New Sponsor
Object Caching in a Web Portal Application Using JCS. One way to improve server-side performance is to cache data instead of generating it over and over again.
Russ — SSH for Series 60!
Kellan — Source code documenting systems.
First U.S. mad cow case confirmed in Washington Sate. Local news says the farm is located in Yakima.
Tech Tips: Introducing J2EE 1.4 and The Java Standard Tag Library (JSTL)
RText 0.8.3, a Text Editor written in Java.
J2SE 1.5 Early Access For Javalobby Members.
David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1024 available.
UJAC 0.9.3. Useful Java Application Components.
Daniel — Have developers "forgotten their place".
Michael — Mobility is more than J2ME (and the job martket for 2004).
Daniel — Cameron's Challenge.
R.J. — Functional Programming in Java/Javascript.
Fred — J2MEUnit.
Paul — 1.5 Generics: Comments & Headaches.
Todd — Tiny URL's site is getting heavier demand.
Jim — Cinemas encourage piracy?
Tech Tips: Programmer Challenge.
Joe — Comments on java.beans.EventHandler.
Dave — Client-Side Java Survey: You could win a free X-Box.
Kevin — DRM 'Industry' hates freedom.
DOJ closes Net music antitrust scrutiny. After more than two years, regulators say big record labels didn't break any laws on the Internet.
Rumor: Cingular + AT&T Wireless?
Will Sun's Java Studio Creator earn raves? Sun's software strategy highlights price, interoperability, and open source strengths.
James — Groovy 1.0 beta 2 released!
Bob — EJB is not magic.
Paul — Latest iPod replacement: Aigo.
Law firm considering iPod battery class action suit. I'm sure you can easily take Apple to small-claim court and win. It has been done before.
Mary Jo — XP SP2 Beta 1: Now Available on MSDN.
SCO opens new front in Linux war. SCO started sending out the first of an estimated 3,000 letters to companies, universities and other organizations that licensed Unix.
Max — EventHandler.java is Good but not perfect.
Kellan — Simple Test - Unit tests and mock objects for PHP.
PDAs in the year 2005. Steve Sande of PDAntic looks ahead to 2005.
David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1019 is available.
Vattekkat — Quick UI for DocIndexer.
Research In Motion climbs after earnings report. Up by more than 40%.
JawaBeginner1.6, a lightweight Java IDE Tool.
Carlos — A Definition of "Services".
Matt — SSH For Series 60 At Last!
Matthew — XML for the rest of us.
Paul — December Issue of the JavaRanch Journal.
Magnus — The 2003 weasel awards.
Danny — Wrong scent.
Jagzilla 1.1.0, a Java-based set of components for Bugzilla and Eclipse.
US broadband continues growth. Homes and businesses in the US are enjoying a healthy growth in broadband net connections.
Papal message goes mobile. Sign up to receive a thought of the day from the Pope.
Open letter to Michael Dell. John Dickinson: Your customer service just ain't what it used to be.
Verizon, Vodafone team on transatlantic 'texting'. Text back and forth across the Atlantic.
The USB dongle: a form factor worth plugging? Removable storage is only the beginning…
Dion — JCP Watch: Tiger Community Review, New life for JCache?
R.J. — When WILL SCO's Arguments Hold Water?
Installing MovableType on Panther. [via anil dash's daily links]
I'd like to welcome Atlassian as my new Exclusive Sponsor.
Their flagship product, JIRA, has been featured on this blog numerous times. If you need to track bugs, you ought to check it out.They've recently introduced Confluence, which I would describe as a groupware wiki.
Of course, they are also the guys behind java.blogs, which as I've said before, is a great resource for the whole Java-blogging community.
Digital Music Stores Reviewed. Napster 2.0, MusicMatch, WAL*MART Music Service and iTMS.
Russ — Symbian Dev continues towards OSS.
Anthony — Open Source - Fade To Black.
Vinny — My iTrip rocks my world.
Joi — My Nokia 6600 vs my Sony SO505iS.
Apple sold 1.79 iPods per minute in 2003. According to sales figures documented in Apple's annual filing with the SEC.
Punit — (funny) Portlet-my first impression.
Julian — dbActivity Program Is Now Open Source.
Linux Creator Torvalds Details Code Differences. Linux != Unix.
Developer Preview 2 of Java 1.4.2 is now available for Mac OS X v10.3 through the ADC download site.
Matthew — Open Source and Urine.
Danger Adds Java to Hiptop, Promises Software Downloads. J2ME support in next version of the OS.
DBMonster 1.0-beta4, a tool which generates random test data and puts it into SQL database.
VirtualMock 0.1.8, a Unit Testing tool. It uses Junit, Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and the Mock Objects testing approach.
Today's sponsor is Atlassian.