L'Happy Nuevo Année

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Happy New Year!
Bonne Année!
New Year 2003 Feliz Año Nuevo!
L'Shannah Tovah!

Réveillon...

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

blogCam — Happy New Year!

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

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

blogDarren — Happy New Year.

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blogRuss — Happy New Year!

blogFred — When You Reach Bottom Climb Out.

macPredictions for Apple in 2003.

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

technologyGizmodo's gadget picks for 2002.

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

blogAnthony — The Year In Review.

blogMatt — Happy New Year!!

blogJoe — Benediction for the New Year.

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blogAnthony — Pay for Roller?

blogNiel — Last Post for 2002.

blogScott — Goodbye 2002 - Sun's Out!

blogLance — UnFree Roller.

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

technologyGadget Picks: the Best of 2002.

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

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

blogJeremy — Apache logging directly to MySQL.

blogKarl — Happy New Years Everyone.

macQuickLink Mobile connects Macs to Internet.

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

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

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

blogPat — Why do all app servers suck?.

blogDavid — A not so brief history of Roller.

developmentReview of the Year: Application development tools.

technologyComputer Engineers Optimistic About 2003.

newsOverrated and underreported stories of 2002. 2002 media follies.

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

blogIan — Happy New Year.

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

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

javaSecure Data Manager v1.0 released.

javaJarSpy 0.7.3 released.

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

blogAlan — P800 … last day of the year reflection.

blogDitzel — Looking for NetBeans/Sun ONE Studio Resources?

blogJoe — It's Time to Open Java..

blogBrent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b4.

blogJames — Experimental Jabber Transport for Apache Axis 1.0.

blogGreg — Happy New Year 2003.

blogJim — Happy New Year!

blogKeith — Programming languages as user interface.

blogMatt — Notable Freshmeat Releases.

blogNiel — Happy New Years.

blogMatt — Struts 1.1 Beta 3 Released.

blogRuss — 12 Grapes and Pizza.

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

blogFred — Blogging Services Donations.

blogDamien — Happy new Year's Eve.

macMacs making music: From Twisted Sister to Sesame Street.

familyWe'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.

Dazed

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java2002 ONJava Top 5.

blogDiego — lord of the geeks.

macApple's 10-K Filing.

pcTechTV's Tablet PC picks. Toshiba Portege 3500.

blogDuncan — WiFi in Europe.

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

blogScott — Is Google on vacation too?

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javaTutorial: Fine-tuning Abstraction.

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

blogHenri — Cynical Java MS view.

blogUgo — Great customer service.

blogBob — jAdvise 0.2.3 and Contributing to Javassist.

blogDuncan — Happy 2005!

blogJeremy — Yahoo! Weblogs.

blogRuss — Ericsson: TelecomTV.

blogSam — Command line RSS validation.

blogCharles — java.blogs bug. Same problem here.

javaJBooks, a Java-based personal finance application.

javaDevelopment 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.

newsCareerJournal: How to Get Employers To Read Your Resume.

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

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

AdultThe Best & Worst of Sex in 2002.

linuxCVS 1.11.4, the Concurrent Versioning System.

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

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

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

macApple files color-changing device patent.

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

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

blogHenri — commons-logging Taglib and Useful snippets.

blogMartin — Java development with Ant.

blogTed — JNLP and security.

blogMike — NetTime.

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personalI'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.

javaJBuilder Version 8 is less inspiring than its predecessors.

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

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

booksReview: Red Hat Linux 8 Bible.

blogUgo — Broken books.

blogBen — Things to do with RSS 1.0.

blogCameron — The Perfect Parser: i.

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

blogJames — Eclipsing .Net.

blogMatt — Hibernate 1.2.1 Released!

blogRuss — MMS = SMIL.

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

blogGlen — Personal License for IntelliJ Idea.

blogRobert — JXTA Comes of Age.

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

macMacWorld San Francisco 2003 Rumors.

netBritney loses out to PlayStation. According to Yahoo. 

technologyWireless predictions for 2003.

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

blogErik — Customer Service.

blogMatt — News Roundup.

macQuickbooks 5.0 is fatally flawed.

javaJSwat 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.

Let There Be Light...

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netBiggest IP cases of 2002.

blogDavid — "blog entry" vs. "blog".

blogMark — Million dollar markup.

mobileCDMA Pocket PC Phone.

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

blogKarl — Year In Review.

blogRoss — Microsoft and Java.

blogRuss — UPP Followup and UPP Followup 2.

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

blogJon— JIRA 2.0.

javaICE, a platform for corporate portals development.

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

mobileMobile P2P messaging. Part 1. 

javaJAlbum 3.0 a free web photo album generator released.

blogCameron — Coherence: One Year On.

blogMatt — WSDL Wizard.

blogRuss — Wireless MP3 Magic.

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

newsTop 25 Censored Stories of 2001-2002.

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

newsJust 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…

moviesMovies 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.

Flu!

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

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

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

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

blogBrent — Holy Shit.

blogMathias — XDoclet 1.2.0 Beta 2 has landed!

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

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

javaPCS Java Toolkit, yet another web application framework.

pcNew futuristic Keyless Keyboard. CES 2003 Winner.

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javaJava+ Preprocessor, a free open source Java preprocessor.

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

developmentParasoft Releases New Database Testing Tool. DataRecon.

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

blogMatt — Evolution 1.2.1.

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

javaTM4J, a topic map engine implemented entirely in Java.

javaJDebugTool 2.6.3 can now launch an External Text Editor.

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

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

pcAd-Aware 6 by February.

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

netKevin Mitnick can go back online next month.

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

blogRobert — So long XBox, I hardly knew you.

blogSteven — Wikis can look good.

blogTed — The Five Types of Resource Managers.

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

¡Viva La Republica!

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developmentWriting A User Manual (part 1).

developmentTopCoder is fast becoming the major league for programming competitions.

java A First Look at JavaServer Faces.

pcTop ten desktops of 2002. iBuyPower Value XP PC.

pdaIs this the new iPAQ?.

blogBrent — Top Ten Apps.

blogJulian — San Francisco bans Segways on sidewalks, bike paths.

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personalWe lost power around 12:30pm. It just came back a few minutes ago, close to 6 hours later. I'll have to check the servers when I get back home. I'm posting remotely as the whole family pretty much ended up at Vicki's brother.

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booksBook review: Core J2ME Technology & MIDP.

javaSwingScroller, a stand-alone utility allowing quick-scrolling in Java Swing applications.

blogDiego — the first human clone?

blogErik — Coming Soon.

blogAndy — GCJ JVM?.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire Pro 1.0b3.

blogScott — java.lang Dependecy Analysis.

blogEric — jEdit Plugins Now Categorized: Download 4.1pre7.

blogMatt — A Java Christmas, Sourceforge News and Creative Commons Weblog.

blogRuss — Universal Personal Proxy.

blogScott — O'Reilly: Interview with David Pogue.

blogFred — Funny Referrers-Dave Winer.

javaJPhotoBrush 2.3, an image editing and enhancement application, making extensive use of Swing and Java's 2D capabilities.

netA Peek at History, Piracy-Free. British Pathe has put more than 3,500 hours of its old newsreels online.

musicTwisted Sister Ready To Rock Again. We're Not Gonna Take It.

pdaNew Zaurus Developer Website: Zaurus DevNet.

On December 27 1978, Spain adopted a new constitution and became a democracy after 40 years of dictatorship.

Happy Kwanzaa!

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blogJeremy — opml2html.pl -- a simple blogroller.

netZoe Intertwingle 0.3.3, a unique email client that works through a Web browser.

mobileAT&T delays 3G, plans limited service by end of 2004.

technologyGNU Christmas Gift: Free Eclipse.

javaJaxup 1.0beta2, a Java XML Update engine.

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javaJTimeTracker, a personal time tracker.

newsXM Satellite Radio afloat with cash infusion.

mobileFast 3G service coming to US cell phones.

booksSample chapter — J2ME Application Development: MIDP Programming.

pdaLinux PDA Sharp Zaurus SL-C700 now available in US.

javaSystinet Releases Web App and Services Platform, WASP 4.5.

blogRoman — Unlimited Internet.

blogAndy — “Who Cares!??”, or The 12-step program to not replying to your email.

blogFred — Collaboration Services-The Real Web Services for 2003.

blogLance — Oh My God.

netElectric scooter on a tear at Amazon. Segway's Human Transporter.

netSales tax on Internet may help states. Hogwash!

newsA happy new year for hacker Mitnick. Schmoozing with Kevin Spacey.

music‘Smooth’ Ranked As No. 1 Song Of Rock Era. Santana, Toni Braxton and Los del Rio.

booksEJB Cookbook ‘Transactions’ Chapter Posted for Public Review.

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macApple's Present: iTunes Supports Ogg Files.

blogBen — First Annual Half-Past-Midnight-on-Christmas-Day Bookmarks-Emptying.

newseBay item 1791801094: Own the entire rustic town of Bridgeville, California.

pdaDigital pens. Wirelessly send emails and faxes.

blogScott — JVM for .NET.

blogTobias — Reactor-Acceptor-Connector.

blogKeith — You gotta see this.

blogMatt — Early & Adopter.

blogRuss — El Gordo: $1.7 Billion in Cash Prizes.

blogFred — Microsoft Monos Friend or Enemy.

blogScott Thill — Ten Reasons Why American Culture Didn't Suck in 2002…

blogTom — Waste.

javaSecure FTP Bean 2.0, a Java bean for performing secure FTP transfers.

javaEclipse EditorList Plug-in, an editor manager for Eclipse that presents editors in convenient views.

mobileCES 2003 Innovations Award Honoree: Jabra BT200 Wireless Headset.

newsWho hit the jackpot? Single winner. $314.9 million.

javaGet more control over Java console.

On December 26 1982, The Man of the Year in TIME magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.