[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.

I had a terrific chest & shoulders workout late last night. How do I know? I can't move my arms. I've been walking around like a penguin all day long.

MacCentral: Macworld Expo moves to Boston; Apple will not go.

JUnitEE 1.5.1 released.

Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.

In response to Mike's reader question, here's a list of the few J2EE tutorials I've bookmarked over the years.

• The J2EE Tutorial (2002)
• Developing Enterprise Applications Using the J2EE Platform (2002)
• Hands-on Java Data Objects (2002)
• Using the CMP Model in the EJB 2.0 Specification for Web Services (2002)
• Introduction to container-managed persistence and relationships (2001-2002)
  Part 1, 2, 3 and 4
• Enterprise JavaBeans fundamentals (2001)
• Introducing the Java Message Service (2001)
• Getting Started on Developing Web Services (2001)
• A Nine-Step Process for Deriving Infrastructure Architecture from a J2EE Technology Application Architecture (2001)
• Scaling J2EE Technology Applications Based on Application Infrastructure Techniques (2001)
  Part 1, 2, 3, and 4
• JavaBeans 101 (2000-2001)
  Part I, II and III
• Enterprise JavaBeans Technology Fundamentals Short Course (2000)
• Writing Enterprise Applications with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (2000)
• Enterprise JavaBeans Tutorial (1999)
• Introduction to the JavaBeans API (1999)
• JavaBeans Short Course (1997)

There's some pretty old stuff in there, but I often glance at outdated tutorials prior to digging into the latest implementation. I feel it gives me a better understanding as to why things evolved the way they did.

Russ: Best of Breed. I like the idea a lot! We'd need a portal that is more organized than jGuru, less commercial than TSS and as clean as iSavvix.

Aguilera video offends Thailand. No kidding. I've got a title for her new album, Skankville.

Microsoft beta test site hacked. Security? We've heard of it…

CamWorld: “Are you as confused as I am about the different cell phone technologies between Europe, Asia and the America?”

U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied. Nothing more than bureaucratic BS.

O'Reilly offers Learning Cocoa with Objective-C. I wonder if Learning Cocoa in Java is going to be updated.

Just found out about Google Zeitgeist. Pretty kewl.

Big Blue Busting to Break Out WebSphere V5.

Andersen fined $500,000. A slap on the wrist. If it wasn't so pathetic it would almost be laughable.

Sexy Survey: Who's your favorite action flick chick?

Java 2 SDK, version 1.4.1_01 now available.

JSch is a pure Java implementation of SSH2.

David: Apple posted my “Switch” e-mail.

Mike: The 'real' J2EE tutorial, user driven!

Mike: Australia's 9/11? Very sad, indeed.

I've setup an anonymous CVS pserver in addition of ViewCVS. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would. I had to fiddle with the permissions, which was the only tricky part.

JavaPro: Why Is OOP So Hard?

Toshiba debuts Bluetooth hard drive for PDAs.

Dude, where's my Dell?

David: Java Persistence Frameworks, again. Nice chart!

Confessions of a Mac to PC Convert. Microsoft quickly pulled it, but couldn't avoid Google's cache. Ah!

Firm Reports New Internet Explorer Flaw. Here we go again!

Sexist Survey: Who's your favorite action flick chick?

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.