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Tech Tips: Reading files from Java Archives (JARs)

Tech Tips: Getting Started with the Java Management Extensions (JMX)

Microsoft appeals Java must-carry ruling. Without an additional stay from the appeals court, Microsoft will have to start work on putting Java into Windows…

Doing More With XML Schemas, part 1.

Deploying multiple applications in J2EE 1.2. Planning for reuse in your Enterprise JavaBeans components.

Is there hope for Java? The remedy may be too little, too late.

JSP based JMX HTML adaptor, a generic JMX adaptor implemented as a set of custom tags driven JSP pages.

RReport Visual Builder 2.3, design and preview PDF/DHTML reports.

Hilary Rosen Will Step Down As RIAA Head. NYT Business reports Hilary Rosen is leaving.

Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World. Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license agreement.

BEA Readies Weblogic 8.1. At eWorld in March, BEA Systems plans to unwrap WebLogic 8.1…

Diego — X11 on OS X.

Adam — this is cool.

Ben — A website run on an Apple Lisa!

Gru — .NET and the agnostic programmer.

Jason — obvious stupid casting logic #112.

Jeremy — An Explosion of Web Services?

Jeremy — PC Mag Safari Comments.

Matt — XML Acronyms.

Darren — A few of my favourite things.

Russ — Using Bluetooth as your Internet Connection and Cont….

Costin — Using context params or JNDI for configuration.

LinuxWorld diary: Day one.

New Casio Camera Watch. Color LCD Digital, 2X Zoom, Visual Databank, Water resistant.

Internet fraud grew in 2002, FTC says.

Charles — My Favourite Stack-Trace.

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MutliSync, a free modular program to synchronize calendars, address-books and other PIM data between computers and mobile devices.

Open source Java route yields big savings. What do you do when the heterogeneity of your IT infrastructure and your OS-specific legacy deployments are standing in the way of true progress?

Ford Shows Off Recyclable Car. A Ford Concept Car that includes Bluetooth technology as well as Cradle-to-Cradle design strategies.

PushToTest releases TestMaker 3.2 for J2EE Scalability Testing.

Ben — Using FOAF for comment identity and followups.

Jim — Useful C++ articles.

Matthew — New O'Reilly article.

Java SQL Admin Tool 2.2. Allows you to manage a RDBMS via Java and JDBC.

ImageApp 0.8.2, a Java Advanced Imaging GUI.

Use a PocketPC GPS on a Mac. PocketMac and GPS.

Open Safari toolbar/bookmark links in the background. Nice tip!

TJDO 2.0 Beta2, TriActive Java Data Objects. An open source implementation of Sun's JDO specification.

Lucent posts 11th consecutive quarterly loss. Analysts said that the earnings were a sign that Lucent is making progress, but still is not clear of its problems.

Oracle Says Over Half Its Customers Have Upgraded To App Suite 11i. Introduced two years ago, early versions were buggy and customers were slow to upgrade.

McDonald's obesity suit tossed. Judge says complaint fails to prove chain is responsible for kids' weight gain.

Open For Business 2.0 Released. An open source suite of business automation tools, components, and applications.

Martin — Debugging event based application (Swing related).

Cedric — More pair programming talk.

Rafe — The gift that keeps on giving.

latex4jed 1.3.0, an S-Lang file for the Jed editor which provides a greatly enhanced LaTeX mode, similar to AUC TeX.

SecureCRT 4.0.3, a Secure access client for SSH2, SSH1, telnet, serial & dialup .

Entunnel 1.0.2, a SSH2 port-forwarding tray application.

Become a wireless ISP: for three hundred pounds.

“Fun” on mobile phones: new company for chat, MMS, community, launches.

HP calls on AOL for messaging. HP plans to integrate American Online's Enterprise AIM Services.

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Sharp Develops Java Card OS. A Java Card operating system to be embedded in 1MB flash smartcards.

Ben — Commenting Tech.

Kevin — Open Sourcers Don't Care?

Joe — Informa: a 'competitor' for RSSLibJ.

Tobias — A way for simplification.

Carlos — Lots of Reasons I Want .NET to Fail and Fail Badly.

Steven — New version of Trang released.

Matt — Commons Lang: StringUtils.

Russ — Location Based Services: Joi and Marc weigh in on Moblogging.

Simon — PPK's ever excellent JavaScript Section…

Scott — Brent Is Just Plain Right: Monitor the End not the Middle.

JFaceDbc 1.2beta2, a JDBC client application written in Java.

Apple's Eric Anderson named FireWire org chairman. The 1394 Trade Association has elected Anderson as its 2003 chairman.

Chris — XP chatter.

Matt — Open Source Honeypots.

NET Clock, an implementation of New Earth Time concept.

ElegantJ Beans, utility and statistical beans.

SardakLAF, a Java look-and-feel for which all fonts and colors can be configured via properties files.

JMatchMaker, a Java based online personals/matchmaking software solution.

Gerhard — Re: Lots of Reasons I Want .NET to Fail and Fail Badly.

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TI chip charges mobile phones, PDAs from a USB port.

AMD introduces more secure Flash memory. A 64M-bit Flash memory chip, the Am29PDL640G.

Jason — Searching for the Zen of managed code.

Chuq — Chuqui's annual performance review.

Real releases digital media source code. With all components, developers can create systems that can send and receive digital content in any format.

Emmanuel — Change '/defaultroot' with Easy Struts and Tomcat Sysdeo plugin.

Drivers License Suspended 296 Times. I don't know what's more pathetic the 296 times or the fact that he still has a license.

RDBS2J 0.7.7, a GUI based mapping tool from relational database schema to persistent java classes which use JDO.

RIAA's Rosen Sets Sights on ISPs. The RIAA wants to go after the companies that provide you with your Internet access.

Not Just Food, It's Fancy Food. Call it the Comdex of culinary treats.

Annoying Spam List: Annoying Spam. If there's one thing more loathsome than getting spammed, it's getting spammed about spam.

Russ — MiniGPS for Nokia 7650. A few weeks ago, Jim and I were dreaming about a similar system. GMTA!

Cloned Cat Not a ‘Carbon Copy’. Sure, you can clone your favorite cat. But the copy will not necessarily act or even look like the original.

Ben — Why You Should Learn Java.

bean for http 0.01, simplifies servlet development, maintains a WWW GUI control's state, maps HTTP posts to bean props, and maps bean props to HTML controls.

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Cameron — On Pre-Loading.

JSP template engine, which enables developers to write JSP emails, JSP XML files, static (precompiled) HTML files and any other text format.

Commons BeanUtils 1.6, Jakarta utility classes that assist in dynamic access of JavaBeans.

Invest in Both J2EE and .NET? Integrate .NET and J2EE With Web Services.

Learn Struts' Form-Related Tags. Continue familiarizing yourself with the Struts HTML tag library.

Mobile Foundation Java 2.0. Insignia Solutions announced Mobile Foundation Java 2.0 with support for Sun's new MIDP 2.0 API.

JAXB: New and Improved Java Architecture for XML Binding.

Henri — MVC/3-tier/JSP/Servlets.

Erik — Test your knowledge of Ant.

Glen — Java Swing from O'Reilly (2nd Ed).

James — On Pre-Loading.

Joi — responding to Russell's thoughts on moblogging.

Fans howl in protest as judge decides X-Men aren't human. My whole world is crushing down. ;-)

Matt — CodeCon 2003.

Niel — Damn….this weblog is ugly!!!

Matt — Using XDoclet to generate your validation.xml?

Rickard — XP and pair programming.

Graham — GLUE 4.0 beta 2 is due out later this week.

Costin — Precompile the JSPs.

AximUsers.com. New website for users of Dell's new Axim line of Pocket PCs.

Two new Sony handhelds coming. SJ22 and SJ33.

On January 22, 1973 — The U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case was Roe vs. Wade.

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Dave — NetNewsWire Rocks!

Ross — Library Changes != Upgrade Cycle.

JMap Port Scanner 0.2, a Java network portscanner.

Mitnick ‘Endorses’ Apple. Apple 17" PowerBook.

Ask Jeeves updates search engine. Teoma search engine updated.

British virus writer jailed for 2 years. Vallor will serve a minimum of one year, after admitting writing the Gokar virus.

Rebirth of the Tablet PC. “These futuristic PCs are clearly first-generation machines.”

AirPort Extreme delayed in Switzerland, due to standard certification problems.

Matt — AOL-XXX.

Russ — Big MoBrother and Microsoft acquires Placeware.

Fred — Dave Winer Doesnt Get RSS scaling.

Dell's Axim handhelds trickling out. Delays irk buyers.

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IBM plans more PDAs powered by Linux. IBM is using its technological might to back Linux for personal digital assistants.

Marc — How Microsoft Could Get Out of Shipping Java.

Remote Root Exploit in CVS. CVS version 1.11.5 fixes the problem.

Use JCA 1.5 and EJB 2.1 to Extend your Application Server. Java Connector Architecture and EJB.

Diego — improving Java apps on MacOS X.

Ben — More on Amphetadesk.

Dave — Safari Newsflash: More CSS Goodness.

Mark — In brief: 21 Jan 2003.

Jim — STL for databases.

James — XML Signatures available for dom4j.

Jason — The cat slipped out of the bag… oh, wait, here's another.

David — Re: XOM and JDOM and IntelliJ IDEA #692 available.

Keith — Wacko Craziness.

Matt — LinuxWorld Coverage.

Bill — Building PHP + Sablotron + DOM on OS X.

Robert — Book Review - Beck's Test Driven Development.

Cedric — Extreme Programming is evil.

Darren — Useful stuff.

Rafe — More Java vs .NET.

Verizon Loses Suit Over Subpoena of Subscriber Info. As a result of a suit filed by the RIAA…

Russ— Photos don't link?

Scott — How Annoying is This?

Werner — eXtreme programming : chiara, i disagree.

Java tokenizer and parser tools, release 0.6. A Java suite for parsing arbitrary text data. 

VPP 1.2.0, a Velocity Template Engine Preprocessor.

O'Reilly updates Unix-OS X. Learning Unix for Mac OS X.

5GB iPod unavailable at Apple Store due to “significant holiday demand.”

First camcorder with an internal hard drive. The ITCAM-7 has a 1.5GB internal hard drive that will hold about an hour of video…

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Jason — An RSSLibJ Servlet Example.

Russ— Symbian Piracy.

Review Of Upcoming Projection Keyboards. I want one!

Coldtags suite 1.25, a custom JSP tag suite.

Matt — Clustering Tomcat.

Russ — Moblogging Thoughts.

Bookmarks For Javadoc 0.9, a tool for generating Mozilla bookmarks from Javadoc files.

Joost STX processor, version 20030121, a Java implementation of the STX language.

If you liked Rubiks cubes. Titoonic Squares puzzle.

Rogers — A long-time Windows component library developer is leaving that business and releasing many of its products as open source.

Open Source JBoss Wooing BEA Customers. According to some industry publications JBoss has the most widely used application server, even above IBM or BEA.

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Microsoft, Sun agree on Java plan. Microsoft and Sun Microsystems delivered a plan to a federal judge.

Smack,  a Java client library for communicating with XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging servers.

Mobile P2P messaging: Part 1 and Part 2.

Handango, Tira to offer Java service. Java Jumpstart.

David — Velocity sucks, no, wait, I mean it rocks.

Markus — Coding Conventions in 1 Minute..

Erik — Lynx and Ant apply magic.

David — “Java Enterprise Best Practices” arrives … sort of.

Michael — Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software.

Stu — Take that, Quicksort!

Phillip — Why Java?

Matt — Hibernate Help Needed.

Werner — JBoss and the Gartner Group and the reply.

JaxMe 1.53, Java/XML binding tool based on SAX2.

Hacker faces five years in jail. UK hacker faces a five-year sentence for spreading an e-mail virus.

The best Olympus camera ever? C-5050 Zoom.

JavaWorld Archive Requires Pay Subscription. JavaPro and JDJ, here I come.

Design Considerations When Using Entity Beans with CMP. Discussed by Sastry Malladi, Architect of Oracle9i ApplicationServer and member of the EJB Specification.

James — Mac OS X Switcher Stories.

Enhance your J2EE presentation layer. Flash Remoting introduces an alternative.

Apache 2.0.44. A security and bug fix release.

On January 21, 1990 — John McEnroe became the first ever expelled from the Australian Open for throwing a tantrum & swearing at an official.

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My guestbook has been spammed!!!

Brian — "May I do it" vs. "What may I do"?

Gerhard — Pardon, Java vs. .NET is not interesting anymore.

Fabian — OSCache is great…Javagroups as well.

Eric — Coding Conventions in 10 Minutes.

Kevin Mitnick rides again. Back online.

Fred — MIDP 2.0 Game API-MicroJava Network and EJB Workbooks-OReilly.com.

Phoenix browser for OS X released.

JMichelle 0.9.9, a File Manager in Java and SWT.

Lance — Velocity Rocks.

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JUnitEE v1.6.1, a simple extension to JUnit which allows standard test cases to be run from within a J2EE application server.

JXMLEditor / JXMLPad 1.8 released.

jChatBox 2.5: Multilanguage JSP chat.

Egothor 1.1.6, a full-featured text search engine.

Diego — world-changing tech.

Bob — Antlr 2.7.2.

Glen — Canberra Still on High Alert.

Steven — Mobile blogging: slightly tweaked perceived reality.

Ray — Jisp.

Russ— Want to live and work in Spain?

Charles — Personality Test.

Ted — Stu Halloway jumps into the fray.

OpenOffice.org 1.0.2 is available for download.

JDebugTool 2.8, a standalone Java debugger.

Safari tops 1 million downloads. “Safari is a home run, with over a million downloads in less than two weeks,’ said Steve Jobs.

San Francisco bans Segway. The city on Monday becomes the first large municipality to outlaw the Segway Human Transporter on its sidewalks.

Swiss town leads way with Internet vote. Anieres is making Swiss history with the country's first legally binding Internet vote.

Timbuktu Pro 6.0.3, a remote control, file transfer and collaboration tool.

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SEC investigation of EDS goes formal. Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Ejen 1.1-pre2, a code generation system based on Java/XSLT.

Niel — Eclipse Missing from Linux Dev Env Recommendation.

Fred — One of Userland's Radio Bugs.

Report: AOL insiders sold $1.5B in stock, since 1996.

IBM Jumps into LinuxWorld with a Bang. The new offerings span IBM's software and hardware lines…

James — MSV - a beautiful piece of work.

Elektra kicks Daredevil's butt. Evanescence's tune is not bad either.

HP Trumpets New AlphaServer Systems. Marvel family of AlphaServers.

DVD players eclipses VCRs. For the first time ever, last year DVD players outsold VCRs, by 17 million to 13.5 million…

NEC-Mitsubishi launches 20.1-Inch UXGA LCD monitor. NEC MultiSync LCD2080UX.

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Microsoft sets sights on CD piracy. Windows Media Data Session Toolkit.

Caramel, a collection of open source Java utility classes.

Bill — Testing…

Markus — Classpath again.

Dave — Safari Newsflash: Fun with :hover.

James — Water: Jelly Competitor?

Keith — 7-zip and Jackie Chan rules.

Matt — xPetstore v2.2 Released!

Ray — National Sanctity of Human Life Day.

Kenneth — JPhotoBrush Image Editing Tool :: java image manipulation.

VaporMail 0.10, a J2EE enterprise personal information management system.

Take the new I/O in JDK 1.4 for a test drive. A good overview.

Matthew — Another birthday.

Steven — Happy birthday, Sander!

Open Source Web-based Database Reporting: xReporter v1.0.

Matt — Phoenix Themes.

Fred — ANT Master Builds and More playing with ANT.

Scott — Finally! A New Free Speech Victory.

Jim — Manywhere Moblogger - first sighting in the wild. I couldn't have put it any better.

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Russ — Manywhere Moblogger!!

jVNC, a Java-based VNC server.

JGraph Geneva v2.0 released.

Bob — Water: Jelly Competitor?

Andy — The trouble with JSPs… and “Control” of sourcecode considered harmful…

Joey — Review of Ant Developer's Handbook.

Matt — My New Digital Camera.

Phillip — Creative Commons explained.

Matt — Another E-Mail to Blog Project.

Simon — Dave Winer on TrackBacks…

Lance — Bad JSP, Naughty JSP.

Jacksum 1.1.2, a checksum utility entirely written in Java.

O'Reilly releases “Learning Unix for Mac OS X, Second Edition”.

ReplayTV vs. TiVo. Can't decide between a ReplayTV or a TiVo?

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Happy Birthday Russ!

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Diego — of hype and new features.

Joe — I wonder if we can now fairly review WebLogic….

Glen — Canberra Under Fire.

Andy — You Know What Sucks!

Chiara — I think Rickard is an alien!!

Rick — AOL Cancellation Woes.

Mark — Composing Web Services; Choreography vs. Routing.

Kevin — CodeStack - Source Bookmark Stack Management and Need a Good Engineer? Hire Me!

Matt — Safari has Tabs?

Simon — When browsing through other site's source code…

Sylvain — 6*6'th birthday. Happy Bday!

Charles — Dan Berstein and Patents.

Ted — GeekBlog, meet Roller.

Russ — Quiet.

Gadgets aim to fool cameras. Beating London's congestion charges has spawned a thriving black market.

On January 19, 1949 — The salary of the President of the United States was increased from $75,000 to $100,000 with an additional $50,000 expense allowance for each year in office.

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Making MMS. Multimedia Messages.

Andy — Cool way of handling naming or Software Development concepts applied to family names.

Jeppe — Why Java is Better than .NET.

Keith — Palm software.

Fred — Are MS's NDA shrinkwraps with Open Code Intitative Illegal?

Aerosmith, Kiss Set To Rock'N'Roll All Night. Approximately 40 dates.

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Download: MMS & EMS Testing Suite.

Smack Beta 1, an Open Source Java Jabber Library.

JavaHelp Plug-In for SimplyHTML released.

Bob — drools 2.0-beta-10.

David — First Review of “Java Enterprise Best Practices”… *sigh*.

Matt — Groove Web Services: Almost There.

Sam — Widening the Net.

Scott — Spam Conference Trip Report.

Lance — Velocity sucks.

David — Sanyo SCP-4900.

Color Sidekick confirmed. No longer a rumor.

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Carlos — Why Java is Better than .NET, Reasons #51 to #60.

Java-Chess 2002-01-17, a standalone Java chess program.

Danny — Yet Another FOAFspace Navigator.

Diego — … and so it begins.

Bill — How cold is it?

Andy — Number 52 is invalid.

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Writing A User Manual, Part 2.

JAXB as a Data Access Solution. Five Paths to Persistence

JPhotoBrush 2.3, an Image Editing Tool.

Music Biz Predicts 6% Decline in '03. Not as bad as last year's 9% decline.

David — Jason picks WebWork.

Dave — Safari Newsflash: WebCore and Safari Update: WebCore Progress.

Glen — A HitchHiker's Guide to Hibernate.

Mats — Why India will not take over the SW development world.

Brent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b12.

François — Syndirella 0.9a rocks!

Keith — Palm software.

Matthew — Banned.

Bill — Astroturfing Googlehack.

Niel — MC4J - JMX Management for JBoss.

Matt — Struts 1.1 is on its way.

Russ — Kablog is Kool, My New Blog Roll and A year ago today!!!! Happy anniversary!

Damien — Two good news aggregator with .Net…

Andre — Together is dead, long live Together!?

WebCore not ready for business, other than with Safari.

An AirPort weblog. Glenn Fleishman and Adam Engst.

MIT conference takes aim at spam. The rising flood of unsolicited e-mail.

FreeBSD 5.0 Unleashed. After three years and many revisions, will be available this weekend.

Cellular Automaton. A few Cellular Automaton applets.

Checkstyle 3.0 beta 1, a Java source code checker.

Here are the pictures of Six's old/new house. The first one was definitely too small. She seems to really like the new one. Lots of room to roam around.

On January 18, 1996 — Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson.

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We're off to look for a new cage for Six. The palace turned out to be very small and cumbersome. I'll take some pictures before we dismantle it.

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Troubleshooting Jini Applications. From Keith Edwards, author of Core Jini.

JFreeVote, a set of Java tools to manage an e-vote process.

Diego — on security.

Bill — Like slashdot with better grammar.

Kevin — Ellipses Rule.

Mark — New news aggregator for Windows.

Jim — Scraping the barrel.

Jason — Thoughts on RSSLIBJ.

Matthew — More T300.

Darren — Outed.

Matt — How to setup Tomcat to run as an NT Service.

Rafe — Thinking out loud.

Russ — Grokking Intelliphones.

Ted — Wow, this is turning into a real OpenSource project….

Costin — Classloader fun with JDK1.4.

xmlenc 0.26, a light-weight XML output library for Java.

WebUtils 1.0.4, a Java toolkit for the development of servlets.

WebShop 0.6.0, an EJB implementation of an Internet shop.

JMX4Ant 1.0 interacts with JMX MBeans from Ant.

Apple nixes iTunes-based sharing software. iCommune no more.

Feds bust spam scam. Drivers license spam scam busted.

Sonicblue may put itself up for sale. Evaluating options.

Has Microsoft gained our trust? Critics—and Microsoft's own executives—said much more work remains.

jCIFS 0.7.1, an SMB client library.

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Book review: Effective Java Programming Language Guide.

The future of Java is in your hands. JCP.

Custom Tag Conversion Kit. A tool kit for converting Lotus Notes views and forms to JSP using Domino Custom Tags.

JAX-RPC Brings Portability to Web Services.

An introduction to the Advanced Imaging Image I/O API RC 1.0.

Glen — My new AirPort blog!

David — Java news roundup..

Patrick — Sun has announced to release J2EE 1.4 in Feburary…

Glen — Hibernate Tutorial Coming!

Jason — Hall of fame.

Joe — TortoiseSVN.

Matt — New Themes for Roller?

Rickard — WebWork FUD.

Russ — Avedia.com: 4 Years Later.

Charles — Databases, Part One.

Ted — GeekBlog 0.9 release.

Halting the Hacker: A Practical Guide.

AntRunner, version 1.6.1 of the OpenTool for JBuilder has been released.

EJTools, a collection of J2EE tools: JNDI Browser, JMX Browser, etc.

AOL Time Warner names new chairman. Dick Parsons.

On January 17, 1994 — The Northridge earthquake rocked Los Angeles, CA, registering a 6.7 on the Richter scale. At least 61 people were killed and about $20 billion in damage was caused.

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Mail Management With Procmail. The Truth, The Whole Truth, And Nothing But The Truth…

Hard Core Tech Talk with Christophe Ebro on JMX.

Jeppe — FeedExpress beta 1 has been released.

Kevin — Hw to Write in Plain English.

Andy — Color me stupid…but Apache, its not just for breakfast anymore…

Chiara — Why put the toilet seat down?

Eric — Where Extreme Programming Falls Short.

Jeremy — Macromedia Acquires Presedia.

Matt — Here comes 80211.g.

Russ — Video Phones and RealOne Video for Series 60 Sucks So Far.

Damien — Progect fully GPLed.

Costin — More JMX in tomcat5.

Microsoft Posts Record Revenues. Announces Stock Split and Dividend.

EBay's fourth-quarter profits triple. Yahoo!

Sun Microsystems Posts $2 Billion Loss. Largest net loss ever with more than $2 billion in acquisition-related charges.

Gates' dividend payout: $100 million. CEO Steve Ballmer and other executives will also rake in big gains.

Handspring narrows loss. Chips away at losses but still sees a drop in second-quarter revenue of more than $22 million.

Book publisher adopts open-source idea. Prentice Hall.

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SAP embraces .net and Java with NetWeaver. The next generation of its mySAP platform.

Steve — A possible Apple-Sun merger?

Diego — syncing java to mobile phones and a simple performance test of java generics.

Markus — Ant doesn't solve the Classpath problem either.

Danno — Netbeans does SWT!.

Mark — Body IDs.

Brent — NetNewsWire 1.0b11.

James — Where did that class come from, anyway?

Greg — Apache + Tomcat Via mod_jk2.

Sam — Why .NET is better than Java.

A different bomb by Pete Townshend. PDF.

Guiffy 4.7. File and Folder Compare/Merge.

Samsung's first cameraphone. SGH-v205.

Security Flaws Found in ISC's DHCP. Several buffer overflows.

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DMCA Invoked Against Garage Door Openers.

Jim — Mark's redesign.

François — Pourquoi tant de bruit autour des smartphones?

Sam — Are My Ears Ringing?

Scott — Spam that is Really, Really Annoying.

Matt — Anonymous CVS taken offline at SourceForge.

Are Hummer Owners Idiots? More delightful proof positive that most SUVs are, in fact, morally repugnant.

VSS Plugin for Eclipse. Version 1.2 released.

Symantec reports 29 percent Q3 revenue growth. Third quarter income of US$72 million or $0.44 per share, on revenue of $376 million.

Ben — FeedReader goes GPL.

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Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 1.

Introduction to Text Indexing with Apache Jakarta Lucene.

Using JMeter. How to use JMeter, a Java-based tool for load testing client-server applications.

SMS Messaging Unreliable. Two-weeks. 26,000 messages. 7.5% never reached their destinations.

Diego — a pim for mobiles and geographical URL mapping part 3.

Right and Wrong. The copy-right infringement.

Markus — Fixing the classpath problem.

Dave — Safari Newsflash: Alternate Stylesheets and Safari Response: news.com.

Bob — Caching with SoftReferences..

Mark — The one I've never tried.

Doug — Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2 (beta) reviewed.

Stuart — Leo Outling Editor.

Matt — Easily Install Oracle 8.1.7 on Red Hat Linux.

Bill — Siege: an Open Source Web Server Stress Tester.

Matt — Java-based Forums and Free Software.

Ray — BuddySpace: How cool is this?!.

Apple reports $8 million loss or $0.02 per share for its fiscal first quarter.

Bid on a Tablet PC autographed by Bill Gates. Yuk!

Now the Honeymoon's Over. Dick Notebaert pulled Qwest back from the brink of bankruptcy. Here comes the hard part.

New Wrist PDA from TIMEX. Ironman Data Link USB.

Britney Falls For Limp Bizkit Bad Boy. Opposite attracts?

Diagnosing Java code: Design for easy code maintenance.

P2P with wireless Java technology, Part 2.

XML in Java: Data Binding, Part 1: Code generation approaches, JAXB and more.

SourceCafe 1.0, a Java code generator.

I spent an hour or so converting a KVM spotlet, that I wrote couple years ago, to a MIDlet using the Nokia J2ME SDK. Russ is going to give it a try on his new phone.

On January 16, 1987 — The Beastie Boys became the first act censored on “American Bandstand.”