominic — Toshiba e355 miniSync and JVM.

java blogMichael — Developing Windows Applications on Mac OS X.

java blogDion — j2ee ides?

java blogVinny — JavaServer Faces (JSF) – Fact or Fiction.

java blogKevin — Runtime Constant Modification and Static “This’.

java blogTom — Nice regexp plugin.

zaurusKismet 3.0.1, a 802.11 wireless network sniffer.

blogJim — Spam of the week.

mobilePortable Cell Phone Jammer. The US military is working on a gadget called the WolfPack.

blogJeremy — Outlook Ex-press? Or Look Out Ex, Press? Or Press Outlook, Ex?

javaMorphon XML-Editor 3.1.2, a validating WSYSIWYG XML editor.

musicIndustry targeting big pirates. The American music industry says it is not targeting small-time internet song-swappers but is going after those downloading “substantial” amounts of music.

linuxThe GPL will win, claims law prof.. Why SCO's latest tactic would fail a Law School exam.

On August 19, 1981 — The final episode of “Charlie's Angels” was aired on ABC-TV.