JUnitEE 1.5 final released.

JObfuscator is available as an Ant task.

AT&T Wireless goes with Java.

O'Reilly Java books update.

Zaval Java Resource Editor 1.2 released.

Ken Arnold: “I am not fond of copy constructors. In fact, I'm not very fond of constructors at all.”

dsuspense: “Found a cool Java resource about some best practices for programming Java.”

James: “Is there really much of a C# open source community out there?”

Russ: Enterprise Java on OSX.

Russ: “This blog desperately needs a spellchecker.” I can relate that's why I always use ieSpell when blogging.

James Bond turns 40.

I'm a big 007 fan. It all started when my Dad took me to see The Spy Who Loved me in 1977. That summer my favorite toy was a Lotus Esprit. I wish I still had it.

A couple years later I skipped high-school to go see Moonraker. That year I also read every single Ian Flemming Bond book. I was really devouring books at the time. I even recall going through Leslie Charteris' The Saint collection, since Roger Moore had been staring in the TV series.

A couple years later I was proudly sporting a For Your Eyes Only wristwatch.

I've seen every single Bond movie within a week of their release since then. Of course, I also own the DVD collection.

My favorite Bond movie is On Her Majesty's Secret Service, starring George Lazenby. I've always had a crush on Diana Rigg, which is probably why I also liked The Avengers.

My favorite Bond actor is Timothy Dalton. I really think he was the closest to Flemming's vision. Very few people realize, that in the books, Bond is extremely rough and spend most of his time in rehab between missions. He even has a nasty scar on his face. Not really suave and debonair.

11.22 is marked in my calendar.

We're going to go to see The Transporter later on today.

Russ: “I just hit my normal URL and it worked… WOOHOOO! ” — Welcome back, ese.

Javalobby: Eclipse for OS X now available.

Java Developer's Journal Newsletter:

• Working with Cipher Streams
• Jeremy Allaire interviewed
• Is Complexity Hurting Java?

On this day in 1492, Christoforo Columbus, an Italian explorer, sighted Watling Island in the Bahamas. He believed that he had found Asia while attempting to find a Western ocean route to India.

Survey: How many RSS feeds to you read on a daily basis?

JRun 4 Service Pack 1.

Brent: Northwest OS X Dinners.

Slashdot: C# and CLI Fast-tracked to ISO. “We're going to give a brand new car to the information technology industry, but we're going to keep the keys.”

The JavaServer Faces Tutorial. I hate it when I read a tutorial which makes me utter statements like “Hmmm…”, “Ahhh…”, “Ohhh….” or even “No, no, no.”

Dave on software, and Mike's law of diminishing software quality.

I agree, and I'd even go one step further. There are inherent expectations for most decision makers.

• Licensing must be expensive
• Support plans should be outrageously priced
• Reasonable functionality cannot be accomplished without purchasing additional modules/add-ons
• Finally, more buzzwords-compliance than actual features

As I said before it is not about technology, but hype. I guess that's what they call marketing nowadays.

Most people actually expect more out of a $49.99 piece of software. The minute something does not work quite right, they will start to send nasty emails, get angry on the phone, etc. and ultimately ask for a refund.

On the other hand, if the same problem occurs with a $50K+ ware, they'll gladly accept a cheesy hack, implement some crappy workaround or even patiently wait for a bug fix.

Charles explains that expensive software, such as SAP, would not benefit from easier installation procedures, etc. and that ultimately it has no bearing on the total cost. True. But in most cases a company can save a bundle by using a cheaper set of tools, assuming they hire the right people.

Russ: “IBM is offering free Websphere certification vouchers!!”

I'm tired of not being able to tape a show while watching another with AT&T Digital Cable. I've decided to buy a 2-Way Splitter and rig something up.

I've hooked my VCR directly to the cable and I seem to be able to get the analog channels. I'm hopping the splitter will allow me to tape an analog channel while watching a digital one.

Anybody experienced with such a setup? Please let me know.

[Update] Success! It works like a charm. The VCR is now hooked up to the TV via the A/V ports. I just need to get an additional cable to hook up the DVD player to the VCR.

Steven: Open Source product management.

I was able to solve my WinCvs problem by using the latest alpha version of CVSNT and turning TCP/IP compression off in the WinCvs client. Happy, Joy, Joy!

We watched the Birds of Prey pilot last night. A little slow for my taste, but it definitely showed some real potential.

TiVo, We Hardly Knew Ye. DirectTV and AT&T Broadband have been offering co-branded TiVo services for a while now. Yet another wanna-be who failed to research what he wrote about.

Open Source review: Oggasm! Gotta love the name.

Torvalds stays out of MS debate. Wimp!

Miss America told to zip it. She was furious. So tense. I've got the remedy, honey. If you wanna relax, don't beat around the bush, go get some!

I've Been Seduced by IntelliJ. Yet another IDEA convert.

Log4j 1.2.7 released.

Tony Tang has released version 0.2 of his Java MSN Messenger Library.

Dantz has finally updated Retrospect Express for Jaguar. About damn time too.

Russ: It gets better…. I feel for you, man. That's exactly why I moved my domains as soon as I could. First with Register.com, which had some problems too, and now, GoDaddy.

Rickard: Now, I don't really mind that they want to make money off of TSS… Big deal. What I *am* troubled by is that they're not honest about it.

Software Reality: JavaServer Faces.

Survey: How many RSS feeds to you read on a daily basis?

CERT: Sendmail source hacked.

Mitnick's laptop up for sale.

Hey, where'd my thread go?

Quite a few books about Struts coming down the pipeline:

• Java Web Development With Struts
• Mastering Jakarta Struts
• Programming Jakarta Struts

Documentation Enhancer for Java.

Better Sex through Outer Log Thought Web.

exe4j. Yet another Java executable maker.

Macworld returns to Beantown.

NetNewsWire Lite reviewed.

Version 1.0 of Jakarta String Taglib has been released.

Apache Axis 1.0 was also released.

Java 1.4 to be released for BeOS.

Since I've upgraded to Red Hat 8 and thus cvs 1.11.2, the shell window spawned by WinCvs always hangs. It needs to be manually closed for commands to complete. Extremely annoying!

Mike is running a competition to design the JIRA 2.0 development team t-shirt.

Tuning Java Swing applications for Mac OS X.