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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).

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Interview with Sun VP of Web Services. Mark Bauhaus.

Sklyarov Discusses the ElcomSoft Trial.

Diego — looking back. A year to forget.

Brent — nocards.org.

Apple's Script Editor 2.0.

85 Big Ideas that Changed the World.

Enterprise Best Practices: Excerpt One.

Niel— JSP Doesn't Suck.

Karl — JSP Does NOT Suck!.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

Crackproof Your Software.

startJ, an entry-level, yet powerful IDE.

LimeWire 2.8.4.

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.

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Diego — hype the hype. The 10 biggest hype jobs of 2002.

Robert — JSP and Zope.

Laszlo — java.blogs.bug. I bet Mike's been busy.

Dominic — MobileCoders.com.

Newest Scam: Fake Escrow Accounts.

Jim — Tarpitting the Spamsters.

Microsoft and IBM Publish Six New Web Services Specifications.

Matt — JSch: Java Secure Channel 0.0.9 Released.

Karl — Lack of free web based java apps - a conversation at JavaLobby.

Matt — POI Article. Read and write from Java to MS Excel files.

Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium. Dell Computer, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard.

Fred — How Not to Interop with SOAP-Dave Winer Style.

Scott — New Magazine: Tekka.

Oxygen XML editor 1.2.4. A Java editor that supports XML, XSD, XSL, and DTD.

fetchmail 5.9.0-21.8.0.i386 for Red Hat 8.

JML 3.5 released. Java Modeling Language.

Zoe Intertwingle 0.3.2. A unique email client that works through a Web browser.

Walk in playboy Hefner's slippers. ‘M’ rating… Who are they kidding?

Illuminated PC Keyboard. Let there be light…

Heavy Metal Dinosaurs Announce Tour. Here I go again…

World's largest TFT LCD monitor. If you don't know what to get me for Xmas, look no further. ;-)

James — JellySWT and I'm impressed with SWT.

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New cell phone Java holds promise. MIDP 2.0.

GNU Diff for Java. The Java translated version of the GNU Diff algorithm.

When Sysadmins Go Bad. Not so clever.

David — Fat, slow and vulnerable.

Sam — Jelly sucks.

Pelle — Apple Rendezvous support for Java.

Connectix unveils Virtual PC 6.0.

‘Terminator 3’ and ‘Bad Boys 2’ trailers online!

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Can .Net And Java Be Friends?

Oracle seeks to align Eclipse with Sun's Java.

Adam  — Pornblography.

AOL patents instant messaging. That is stupid. Fred's right!

Alan — Life with my Sony P800. Russ likes that phone too, we can't get him to shut up about it.

Bob — 100 Entries. Number 354 here.

David — IDEA, JBuilder, and BEA Workshop are toast?

Erik — You smelly Spaniard.

First laptop with integrated 802.11a and 802.11b. Toshiba Satellite Pro 6100.

Glen — Getting into Java Patterns.

Jason — XML Digital Signatures.

Jeremy — Java, day #2: Eclipse.

Kev — PDA days. That darn P800 again. ;-)

Mark — Blogger For Hire.

Rickard— Integrating with StarOffice.

Rick — Injecting Bad Smells into your code.

Russ — How much do YOU remember?

Fred — What I want For My Birthday in February. What are you getting for Xmas?

Glen — Ant Sucks?.

Custom Spielberg iPod up for auction.

Interarchy 6.0.1. Popular FTP client.

Ovidiu — Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.

JMP 0.24, a runtime profiler of the JVM, with object and method statistics.

Sun demolishes Dotcom Builder. Thanks, Jim.

XML Parser for Java 4.1.2, XML Parser & Generator for Java.

URLFetch Java 0.9.2b, a Java library for HTTP and HTTPS.

xmlenc 0.19, a light-weight XML output library for Java.

Gadgets for Christmas: presents for all the family.

New keyboards are changing the computer connection.

Why Cisco and Dell Are Parting Ways.

W3C finalizes disability guidelines.

XML Processing Actions, a JSP Tag Library for XML Parsing.

Millstone, a user interface library for development of networked Java applications.

MG4J,a free Java implementation of inverted-index compression techniques.

Streamstore, a compact, embeddable database engine for direct Java object storage.

Make Exceptions Smarter. Develop a smart and simple error-handling scheme.

Administer Your Web Database Remotely. A JavaBean to manipulate data structure using a Web browser.

Sample Chapter: Processing XML with Java.

Is the Enterprise Ready for Wireless Data?

Big designs for small devices. Four J2ME design patterns.

Mobile Computing Tips: Great Palm Utilities for Travelers.

On December 18 1865, Slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.

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Programmer Challenge: Create a “Find File” program.

JUnitEE v1.6 released.

Russ — Last Names in Spain.

JaxMe 1.52, a Java/XML binding tool based on SAX2. Sounds kinky ;-)

FAO Schwarz eyes bankruptcy. Welcome To Our World…

Falling arches: McDonald's expects first-ever quarterly net loss as sales sag.

Dominic — MySQL Certification (Core and Professional).

Cedric — EJBGen 2.11.

T3 trailer online at 10 pm Eastern Time.

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Kief — Home for the holidays - not.

Matt — [ANNOUNCE] Tomcat 4.1.17 Released! No rpms, yet.

Russ — AnaAsensio.com.

Metrowerks acquires Linux assets of Embedix. Embedix was formerly called Lineo.

Bush Signs e-Government Bill. The Electronic Government Act of 2002.

ElcomSoft verdict: Not guilty.

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CERT Warns of SSH Vulnerabilities.

Tech salaries to slip in 2003, survey says.

James — new programming language called X#?

GuitarScales, shows you all kind of scales on a guitar arm.

uk.co.vmind.print, is a Java printing architecture based on pages.

Evan — util.concurrent package.

Dominic — NoteToSelf: Enterprise pattern resources.

Jim — New twist on the mobile phone front.

Robert — Swing Tutorial Updated.

Fred — GForge-OpenSource Project Management For Those on a Budget.

jRAS32, a Java class library that allows access to the Microsoft Windows RAS library.

Apple confirms plans to Webcast MWSF keynote.

Cell phone warns of heart attack.

Are Pop-Ups Doomed?

New DVD player accesses your PC.

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XtremeJ Management Console, a JMX management console based on the Eclipse platform.

SimpleProfiler, a simple heap profiler for Java, based on JVMPI.

FCC Approves 802.11b Phased Array.

Jeff — Really cool Eclipse demos…

Bob — XPath Explorer.

Evan — Bored.

Dominic— Mobile P2P messaging, Part 1.

Patrick — TogetherSoft recently released Together WebSphere…

Powered by the sun. A solar powered battery charger.

Jason — MySQL Security Alert.

Mark — Hype over Office 11 XML.

Jeremy — Java, day #1.

Andre — JDC VS. MSDN?.

SourceJammer, a SOAP-enabled source code control and versioning system.

net.sourceforge.eclipse.introspection, a plugin for the Eclipse platform that allows various means of introspection.

Microsoft unveils XP tools, toys. Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition.

Memory matters. Discover how much memory an object consumes.

Publish and find UDDI tModels with JAXR and WSDL.

On December 17 1997, U.S. President Clinton signed the No Electronic Theft Act. The act removed protection from individuals who claimed that they took no direct financial gains from stealing copyrighted works and downloading them from the Internet.