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Wi-Fi Alliance sets July as tentative date for 802.11g interoperability testing.

Brent — Huevos 1.1.

Matt— HTML Characters. You may also want to check this one out.

Matt — CVS is prior-art for Interwoven's patent (#6505212).

David — blojsom's plugin API and XML-RPC support … it's here!

Microsoft Backs DVD+RW Alliance. Current members include Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Sony.

Toyota, Fuji Heavy to tackle telematics together. On-board wireless information services.

Joe — A free C/C++ book.

Marvel Sues Over Sony Pictures Spider-Man Deal. A press release issued by the company did not specify against whom the suit was filed…

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Ben — CVS2RSS.

Brian — Modeling Categories with Classes.

Matt — My Web Standards Compaign. Target 1 = Jakarta.

Russ — Quantifying The Linkage.

Bare Bones Software axes BBEdit Lite.

Java 1.4.1 Final… Soon. Apple will finally release Java 1.4. Only took more than a year!

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Russell — I am a Media Whore.

Scott — Cool HTML Tree Graph Generator.

Alan — Naming Java Classes Without a 'Manager'.

Sharp's new LCD is very sharp. 19", 22.5mm thick, 700:1 ratio.

Scripters in the Enterprise. Don't overlook the skills your best scripters bring to the enterprise environment.

Unwrap the package statement's potential. Minimize project complexity and maximize code reuse.

Nominate the best Java products in 10 categories. JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards Nomination.

Java Apache Commons Logging bridges multiple solutions. An introduction to Commons Logging.

A Shift in Platform Choices Favors Java. Apparently, the mobile device sector just can't live without its Java.

Emmanuel — theserverside.com/symposium.

Dominic — LiteWebServer: 1MB Tomcat-based web server.

Greg — Monitoring JVM With JRockit's Console.

Kief — Java profiling.

Joe — A C and C++ book that will improve your Java code….

Zaval Light-Weight Visual Components Library 3.3.0. An alternative to AWT-based GUI interfaces for the PersonalJava platform.

Citibank gags crypto researchers. Injunction on security experts who claim to have uncovered serious failings in the system banks use to secure ATM PIN codes

Zippo lights a flame under copycat makers. The Zippo lighter is easily recognizable: a rectangular metal shell with beveled edges and a gently curved flip-top…

Jason — Turning a ResultSet into XML..

On February 25, 1991 — During the Persian Gulf War, 28 Americans were killed when an Iraqi Scud missile hit a U.S. barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

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Stuart — How to Defeat Bad Web Robots With Apache.

OpenSSL Timing Attack. An overview of recent Unix and open source security advisories.

Roxio to launch legit Napster subscription service.

Apple offers Mac OS X Server 10.2.4.

Internet Ratings Service Restates Numbers. ComScore Media Metrix.

Consumer Reports Gives Top Rankings To Expedia, Travelocity.

US online sales hit record levels. Department of Commerce figures show online sales grew by 28%…

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Joe — Xerces and the dreaded FWK005.

Dominic — Functional testing tools for web apps?

Matt — Introducing xdoclet.org.

Russ — Java Midlets: Disposable Software and My Opinions on the Spanish Job Market.

James — FastXMLDB Released.

Charles — Interview With a Programmer.

Exclusive first look at the new Matrix phone.

Intuit: Tests provide TurboTax shelter.

Dialing for bloggers. Updating a blog is now as easy as picking up the phone.

Henri — Java is a scripting language.

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Struts 1.1 Release Candidate 1.

How to Interview a Programmer. Recognizing good programmers among job applicants is not easy.

The Future of Java. Java has finally achieved one of the highest honors the tech industry can bestow: It is taken for granted…

Java Development on Mac OS X. Writing Java applications on Mac OS X v10.2 with Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) v1.3.1.

The future of Java on devices. J2ME vs. .NET Compact Framework.

JFtp 1.0, a graphical FTP client written in Java.

smartanalyzer 2.0, an ANT task and an API to analyze the dependencies between Java class files.

New Atlanta announces CFML on J2EE with BlueDragon product.

Tapestry 2.3, a Java Web Components web application framework.

Anthony — Article: Two Critical Tips for Unit Testing in Java.

Henri — LGPL and java… again.

Bill — review: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

Brian — Class Revisioning in Java?

Dominic — Axis and JRun4.

Glen — Tomwhat? You mean JRun 4!

Jim — More news for the future - SMS and MMS discontinued.

Keith— 640k ought to be enough is a legend.

Kief — Reporting Java memory usage.

Matt — Google API Violation?

Matthew — Russell slashdotted.

Mike — Cocoa Java Drag and Drop.

Stu — Excellent thread on class loading.

Matt — Hibernate Upgade: 1.2.3 to 2.0 (My Story) and Struts Update: 1.1 beta 3 to 1.1 RC1.

Russ — Mobile Movies and Macromedia Flash on Mobile Phones Vs. Java Everywhere.

Patrick — Duplication vs Indirection - Ant vs Maven.

Ken — IDEs considered harmful.

The OpenOffice Project has released OpenOffice 1.0.2.

Happy Fifth Birthday to mozilla.org.

A Quick Guide to vi. For Mac OS X.

JSpider, a Java implementation of a web spider engine.

Bluetooth Phone As Remote. Lets you remotely control iTunes, Powerpoint/Keynote presentations, DVD player, and AppleScripts, all wirelessly from your compatible Sony Ericsson bluetooth phone.

First Bluetooth car. Saab 9.3.

First Ogg Vorbis player. Neuros.

NTT DoCoMo to put Flash support in phones. Macromedia aims to get Flash in broad range of devices.

Poor little TiVo. The digital video recorder in the greatest number of homes is by Echostar, not TiVo.

REALBasic 5 for Mac arrives.

Cisco to give away Wi-Fi technology. Will share key technology with chipmakers and computer companies.

Sync Mac to PocketPC. And no, VirtualPC isn't the answer!

J2SSH 0.1.0 beta, a Java-based set of SSH tools.

Survey: The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers.

On February 24, 1803 — The U.S. Supreme Court first ruled a law unconstitutional, Marbury vs. Madison.

Scott — The Register: How to get an ATM PIN number in 15 guesses. JWormSaver, a Java-based screensaver. Fred — Creating Junit Tests. Keith — Fortune's most admired company: Wal-Mart. Jakarta Commons Net 1.0.0 released. AWStats 5.4, an open source web server logfile analyzer. Philip — Java impressions. Martin — When does a code editor become an IDE? Office 11 Beta 2 Released, Then Yanked. Ted — Effective Enterprise Java (Architecture): Look for hook points. My mom called on Friday, she spent a day at the hospital. They decided not to keep her and simply go ahead with the surgery on Wednesday. On February 23, 1896 — The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hirshfield.

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Sun's JSP Code Conventions.

The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers: The Survey.

Matthew — Sourceforge.net Performance - Why I Hate SF.net.

Fred — Using CVS in Eclipse and Mobile Device IDEs. Fred's CodeWarrior Wireless Studio 7 link doesn't seem to work, try this one instead.

WinCvs 1.3b12 released.

Cameron — New toys.

Rogers — Andras Konya's e-mail to C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrop.

Russ — Forget Mobile Instant Messaging as a Business Plan and Learning From Example: Gameboy games and Palm apps.

Kenneth — JavaScript MD4, MD5 and SHA-1 Hash.

Aqua Data Studio v 2.0, a SQL editor and developer tool.

Execute Query, an OS independent database utility written entirely in Java.

SQLBean Maker for MySQL.

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jEdit 4.1pre11 is now available.

Use this Java framework for finite state machines. The Dispatcher class API.

JanosVM v1.0 released.

Jumbo, a staged Java compiler.

NetX 0.5, Open-Source Web Start App Launcher.

Mats — How to do C++ friends in Java.

Dominic — Friday booklist.

Greg — Nice Reporting Tool.

Kasia — From the "who cares" department.

Kurt — A good JSTL Primer.

Matt — Teaser: rss2wml.

Russ — New Color Alcatel Mobile Phones - Beautiful! and Mighty Phone: FusionOne's SyncML Service for Mobile Phones.

Ted — drools?

Carlos — "Open Source in a Box" gets $11m in Funding.

Matt  — An Ant compiler adapter for the JSR 14 (Generics) early access compiler.

What I really want to know is whether Microsoft also acquired the Virtual Game Station from Connectix? It would make a nice addition to the next Xbox, wouldn't it?

On February 22, 1989 — Milli Vanilli won a Grammy for Best New Artist. It was admitted later that they were not the vocalists on the album.

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Apache Ant 1.5.2 beta 1 now available.

XML tutorial: The XML Revolution.  Introduction and overview of XML, Namespaces, XInclude, XML Base, XLink, XPointer, XPath, DTD, XML Schema, DSD, XSLT, XQuery, DOM, SAX, and JDOM.

10 Techno-Cool Cars. Spectrum picks the 10 most technically sophisticated cars for 2003.

Dominic — SOFIA and .PET.

Jeremy — The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers. Bloggers who insist on creating pointless top ten listings.

Joey — My Blosxom 2.0 Google Plugin.

Matt — Test your Java Knowledge.

Russ — 3GSM Redux: Fierce Wireless Deal Watch.

Chuq — update on a backpack for my G4…

Ted — Stu: Quit whining.

Carlos — Thoughts about IBM and Rational.

Janne — New version of JSPWiki.

Call Hierarchy v0.3.0, a call hierarchy view plugin for the Eclipse JDT.

Cool gadget, dumb idea. The Segway human transporter…

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ASF Jakarta Taglibs String Taglib 1.0.1 released.

Jaagle. New Java Repository.

Roman — IDEA 3.0.2 is out.

Carlos — Test Driven Development with Eclipse.

Carlos — Test Driven Development with Eclipse.

Jeff — The history of SWT and Swing ( must read!)

Ken — IBM Closes Acquisition of Rational.

Rob — Is shareware dead?

Top 40 Wireless terms defined.

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Java on the Pocket PC? Handheld maker HTC is adding IBM middleware to some of its devices.

Henri — Getting the JFC out of J2SE.

David — Java LGPL clarification.

James — Using CVS in Eclipse and other tutorials.

Matt — Motagging.

Darren — Snippets of Swing.

Simon — Robert Mugabe.

Carlos — Think before you code.

jclassinfo 0.2, Java Class Information Extractor.

WWDC Exhibit Fair returns to WWDC 2003.

Smaller, smarter PC cards ahead. The first of the new add-on cards are due to be available in 2004.

How to buy a DVD player for your home theater. ZDNet guide to buying the best DVD player for your home theater.

D-Link's wireless range extender. WSB24.

Allon — Search for a new logo. If you are or know of a good logo designer, let us know.

On February 21, 1965 — Malcolm X was assassinated in New York at the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.

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Matt — Homeland Security Web Service.

Bill — Anakin, meet Samurai Jack.

Russ — Bloomba: Another Media-Hyped Outlook Killer.

3G to be or…. Tens of billions of dollars are riding on the future of fast, mobile Internet services…

Russ — Real World Annotations: Manywhere Places.

Crowbar — JavaWorld: A Bit Sketchy Of Recent?

Sam — Professional SCWCD Certification.

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Tech Tips: Choosing A Collections Framework Implementation.

Tech Tips: Providing a Scalable Image Icon.

Dan — (L)GPL and JAVA.

Brent — Huevos 1.1b4.

Chiara — I have become a boring person...

Andre — SiteMesh, so easy!

Steve — Idea productivity tip (key bindings).

Simon — TagUnit : new version released.

Nokia and Sony Ericsson to align developer tools for Symbian OS smart phones. Companies say unified tool set will let developers reach broader audience.

Sun trumpets royalty-free Web services specs. Company challenges Microsoft, IBM.

Keith — Everything about Palm hacks.

Russ — Fortune on Qualcomm: Win-Win Situation.

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IronEye SQL: View Analyze SQL Calls.

Web Services and the WDSK, Part 2, 3 and 4.

Grid guru: An interview with Steve Tuecke.

Leslie — Stop using numbers in your IP addresses.

David — Castor links..

Magnus — Codelogic seems really, really neat.

Dominic — EXSLT by example and Java Extreme Programming Cookbook.

Brent — PerversionTracker.

Jason— decompiling for the masses in classes.

Julian — Complaint Letter Generator.

Rafe — SpamAssassin 2.50 released.

Russ — Wow! I'm in Wired News.

Has Anyone Had Sex in Space?

xmlroff 0.2.0, an open source XSL Formatting Objects to PDF converter.

First Lindows laptop. $799.

FCC rings 'Bell' for telecom changes. Created new ground rules for the telecom industry by giving states more power to enforce telephone competition regulations.

DataVision 0.7.1, an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, has been released.

MacBinary Toolkit 2 for Java, encodes and decodes the MacBinary transfer format.

SableVM, a portable bytecode interpreter written in C, which implements the Java virtual machine specification, second edition.

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Insurance: Home, auto… and Segway?

SourceJammer v2.0.0, a source control and versioning system written in Java.

BRICS Java String Analyzer,  a tool for analyzing the flow of strings and string operations in Java programs.

Ben — Gates to sue spammers.

Web tax fails to dent Wal-Mart sales. No drop-off in online business despite the introduction of a web sales tax.

Russ — Vodafone Spain's Network Collapses.

Matt — Wired News on Moblogging.

Intel promises longer life for laptops. Centrino mobile chip breaks five-hour battery-life mark.

Simon — Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design.

I'm back on a pretty strict workout/diet regimen. Trying to lose some of the pounds I've packed on during the holidays. I'll start alternating cardio and weightlifting on weekdays starting next week.

On February 20, 1962 — John Glenn made space history when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He was the 1st American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule.

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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.