'Tis the Day...
We're taking the rest of the day off. We just finished wrapping the last gift and are slowly getting ready to head out for an early dinner at Vicki' sister. Happy Xmas Eve!
Apple Win32 to OS X Porting Guide.
Brian — Objects Aren't Polymorphic!
Chris — Reading blogs.
Matt — Cayenne Java persistence framework.
Confirmation: Entourage X is sold separately from Office v.X.
Shakeel — Development for Developers.
Dvorak misses the mark. John has been missing the mark for years. Long gone are the rebel days.
JPassGen 1.04, a password generator which can create strong and secure passwords.
Owner-triggered ‘smart guns’ get nod. I just can't believe the technology doesn't exists yet.
Building WML Gadgets: A Calendar.
Moviegoers getting giant look at ‘Hulk’. Apparently Hulk looks good.
Safeguard your XML-based messages. Create secure Web services with Apache XML Security.
Bob — So-called ‘source code’.
Kieft — Using .NET to spite Java.
Matt — Blogging vs. journalism.
Fred — Suns Two Towers of Microsoft Leverage.
Kenneth— Screen Scraper Java Screen Scraping Tool.
Amazon comes top in poll. Amazon, eBay and DooYoo. Doo Who?
Bring on the Web services war. Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign's CEO.
SanDisk, Micron settle legal spat. The dispute began in October 2001 when SanDisk accused Micron of infringing a patent covering flash memory.
Review: Palm's Tungsten T Handheld. Tungsten T gives Clié a run for your money.
The Top Science Stories of 2002. It's been a productive year for science and technology.
Sony Ships First Terabyte Tape Drives. S-AIT.
On December 24 1865, Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
Rockin' the Casbah
TinkerTool 2.32, a utility to change hidden Mac OS X settings.
DocletAssistant, a content-assistant for XDoclet and Eclipse.
Kmart: Bankruptcy to end in 2003. Doubtful, analysts say.
jMechanic v0.3.0 Java Profiling Eclipse Plugin.
Naked Objects 1.0 Released.
Andy — Nobody but Nobody does Porn like IBM.
Matt— Monday Linkfest.
Glen— Blogger API. Works as it should for me.
Julian — Percentage of Online Users (by Country).
New Method benchmark available. Java and C#.
Servlet Best Practices, Part 2.
Your First Micro Java Game.
Java Media Development with QuickTime for Java.
Glen — Intellij Idea Tips.
AppleScript 1.9.1 for Mac OS X.
File Buddy 7.2.6, extensive desktop & file/folder editing & task tool.
Dantz Retrospect 5.0 Driver Update 3.3.
'80s Rockers Return To The Road. Styx, Kansas, and Waite. Scorpions, Whitesnake, and Dokken.
Alan — So Microsoft have to bundle Java … ITS THE LAW!
Linus Is A Hero. 365 modern saints or heroes. Also includes Tim Berners-Lee and Steve Jobs.
Andres — And the ‘hack of the year’ prize goes to….
Online shopping passes $11 billion. Between the first of November and last week.
CNET's Top 100 of 2002. CNET's list of the 100 best products of the past year.
Kevin — Protest against INS Kidnappings.
Rogers — Writing for O'Reilly Network, Marc Hedlund slams JSP…
Euro DCMA Fails. European Digital Copyright Law.
Jason — Jawa programmers.
Carlos — Google and Babelfish The Universal Translators.
CodeWarrior for Palm OS 9.0. Now shipping.
Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section.
‘Bitter Session States’ Chapter Available for Public Review.
New EJB 2.1 Column: ‘The Enhanced Message-Driven’ Bean.
Diego — type a password, go to jail.
British queen loses out on cyber name. newzealand.com.
SALTYT's Model of the Year. She is cool. She is young. She is sexy as hell. She can't model bras, so she'll just drop the top, thank you very much.
Jim — Should I Stay Or Should I Go.
Microsoft plots Macromedia coup against Java. Analysts believe Macromedia is ripe for acquisition.
Laid-off techies work for stock options but no paycheck. Techies work for hope, not cash.
Xml Test Suite, an XML-based tool for testing complex Web applications using XML.
Mark — Essential OS X.
Patrick — Oreilly Network prepares to publish three excerpts …
Glen — The JBuilder That Ate Tokyo.
Jason — It's a Java Christmas.
Eric — Generating Javadoc From Ant.
Jeremy — Java, day #3: JDBC, MySQL, and a Rant.
Robert — Eclipse 2.1 M4 -- Get It!.
David — Santa Stopped By US Border Patrol.
SOAP 1.2 spec takes next step. May be completed by March.
Teaching eBay how free software licensing works. GPL, EFF and Richard Stallman.
Joost STX processor, a Java implementation of the Streaming Transformation for XML (STX) language.
Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002. Every year brings new mistakes.
Hi-tech billboards preview future of advertising. Driving spam is coming.
Sendo sues Microsoft over ‘stolen’ secrets. Now, that explains a few things.
What Tablet PCs Get Right — And Wrong. Is it a better PDA? Not really. So is it a laptop replacement? Not really…
Online Apple Reseller Donates iBook To Internet Fraud Victim. Jason Part X.
Yahoo finds Inktomi. For about $235 million.
JForma 1.1, a free JSP tag library designed to speed up development by requiring little Java or SQL programming.
In-Depth Look At Matrix Previews. It's going to be big, maybe even bigger than Spider-man.
Data security in mobile Java applications.
On December 23 1922 The British Broadcasting Corporation began daily news broadcasts.
Two Towers
Diego — rsd. Really Simple Discoverability.
Alan — P800 major cool feature just discovered …
Ben — Mod_cc final(ish) draft.
Cameron — More on my wish-list.
Erik — Jaguar Here I Come!
Translated into English. Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus C-700.
Keith — How to write better code.
Rick — Signs Your Company Is Failing.
Matt — The LWN 2002 Linux Timeline.
Karl — Time Makes The Right Choice for Person(s) of the Year.
Sam — Validate your RSS with SOAP.
Fred — White House Web Security Plan.
Forbes speculates on Macworld Expo announcements. That's it?
‘American Idol’ Single 2002 Best Seller. Kelly Clarkson.
Alan — P800 Battery life …
Matt — Flock 0.6 Released.
Scott — Seattle Times: Online banking starts to click.
Fred — Gnutella2.
JBidwatcher 0.9pre5, an eBay tool for bidding, tracking, sniping, and auction management.
Java Outline Editor 1.8.10, an outliner editor and MDI implemented in Swing.
The King Of The MP3 Players. I was saying the same thing a year ago. Even Costco sells them too.
We went to see LOTR: The Two Towers yesterday. I wasn't really taken by it, pretty much exactly like I felt watching the previous one. Vicki, on the other hand, really liked it.
1 Year + 2 Days
J2eeBuilder, a library of generic implementations of J2EE patterns.
javancss4eclipse, an Eclipse IDE Plug-in showing code metrics. Based on JavaNCSS.
Ear damage by MP3? Risks of neuroacoustically datareduced music.
JXMLEditor 1.5, a java component for editing XML document with a royalty free license for registered product.
Cypress, an Open-Source CSS Parser.
Henri — Complex Numbers in Java.
Andy — Apache Wiki.
Brent — NetNewsWire Pro public beta. Way cool!
Matt — JavaBlogs Outage. They are back up now.
Fred — The DRM wars over Patents have started.
P2P: Kazaa looks untouchable. Unlike Napster, Kazaa's Global Nature Defies Legal Attacks.
'Friends' stay together. Why am I not surprised?
Survey: Is your company planning to migrate to .NET in 2003?
Danny — Jabber FOAF Utilities and FOAF Hackery from Leigh Dodds.
It's au revoir to 35-hour week. 35 heures par semaine.
Is That a TiVo Under the Tree? Still struggling.
Fred — ShareMe Motto.
kernel 2.4.18-19.8.0.i386 for Red Hat 8.0.
Adam — iCrap.
WebSphere Studio Site Developer version 5.0 for Linux. Just released.
Eric Smith appears on CNN's Connie Chung. eBay scam buster.
Next-Gen Pop-up Ads. Kick through ads.
Alan — Don't believe everything you read … sound advice.
Emmanuel — [Book Review] Struts Kick Start : 9/10.
Cameron — Java 3.
Jim — More FOAF goodies.
Andy — HotJava EOL or Apache HotJava?
Keith — Son of a bitch.
Matt — VPN on Mac OSX.
Matt — Hibernate Workarounds.
Russ — My Christmas Post. Will Russ really keep silent for the next 4 days? The saga continues…
JBoss 3.2.0 Beta3, an Enterprise JavaBeans application server.
Chimera 0.6 browser gets more features.
We're going to see The Two Towers around noon today. It has been exactly 367 days since we saw the first one.
On December 21 1913. The “New York World” Sunday edition included a crossword puzzle as an added feature of the "Fun" supplement. It was the first crossword puzzle to be published.
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
UML2EJB, a UML to EJB code generator.
EzPOP 1.1 released.
Keith — Firefly. Just a little upset. ;-)
Fred — Wrong Predictions.
Morgan — infamy. I think the DBTags are pretty crappy, right now. Too complex for the novice, hardly enticing to the expert.
Red Hat In The Black for Q3. Only took 5 years.
Matt — Java + XML + Web Services = Profit!!!
Has AOL Lost Its Sex Drive? Now, the old media bedfellow is pushing AOL to stop its pimping ways.
Russ — Ben, Jerry, Chocolate Chip Cookies and Me. Another chapter in Russ' love/hate relationship with sugar.
2003 Macworld events parties site online.
Outlook to Lotus: Let's talk.
Iona sets sights on Web services. XMLBus, Inferno, etc.
Interview with Sun VP of Web Services. Mark Bauhaus.
Sklyarov Discusses the ElcomSoft Trial.
Diego — looking back. A year to forget.
Brent — nocards.org.
85 Big Ideas that Changed the World.
Enterprise Best Practices: Excerpt One.
Niel— JSP Doesn't Suck.
Karl — JSP Does NOT Suck!.
Swang, an XML java object graph persistence engine and application language.
Simon — 36 hour drinking.
Niel — SAP Integration Using Java.
Matt — Red Hat to Drop Sparc, Alpha Support.
Danno — Eclipse does Swing! Danno's having phun. ;-)
Chris — One IDE for the team.
New Microsoft MicroPDA Coming. A new breed of wireless PDA-phone.
Can Silicon Valley stay relevant?
Evan — Eclipse M4.
JDebugTool Foundation Edition, now freeware.
ej-technologies releases exe4j 1.1, a Java exe maker.
Software 7 releases Helen 1.1, a JavaHelp authoring Tool.
JCTerm, an SSH2 terminal emulator.
JavaShelf, provides information on Java books you can order online.
Fabian — Are You a Prostitute or Are You a Consultant?
Anselm — Lesbian GNU. Gotta love that name!
Apple files SEC form 10-K Annual Report.
Apple Developer Tools December. SMP support…
Pi. Thanks, Russ.
Ben — New Years Revolutions - Things you can do for the good of the net.
Matt — Hibernate Reverse Engineering Tool.
Fred — JAIN Hits prime time. Java Access Intelligence Network.
Scott — Did Your Blog Cost You Your Job?
DirectX 9.0 released.
Travel No-Nos: Monkeys in your pants.
Notable Apple Knowledge Base updates. All about 10.2.3.
Sybase to acquire AvantGo. For $38 millions.
On December 20 1803, The United States purchased the Louisiana Territories from France for $15 million.
Full Moon
Struts in Action. Part 5: Validating user input.
PC Mag: Gateway Ad. Titanium PowerBook featured.
‘Rings’ sets December one-day box office record.
Matt — Russell "Bluetooth" Beattie.
New Java Master Promotes Scalability, Runs on Any OS.
Building Applications with WebSphere Studio Visual Editor and Java Beans - Part 1: Creating Your First Applet.
Developing accessible GUIs with Swing.
Implementing Web services with the WSTK v3.3: Part 2.
Using IBM Web Performance Tools.
Using Mobile Devices with the WSTK.
EJB best practices: The fine points of data validation.
JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar , Part 2.
From black boxes to enterprises, Part 3: Hands-on JMX integration.
Tomcat 4.1.18 has just been released, and includes a fix for an object recylcing bug which could be exploited by a denial of service attack.
Russ — J2EE 1.4 Beta Released.
FreeGuide TV Guide. Download TV listings from the Internet, view them offline, create a personalised TV guide and choose favourites.
David — Java 2 SDK 1.4.1 DP8 for OSX available.
Cable, TV Makers Agree on Digital Standard.
Is Apple growing leaner? 180 employees laid off in the fourth quarter.
‘Taken’ takes Sci Fi to new heights. I didn't watch any of it.
Golden Globe nominations announced. “Chicago”, The “Rings” and “Gang”.
Java interaction with databases boosted. Kodo JDO 2.4 upgrade.
Jeff — New Eclipse 2.1 Milestone out.
InstallAnywhere 5.0.6. Enterprise, Standard, Mac OS X and Now! editions.
XP Shell Vulnerability Threatens Systems.
O'Reilly offers 802.11 Security reference.
Can the Brash Brothers Bounce Back? Sun's Scott McNealy and Oracle's Larry Ellison.
Oracle plan exposes Java rift. JSR 198.
Amazon Seeks '2-Click' Shopping Cart Patent. Here we go again…
David — The Two Towers.
Dominic — JavaShelf.com.
Greg — What Made My Day.
Russ— Kim Possible Rocks!
Werner — Basic Java …. what everyone should know.
JSX2 0.1.3, a program to export Java object data.
Apple releases Mac OS X 10.2.3.
Intel Begins Doling Out Wi-Fi Money. STSN and Telesym.
JDynamiTe, Dynamic Template in Java.
Eclipse Developing Standards For Automated Software-Quality Tools.
VB developers take back seat at BEA. Back-pedaling on efforts to attract Visual Basic developers.
Justify your application development framework investment.
mvnForum 1.0.0 beta2 released, an open source JSP/Servlet-based forum.
Servlet Best Practices, Part 1.
Introducing MIDP 2.0.
FTC Moves Forward With National Do-Not-Call List.
GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support.
Andres — Newzcrawler. I use it too.
Dominic — WroxDirect.com.
Jim — Diving in where others fear to tread.
CNET on ViewSonic's new Pocket PC.
Last-Minute Gadget Gifts for technophiles.
Jason — :) New mobile phone arrives…..
Charles — Weblog Etiquette: Comments Forms.
Java Aspect Components 0.9.2, a framework for distributed aspect oriented programming.
startJ, an entry-level, yet powerful IDE.
Give Chimera access to certain secure sites. Neat.
Palm reports Q2 financials. Down 9 percent.
Teen gets ‘A’ for hacking school computer.
E-card virus warning for Christmas.
Federal judge halts law banning inmates on Internet.
FTC do-not-call plans could give agency one big busy signal.
2002 Confirmed as 2nd Warmest Year on Record.
IBM Ships New eServer. x440 for $81,000.
$200 magic number for PCs? Slowly catching on.
WorldCom wins State Department deal. $360 million over 10 years.
Microsoft to bump Apple into sync-hole? “Certainly by…2005, possibly by the end of 2003, Linux will pass Mac OS as the No. 2 operating environment,” said IDC analyst Dan Kusnetzky.
JSci 0.881, a science API for Java.
On December 19 1998, U.S. President Bill Clinton was impeached on two charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by the U.S. House of Representatives.