Erik's Pulse

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javaTech Tips: Drawing Dashed Lines with Stroke and Generating Custom Doclets.

javaTransforming iCal Calendars with Java. Apple is using human readable text files to store the data from some of its most popular applications.

java blogMike — Prevalyer - would YOU use it?

mobileNEC to use Linux as 3G mobile phone OS. MontaVista Linux.

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blogDiego — googling your weblog.

blogFred — Unix History.

java blogCameron — One-Upped by Carlos.

blogBrent — NetNewsWire Lite 1.0.3 Ships.

blogSimon — Defeating IE5 CSS bugs with the help of jwz.

pdaNew Linux PDAs Blur the Lines Between Laptop & PDA. The Zaurus devices run Linux—which has made them popular among devotees of that platform.

javaLeading Java tools and technologies. A list of finalists for the 2003 JavaWorld Editors' Choice Awards.

mobileThe Matrix Phone sells out. The new Matrix-themed phone from Samsung, the SPH-N270, has already sold out on the Samsung Matrix Online Store.

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macWWDC Early Bird Registration ends Friday.

netUSPS Extends Bill Paying Services. Postal Service offers business users ability to make online payments.

java blogSimon — Attended the London Java Meetup last night.

java blogCameron — The saga continues: Benchmarking with IBM JIT and I love JEdit.

javaOpen Source Is Not a Magic Bullet. Java developers like open source software.

booksReview: Effective Java Programming Language Guide.

booksReview: Wireless Java: Developing with J2ME.

developmentWhich Language When? So many languages, so little time. How best to evaluate them?

netThe Story of the tech.net.ru Crackers. The Washington Post is running a story detailing the events of the arrest of two Russian crackers, Vasiliy Gorshkov and Alexey Ivanov.

mobileNokia Announces 6108 — Pen Based Phone.

java blogPatrick — MVC debate, continued…

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meAs Arjun noticed, I am the author of a weekly column now appearing in the Java Developer's Journal Newsletter.

Alan approached me late last week with the idea. We brainstormed a little and got the ball rolling pretty quick.

A copy of my first column can also be found in the stories section of this blog.

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java blogMike — New MockObjects Releases — Finally!

java blogErik — JavaOne here I come!

java blogKevin — No OSS Java at JavaOne.

java blogGlen — Fun with Decompilers.

java blogAaron — Couple good articles in JDJ this month.

javaThree tools make Java code review painless. PMD, Checkstyle, and Jalopy.

java blogVald — ActualAccessFlags: an undocumented .class format attribute.

pcAmtek's new Tablet PC. The T-1100 ID comes with either a 10.4 or 12.1-inch display, a 1.0GHz processor, up to 768MB of RAM, a 20GB hard drive, 802.11b, USB 2.0 and Firewire.

mobileWi-Fi Bike. Anyone with a wireless enabled laptop or device can connect to the Internet if the Magic Bike is nearby.

linuxThe fear war against Linux. Microsoft's connection to the anti-Linux campaign being waged by the SCO Group is becoming clear.

blogDan — Borland Developer Survey.

netSpamAssassin 2.55, a mail filter to identify spam using text analysis.

java blogWerner — JBoss : Marc's reaction on sun's double vision.

java blogKevin — JAXP.

moblogMatthew — iSync and 3650.

technologyPapers written by Googlers.

blogJim — Euro in the UK.

macApple Stores turn two; Tokyo, Chicago & San Fran locations announced.

javaXMLTask 1.6, provides the facility for automatic editing of XML files as part of an Ant build.

On May 20, 1993 — The final episode of “Cheers” was aired on NBC.