[@221]

Russ — KaZaa works. Welcome to the 21st century, Russ. ;-)

Supreme Court backs off DVD case. The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility.

MS Java Ruling Sets IT Precedent. What is the judge supposed to do? Fine them instead? The amount it would take for MS to really feel it would undoubtedly be overturned as excessive punitive damage.

Federal agency pulls Web documents. The Transportation Security Administration has quietly removed four documents about airport security from its site.

[@119]

Matthew — Alliance Francaise. Bonne chance.

Russ — Where the HELL is everyone?.

Morgan — Maven is too easy.

Steve Jobs autograph causes bidding frenzy. $800+

Linux to Become #2 on the Desktop?

Greg — Blog or Be Delisted.

Freeverse offers board games for free.

Apple Seen Unveiling Video iPod at Macworld Expo.

Alan — What to play from your MP3 collection?

Morbus — 1500 Bookmark Milestone.

Greg — Where Good (Java) Stuff Is.

[@046]

Cryptix JCE for Java 1.4 Released. Cryptix Java Cryptography Extensions API.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b6.

Mike — JDepend 2.3.

Niel — Where is Dominic?

Steven — Testing HEP coolness.

Matt — JUnit Tests - Naming Conventions.

Linux Certification: Certified to thrill.

Core JDO: Chapters on ‘JDO and JDBC’ and ‘Transactions’ Posted.

[@912]

Writing A User Manual, part 2.

QuickTime for Java and Wireless Java Games.

Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked.

Gordon — Java tool for drawing UML Sequence Diagrams.

Julian — Is It Time to Move On? IT experts leaving the industry.

Russ — Denied.

xmlenc 0.20, a light-weight XML output library for Java.

Apple to charge for iApps.  iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie.

ADC posts Windows Win32 API to Mac OS X Porting Guide.

[@846]

How do you calculate the NORAD Daycode?

JavaBoutique: Best of 2002.

Maturing Java gives developers a respite. Vendors vertically integrate tools, platforms.

FastParser 1.1 released. An XML parser for non validating XML processing.

JXplorer ldap browser, an open source general purpose LDAP browser.

JADE renamed to SOFIA. The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications.

Jeff — Help with MockObjects, TDD and Servlet Development.

Diego — AOL does blogs.

Ben — Pre-Order Now at Amazon!

Morbus — DivX Playing on OS X.

Eric — More Eclipse M4 Woes.

Keith— mvc web programming stuff and Understanding Model 2 architecture.

Rick — SquirrelMail is the SourceForge.net POTM!

Matt — Web Services Success.

Ken — XXL: Java functional programming and data manipulation.

Niel — Easily Create PDF Files.

Cedric — Joyeux anniversaire. Happy Bday!

Matthew — I Have The Flu. I sympathize, I'm barely getting over mine.

Russ — Moof Down Under.

Spike — /sigs [/.]

jGnash, a cross platform personal finance application written in Java.

FirstSQL/J 2.0 has been released.

DataVision 0.6, an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, has been released.

The Top Ten Physics Highlights of 2002.

Mats — Bad magic number -1091568946.

On January 3 1888 The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.[@221]

Erik — Convert me!

Russ — KaZaa works. Welcome to the 21st century, Russ. ;-)

Supreme Court backs off DVD case. The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility.

MS Java Ruling Sets IT Precedent. What is the judge supposed to do? Fine them instead? The amount it would take for MS to really feel it would undoubtedly be overturned as excessive punitive damage.

Federal agency pulls Web documents. The Transportation Security Administration has quietly removed four documents about airport security from its site.

[@119]

Matthew — Alliance Francaise. Bonne chance.

Russ — Where the HELL is everyone?.

Morgan — Maven is too easy.

Steve Jobs autograph causes bidding frenzy. $800+

Linux to Become #2 on the Desktop?

Greg — Blog or Be Delisted.

Freeverse offers board games for free.

Apple Seen Unveiling Video iPod at Macworld Expo.

Alan — What to play from your MP3 collection?

Morbus — 1500 Bookmark Milestone.

Greg — Where Good (Java) Stuff Is.

[@046]

Cryptix JCE for Java 1.4 Released. Cryptix Java Cryptography Extensions API.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b6.

Mike — JDepend 2.3.

Niel — Where is Dominic?

Steven — Testing HEP coolness.

Matt — JUnit Tests - Naming Conventions.

Linux Certification: Certified to thrill.

Core JDO: Chapters on ‘JDO and JDBC’ and ‘Transactions’ Posted.

[@912]

Writing A User Manual, part 2.

QuickTime for Java and Wireless Java Games.

Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked.

Gordon — Java tool for drawing UML Sequence Diagrams.

Julian — Is It Time to Move On? IT experts leaving the industry.

Russ — Denied.

xmlenc 0.20, a light-weight XML output library for Java.

Apple to charge for iApps.  iDVD, iPhoto and iMovie.

ADC posts Windows Win32 API to Mac OS X Porting Guide.

[@846]

How do you calculate the NORAD Daycode?

JavaBoutique: Best of 2002.

Maturing Java gives developers a respite. Vendors vertically integrate tools, platforms.

FastParser 1.1 released. An XML parser for non validating XML processing.

JXplorer ldap browser, an open source general purpose LDAP browser.

JADE renamed to SOFIA. The Salmon Open Framework for Internet Applications.

Jeff — Help with MockObjects, TDD and Servlet Development.

Diego — AOL does blogs.

Ben — Pre-Order Now at Amazon!

Morbus — DivX Playing on OS X.

Eric — More Eclipse M4 Woes.

Keith— mvc web programming stuff and Understanding Model 2 architecture.

Rick — SquirrelMail is the SourceForge.net POTM!

Matt — Web Services Success.

Ken — XXL: Java functional programming and data manipulation.

Niel — Easily Create PDF Files.

Cedric — Joyeux anniversaire. Happy Bday!

Matthew — I Have The Flu. I sympathize, I'm barely getting over mine.

Russ — Moof Down Under.

Spike — /sigs [/.]

jGnash, a cross platform personal finance application written in Java.

FirstSQL/J 2.0 has been released.

DataVision 0.6, an Open Source reporting tool similar to Crystal Reports, has been released.

The Top Ten Physics Highlights of 2002.

Mats — Bad magic number -1091568946.

On January 3 1888 The drinking straw was patented by Marvin C. Stone.

[@269]

Learning To SMILe. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.

File Synchronization With Rsync. Save time on data transfers between hosts with rsync.

Jeff — Everything you ever wanted to know about HDTV.

Bill — back on java.blogs.

Mark — The year in review.

Erik — Fink Rocks!.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b5.

Russ — RSS to NNTP Demo: Janywhere.com.

Glen — Are Java Developers Cheapskates?

Microsoft-powered phone takes off. HTC's Falcon.

SONICblue's ReplayTV 5000. SONICblue's ReplayTV 5000 changed my life.

DirecTV secrets allegedly pilfered. The FBI arrested a college student for allegedly sending stolen information about satellite TV access cards to a Web site.

[@057]

Matt — I'm FOAFed.

Niel — J2EE and J2SE Programming Examples and In Search of free alternatives to XML Spy.

Russ — P800 Reviews.

J2EE Year in Review. 2002 is marked by the release of J2SE 1.4…

Sylvain — Disneyland queue management.

Sun giving away new version of StarOffice. Sun Microsystems Denmark.

[@977]

Top 10 celebrity excuses.

Carlos — Java Game Emulators Soon To Explode.

Fx — Puttin a sun server to good use.

Bill — Agile Software Development: review.

Rick — Goals for the New Year.

European Copyrights. European music copyrights from the '50s due to expire this year.

Russ — I've been FOAFed.

Dan Gillmore predicts a PDA from Apple in 2003.

Cray ships first Cray X1 system with IBM chips.

AWStats 5.3 has been released. Advanced Web Statistics.

[@824]

Struts 1.1 Beta released.

ObjectAssembler 2.5 Enterprise Beta. Sporting a Revamped Pattern Workspace.

Apollo. An Open Source Test Skeleton Toolkit for Web Start Released.

William — 5 Predictions for 2003.

Sanyo SCP-5300 gets Java from Aplix.

Jeff — Putting my money where my mouth is…

Diego — spaces alpha-1.6.

Alan — New Years Resolutions …

Anthony — Thanks…

Bill — Predictions for 2003.

Bob — drools 2.0-beta-9.

Adam — us tv shows no longer hits.

Ben — The Guardian Survival Guide.

Mark — The lies can be categorized.

Jim — New Year's Resolutions.

Eric — Eclipse M4 Chews CPU Resources?

Jeremy — What Should I Do With My Life?

Robert — Sharp Zaurus -- worth it?

Matt — ArrayList vs. Vector - which is better for webapps?

Russ — I need to post about…

Fred — How was New Years?

Sam — What bright idea will hatch next?

Wired's Vaporware list for 2002.

Charles — How to Write Like a Wanker.

Ted — Five predictions for 2003.

Apple releases iCal update, iSync 1.0.

A reader warning about iCal 1.0.1.

Flat-panel iMac production to be terminated?

Experts: Best time to buy a PC is now.

Toshiba's Tablet PC selling better than expected.

Palm: The Year in Review.

James — Quest for the perfect news aggregator.

Mike — Bitter Session States.

SSH Putty Exploit Code Posted.

On January 2 1974. U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signed a bill requiring all states to lower the maximum speed limit to 55 MPH. The law was intended to conserve gasoline supplies during an embargo imposed by Arab oil-producing countries. Federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.

[@194]

Last update for the year. I've blogged a total of 218 days in 2002. Not too shabby.

Cam — Happy New Year!

First 802.11g devices hit the market. Just under the wire for 2002.

The 20th Anniversary of the Internet. January 1, 2003.

Darren — Happy New Year.

[@135]

Russ — Happy New Year!

Fred — When You Reach Bottom Climb Out.

Predictions for Apple in 2003.

More gadget picks. Phillip M. Torrone and Adam Kalsey.

Gizmodo's gadget picks for 2002.

New Year's Eve Wrap-Up of Wrap-Ups.

Anthony — The Year In Review.

Matt — Happy New Year!!

Joe — Benediction for the New Year.

[@027]

Anthony — Pay for Roller?

Niel — Last Post for 2002.

Scott — Goodbye 2002 - Sun's Out!

Lance — UnFree Roller.

jd.xslt 1.4.0, an XSLT processor written in Java.

Gadget Picks: the Best of 2002.

Pentagon Contractor Loses Thousands Of Computer Records. Contractor robbed of hard drives holding 500,000 health-care records.

IBM Completes Disk Drive Sale. The sale to Hitachi, valued at $2.05 billion, is a done deal.

Jeremy — Apache logging directly to MySQL.

Karl — Happy New Years Everyone.

QuickLink Mobile connects Macs to Internet.

New Massachusetts governor to forgo salary. They should all do the same.

[@891]

Jeff — Plan for Eclipse 2.2 is now out… and IBM JDK 1.4 for Linux and Windows.

nntp//rss 0.1, an application that will enable you to use your existing NNTP newsreader to read your favorite syndicated information channels.

Pat — Why do all app servers suck?.

David — A not so brief history of Roller.

Review of the Year: Application development tools.

Computer Engineers Optimistic About 2003.

Overrated and underreported stories of 2002. 2002 media follies.

Year in Review: The Key and Stupid Web Moments of 2002.

Ian — Happy New Year.

[@813]

Chart a new course with JFreeChart. Add charts to your Java applications.

Use the Comparable and Comparator interfaces to sort data in Java.

Secure Data Manager v1.0 released.

JarSpy 0.7.3 released.

Chapter on URL Actions Posted from ‘Core JSTL’ Book.

Alan — P800 … last day of the year reflection.

Ditzel — Looking for NetBeans/Sun ONE Studio Resources?

Joe — It's Time to Open Java..

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b4.

James — Experimental Jabber Transport for Apache Axis 1.0.

Greg — Happy New Year 2003.

Jim — Happy New Year!

Keith — Programming languages as user interface.

Matt — Notable Freshmeat Releases.

Niel — Happy New Years.

Matt — Struts 1.1 Beta 3 Released.

Russ — 12 Grapes and Pizza.

Top 10 box-office films of 2002. Spider-Man.

Fred — Blogging Services Donations.

Damien — Happy new Year's Eve.

Macs making music: From Twisted Sister to Sesame Street.

We're going to spend New Year's Eve at home, just the two of us. The last home-cooked meal of the year will feature a beef roast and baked potatoes.

On December 31 1897, Brooklyn, NY, spent its last day as a separate entity before becoming part of New York City.

[@196]

2002 ONJava Top 5.

Diego — lord of the geeks.

Apple's 10-K Filing.

TechTV's Tablet PC picks. Toshiba Portege 3500.

Duncan — WiFi in Europe.

CES: Samsung to unveil 54 inch high-definition LCD.

Scott — Is Google on vacation too?

[@052]

Tutorial: Fine-tuning Abstraction.

Steve — Fall-out from MS Win and IE with Java?

Henri — Cynical Java MS view.

Ugo — Great customer service.

Bob — jAdvise 0.2.3 and Contributing to Javassist.

Duncan — Happy 2005!

Jeremy — Yahoo! Weblogs.

Russ — Ericsson: TelecomTV.

Sam — Command line RSS validation.

Charles — java.blogs bug. Same problem here.

JBooks, a Java-based personal finance application.

Development News Highlights.

• NewJ Library transforms Java to C++.
• Ephox ships content authoring app.
• Velare Technologies launches Discorso.
• JCP issues final release of JSR 90. GOBS separates Java apps into modules.
• Codagen transforms UML into code.
• Orient Technologies releases ODBMS Just Edition 2.0.

CareerJournal: How to Get Employers To Read Your Resume.

[@902]

James — Eclipse tip of the day: organizing imports in your java source files.

Jeremy — Murphy's Law of Amazon.com Shipping.

The Best & Worst of Sex in 2002.

CVS 1.11.4, the Concurrent Versioning System.

Details Emerge in Sendo/Microsoft Dispute. Sendo's suit alleges that Microsoft “plundered” Sendo's intellectual property.

Bankruptcies set a record. U.S. public companies shattered bankruptcy records for a second straight year.

Sprint likely to follow AT&T, MCI rate hikes.

Apple files color-changing device patent.

JNIAltivec for Mac OS 10.2, a Java native library and interface to use Altivec (G4 velocity engine) vector processor.

SourceCafe, a Java Source Code Generator that generates up to 80% of your web application development code from a database schema.

Henri — commons-logging Taglib and Useful snippets.

Martin — Java development with Ant.

Ted — JNLP and security.

Mike — NetTime.

[@845]

I'm in a constant state of daze. Puffy eyes, nasal congestion, body aches.

I'm not big on drugs, but Alka-Seltzer's cold medicine seems to give me about 3 hours of reprieve, which is enough to get some work done.

My mind is working overtime, but my body can't keep up. There is no doubt about it, the older I get the more I hate being sick.

JBuilder Version 8 is less inspiring than its predecessors.

ej-technologies releases exe4j 1.1, a Java exe maker.

Tangosol Coherence 2.0 released. JCache-compliant clustered data management.

Review: Red Hat Linux 8 Bible.

Ugo — Broken books.

Ben — Things to do with RSS 1.0.

Cameron — The Perfect Parser: i.

Patrick — A First Look at Java Server Faces, Part II…

James — Eclipsing .Net.

Matt — Hibernate 1.2.1 Released!

Russ — MMS = SMIL.

Fred — Hacking ReplayTV and Dave Winer-Bad Userland service is a Business Opportunity.

Glen — Personal License for IntelliJ Idea.

Robert — JXTA Comes of Age.

JSuperChat IM Client 0.9.1228, a cross-service, cross-platform IM client.

MacWorld San Francisco 2003 Rumors.

Britney loses out to PlayStation. According to Yahoo. 

Wireless predictions for 2003.

Kazaa's file-swapping structure stymies opponents. Jaan Tallinn, Ahti Heinla and Priit Kasesalu are the creators of Kazaa.

Erik — Customer Service.

Matt — News Roundup.

Quickbooks 5.0 is fatally flawed.

JSwat 2.12, a standalone, graphical Java debugger front-end, written to use the JPDA.

On December 30 1953, The first color TV sets went on sale for about $1,175.

[@044]

Biggest IP cases of 2002.

David — "blog entry" vs. "blog".

Mark — Million dollar markup.

CDMA Pocket PC Phone.

The iPod's dwindling battery. As little as a couple of hours after a year of use.

Karl — Year In Review.

Ross — Microsoft and Java.

Russ — UPP Followup and UPP Followup 2.

Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.4, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

Jon— JIRA 2.0.

ICE, a platform for corporate portals development.

[@777]

FirstSQL Releases Ver. 2.0 With In-Memory Database and HA Support.

Mobile P2P messaging. Part 1. 

JAlbum 3.0 a free web photo album generator released.

Cameron — Coherence: One Year On.

Matt — WSDL Wizard.

Russ — Wireless MP3 Magic.

Fred — Bill Gates and Steve Balmer-Java is a Virus and Dave Winer is Not a FDA expert!

Top 25 Censored Stories of 2001-2002.

Computer games ‘to be classified’. All computer games sold in the European Union from April will carry the classifications.

Just Say No to Gadgets and Gizmos. Throw out the stereo and the Cuisinart, sell the cars and computers, and set up housekeeping in a yurt…

Movies that go way beyond bad. Sure, there are plenty of overwhelmingly bad films, but some are so terrible and incompetent it's amazing.

On December 29 1848, U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.

[@005]

Meaningful Programming. Part III of an interview with Scott Meyers.

Java Ultra Light Client, ULC enables rapid development of Java-based, thin client applications.

PHPEclipse 1.0.3preAlpha released. PHP support for the Eclipse IDE Framework.

AspectJ Moves From PARC to Eclipse.org. PARC has decided to transfer AspectJ to an openly-developed eclipse.org project.

Brent — Holy Shit.

Mathias — XDoclet 1.2.0 Beta 2 has landed!

Matt — Erik's Flu. Thanks. Lots of rest, lots of fluids. I just hate being sick.

Fred — Stupid Dave Winer Sayings-OpenSource Is a Flop.

PCS Java Toolkit, yet another web application framework.

New futuristic Keyless Keyboard. CES 2003 Winner.

[@772]

Java+ Preprocessor, a free open source Java preprocessor.

Merant Ties PVCS Pro to Eclipse, WebSphere. Delivers versioning, change management within developer tools.

Parasoft Releases New Database Testing Tool. DataRecon.

NetEdge Adds Web Services to VB6, Office. Web Services Enabler released.

Matt — Evolution 1.2.1.

ShadowJAAS 1.2.0, a JAAS-compliant authentication-provider using the shadow-password system of Linux.

TM4J, a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java.

JDebugTool 2.6.3 can now launch an External Text Editor.

[@683]

I have the flu or something like it. Argh!!!

California town sells online for $1.78m. “We wish them luck,” said neighbor Mrs Barnwell.

Ad-Aware 6 by February.

The best, worst and missing-in-action of 2002. The highs and lows of 2002.

Kevin Mitnick can go back online next month.

DVD Writers Could Hit 16X in 2004. Mitsubishi new laser technology.

Robert — So long XBox, I hardly knew you.

Steven — Wikis can look good.

Ted — The Five Types of Resource Managers.

On December 28 1945, The U.S. Congress officially recognized the “Pledge of Allegiance.”