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sync4j 0.2 released.

Excelsior JET, a J2SE 1.4 ready Java VM replacement for Microsoft Windows.

Eric — Talk About Software Process, Lose Your Mind.

MultiJava, adds open classes and multiple dispatch to Java.

Intel shaves mobile chip prices. Pentium and Celeron notebook chips by up to 38 percent.

www.bug-track.com,  a web-based bug tracking system.

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Oplayo brings video to Java phones. A spin-off from the Finnish government's VTT Labs.

Updated Java software for handling pdf files. Storypad.

AurigaDoc 1.1, a java-xml based documentation engine used for writing documents in xml format.

Standards and Innovation. Part I of an interview with Sun Microsystems' fellow and chief engineer Rob Gingell.

Jeff — Eclipse Tips: CVS command line, Export your preferences, Importing existing project and .metadata corruption.

Emmanuel — Preparing for Generics (jsdk1.5).

Ben — No! *I* invented RSS.

Mark — Semantic obsolescence.

Jim — Stand up for your freedom.

Niel — Home Automation - X10 API for Java.

Ovidiu — Free software Java platforms.

Matt — ConvertUtils problem solved!

Aslak — Are you a java snob?

François — How To Be a Superprogrammer.

Simon — Concurrency utilities for Java.

Ted — A Call for Help.

Werner — JBoss-3.0.5 has been released.

Microsoft Office v. X 10.1.3 posted.

Judge denies appeal in Microsoft ruling. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said two trade associations had failed to justify their appeal…

CNET's picks for the best of CES. Sony's CLIE PEG-NZ90 Fossil's SPOT watch, RCA's Lyra Audio/Video Jukebox RD2780, and SONICblue's GoVideo D2730 DVD player.

PalmSource Creating Graffiti 2: ‘Jot’ This One Down.

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Announcing the J2EE Deployment and Administration book series.

Learn More About J2EE Best Practices: Free Training Video.

CLD — The Java Clientside - Alive and Well.

Jim — That's Groovie baby!

Chiara — The thing is.

James — Java HTML parsers.

James — IDEA half-price!

Carlos — Why Java is Better than .NET, Reasons #11 to #25.

Sam — Two Weeks Notice.

Scott — Blogging Utility: Source Code Formatting for Bloggers.

Ted — Erik asks about J2EE Security.

SonicBlue Product Plans for 2003. ReplayTV ,Rio ,GoVideo, etc.

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FreeMarker 2.2 pre1, a Java-based template engine.

Jeremy — Apple Responds. Wow. Me too, Dave is incredible. Apple should clone him.

Java 2 Software Development Kit 1.4.1. Source Release.

Light up your life. Backlit Keyboard.

Amazon handhelds sale. CLIE PEG-SL10 is $119.59, Treo 90 is $269.99, and iPAQ 1910 is $275.99.

The first Pentium 4 ultraportable PC. Competition for the 12-inch PowerBook G4.

Fred — Why J2ME wins over C# and MS .NET.

Charles — When is a constant not a constant?

iPhoto 2.0 - First Look. ThinkSecret looks at iPhoto 2.0.

Techies challenge Microsoft. The Neo Project is designed to break the Xbox code.

My kingdom for a good timer! Reach submillisecond timing precision in Java.

Jeremy — Hyperthreading Benchmarks.

Aslak — Java programmers are idiots.

PostgreSQL 7.3.1, a robust Object-Relational DBMS.

Yesterday we brought home a new addition to the family. A short-haired female hamster that we named Six.

Vicki came up with the name, which is very appropriate since she's always trying to get out of her cage, just like he did.

As you can see from the pictures both of our cats are very interested, but she isn't scared one bit.

On January 13, 1906 — the first radio advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile.

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Dave — Safari Response: diveintomark.org.

Andy — True things.

Scott — Washington Post: Steve Case resigns.

JMP 0.26, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Patrick — Developer.com's Product of Year 2002The conclusion…

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

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Mark Watson's Blog — A great Newsweek article on diet.

Damien — Feedreader went Free Software.

Wireless Java competition organized by Siemens. Download the Toolkit for Java cellphones, develop an application and get some prizes…

Symbian not endangered by Linux. Symbian though is jointly owned by Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Samsung, Panasonic, Fujitsu, and others.

Diego — spaces-alpha 1.7.

Alan — JBoss eating in their own kitchen?

David — Java Best Practices … from 1969?

Rickard — What is AOP?

Russ — Tom's Moblog.

RCA's personal video player. The RD2780 has a 20GB hard drive, and a 3.5-inch LCD screen.

ProGuard 1.5, a free Java class file shrinker and obfuscator.

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Alan — Has anyone used BEA's jRockit?

Joseph — PortalWizard Data Storage.

Joe — Jakarta should absorb OpenSymphony.

Tobias — Proposal Of Marriage.

Martin — I was a JCA martyr.

Russ — What if the Italians designed mobile phones?.

Simon — Hep/Roller HOW TO:.

Werner — JBoss : eating your own dog food.

First round goes to Lexmark in DMCA toner battle. Defendant to stop making chip.

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Mark — How to hide CSS from Safari: solution.

Chiara — Flirting with Prevayler.

Fred — Desktop Java Applications-They Are Out There!

RIAA defaced -again! Crappy New Year.

JImage Mosaic, full featured image mosaic with support for plugins.

Windows beats Mac in digital file transfers, in virtually all of the benchmarks.

JellyfiSSH 2.0.8a, SSH/Telnet login helper & bookmark utility.

Slick digital cameras pack a punch. From the Consumer Electronic Show. 

Popular Mechanics: Our Annual Editor's Choice Awards From 2003 CES.

Where the Girls Aren't. Anyone who has ever tried to pry a girl offline knows that girls like computers.

Bee Gees singer dies. Maurice Gibb died in hospital on Sunday.

JAMIT, a Java Access Modifier Inference Tool.

PCJ 1.0alpha2. Private Collections for Java.

koalaGML, the koala GUI Markup Language used to generate graphical interfaces in XML.

DocBook Docklet 0.3.3. Creates DocBook code from Java source documentation.

Russ and I have recently started to play with Groove. I had never used it before. I'm floored. It totally rocks. Move over NetMeeting.

On January 12 1966, — “Batman” debuted on ABC-TV.

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David — Java HTML parsers..

Dave — Safari Response: memeufacture.com.

David — Just Java-related blogs? Nah. No fun..

Jeremy — Palm Desktop vs. iSync/iCal and Address Book. Palm Desktop used to be known as Claris Organizer, which explains why it is so nice.

Keith — Java and Pointers and Quickies.

Matthew — Moblogging.

Impressive Martial Arts Clips. Inspired by Bruce Lee.

Matt — My First Attempt at ConvertUtils.

Pelle — Running Apache 2.0 on a John Companies server.

802.11g For The Rest Of Us? Apple's AirPort Extreme cards are compact PCI, not PCMCIA.

Microsoft vs. the World. Redmond's new competitors are really the cellphone of Scandinavia and…

Livra Worm Exploits Outlook, IE Security Flaws. Lirva.B and Lirva.C.

Glen — Open Oource and Sympathy.

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Judge narrows Sun lawsuit against Microsoft. U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz.

Eric — OptimizeIt.

Chris— Blanket commutation and Treat your customers right.

Kasia — Girl programmers.

Matt — Returned: Virtual PC 6 and Tomcat 4.1.x Tip - Contexts.

FCC's Powell declares TiVo ‘God's machine.’

Russ — T9 is AMAZING and GPRS Phones have an IP.

Sam — RssValidator Client.

Top Ten Reasons to Work at Google. Millions use Google - your ideas will make a difference.

Damien— Fiscal pressure, second approach.

DrawSWF 1.2.6, a simple drawing application written in Java.

Study: Gadget sales flat.

Linksys 802.11g wireless router on sale at Amazon. Currently the number one selling item, $133.99.

Cellphone + GPS. Garmin NavTalk GSM.

Rick — Female or Shemale?

Dave — Safari: Why KHTML?

JGraphicTools 0.0.1. alpha release.

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jEdit 4.1pre8 is now available.

Get your apps moving with Java streams.

Mark — How to hide CSS from Safari.

Andy — JavaBlogs spam.

Ted — More food for thought.

Quartz, an enterprise-class job scheduler.

Judge: Kazaa can be sued in U.S.

Ted — More food for thought.

jSyncManager 2002-12-11 pre-beta, a Java Palm handheld synchronization toolkit.

Joi — China starts to ban blogging.

Gadgets: The Kitchen Of The Future.

Ben — Font sizes.

I've updated my blog server to Tomcat 4.1.18. Very smooth upgrade.

On January 11, 1902 — “Popular Mechanics” magazine was published for the first time.

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EdenLib 1.2 Released.

Brent — Anyone figure out how to use WebCore?

Why Apple is Pulling Away From Microsoft and Can't Afford Not to Do It. Free Flight.

Fred — Introduction to Jena and RDF from IEEE Internet Computing.

Allon just told me about a neighbor who lost his entire hard disk right after accessing an authenticated FTP server with Safari. The machine froze and will no longer boot. Beware, the reported bugs may be real.

eBay evicts ‘$5M family.’ Online auction site takes down offer by family of four, saying it did not meet user guidelines.

Microsoft settles suits for $1.1 billion. California consumers have settled a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft.

JMichelle 0.9.8, Java Midori Shell, a File Manager in Java and SWT.

Glitch bungles Amazon orders. The glitch allowed people to order the Handspring Treo 300 at no charge.

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Linux coming to cell phones. A half dozen companies are developing cell phones based on the Linux operating system.

Jamit 2.0.0, a Java Access Modifiers Inference Tool.

IBM submits first SPEC jAppServer2002 Results. J2EE 1.3 benchmark. 

Matt — Weblog Moderation.

Russ — Bad Tech Mojo? No mobile email for me.

Apple posts Safari update. That was quick.

Memory Stick PRO. New Memory Stick format has 32GB maximum capacity, but will not work in most previous CLIEs.

Lock Down Those PCs: Four New Windows Worms Are On The Loose.

Raids Recover Original Beatles Tapes. Police appear to have recovered about 500 original Beatles tapes.

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In Bed with Kylie. British journalists conducted an opinion poll among British families…

Mark — What does a Trackback URI identify?

Damien — Regarding fiscal pressure…

Judge refuses to dismiss Microsoft cases. “I am satisfied there are sufficient allegations as to federal antitrust claims…”

Amazon to decide soon on free shipping. CEO Jeff Bezos said Friday.

Cloud hangs over Macworld's future. Apple Computer has said it won't make the move to Boston.

Chiara — way too weird.

Matt — Red Hat 8.1 In April and Revocable Open Source Licenses.

Can you name the largest corporation in the world? Exxon-Mobil, General Motors & IBM.

Scott — Mark on Buffy.

How does Safari REALLY stack up? Currently, there are enough browsers out there for the Mac.

Fred — Java and Linux: From JDJ and The PDA Profile for J2ME is out!

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Tech Tip: Using Charsets and Encodings.

Tech Tip: Using Reflection To Create Class Instances.

The JAXB API. Java Architecture for XML Binding.

Tomcat 4.0.x Security Vulnerability. A security vulnerability has been confirmed to exist in Apache Tomcat 4.0.x releases…

FAQ: How do I format a Date in RFC-822 Format?

Laszlo — Re: Why Java is Better than .NET.

David — Linkback extractor.

Markus — Almost real pointers in Java.

Dave — Safari: Before Sending E-mail…

Joe — RSSLibJ should be usable now.

Andy— Rant: Don't use JSPs to output binary files.

David — IntelliJ IDEA build #691 is available.

Carlos — Why Java is Better than .NET, Reasons #11 to #25.

Matt — Weblog APIs.

Cedric — Mysterious language.

Patrick — Apple reinventing the wheel for SVG in Keynote.

Sam — RSS Trackback module.

Simon — .NET viable on non-Windows platforms?

Scott — Why You Don't Want to Go On Safari.

Lance — More credit than his due?

Bill — Foaf is not just about XML.

JGAP 0.31, Java genetic algorithms package.

Javassist 2.3p, a Load-time reflective system for Java.

Jikes RVM 2.2.0, IBM's Research Java Virtual Machine.

JavaDICT 1.2, a server for the DICT protocol.

JWap, a pure Java WAP protocol stack.

Handspring wants to be RIM compatible. Handspring wants to work with rival Research In Motion.

W3C's latest standard: Scripting's swansong? DOM Level 2.

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Dave — Safari Respone: diveintomark.org.

James — Processing XML Data.

Keith — Quickies.

Steven — Bladvertising.

Patrick — Personal Proxies and Weblog Software features will percolate to Portal software.

Internet helps write the book of life. A hugely ambitious project to find and name every species on Earth within the next 25 yrs.

Kenneth — Proxy Web Browsing -- Python and Twisted.

Charles — NullPointerException.

Tom — WORA, Java, and .NET.

xReporter, a web-based database reporting framework.

Review: Python Cookbook.

AntRunner 1.6, an OpenTool for JBuilder 4 to 8 to use Ant within the IDE.

Sidekick just $49.99 at Amazon. T-Mobile Sidekick mobile communicator.

TiVo to replay on additional sets. Catching up with ReplayTV.

Final ‘Daredevil’ trailer online. Elektra is f.i.n.e.

On January 10 1863, the 1st underground railway opened in London.

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Is there Java at this Macworld Expo? Yes, there is, but it's really only one session in the Developer track.

Joe — Struts and the Wafer Project and JBoss: I feel your pain, sort of.

Jeff — JarSpy presentation at St. Louis Java User Group.

David — Lego P0rn (hee hee).

Ovidiu — The Hacker FAQ.

MSN Messenger suffers another outage. Here we go again.

Intel promotes the wireless home network. Intel CEO Craig Barrett sounded striking like a networking boss.

Fred — The Micro Java Network.

Lance — Ooo, I like this idea.

Sony offers vision of ‘reborn TV’. The television is going reborn as the digital entertainment centre in the home…

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Mark — Should Safari be intentionally buggy?

Erik — J2EE security - am I missing something?

Niel — Agree or Disagree.

Gadget takes iTunes to the living room. $200 HomePod.

Jeremy — java.lang.NullPointerException.

Joi — The future of moblogging and open standards.

Michael — Palm Zire.

Give us this day our daily SMS. Free spam from the Vatican. :-)

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Sybase EAServer sets new SPECjAppServer2001 Records. Sybase released their latest benchmark results, and they are quite impressive.

Dave — Safari Response: diveintomark.org Problem #1.

Brent — NetNewsWire and HTML rendering and Safari notes.

Matt — OutBlog 0.1 Released.

Russ — Lessons Learned: Aportis Shuts Down.

Ted — Some interesting links.

Lance — Sorry for the disruption.

Werner — JBoss.org … what's that site running ??

jCIFS 0.7.0, a client implementation of SMB/CIFS in Java.

Java Client for Dict 0.1, a client for Dict servers written in Java.

Java Psion Link, JPL 2.0 alpha 1.

Microsoft Changes Windows .NET Server Name. Windows Server 2003.

Apple releases QuickTime 6.1, delivers quality and performance enhancement for audio, video, and full screen playback.

Macworld Expo Best of Show winners announced. Apple's 12" and 17" PowerBook G4s…

JellyfiSSH 2.0.8, SSH/Telnet login helper & bookmark utility.

Tech comeback: Here at long last? Are big corporations finally opening up their wallets for some high-tech purchases?

Introduction to Thin Client Framework, Part 1 & Part 2.

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Is SOAP Easy Enough in Java?

Dave — Safari Newsflash: versiontracker.com.

Bob — I'm not on crack.

David — IntelliJ build #690 available.

Niel — My two cents about Java.blogs.

Anyone care to test for this Safari bug? Option-clicking on a download link in Safari may result in erasing the contents the Home folder on your hard drive.

c|net: “Macintosh: An Acquired Taste.”

The Mini-PC. A new half-size laptop that weighs less than a pound.

Fred — JavaWordl Is Misinformed. And misspelled too. ;-)

Motorola ups the ante. Six surprisingly stylish new cellphones from Motorola.

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Java+ Preprocessor 1.1, a Java preprocessor.

Ken — Personal Proxy doomed?.

BitTorrent, automated P2P distributed file download tool. Very cool!

JSch 0.0.11, a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

Viva las gadgets: CES comes to town.

Talk for techies: The .NET Show.

JSP Code Generator for Dynamic XML Output. Devsphere XML JSP Tag Library.

JForma 1.1 is now available from SQL Technology.

Chris — Well, I'm not as impressed with Radio's outliner/OPML directory maker thing…

Jason — RSSLIBJ Accepted to SourceForge.

Matt — WS-Reliability.

JFormular, a form based MCV-App Framework.

Java-Readline, a port of GNU Readline for Java.

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David — Avril Lavigne is a computer virus.

Rick — Another New Web Services Specification.

Simon — Decimal Arithmetic.

Jconsole 1.40,  a management console for JBoss.

nl.hen.ict Java Package 1.6, a collection of Java packages including assertions and Unix system calls.

Stewart tops Web list of annoying celebs. Martha Stewart.

Sony debuts feature-laden CLIE PEG-NZ90.

Patrick — eWeek reviews Websphere 5 and Sun One 7.

An intro to Extreme Programming for the rest of us.

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Simon — jEdit macros with Jython.

Changing WiFi physics: Vivato's “antenna for every packet” switch.

Crime soars in Pope's back yard.

Ben — bejeesus, that was quick.

Ian — Limited Liability Partnerships.

Joi — Time Europe poll shows US as biggest threat to peace.

Cooper named Homeland Dept. CIO. Steve Cooper.

“Desknote” laptops power up. Consumers are prompting a new trend in mobile computing…

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Simon let me know that yesterday's reference to jPython 2.1 is over a year old. Thanks.

Web services enhanced for Mac developers. 4D enhancements for Web services.

Alan — JavaMail failing to decode attachment. A bug?

Jeppe — FeedExpress.

Dave — Safari Commentary: The UA String.

Jim — Scott Meyers interviews.

Jason — FOAF hit the bigtime and RSS Lib site page.

Carlos — Why Java is Better than .NET, Reasons #6 to #10.

Sam — Pingback server.

Werner — Extending Eclipse : write your own plugin.

500 Songs That Shaped Rock. Back in Black.

xmlenc 0.21, a light-weight XML output library for Java .

Mozilla 1.0.2 released. Stability and security improvements.

On January 9 1902, New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public.

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Antepo Has Presence in Java. PresenceWare.

Keith — Beyond MVC.

Pat — OSUser - Overhaul.

Kenneth — Plugin List for Movabletype :: MT Plugins.

Ted — Pingback v. Trackback.

Apple retail stores offer 10% off new PowerBooks, free t-shirt.

Microsoft introduces video iPod. Teamed with Intel to create a portable video player with a 20GB hard drive and a 3.5-inch color screen.

Microsoft tackles timekeeping. New smartwatch that can wirelessly connect to a network and download data.

Fred — A Question: Where are Java SVG free Libraries? You may want to try Apache's Batik, which I've mentioned a long time ago.

Samsung i700 CDMA Pocket PC debuts. Microsoft is finally making its entry into the CDMA market.

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Russ — Hello Moto?

Einstein Was Right. The speed of gravity matches the speed of light.

Paying For The Future. Leonard J. Heckwolf, Chairman of the NACHA Board of Directors.

Dave — Safari Newsflash: CSS1 Test Suite.

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API 1.17, a light weight API, clean room JCE, JCE/JCA provider.

Safari, Customization, and David Hyatt.

MSN links with Paul Allen's Charter. Microsoft's MSN content service expands its relationship with Paul Allen's cable Internet service.

Microsoft frees up Freestyle. Windows XP Media Center Edition.

Jython 2.1 released, an implementation of Python written in 100% Pure Java.

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Dave — Safari Response: meyerweb.com.

Ted — No Explorer!

JGAP, a genetic algorithms package written in Java.

Doing More With XML Schemas (part 1).

HP Unveils New Notebooks. Compaq Presario 2100 and 2500.

Servlet Best Practices, Part 3.

Object-Relational Mapping with Apache Jakarta OJB.

Creating a Web Application with Ant and Tomcat 4.

Sam — IDE2BLog.

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IECanvas. Embed Internet Explorer or Mozilla within your program using a Java canvas.

IBM developerWorks Live in New Orleans. Save $400.

Shark, Java On Steroids (Java#) — Link Collection Released.

JSOS 3.20 released. Servlets Office Suite.

Flux 4.1, a job scheduler and file distribution component.

Free ‘J2EE and XML Development’ eBook PDF Download.

Mark — Small world.

Glen — Where Did Soap 1.2 Come From!.

Glen — Where Did Soap 1.2 Come From!

David — Boolean.getBoolean(String name).

Matt — mod_rendezvous.

Darren — Hiring Hackers.

Safari breaks single day download record for Apple. 300,000 times in the last 24 hours.

High-Tech Job Cuts Drop In 2002. Number of jobs eliminated fell by 33%.

Maher: Show ‘to keep everybody honest’. New show is set to debut on February 21.

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Jason — Basic Java RSS Feed Library.

Eric — Java Development on the Zaurus PDA.

Matt — Apple's X11.

Developers make X11 for OS X announcements. OpenOffice.org and OpenOSX

Company unveils satellite TV for cars. 300 channels of DirecTV satellite programming and 50 channels of radio.

JLinksys Logger, a platform independent alternative to the Linksys Logviewer application.

Intel introduces Centrino. Banias.

Larry Ellison: Oracle to run on jRockit Server VM from Intel?

Mark — In brief: 8 Jan 2003.

Jeremy — Broadband Must be a Two Way Street.

Keith — One of the magic words of flexible programming…

Karl — Like Kryptonite To Stupid.

Russ — Camera Phone Blogs.

Java Parser/Parser Generator 2.1.1, a Java-based parser and parser generator package/utility.

J 0.18.0, a text editor written in Java.

Mac Messenger 1.3, MSN chat client.

PC error: ‘According to this, I'm dead’. Hospital computer makes fatal error.

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Ben — Safari Review Two.

Carlos — 101 Reasons Why Java Is Better Than .NET.

Glen — Are Java Developers Cheapskates? (cont…).

Reporter's Notebook: Woz draws a big crowd, too.

Start-up marries blogs and camera phones. Software will enable mobile phone users to create “blogs” using only their phones.

Mood at Macworld: Line's a Party.

Jobserve2RSS. So you're looking for a new programming job.

David — Eclipse SWT is inherently leak-prone?.

Sshtools, a suite of Java based SSH2 applications.

JChemPaint, a Java 2 program for drawing 2D chemical structures like those found in most chemistry textbooks.

Oracle9i JDeveloper version 9.0.3 available. For Mac OS X 10.2.2.

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I've spend most of yesterday running Safari side by side with Chimera. If Safari is any “faster” at rendering pages, it isn't by much.

I'm still puzzled by the whole thing. What is Apple trying to accomplish? Safari is not offering anything that isn't already out there.

As I asked yesterday, what's the deal with plugins? Is Adobe going to develop an Acrobat Reader plugin? Are we going to have to rely on Apple for all plugins?

Contrary to what some people have said it is not Apple's first attempt at a browser. Some of us do remember CyberDog.

Morten — Lomboz plugin.

Top 5 Data Access Methods. Five Paths to Persistence.

Time for a Truce. The .NET vs. Java battle has made for great headlines over the last year…

Automate Updates of Dynamic Web Apps. The JPublish project separates the application code from content and data.

Native PalmOS Databases. Working directly with PalmOS database files from Java is a lot less painful than it might have been.

Martin — Java GUI Testing.

Scott — Generative Programming, Aspects, and AOP.

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Matt — Struts Resume @ Sourceforge.net.

Rafe — KHTML v. Gecko.

Kenneth — Pick goes GPL for Java :: Database Before SQL.

cvs2cl.pl 2.44-1, generates GNU-style ChangeLogs for a CVS working copy.

Safari petition for tabbed browsing posted.

Not quite a video iPod. Cinema Disk from Deltron.

MS to license Media Player 9 for Linux, others? More flexible terms for its Windows Media Player 9 Digital Rights Management software.

Fujitsu 50' PDP. 50"-diagonal plasma display panel.

Motorola sees global handset market up 8-10 percent. Motorola's wireless infrastructure business lost $1.4 billion in 2001.

Dr. Bott announces "ExtendAIR" antennas for AirPort Extreme. 75 m (250 ft.) radius.

Markus — Debugging XML scripts== Pure Evil.

Ricardo — Enterprise Media Beans.

Bill — XHTML is good enough.

Dave — Safari Response: diveintomark.org.

Army unveils ‘SmarTruck II’. Big Brother hovering.

Steve — Tapestry has become an Apache project.

Tom — Free Java Tip of the Day.

Today is the eighth day of 2003. There are 357 days left in the year.

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It has been 335 days since Java 1.4 was first released and still no general availability on Mac OS X. Instead of wasting time making another incompatible browser, how about getting Java up-to-speed?

Details emerge on Burton ‘Amp’ jacket. The only electronic jacket with an integrated iPod control system.

HomeRF Working Group disbands. Long live Wi-Fi!

Patrick — Liberty Alliance may take off in 2003.

Fred — To The VCs of Silicon Valley.

Pictures from Macworld Expo.

Grammy awards 2003. Norah Jones and Avril Lavigne.

PCS Java Toolkit, a small and simple framework for building web applications similar to Jakarta's Struts.

Gadget sales seen flat in 2003. DVD players, big-screen TVs likely to be sales leaders.

Konica, Minolta plan merger by August. Major precision machine manufacturers Konica Corp. and Minolta Co. plan to merge by August.

Password Manager v2.1 Build 1 Released.

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IBM Joins Sharp Electronics To Target Handheld Linux Market. Big Blue plans to start selling software that can work with Sharp's new Zaurus SL5500 handheld device.

No. 3 Cellco J-Phone Reports 4.7mn Java Users in October 2002.

MotoCoder from Motorola helps wireless Java developers to bring innovative applications to the market.

Jeff — Velocity Eclipse Plugin!

Andy — Java lovers: Call for help. Host Video for the J2EE Container shootout.

Joey — It's Dead, Jim.

Kurt — Debugging Jelly == Pure Evil.

Beer belly ‘gene’ found. Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme.

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Some of my Safari observations:

• No tooltip support. Annoying.
• FTP directories are mounted on the desktop.
• Activity window displays page content info (images, css, etc.)
• Bookmarks cannot be showed in a sidebar.
• Does it support IE plugins? Is there a plugin API? Where do plugins go?

100 Best Companies To Work For. Quite a few tech companies…

Glen — PMD: The Java Lint.

Martin — A very wet internet protocol.

Rick — Stick it to the Record Co's for $5-$20.

exeQ, a Java ICQ Library.

Microsoft announces Mac 'trifecta'. Office Party, Office v. X Test Drive, Entourage X as a stand-alone product.

Apple drops price on 1GHz 15.2" PowerBook G4, 14.1-inch iBook. As expected.

ICANN raises concerns over VeriSign IDN change. VeriSign service is using technology contrary to Internet DNS standards.

Java News Shorts. Brief items concerning Java development.

Most CIOs Average Pay Hovers Between $200,000 And $300,000. Survey says compensation is more dependent on the size of a company than its location.

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Macromedia ships JRun 4 for Mac OS X. About time!

Alan — Great Quote on the state of software.

Ben — Safari Review.

Ben — Domino and JSP at last.

Mark — Safari review.

Apple introduces X11 for Mac OS X. Public Beta.

TiVo, Brother and Aspyr announce Rendezvous networked products. Automatic discovery and connection of devices over IP networks.

New wireless Pocket PC from Asustek. A710.

Samsung plans camcorder phone. Integrated 300,000 pixel digital camera.

Enhanced MySQL software for Mac OS X available. MySQL binary installer in “.pkg” format.

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I'm watching the live webcast of Steve Jobs delivering the Macworld Expo keynote address from Moscone Center in San Francisco.

• No video iPod, the iPod Ski Jacket instead, $499.
• Jaguar software update: QuickBooks Pro, Virtual PC 6, Digidesign Pro Tools.
• Final Cut Express: Edit like a Pro, $299.
• iPhoto 2: integration with iTunes 3 & iDVD 3, one-click enhance, retouch brush, archive to CD & DVD.
• iMovie 3: integrated with iTunes, iPhoto & iDVD, chapters, Ken Burns effect, precise audio editing.
• iDVD 3: integrated with iTunes, iPhoto & iMovie, scene selection, 22 new themes.
• iLife: iTunes 3 (free d/l), iPhoto 2 (free d/l), iMovie 3 (free d/l), iDVD 3 ($49 retail, includes all other apps)
• Safari: Turbo Web Browser for Mac OS X, based on open source KHTML. Beta release, free download.
• Keynote: presentation application, slide-based with themes and transitions support, PowerPoint import and export. $99. Free copy to the all keynote attendees.
• Titanium 17 inch Powerbook: less than 1 inch closed, fiber optic keyboard back-lighting with ambiant light sensors. 6.8lbs. 1GHz G4, 1MB L3, FireWire 400/800. Bluetooth. Airport Extreme 54Mbs 802.11g. QuickBooks. $3299.
• Airport Extreme Basestation: 802.11g, USB Printing. $199.
• 12 inch Powerbook: 867Mhz G4, Combo drive, Bluetooth, Airport Extreme ready ($99 module). QuickBooks. $1799. $1999 w/ SuperDrive.

Not a word on the PowerMacs or iMacs. I guess, as Russ put it, Apple is slowly becoming Toshiba West.

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Russ — Quick Nokia 7650 Thoughts.

Jim — Wrong kind of snow.

Mark — Dead Airport.

Matt — Upgrading to Struts 1.1b3 - Tips and Tomcat 4.1.18 + Apache 2.0.43 + SSL.

Apple Developer posts PostgreSQL tutorial.

IRS: Ease tax-filing pain; pay on Net.

Caribbean island for sale on eBay. Minimum bid of $3 million.

E Viva Espana! For Russ. ;-)

Hacking Linux Exposed, Second Edition.

Macromedia Announces ColdFusion MX For Top J2EE Servers.

Alan — P800 … email at last!

Anthony — BSF on Apache.

Kevin — Visual Thesaurus.

Ken — Compiler framework creates Java-like languages.

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Damien — Chora, a CVS viewer.

Gillette Orders 500 Million RFID Tags. Purchase could move the tags into mainstream commercial use.

Viewsonic to sell desktop PCs. Better know as a maker of computer monitors.

Scott — Pasta: Package Structure Analysis Tool.

Pat — Calling all Orion users.

Yahoo passes paid subscriber goal. 2 million paying subscribers.

Anthony — JPublish in JavaPro.

Create your own type 3 JDBC driver. Part 2, Part 3.

Install your Java programs with InstallAnywhere.

Helen: JavaHelp Authoring Tool.

Using EMF, Eclipse Modeling Framework.

Brian — Pooled EJB Objects.

Ian — RDF Templates Draft 1.

Jeremy — Spatial (R-Tree) Indexes in MySQL 4.1.

Carlos — Sing Li On Integrating JMX And OpenNMS.

Matt — NTP.

Philip — bzero 0.14 available.

Scott — Liberty Alliance: Majority of members plan to implement in 2003.

Simon — JobStats.

JLense 0.2.0, Eclipse plugins that make it easier for Java developers to create world-class, thin-client.

TM4J 0.8.0 alpha 3, a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java.

Teen cleared in landmark DVD case, Norwegian teenager cleared of DVD piracy charges in trial brought by Hollywood studios.

JPedal 1.8.2, a Java PDF Extraction Decoding Access Library.

On January 7 1782, The first U.S. commercial bank, Bank of North America, opened in Philadelphia.