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log4j 1.2.8, fixes a problem parsing configuration files written in XML.

Parsing and Writing QuickTime Files in Java.

Brent — Huevos 1.1b3.

François — Population GSM & roaming en France.

Jeremy — Enterprise Blogs.

Matt — GCC 3.4 Flexes Muscles.

Kevin — Blogstreet's Blog Graph.

Matt — JSP 1.2 JSP 2.0 and Microsoft acquires Virtual PC software from Connectix.

Werner — JBoss 4.0 : how will it be different from 3.2 ?

Simon — JSP Tag Files.

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Define Your Goals.

JaxMe 1.54, a Java/XML binding tool based on SAX2.

iSQL-Viewer 2.1.4, a JDBC 2.0-compliant database viewer.

OpenDarwin.org releases OpenDarwin 6.02. PowerPC and x86 binaries.

A $199 Pocket PC from Toshiba? Not so fast!

IBM goes with Qtopia. IBM is going with Linux-based Qtopia as the OS for its new line of PDAs.

Iomega's Mini USB Drive.

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Java theory and practice: To mutate or not to mutate?

PCJ v1.0. Primitive Collections for Java.

Spif 1.0, the Simplest Possible Infrastructure Framework for distributed Java applications like J2EE.

Bill — FCC action.

Dave — Movie Quiz #2.

Keith — Palm software.

BIll — Konfabulator!

Russ — Mobile Tech Group Blog and Siemens To Launch Series 60 Phone: The SX1.

Pelle — Lucrative - Electronic Cash in Java.

Ken — new stuff released.

Simon — JavaRanch is a Jolt finalist!

Philippe — Cleaning up my character encoding act.

KaZaA Lite Privacy Tool. Protect your privacy on the FastTrack network.

Java MP3 Tag Library, supports ID3v1, ID3v1.1, Lyrics3v1, Lyrics3v2, ID3v2.2, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4 tags.

jwma v0.9.7, a webmail implementation following the JSP Model 2 architecture.

DrJava release 0515, an integrated Java development environment that supports interactive evaluation of expressions.

3GSM: 3G launch sets scene for price war.

From 3G to 3D. Sharp's SH251iS.

Sony Clie PEG-SJ33. 320x320 pixel color display, 16MB of RAM, built-in MP3 player.

Camcorderphone. Samsung's SPH-V3000.

Whatever didn't happen to Microsoft's Marc Brown? Microsoft's official nominee to the Board of phone maker Sendo.

OpenSSL security release. OpenSSL 0.9.7a and 0.9.6i released.

Smartphone Market Heats Up: But Is It Too Late for Microsoft?

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jUDO 0.01. Java Universal Data Objects to speed up the development and maintenance of applications using databases.

Russ — NewsMonster Lives.

Real, Ericsson team on mobile media. RealNetworks is expected to announce a deal with Ericsson to power the delivery of digital media onto mobile devices.

Fred — Why I like Eclipse II.

Keith — Christopher Reeve on Smallville next week!

Jeremy — Overture buying Altavista.

Beauty, Bible colleges share ‘.edu’ domain. The Commerce Department approved the expansion of the “.edu” domain name…

The Oyster. The Oyster Dock, a stylish and ergonomic laptop stand

2 gigs in your pocket. Pen Drive 2GB.

OOP Java: A little business logic with your beans.

Use this Java framework for finite state machines.

Java Pro: 43 Articles on Servlets/JSP.

Authenticating Web Services Users. Deciding on the best way to validate users of your Web service depends on the credentials you require.

The Case for Conditional Compilation. The time has come for the JCP to make conditional compilation a standard Java mechanism.

3GSM: Still looking for the ‘killer app’. More interesting apps needed for MMS.

3GSM: Orange to launch new SPV smart phone.

On February 19, 1878 — Thomas Alva Edison patented a music player, the phonograph.

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Go with the flow. Build Web applications with BEA Webflow components.

Lance — Hacking Log 2.0 Sux.

Papa John's Number One in American Customer Satisfaction Index for Fourth Consecutive Year.

Jakarta Commons BeanUtils 1.6.1 released, a bug fix release.

Sun Releases Open Source XACML Language. Extensible Access Control Markup Language.

Glen — Java has a Mojo.

Brent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.3b2 and NetNewsWire 1.0.1b1.

Carlos — An Alternative Way Of Packaging Software: Hardware Included!

Mike — Test-First JavaScript.

Rafe — The Java Developer Connection.

Russ — Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt: Smartphones look good.

Paul — PSA: Anti-Spam Software.

Netscape 7.0.2 released.

Computerworld's Java News Shorts.

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Ben — Desktop Cray.

Dan — Servlet Sessions.

Jason — GoogleRSS mini release.

Matt — ModelJ Code Generator.

Ted — System.debuggerBreak().

Carlos — Got approved for JavaOne!

Jason — Java Style.

BBEdit 7.0.2, adds support for automatic sensing and translation of a file's text encoding.

Sony Clie PEG-TG50, high-res 320x320 screen and a thumb-sized keyboard.

PC shipments to grow 4.8 percent in Q1. Dataquest predicts 7.9 percent full-year shipment growth.

BEA upgrades Java software for Intel servers. JRockit 8.0 boasts improved profiling, debugging.

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Nokia sets target for Series 60 phones in 2003. 10 million phones in 2003.

Seyed — Microsoft “Three Degrees”.

Ben — World Press Photo of the Year.

Andy — Hacking Log 2.0 Sucks!

ACCESS‘ NetFront v3.0 Web Browser Available for Nokia Smart Phones.

Fabain — p6spy.

Siemens Launches Mobile Handsets with Video Camera. Siemens SX1.

Fred — External Programs-Eclipse.

WAP Mac lets .Mac users check e-mail from cell phone.

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Optival 2.1.7, provides a financial option library in Java format..

Ice, the Intenet Communication Engine, a modern alternative to object middleware such as CORBA or COM/DCOM/COM+.

UploadBean 1.3, a JavaBean that allows you to upload files.

ShellTreeView 1.0, a Java GUI component that shows files or directories in tree structure.

JFreeChart 0.9.6, a chart library for Java.

Jim — Are all links equal?

Keith — Intro to BNF.

Pattern Tutorial 4 Posted. A free set of online tutorials.

Matt — DTDDoc: It's like Javadoc, but for your DTDs.

Matthew — Mixed bag.

Matt — StrutsCX: Updated.

Werner — JBoss 3.2.0RC2 release is now available.

David — Drug May Prevent Diabetic Retinopathy.

JCola 0.01 beta, a Java Swing tail application.

Star Trek Nemesis hits phones. In J2ME and BREW format…

Out of Phone Numbers? Add Digits. North American telephone numbers might grow by two digits as early as 2005.

Ricochet Wireless Rides Again. Ricochet's wireless Internet service is slow, and only available in two metro areas…

Cocoa Application Building Basics. Cocoa application development for Mac OS X.

Jason — GoogleAPI and RssLibJ.

Janne — Interview with Deep Junior's author.

On February 18, 1930 — Pluto, the ninth planet in our solar system, was discovered.

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Keith — Kasparov, on his latest match.

Hacker accesses 2.2 million credit cards. Visa: None of accounts have been used fraudulently.

Fred — Utitlity of ECPerf Tests.

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Ben — Sony Ericsson's first 3G phone.

David — blojsom 1.2 available.

Joe — Eclipse shortcut keys.

PropDiff, a command-line utility for comparing and combining Java property files.

WebService Cruiser, a testing tool which is designed to test Web Services.

Matt — Easy Windows Authentication with Tomcat 4.x.

Russ — 3GSM World Congress 2003.

Steve — Bruce Eckel Thinks Checked Exceptions are Bad.

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Jakarta Commons FileUpload 1.0 Beta 1.

Jedit, Jext & J: Java-based editors compared.

Portability Verification of Applications for the J2EE Platform. How to use Java BluePrints, the Java Verification Program, and the Java Application Verification Kit.

Magic with Merlin: Printing in JDK 1.4 and Part 2.

BEA Launches Enterprise Architect Resource Center.

Ben — How To Be A Programmer.

Joe — RSS 3.0 support in RSSLibJ and Argh! RSS 3.0 isn't real!

Jim — Metadata update.

Ian — FOAF Autodiscovery.

Eric — Scripting From Java.

Jeremy — Simple Reasoning on Google/Blogger.

Mike — JDepend Eclipse Plugin.

Niel — Fox 24 is International.

Matt — Struts 1.1 RC1 To Be Released Soon and Comparative analysis of Struts vs. WebWork vs. Barracuda vs. Maverick?

Russ — Back To Mobile Java and SonyEricsson T300: What a kick-ass little phone!  Happy Birthday, Ana!

Ted — Effective Enterprise Java: On The Web.

Ole-Martin — pmd-netbeans 0.7 released.

Warner— Why I became a programmer.

JFtp 1.00pre2, a graphical Java FTP client.

JOE 1.8.10.1, a Java Outline Editor.

Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens join on GPRS/ EDGE push-to-talk spec. Turing GSM phones into walkie-talkies.

Samsung takes 5% stake in Symbian.

T-Mobile Unveils First Microsoft-Based Smartphone. Summer 2003.

On February 17, 1913 — The first minimum wage law in the U.S. took effect in Oregon.

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The 25th Anniversary of the BBS. Chicago Bulletin Board System.

Matt — Google-move reviewed.

Call Hierarchy v0.2.0, a call hierarchy view for the Eclipse JDT.

Alex — 2003-02-16 Eclipse 2.1 M5 - last 2.1 milestone buil …

Fred — VNC has new site and MetaCoder for Eclipse-J2EE Patterns.

Jacksum 1.2.0, a checksum utility entirely written in Java.

‘Daredevil’ leaps to record President's Day debut. $43.5 million weekend debut.

Simon — Google Acquire Blogger.

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Java Tip 134: When catching exceptions, don't cast your net too wide.

Emmanuel — Quizz Java.

Ben — Apple's global pricing policy. Utter cobblers and Gblogger.

Bernard — Java Best Practices.

Chris — My intro to Daredevil.

Danno — Aggie 1.0 RC5 (or is that alpha 5?)

Dorodok — New Eclipse Technology project: Equinox.

Dominic — Any good JRun4 books?.

Scott — Programming the JVM Stack.

Greg — Pen and Paper to Write Programs?

Joi — Code Orange.

Lance — Nasty Webstart Classloader Bug Revisited…

Matt — GCC Myths and Facts.

Matt — Is Sun going to die soon?

Refe — I should mention …

Russ — Google.

Sam — Google + Blogger = Stimergy.

Scott — Google buys Pyra.

Danny — Google Buys Pyra (makers of 'Blogger')

Scott — Blogger: The New 500 Pound Gorilla of the Blog World.

Ted — More on ClassLoaders.

William — ANNOUNCING Free Java Resumes Board.

Bill — Google buys Blogger.

Karl — Yahoo!, AltaVista, and now Google.

Philip — <WOAH>.

Ugo — Google loves weblogs, indeed.

David — Google buys Blogger!

Mark — Google and blogging, portals, etc.

Seyed — Salon near death / Blogger bought by Google.

Ian — Google Buys Pyra.

Matt — Google goes blogging.

OpenEJB 0.9.1, a flexible and versatile EJB container system.

7-Zip 2.30 Beta 28 Released.

Pocket PC price war begins. Toshiba's e350, 300MHz, 64MB, $199.

Daredevil rocked. We both liked it. Our anniversary dinner at Morton's was another story. We arrived right on time, only to find out they were just starting to sit the 7 o'clock reservations.

Talk about overbooking… We ultimately had to wait an hour and half for our table.

The sales & marketing manager came to our table and profusely apologized. She also gave us a $100 gift certificate, which did make us feel a little better.

As usual the food was prepared to perfection. Lobster bisque, Filet Mignon, Lyonnaise potatoes and Lemon soufflé.

A late dinner, but a good evening overall.

On February 16, 1959 — Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista.

jEdit 4.1pre10 is now available.

Java Servers Feel the Open-Source Heat. Open-source software has already shaken up the operating systems business. Now, Java server software makers are feeling the tremors.

Two Critical Tips for Unit Testing in Java.

IBM Taps Trolltech for Linux PDA Design.

Bloof, visualize the evolution of your source code.

Sight, a code generator set to create a user-defined system of Web robots, realising arbitrary workflow.

SuperWaba 3.4, a Java Virtual Machines for mobile devices.

A Keep-Alive Program You Can Run Anywhere. An article about a Java program to stop your machine from timing out.

EuroBudget v1.0, Free GPL accounting tool, webstart enabled.

Satellite Hackers Charged Under DMCA, A federal grand jury has indicted six people on charges of developing software and hardware designed to hack into paid TV satellite transmissions.

New S# Language: Smalltalk for .Net.

Joe — Java performance tuning website and Java Specialists maillist. Always a good read.

Henri — simple-jndi v0.3 released and JMX Book Review.

Ben — Notes 6.01 and the Mac.

Dave — Inside WebCore.

Cameron — Talking 'bout Tokens.

Joe — RSSLibJ 0.1.8.

Jim — More meta-meta stuff.

Eric — Eclipse M5: How to make It Work.

Scott — Non-delegating ClassLoaders suck.

Martin — RE: Eclipse M5: How to make it Work.

David — IntelliJ IDEA #694 is out.

John — The Global Phone and My Phones.

Lance — Phoenix….

Matt — Zope 2.6.1.

Stu — I admit it: class loading sucks.

Matt — Netscape's DevEdge Reborn and cool style switcher.

Jeff — Avoid finalizers… isn't this common knowledge?

Russ — Hi, Russell? I'm calling from IXI… and Remote S60: Control Your Series 60 Phone from your PC.

Steve — Object persistance (in java, again).

Kenneth — Build your own tivo.

Ted — ClassLoading sucks? Say it ain't so!

Mats — JBoss goes mainstream.

Jeff — When to Refactor?

Michael — Java Picture Organizer.

Mike's Java Profiler, version 00.05 released.

CodeCon 2.0 Presentations.

Jess 6.1b2, the programmer's rule engine for the Java platform.

JZlib 1.0.0, a re-implementation of zlib in pure Java.

Undocumented AppleScript changes in OS X 10.2.4.

New York bans cellphones at public performances. I hope they turn it into a federal law.

On February 15, 1965 — Canada displayed its new red and white maple leaf flag. The flag was to replace the old Red Ensign standard.

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Just got off the phone with my mom. She's not doing too good. The paralysis is getting worse and the treatment is not helping, except for making her very tired and depressed.

She's scheduled to go the hospital on Wednesday for a week of testing and will most likely have surgery afterwards.

It really breaks my heart when she's so down, but at least I was able to provide some moral support. She sounded pretty lively by the end of the conversation which made me feel a whole lot better.

Tomorrow is a special day for us. Valentine's Day is also our Wedding Anniversary. Married 3 years, living together for 10, a couple for 12.

We're got a nice day planned. Highlights: Daredevil at 4:45pm and Morton's at 8:45pm.

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Blackdown Java 2 Standard Edition for Linux 1.4.1-01-FCS.

Chris — I'm an editor snob.

Pete — More Info about ColdFusion MX on Redhat 8 Dustin K …

Matt — Is there an Instant Messaging API for Java?

Andre — WebWork StoreFront App.

Chris — Struts StoreFront -> WebWork.

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Doing More With XML Schemas, part 4.

Apple seeds new Java 1.4.1 preview.

Simon — Eclipse Help Required.

Chris — IDEA not good with -Xincgc?

Danno — Where's the $$ in Java.

Mark — Auto-content: 13 Feb 2003.

dorodok — Eclipse: fabulous popularity.

Jim — The original patterns book?

Martin — Finding you back :) (RE: I am losing you).

Jeremy — Broadband Clients.

Michael — New Business Cards.

Steven — cocoondev.org warming up.

Matt — RE: Where's the $$ in Java.

Russ — And Now There's Four: Motorola Chooses Linux and Yahoo Ignores Complaint and Endorses Software Piracy in its Forums.

Kenneth — Implementing CIFS in Java.

Carlos — SQL to Prevayler Migration Micro-HOWTO.

Patrick — Will Blog for Food.

Jeff — Microsoft SALT vs. W3C VoiceXML.

SpamAssassin 2.44.

Open Source in Mexico, Part 2.

Repast Taglibrary for Jelly 0.1, use RePast in the Jelly XML Scripting Language, with BCEL code generation capabilities.

AT&T Wireless launches MMS service.

Intel unleashes Manitoba. New PXA800F chip.

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Resin for Eclipse 0.8.0, an Eclipse plugin to manage Resin.

Ben — Chimera needs a new name.

Ben — Domino 6.01 is out.

Carlos — Higher Language Features in Java.

Matt — XDoclet for Hibernate.

Mitnick banned from security group. Received a letter in certified mail from the ISSA's headquarters informing him that news of his acceptance was greatly exaggerated.

Apple offers WWDC Getting Started Bundle.

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Apache Forrest 0.4, an XML standards-oriented project documentation framework built on Apache Cocoon.

TiVo: iTunes/iPhoto integration on the way.

Matt — TiVo Upgrade Offer.

David — blojsom 1.2 on its way.

Artima SuiteRunner 1.0beta3 Released.

Linux to power most Motorola phones. Motorola's A760 will go on sale later this year, running on Linux and Java, and more models will follow.

Andres — Free! - Free Monitor for Google 1.2 beta 1.

Henri — JESS book.

Chris — JDOM is cool!

Magnus — .. on JBoss CMP/CMR and its Xdoclet support.

Chiara — I am losing you...

James — eclipse feature of the day: Run as JUnit.

Jason — Is there a better way of giving ant help info?

Stuart — CVS Questions.

Matt — RE: Client-side Sorting with the DOM.

Hao — Eclipse best practice: to make workspace and plugins external.

jmame 0.6.2, a Java-based frontend to XMAME.

"Upgrade" your Nomad Jukebox 3. 20GB to 60GB hard drive.

On February 13, 1997 — Astronauts on the space shuttle Discovery brought the Hubble Space Telescope aboard for a tune-up. The tune-up allowed the telescope to see further into the universe.