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Lucent designs chip for faster mobile speeds, up to 24Mbps.

Office 11 becomes Office 2003.

Red Hat gains government certification. Common Operating Environment.

Are developers programmers or engineers? Software project management pondered.

FreeGuide TV Guide 0.5.2-1, download TV listings from the Internet.

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Java accelerator blends with memories to fit into cellphone. NanoAmp Solutions.

JAlbum 3.2, a web photo album generator.

OpenEJB: EJB for Tomcat.

Static Analysis with PMD. PMD is a utility for finding problems in Java code.

Joe — Abandonware…

Alan — Great Quotes.

Steve — The Mind Reader.

Mark — Safari build 60.

Joe — RSS 3.0 output support in RSSLibJ.

Keith— Top 100 Interesting Newcomers.

Kurt— Maven Beta 8 Released.

Matt — Integrating JSP/JSF and XML/XSLT: The Best of Both Worlds.

Russ — Cause and Effect: Random Acts of Software.

Costin — Soap over SSL without signed certs.

Patrick — Tiles 201 - Using Controllers.

Simon — JSP body content in custom tags is illegal in JSP 2.0!

Crowbar — Axis & EJB - Don't complain about the Docs.

Microsoft previews development tools. Visual Studio .NET 2003.

So there is a cellphone with a built-in flashlight. Nokia 5100 also has a built-in FM radio, thermometer, calorie counter, and stopwatch.

T-Mobile Sidekick now FREE at Amazon.

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BenQ to launch Symbian-based smart phone in Q3.

Sybase Seeks to Secure Mobile Data. Zap It feature one of several enhancements.

Intel to launch chip for cell phones on Feb. 12. Manitoba will include on-chip DSP.

JIcon Dresses Up Your Interfaces.

The Push Is On. Content push promises to bring the benefits of the Web to mobile devices through standard Java and XML interfaces.

Validate Data with XML Schemas, using Sun's Multi-Schema XML Validator Java library.

Cape Clear Software's Cape Clear 4. Complete Web Services.

Odd Man Out. Pressed to articulate an enterprise portal strategy, Microsoft tries to cover for its failings with marketing spin…

An Exceptional Model. Some of the reasons why exception handling exists.

Creating Parsers with JAXP. Java API for XML.

jrexx-Lab, a Java-based GUI frontend to the jrexx automaton based regular expression API.

Neil — How Amazon does its collaborative filtering.

Glen — Wired News reports on 24 Mbps 3G chips.

Alan — Java Valentine.

Mark — Here we go again.

Dominic — Maximizing your Win2k/XP machine.

Joe — JDK 1.4 Logging API.

Glen — Loop-local variables considered performant!

James — eclipse tip of the day: using task tags (TO DO comments) and @todo.

Jason — Looking back on RSSLibJ.

Keith — Client-side table sorting.

Stuart — VM and Java optimization.

Carlos — Better Design Patterns Through Reflection.

Niel — Using XML to Combine Java and Flash Technologies.

Stu — Permission Sniffer update.

Matt — Tomcat 4.1.20 Alpha released.

Russ — QA Matrix.

Jamon 1.0, a typesafe text template engine for Java.

Anthill Pro 2.0.6, an automated manager for the build and release process of software development.

JFCUnit 1.04, unit tests for Swing-based applications.

USB adapter card for PDAs, from RATOC.

Borland Enterprise Studio 5 for Java and Borland Together Edition for JBuilder unveiled.

On February 12, 1892— In the U.S., President Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a national holiday.

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Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0 ships! Congrats, Brent!

Matt — Falling In Love With Eclipse.

PMD 1.03 and PMD-JEDIT 1.4, Java source code analyzers, released.

Handspring Woos Treo Developers. New Developer Program.

Danny — NewsMonster RSS viewer now can handle FOAF.

DbVisualizer 3.2, a tool for navigating JDBC-enabled databases.

Dell ends $16B deal with IBM.

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JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar, Part 1 and Part 2.

Diagnosing Java code: Java generics without the pain.

JSTL primer: The expression language.

JCascadedPane, a simple GUI library which enables Swings Developers to incorporate Cascaded Panes.

Dominic— Bruce Eckel “Thinking in…” series downloads.

Joe — LN2 0.1.2 released.

Cedric— EJBGen 2.12 released.

Rafe — Doing it with Ant.

Russ — Technology Wish List.

Steve — Classpath duplication-finder utility.

Prominent hacker Mitnick hacked. Now, that is funny!

New BlackBerry joins RIM pickings. BlackBerry 6225.

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Bill — xerces.hell.

James — Good paper on SWT layouts.

Jasonbell — To Donal and Epesh….

Pelle — Performance of my XMLSig Library.

JavaGeek — Speaking of collections.

Paul — Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.18.

www.struts.ru, a site about Jakarta Struts in Russian.

Oscar Nominations: LotR, Spirited Away, and more.

Google beats out Apple for “Brand of the Year”.

Mozilla 1.3b Released.

Alan — Instant Programming with Python.

Abe — Hep 0.3.3.

JSch 0.1.0, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

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Are Coders Exempt From California's Overtime Laws? Software engineers who make less than $41/hour are required to be paid for overtime.

Babeldoc, a java framework for processing documents in linear stages.

Anthony — FormProc 1.2 Released and JPublish 2.0b1 Released.

Henri— mod_webapp pain and New Zaurus and the netBook.

Ben — Blog toolkit released and Stuff.

Mark — Introducing 100 stories.

Doug — Accessing a joystick from Java in OS X?

Joe — LN2 and Commons-logging.

Glen — Axis 1.1's Ant Tasks.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0fc1.

James — Searchable Weblog.

Jasonbell — So simple, but so useful.

David — blojsom 1.1 released.

Carlos — Regex Engines Benchmarked.

Jason — Remoting fun.

Matt — PostgreSQL 7.3.2 and .NET Patents.

Matthew — NewsGator 0.9.

Matt — Java.blogs and Roller in Java Developer's Journal.

Steve — Java, scheme, perl and C.

Ted — Jakarta Taglibs project suggestion.

Carlos — WebWork: woohoo!

Ken — seeing jsp line number in stack traces?

Develop Java portlets. Use iViews to render data from a remote database.

Regular expressions simplify pattern-matching code. Discover the elegance of regular expressions in text-processing scenarios that involve pattern matching.

Matchmaking with regular expressions. Use the power of regular expressions to ease text parsing and processing.

Java Development Tools You Never Knew Existed. JavaJar, JiveLint, J-Sprint, JJ Edit, DJ Java Decompiler.

HP submits SPEC jAppServer2002 Results for BEA WebLogic 7.0 sp 1. The hardware used was HP rx5670 running HP-UX 11i version 1.6.

JCSC 0.94, Java Coding Standard Checker.

CVS-SSH2 Plug-in for Eclipse 0.0.3, an Eclipse plug-in to allow CVS access on an SSH2 session.

JSX2 0.1.7, a program to export Java object data.

JSX2 0.1.7, a program to export Java object data.

JPublish 1.4.1, an Open Source Web application framework.

Bugkilla 0.0.5, a J2EE Functional Test Suite.

JGraph 2.0.0, an open-source graph component for Java.

Mozilla for Windows 1.3 Beta Released.

X11 for Mac OS X 0.2 Beta Released.

WWDC 2003 kicks off May 19.

CNET's not-so-romantic Valentine's Day gift guide.

Voice Over IP. I just saw an ad for Vonage on TV.

On February 11, 1990 — Nelson Mandela was freed after 27 years in captivity.

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Patrick — Tiles 101.

JIGS 1.5.5, a Java Interface for GnuStep.

Dude, You're Getting a Cell!

Joey 1.0, a J2EE application server for J2ME.

ScreenCecha, a Java-based screen capture utility.

ThingamaBlog, a cross platform, standalone blogging application written in Java.

RIAA-Verizon Dispute Heads Back to Court. Verizon is appealing the court decision.

Joey — This One Goes To Eleven…

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JDK 1.4.1 patchset 2 for Freebased now available.

Struts Console 3.2 Released.

Borland models for Java. Borland will couple its Java programming application with its modeling tools.

James — Elliotte Rusty Harold has an RSS feed!

Viewsonic ready to launch wireless Smart Displays. The Smart Displays include integrated 802.11 Wi-Fie, and a USB wireless adapter.

Tracking tag for Net music unveiled. The Global Release Identifier, or GRid, is a code akin to the Universal Product Code (UPC) bar code found on a CD or cassette tape in stores.

First Tests of Ahmad's Athlon XP 3000+. Barton CPU outperforms Pentium 4 powerhouses in first systems from Falcon Northwest, Powell, and Sys Technology.

Worst actress: Madonna or Britney? Razzes to determine Hollywood's worst.

Jason — For people who still use Java 1.3.

Fred — Its my birthday. Happy Birthday!

Which OS are You?

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Haiko — We at Sun don't like Java either.

ORTO, a DHTML programming language based on Java.

12" Powerbook: Slick and Sexy, but not without issues.

AMD Releases Barton: Athlon 3000+. Twice as much L2 cache, 2.17 GHz chip rated at 3000+.

XML Turns 5.

Diego — sun/java memo hoax?

Joe— More on Regexes for LN2.

Jim — Orange drop the ball, again… and Locust - a solution?

Andy — More on why licensing is dead, long live Services and why Red Hat isn't really OpenSource.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0b19.

David — blojsim released … blojsom 1.1 on its way.

Martin — Un eclipse total…

Matt — 802.11g: No Interop?

Bill — Popular Baby Names.

Niel — Java w/ Flash Best Practices.

Russ — Thoughts on Open Sourcing Your Code: The OSS Prototype License.

Charles — A New-Found Respect for Javascript.

Ted — Solaris-Java Memo Thoughts and TMC J2EE Best Practices White Paper.

Java SOS 3.25, a Java Servlets Office Suite.

Yet Another Ridiculous Patent. “These guys claim they have a patent on all streaming media…”

Force your Mac to shutdown at a certain time.

Apple upgrades Xserve, debuts Xserve RAID. Due in March starting at $6000.

Sharp's mini-laptop. Sharp C700 PDA.

World's smallest Bluetooth headset. BlueSpoon.

New Palm OS SmartPhone Kyocera 7135.

Microsoft moves ahead on Xdocs. The controversial electronic forms software.

Sun seeks testers for new StarOffice. Beta program for 6.1 to begin in March.

Kenneth — Athlon Prices Move Down - Barton Introduction.

Tobias — servlets vs session beans.

Carlos — WebWork: aaargh!

On February 10, 1978 — Van Halen's debut album was released.

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The MSeries, a set of Java components which provide functionality that is missing from the core language.

Six had a blast on her first road trip. Here are the pictures.

Chris — SiteMesh docs are a bit skimpy.

Dominic — Friday booklist.

Gordon — Civil War.

Andy — New Microsoft add.

Stu — PermissionSniffer interactive mode.

David — iBlog.

J2eeBuilder, a library of generic implementations of J2EE patterns and practices.

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Duncan — Scripting.

Joe — LN2 Dependency.

Jason — 9M for Java HelloWorld.

Julian — before.

Russ — Wireless Google.

Werner — OpenSource in the Belgian Armed Forces.

JTopas 0.6.1, Java Tokenizer and Parser tools.

Kasparov, Deep Junior match ends in man-machine draw. 3-3 deadlock.

JTraceDump, a Java TraceDump Facility.

DMA, FTC Release Data Security Guidelines.

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Performance Analysis for Java Web sites. A book to help make your Java Web site run smoothly.

Ben — New Virex conflicts with Fink.

Danno — What's up with Tuxedo.org!?

Mark — Power laws and priorities.

Joe — Comparisons of RSSLibJ and LN2 Development.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0b18.

Chiara — E might be working soon.

David — IntelliJ, DP10, and “the patch”.

Ross — Power.

Simon — PHP and OWASP Security.

Kenneth — Weekly Prices: DDR Ram is falling.

JavaGeek — My DVD Collection.

Cygwin 1.3.20-1, a UNIX-like environment for Win32.

XJRT 1.0 Beta 05, eXtendible Java Rendering Toolkit. A Java renderer based on ray tracing, XML, and programmable shaders.

The IP Appliance. Mitel's 5230 IP.

Changes in IRS rules are worthy of note.

Later on this morning we'll be taking Six on her first road trip. Not very far… We're just going to Vicki's brother. The kids will undoubtedly have a blast watching her run around in a Kritter Krawler.

On February 9, 1960 — The first star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was for Joanne Woodward.

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Russ — Cleaning up my Referrers.

Bill — Template for Newzcrawler.

Ben — NetNewsWire Pro to ship - details.

Dave — The Sweet Sound of Silence.

Pelle — New Release 0.7 of XMLSig's for DOM4J.

Lawrence Lessig wins FSF Award.

Java.OSDir.com is about to launch.

Matt — New Nikon Digital Camera.

Fred — WMA(JSR205) -Smoking Sun's Weed.

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Artima SuiteRunner Tutorial.

Jini Community Newsletter.

TjMSN, a MSN client written in Java.

David — Some more about Java 1.5 feature set.

Mark — Optimizing PNG files.

dorodok — Javadoc tag completion.

François — Prochainement sur votre mobile: LA PUB!

James — Eclipse to become one of the most popular IDEs for any language?

Ara — The seven wonders: Command pattern, IoC, Hibernate, AOP, MockObjects, Maven, TDD.

Steven — Shellfish.

Glen — Inside An Idea Plugin (Part 3).

Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.9, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

RIAA Site Under Attack—Again.

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Tame these 10 types of techies.

Hao — IDE war: Eclipse vs. NetBeans vs. IDEA.

Andy — First go at JMX MBeans on JBoss.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0b17.

Stu — PermissionGrabber.

Java iCal Group Scheduler 1.2, group scheduling for Linux desktops and servers.

Optool 1.2 Beta 4, open a given web site in another browser.  

Actuate targets J2EE application development market.

Cellphones as guns. The fake phones come apart in the middle to reveal a four-chamber secret compartment for .22 caliber bullets…

SmartDisk's 80GB portable. SmartDisk USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive.

AT&T Wireless slims down rate plans. Down to 25 choices.

Yahoo to launch paid Net video service.

Fred — Solaris Imperfectiosn with Java.

On February 8, 1958 — KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle WA (CBS) began broadcasting.

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Our connectivity was down for most of the afternoon. Qwest decided to quietly change their Worldwide roaming to Nationwide roaming, and reset our DSL/PPP password in the process.

It took forever to diagnose because we had a repair person in earlier today, and automatically assumed that he caused the problem. It wasn't until I tried to use my dial-up account that the real problem surfaced.

I really should get paid for figuring it all out. I guess I'll just have to settle for a credit for the downtime.

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Top 15 wireless companies. 15 “fiercest” wireless companies.

David — Midas has landed.

Brian — Peanut Gallery Comments on MVC in Swing Editor API.

Joe — LN2 and RSSLibJ status and Java Viruses.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0b16.

Chiara — Yeah right, not on your life time buddy!!.

Martin — Eclipse M5 release notes.

Joey — Eclipse M5 Painless Upgrade.

Matt — JAAS Security in Action.

Russ — PC File Manager for Symbian Devices.

Lance — Jakarta Commons Cache.

Diego — anticonvergence.

Chris — Making Hibernate code cleaner.

Paul — Considering O'Reilly Safari.

Kenneth — Michael Dell is investing heavily in the International House of Pancakes.

PalmSource cuts 18 percent of staff.

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StarOffice 6.1 Set for Beta Testing.

J2ME MIDP 1.0.3 ported to Mac OS X.

Jay — Handy list of Java tools.

Jean-Baptiste — Lexical analysis.

David — blojsim, an instant messenger add-on for blojsom.

Ross — JDK 1.5 Enums.

Install Microsoft's .NET CLI for OS X.

JetQue tackles voice messaging management.

Ben — Dave Hyatt.

Darren — Useful code tools.

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Jahia 4.0 Alpha, an integrated java based content management and corporate portal server.

Steven — Eliotte Rusty Harold on Web Architectures: we are doing well.

Russ— Anticonvergence: The Next Stage in the Wireless Revolution.

New wireless 11g “standard” ends in tears. Incompatibility problems between rival products.

Logitech Z-680 Dolby 5.1 PC Speakers Reviewed.

Diego — java & openoffice.

Joe — Fun with Array Reflection!

Matt — Deploying to Tomcat using Ant.

Markus — SWT and memory management..

How To Write Unmaintainable Code: Naming.

Joe — Prevayler: first impressions.

Jato Beta 5, an XML language for transforming any XML document to/from any set of Java objects.

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Dave — Your Thoughts Go Here.

Chris — Give scripting languages their due.

Mark — BEA on integration.

Niel — World Wide Wiki (WWW).

Stu — Classes are not files and Turn that security manager on!

Matt — Anthill, this site crashing and XSL.

Costin — linux and java.  No problems with 2.4.18-24 here.

Joe — Running a Java app as a service.

Pankaj — Book chapters ready for review.

Diego — JDK 1.5 features.

Library provides Java features in C++. NewJ Library for C++.

Russ — Google's caching me! But there's a catch…

Steve — Music, Silence or what?

On February 7, 1984 — Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart made the first untethered space walk.

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The Big 3 Web Services Players. Microsoft, IBM and Oracle.

Gerhard — Join something useful: displaytag lib on sourceforge and Colin Fahey's Tetris AI System.

Servlets vs. Stateless Session Beans for Stateless Requests. J2EE technologies for the stateless network.

Russ — Rapid Reading.

Intel, others to oppose copyright tax.

JTraceDump 0.1.0, Java TraceDump Facility.

Chris— Use ServletContextListener instead.

Matt — A freetext-indexing IMAP spider.

Test.com puts Web patent up for sale.

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Mark — In law, not in code.

Joe — LN2 logging framework is *working!*.

Marc — Talks…

Matt — The Art of Unix Programming.

Sales Tax Won't Affect Online Retailers.

World's highest resolution monitor. ViewSonic's VP2290b.

Sales taxes coming to a site near you. Several large retailers this week began collecting sales tax on Internet purchases.

Simon — Java 1.5 features…

Cedric — SWT and consistent look and feel.

Matt — Decoding Base64 in Linux.

J2EE pathfinder: J2EE technologies for the stateless network.

Demystifying Extreme Programming: Focusing on value. How to interact with your clients to deliver the software they really want.

Stu— Using Phantom References.

Chris — Struts plug-ins vs. init servlets.

Microsoft posts 'find Slammer' tools.

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Carlos — Errata for the 101 List.

Russ— What's in the cards for Handspring?

HP launches PC recycling program with $50 incentive.

Joe — Writing a new logging framework.

David — blojsom now supports category meta-data (and other blojsom changes).

Chris — jisp.

Matt — New Kids On the Blog.

Reading files from Java Archives (JARs).

Charles — Free Online J2EE Programming Class and Re-Usable Materials for Educators.

John — Struts Resources.

JFreeChart 0.9.5, a class library, written in Java, for generating charts.

Dominic — Eclipse vs Non-Free full lifecycle J2EE IDE.

Web worm suspects arrested. Two suspected computer hackers…

Kasparov, chess computer tie fifth game, playing just 19 moves.

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Avoid these Java threading gotchas.

Doing More With XML Schemas (part 1).

The Java Virtual Machine Profiling Interface. The best way to fly.

Automating EJB Unit Testing. Testing EJB is different.

Using the Decorator Pattern.

Henri — Leaving the ASF/JK community.

Emmanuel — Easy Struts 0.6.3 for Eclipse.

Glen — XFC - A Swing Interface to FOP.

Jeremy — Macromedia and Beyond.

Matt — GCC 3.2.2 Released! and Top 100 Music Videos of 1995.

Russ — The N-Gage in Q4 2003.

Ted — Recommending reading list.

Dave — Dave's Converging - Part Deux.

Steve — Idea needs generics…now!

jCIFS 0.7.2, a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

PMD 0.4 for Eclipse, a Java source code analyzer.

Noise cancelling Bluetooth headset, from Targus.

Ad-aware Version 6 Spyware Remover.

Pentium-M Notebook Put To The Test.

Jon — Java2D in SWT.

JMSN 0.9.8b4, a pure Java Microsoft MSN Messenger clone.

I just installed AutoRPM on a few of our servers. I've been using it on my server for a little while now. I'm starting to wonder how I managed without it before.

On February 6, 1971 — NASA Astronaut Alan B. Shepard used a six-iron that he had brought inside his spacecraft and swung at three golf balls on the surface of the moon.