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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.

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Java Code Stack: Enabling Full Screen.

Ephox Upgrades Enterprise Web Content Authoring with EditLive! for Java 2.0.

JBlend Ships to Early Access Customers for Deployment in Mobile Phones.

New SSH Vulnerabilities Discovered.

RIAA targets small stores' CD copying.

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Review: Macromedia JRun 4.

Julian — Nile .NET vs. J2EE Benchmark.

Rick — Conversation with Martin Fowler.

Metrowerks unlikely to make Palm app for Mac.

AOL wins $7 million award in antispam case.

E-mail viruses double in 2002.

Microsoft beefs up .Net security.

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IBM extends WebSphere beyond J2EE.

Herbivore Distributed Anti-Spam Network Launched.

JavaOCR 1.1 is Released.

Egothor 1.1.5, a high-performance, full-featured text search engine written entirely in Java.

Sun to Ship Weblogic 7 with next Solaris 9 Update.

Dominic — J2ME design patterns.

A Pocket PC Phone from Hitachi?

Rickard — I'm bored.

Danny— Ideagraph - version 0.

Fred — Modeling Biz docs in XML.

JSource, a Light Java IDE.

IRC Java Bot. New beta release.

MasterCard Tests Contactless Card Program. To use PayPass consumers tap or wave their payment cards.

Sybase readies high-end database. Sybase and Hewlett-Packard join forces.

Philips hears sweet music for PCs. Philips is fine-tuning audio playback for PCs.

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Jakarta Commons Validator 1.0.1. This release contains only bug fixes.

Jakarta Jetspeed Portal Server 1.4 Beta 3. This release contains only bug fixes.

SocketTalk, a framework for peer to peer communication through sockets.

Emmanuel — Configurer JBuilder 8 pour Struts 1.1. Configuring JBuilder for Struts.

Chris — I started reading “Java Web Services” from O'Reilly.

Jim — Siemens/BT 2010 DECT phones…

Kev — Maverick.

oneClickJava, an easy way to set up Java Development Kit under Windows.

RealOne Player for Mac OS X arrives.

Internet to get new domain names. New TLDs.

Gateway: Free computer with purchase.

Terra Lycos relaunches HotBot.

Sun, BEA set WebLogic distribution agreement.

Eclipse Gaining Momentum. 13 new member companies.

Metrowerks Unveils Palm OS 5 Toolset.

Carlos — Erich Gamma and Kent Beck's Book on Eclipse.

On December 16 1998, The U.S. and Britain fired hundreds of missiles on Iraq in response to Saddam Hussein's refusal to comply with U.N. weapons inspectors

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The Jakarta Apache Project has released CLI, a simple API for working with command line arguments. Based on werken.opt by Bob Mcwhirter among others. 

Andy — Americana.

Greg — Java Stuff Packaged for Linux.

RIAA's Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy. That's what I've been saying all along, now there're numbers to prove it.

Java Aspect Components 0.9.1, a framework for distributed aspect oriented programming.

Notes on a shopping trip to CompUSA.

FBI To Use Ad Banners to Find Criminals.

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We went to see Maid In Manhattan yesterday afternoon. We also had a late dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House in Bellevue Square.

Like most Steak Houses, prices were high. The “faux-classy” ambiance did not really do it for us.

We had a Shrimp Cocktail with Creole Remoulade Sauce for appetizers. Ten bucks for 4 prawns with a spicy tartar sauce.

My New York Strip and Vicki's Petite Filet were cooked to perfection.

The side of Potatoes Au Gratin sounded better than it actually was.

We finished with a Caramelized Banana Cream Pie which was nothing to get excited about.

We might go back, we'll just skip the appetizers and dessert.

Carlos — MessagingPatterns.com.

Matt — Brainf**k Java Compiler.

Fred — RIAA Companies agree to AntiTrust Settlement. I just filed mine too.

Charles — Quick Movie Reviews.

Eclipse Property File GUI Editor Plugin, provides a “.properties” files GUI editor.

Java Developer's Journal: J2EE, Democracy, and Sausage.

Velare Announces Java Based Framework For Next Generation Web Services.

Spammer Gets Spam Mailed. A little taste of his own medicine.

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Developing for the Motorola T720.

Jan — Mozilla Museum.

Ara — IDEA's plugin manager. I use it all the time to get new/updated plugins.

Russ — Digging WiFi. Anal probe, part deux.

Fred — Why J2ME Developers Should Never Use BREW.

Mitch — Wired Correspondence.

JSPTemplates 1.0, a Java JSP Template engine that is not limited to HTTP.

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Fred — Improving Java Application Garabage Collection Performance.

JFtp 0.96, a graphical Java FTP client.

Matt — Jabber Journal #5.

JFreeReport, a Java class library for generating PDF reports.

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X2. Trailer.

Shangai Knights. Trailer.

Bulletproof Monk. Trailer.

Dark Blue. Trailer.

Equilibrium. Trailer.

RootCause Tracing Tool Gets Tight With J2EE.

Mike — Remotely interacting with Java on OS X.

ImageApp, Java Advanced Imaging GUI.

Bush doll speaks, and misspeaks.

Benchmark Tag Library.

On December 14 1503, Physician, astrologer and clairvoyant, Nostradamus, was born at St. Remy, Provence, France.

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Dominic — EJB Solutions book resources and Flock 0.5.

Canon to OS X scanner users…here are your drivers.

The Day Napster Died.

David Lee Roth Sues Van Halen.

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BEA to reposition WebLogic software. The Swiss Army knife for business software development.

Need a job? Try Adobe. Profits are up, will hire aggressively this quarter.

Sprint's unlimited data service has a catch. Thanks, Jim.

Validator, Eclipse, and FOP, oh my!

David — blogs.application-servers.com. Tres cool!

Keith — Damnit.

Matt — Setup a Certificate Authority for Java-based Systems.

Russ — Free eBook: Java AI and Observations.

Fred — Java Swing Tutorial Updated for 1.4.

Robert — Apple iPod Update Available.

Maverick. Yet another MVC framework.

Java Simple Aim. SAIM.

OS 9 gets a six-month reprieve.

Spam headaches getting worse. No kidding!

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David — Unicode 4.0.0 Alpha. uC00L

Rickard — Floyd registers his blog at java.blog.

Fred — Lord Palmerston on Programming. Good stuff.

Techno artist Moby attacked in Boston. Bummer.

Xedit for Java. An IBM tool for migrating content editing environment for mainframe (VM/CMS) 3270 terminals to an e-business environment.

JFCUnit 1.03, an open source extension to the JUnit framework that enables you to execute unit tests against code that presents a Swing based interface.

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Carlos — Why I Don't Like JDO.

Matt — What Maven Does. The saga continues.

Damien — Why programmers don't like to write documentation?

Scott — Spam Conference! January, 2003, Boston.

AT&T Wireless fine print irks customers. Read the fine print.

Cardinal Law resigns. Let's break out the champagne.

French up in arms as @ sign sparks fury. Vive le Franglais!

XPath Explorer, an open-source Java GUI application that lets you interactively experiment with XPath.

PureTest, a new free functional and regression testing product.

Bill — Running XSLT batch jobs with Ant.

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Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon. Still no ability to share, like ReplayTV.

Microsoft's top 10 challenges for 2003.

Jim — Prediction software beats human tipsters.

Dave Whiner wants bloggers to support his API.

<rant>
Why should we, Dave? Are there any technical merits? Pretty please is just not going to cut it.

I suspect that what you really want is control, and that is not about to happen. We've been down this road before. We all remember the RSS 2.0 fiasco.

We want to support open standards, not UserLand's half-ass standards.

That's the thing you don't get about standards, Dave, you have to relinquish them to the community at large. If you keep a tight leash, it just becomes proprietary crap that nobody really gives a damn about. We'll support them until something open comes along.

The time is now!

Why don't you stick to blogging about how much you miss smoking, and leave the technical stuff to people that genuinely care and truly understand technology.
</rant>

James — What Does Maven Do?

Jason — Rational XDE…. review complaint!

Japan cleans up its hi-tech act. Japan is taking the lead in developing hi-tech products that protect the planet.

Oracle readies a new round of software. Ready for launch early next year.

On December 13 1913, The Sunday New York World printed a puzzle called a “word-cross.” The puzzle was a success and became a weekly feature. The name eventually evolved into “crossword.”

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Elcomsoft copyright case goes to jury.

David — Anyone need a Bentley?

Charles — What Does Maven Do?

TidBITS unveils this year's GiftBITS.

MIDP 2.0: Wireless Industry Standardizes on Java Technology for Wireless Data Services.

Dynamic Creation of Reports with Apache FOP.

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SuSE, Red Hat in Linux shootout.

Amazon Releases 1-Click Patent Sequel.

Bob — Gilgul **gilgul = 0; How is that pronounced? Giggle? ;-)

Matt — How Hot are your Topics?

Charles — Why Hibernate Rocks.

AOL cuts 300 jobs as strategy shift begins.

‘60 Minutes’ Sued for $6 Billion.

David — Unexpected Christmas gift. Bummer!

Cameron — JVM Byte Code Reference. Nifty!

Rick — Rant Time. <rant/>

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Bill — The XML family of specs. Nasty.

Brent — Spring 1.0. Hmmm…

Implementing Web services with the WSTK: Part 1

Finding your way through Web service standards, Part 3

Demystifying Extreme Programming: How to be an XP customer.

Mobile P2P messaging, Part 1

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Flexible Bluetooth keyboard. Thanks, Jim.

Buried in debt? Try ‘cyberbegging.’ Quite pathetic…

Using the Jakarta Commons Validator with Struts. Thanks, Russ.

BeOS Developer Edition 1.1.

Microsoft Patches Eight Software Holes.

Verizon cuts back on complex wireless. Can you hear me now?

Australian University drops Mac support. Hardware is too expensive.

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Apple sues former contractor over leaks.

Jim — Tiny Encryption Algorithm. There's also a Java version.

Dave — Pattern of Enterprise Application Architecture. Great reference book.

Opera 6.0 finalized, ready for download.

Microsoft warns of Java flaws. Déjà Vu.

Eric — J2EE Missing Feature: Application Customization.

Fred — More Proof of Why Weblogging Conference will Not Work. You tell him, Fred!

Microsoft Unveils First Web Service. MapPoint .NET 3.0.

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Kenneth — Home Page Table-less Layout.

MultiJava 1.0.1, adds open classes and multiple dispatch to Java.

Linux groups plan second Windows refund day.

iSQL-Viewer 2.1.2 Released.

Hibernate 1.2 released.

Tapestry 2.3 released.

Tapestry 2.3 released.

Millstone v3.0.0 released.

UP2GO.NET. A catalog of Java Web Start/JNLP links.

Tim O'Reilly — Piracy is Progressive Taxation.

Evan — Excellent tip for build.properties.

Dominic — EJB Cookbook Review Project.

Tobias — Mavenize your projects.

Matt — The Shuttle XPC and Linux Revolution and JSP Testing.

Danny — XPDL Version 1.

Charles — Don't Store Generated Resources in CVS. We do the same here.

genJBean 0.1, a simple C++ JavaBean generator.

CVS client interface in Java, version 0.4.1 released.

AppleScript manuals.

Microsoft to buy Rational or Borland. Didn't IBM just buy Rational?

Jason — Using public web services. We got our web services listed on XMethods, Allesta, SoapRPC, Flash-db and SalCentral.

Carlos — Why Hibernate Is Better Than OJB, For Now.

Matt — Tomcat 4.1.17 Alpha.

Simon — Google goes shopping. Froogle.

How You Helped Me Catch An eBay Scammer. Mac Addicts to the Rescue.

On December 12 2000, The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.

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Javaspot is a repository of Java information.

An Introduction to the Eclipse IDE.

Bill — Processing XML with Java. Not selling very well.

Russ — JiCal is an answer.

XWSF. XML/XSLT Web Services Framework.

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Jeff — Eclipse.org is down!

Ajit — J2EE-based Multi-dimensional Catalog Manager.

InstantJ 1.4. Compile and execute Java code or evaluate expressions written in Java.

U.S. firms moving IT overseas.

Julian — The Europe Outlaws Spam.

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jRevProxy, a lightweight reverse proxy server fully written in Java.

Java Digital Album Infrastructure, JDAI is a Java based infrastructure for digital photo albums. 

IBM's Swainson talks about WebSphere 5 and Business Issues.

Netscape 7.01 released.

EGantt, a lightweight chart rendering component.

Russ — DIY Infrastructures. Phase 1: Get excited about your new job.

Web Services Software Bridges Java, .Net. WASP 4.5.

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A Framework for Smart Proxies and Interceptors in RMI.

Adam — Guitar hero Ingwie Malmstein was recorded on a flight to Tokyo going bonkers…

David — Servlet/JSP application performance tips.

Evan — On my ‘to check out’ list.

Cameron — JSR-666.

Dominic — JavaBoutique Axis tutorial.

David — Internationalization/Localization Plugin (v0.5) for IDEA available.

Sam — Demise of e-mail?

Danny — Java Developer's Journal - Java Rules in J2EE.

AWStats 5.2 has been released. Advanced Web Statistics.

BareBones Supports EFF. Will donate $10 for each boy of BBEdit purchased directly through them.

E-Commerce Racks Up $2 Billion Week.

Bluetooth Gets Wheels. Audi says that it will adopt Bluetooth in some of its models.

AMD Delivers New Athlon Server Chip.

Seagate Discounts IPO to $12 Per Share.

IT users in password hell. A new study shows that a typical IT user now has 21 passwords…

IBM has your IP phone number. Partnering with Cisco Systems and Avaya.

Napster Goods Go On Auction Block. Computers, laptops, and a slew of T-shirts…

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Fake eBay site shuts down.

David — We're supposed to be the good guys.

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MagicDraw UML 6.0 beta. A UML modeling tool for object-oriented software development.

Carlos — Custom Version of Eclipse Done Right.

Scott — Am I Liable for What I Post?.

Corel Soups up XML Platform. XMetaL.

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Developing Eclipse plug-ins.

JavaCC, parse trees, and the XQuery grammar, Part 1.

Brett — Programmers are Speshal. (sic)

Martin — Selling my house. Or should it be “sailing”?

eBay hit by credit card scam.

QuickTime On Your Cell Phone.

Kev — Bless me father for I have sined. (sic)

VeriSign announces Open Source WS-Security Implementation and Integration Toolkit.

Developers stick to manual testing. Nine out of 10 don't bother with automated tools.

Microsoft wants WindowsXP.nu domain from hobbyist. What's your name? Shithead? ;-)

Jason— Java Job Searching.

Porn on your PDA… Thanks, Jim.

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Brent — Movies. Die Another Day and Solaris.

Handspring Commits to Keyboards. Thanks, Russ.

Matt — Blogger API 2.0.

Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle. Trailer.

Matt — Boot Keys. Magical Macintosh Key Sequences.

Jeff — Neat new toy for Eclipse.

One PC, Six Hard Drives, 37 OSes!

Pam Anderson, Lee win sex video suit.

Space Invaders for Java Enabled Wireless Phones.

Marvel Comics to unveil gay gunslinger.

Seyed — New Google Toys.

Intel moves closer to mobile phones with Manitoba.

Compal's Smartphone gets FCC OK.

Viewsonic clarifies PDA memory specification.

Can The $100 Million Man Help The SEC?

FileMaker Pro 6.0v4.

Keith — Star Trek: Nemesis review.

Thib — New open-source project. AnyMarkup, generate XSL stylesheets from annotated documents.

Hollywood sweeps web auction sites for pirate DVDs.

Gadget Grrrl's Intelligent Skis.

Sony Ericsson P800: Photo review & comparison. Russ pointed this out to me while we were IMing last night. Yes, he is alive!

On December 11 1844, Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.