Rob's world: “Normally I don't point to optical illusion stuff, but this one is worth it.”

Blog site back up after hack attack.

ShareMe: New JDeveloper from Oracle.

Release Candidates of Jakarta Turbine 2.2 and Torque 3.0 are available for download.

Sample Code: JavaSpellingFramework for Mac OS X.

JMake 1.1.0 has been released.

Chord 4.0 beta2 released.

Java Based Graphical Interface to Samba version 1.1.3 has been released.

IBM alphaWorks' Logging Toolkit for Java has been updated.

[11:48AM]

Interesting note from the Sharp PDA Developer Newsletter:

Mac OSX driver for Z - Get involved

Although Sharp does not officially support Mac OSX syncing with the Zaurus, we have been working closely with Apple on getting the USB driver for OSX developed. We are making some good headway and a few developers have been involved with this project. The driver will be added to Apple's Darwin Project (Darwin is Apple's Open Source project). It is very different from the GPL, and you can get more info at http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ps-faq.html

If you'd like to get involved with this effort, separate mailing lists have been created:

zaurus-osx-networking, for networking related issues, primarialy development of USB drivers for OSX, but also for development of a Rendezvous client for the Z

zaurus-osx-sync for the development of a SyncML client for the Z and integration of components into a working system.

For more information please go to http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/~kdurbin/maczaurus.html or to join the lists please email [email protected]

Someone is in serious need of a spell-checker.

[10:40AM]

Java 1.4.1 Developer Preview 2 for OS X. Better very late, than never.

[Update]

When they say this build is not suitable for general Java 1.4.1 use or development, they truly mean it. To switch back to JDK 1.3.1 use:

sudo /usr/local/bin/jsettestjdk 1.3.1

Slashdot: Blogger Hacked.

Brent: “Should aggregators parse relative URLs?” — That's another reason why I wanted a <base> element added to the RSS 0.9.4 spec.

Review of Red Hat 8.0 Professional.

Jaxor 2.2, the Object/Relational Extensions for Java, has been released.

Mac Net Journal: Company offers tax-deductible way to recycle cell phones.

[07:09AM]

I've been playing with Russ' Manywhere Scrapbook. I fixed something that didn't need fixing. RTFM. But it's been all fun, fun, fun.

The Swing Connection: Swing Sightings.

I'm not quite sure exactly why, but I've been futzing around with Java Web Start for an hour or so. In the process I did find a few interesting applications:

• The Bean Builder
• DataDino Database Explorer
• JarSpy
• The rebel's own ThinRSS
• JMines
• jDiskReport
• Thinlet's AmazonBrowser

Simon: Java on the desktop. Rethinking the Java GUI.

UPN revives Night Thrasher. Dwayne Michael Taylor, an athletic black man standing 6'3'' tall and weighing 220lbs.

Job of the Day.

[05:02PM]

Working with KeyPair.

[03:05PM]

PowerBook's new PC rival, designed by Porsche.

jd3Lib alpha 4, a library written in Java that reads and manipulates id3v1 and id3v2 tags, has been released.

[02:01PM]

Dave Winer: “Please don't tweak the little white-on-orange XML icon. I'm seeing variations out there. That's not cool…” Boo Woo! You can steal these buttons.

[01:24PM]

Cocoon 2 Programming: Web Publishing with XML and Java.

JIProlog — Java Internet Prolog.

OpenHack 4: The Hacking Has Begun.

Woman Finds $10 Billion in Account.

JSch 0.0.5, a pure Java implementation of SSH2, has been released.

[05:35AM]

BeanMaker 1.2 has been released.

Making Native Windows API calls from within a Java Application. Oldie, but goodie.

Commonly used Architectural Patterns in Java applications.

An introduction to the Jakarta Commons Lang project.

The Jakarta Commons BeanUtils 1.5 has been released.

[02:41AM]

Sniper probe goes to Tacoma. Uh oh! That's just a few miles away.

I've added links to jump back and forth between articles in the news section.

NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.2b3 fixes a bug introduced in the last beta.

TigerLaunch 1.0 is out!

StuffIt Deluxe 7.0.1 update.

Learning and Using Jakarta Digester.

San Diego Company Owns E-Commerce.

Rubik's Cube. Brings back memories…

Dominic: StrutsCX and J2EE reading references.

CNET's download.com fees.

Track down who gave you the flu.

[04:12AM]

Xandros Linux: ‘It just works’, even with Windows stuff.

[03:09AM]

A comparative review of four J2ME IDEs.

James: “.NET only runs on Windows. Is this a new marketing spin, to say something is portable when it only runs on one single platform…?” — Amen.

Disposable Cell Phones coming to a trash near you.

ID Chip's Controversial Approval.

JOE 0.1 alpha. An Ant optional task to invoke the Java Optimization Engine, which uses the Avalon coding style.

[12:45AM]

The Apache Jakarta Commons Collections team is proud to announce the 2.1 release.

Anthony: “Interesting database comparison.”

Struts meets Swing.

Attack on Net Servers fails.

Die Another Day trailer.

Wanna have a Photographic Memory?

Java - A Slow Language?

This is a primarily page for Jacamerops, a Java-based WebCam watcher.

JDBC Object Persistence: A Better Way.

Book Review: XML in a Nutshell.

Speed Up J2EE Development: Separate Business Logic from Components.

Understand Extended BNF.

The Many Inheritances in JavaScript.

iPod turns one.

Charles: “One of those days”

There's a new RSS Validator in town. Apparently it can validate 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0 feeds.

TheServerSide Now Publishes News via RSS Feed.

NetNewsWire 1.0.2b2 helps reduce bandwidth consumption.

Steven: Work avoidance.

Russ: Java eBooks in PDF and Hierarchical Thinking and Outlines.

Plug your Swing Editor Into Eclipse.

Google sued over site ranking.

Java 2 Standard Edition 1.3.1_06 released.

Java-Virtual-Machine.net: All about Java Virtual Machines!

JAMon is an open source Java monitoring tool.

You don't know Schitt.

The CvsGui project has released new versions of WinCvs and MacCvs.

A new version of JRefactory has been released.

Gert Van Ham released version 0.5 of his JCE taglib.

JReversePro, a Java decompiler, version 1.4.1 released.

MockObjects 0.5 released.

JSch 0.0.3 released.

Books: Hacking Exposed J2EE and J2EE The Complete Reference.

Neil has implemented configurable categories for PersonalBlog, and he's using my icons. Cool!

Charles: An Empirical Comparison of Programming Languages

Mac Net Journal: A Cocoa literature list.

Java Toolkit Based on Liberty Spec.

Weblogs.com weirdness!

I've just submitted my ant.command for Mac OS X to the Inst.ant project.

Darren asks “Who reads this stuff anyway?” and provides some very interesting stats. I had to go check mine which are quite different overall:

Browsers

1. MS Internet Explorer: 71%
       6.x: 48.4%
       5.x: 35.2%
       4.x: 1.1%
2. Netscape: 13.7%
       5.x: 59.3%
       4.x: 15.2%
       7.x: 3.1%
3. Unknown: 12.8%
4. Opera: 1.3%
5. Konqueror: 0.2%
6. OmniWeb: 0.1%
7. WebTV browser: 0.1%

Operating Systems

1. Windows 98: 22.6%
2. Windows 2000: 20.1%
3. Windows XP:18.7%
4. Unknown: 11.6%
5. Windows NT: 7.2%
6. Windows Me: 7%
7. Mac OS: 4.8%
8. Linux: 4.5%
9. Windows 95: 2.6%

Mac Net Journal: Psst….don't look now…but Lycos has blogs.

Joe: NBML - Not Bunk Markup Language. Yeuuurgh! is just about right. Neither easier to manage or read, IMHO. I really fail to see the point. If it ain't broken don't try to fix it.

Greg Klebus' Java To Go. Another Java-related blog I just discovered.

Russ: Java Best Practices and DB Redux. A must bookmark.

Inst.ant: First CVS drop. Goody, Goody.

Julian found Jalopy, a Java source beautifier.

JCom SDK version 1.2.

Campaign: Send AOL CDs back.