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Refux — Eclipse plugins I use everyday.

Carlos — 101 Reasons Why Java is Better than .NET (Reloaded).

VeriSign To Run New RFID Root Directory. EPCglobal will pay VeriSign to build out and manage the ONS root directory platform on its behalf.

Bertolucci film 'The Dreamers' will be released as NC-17, the first film since 1997 so rated. [via Amy]

Mustaches give cops more authority. An extra 65 cents a month to grow a mustache.

Darren — Virtual vs Final.

Mike — Songwriters Want Dual Payments For Copy Protected CDs and Shopping Cart Abandonment Due To Hidden Surprises.

Canadian MP3 player tax challenged. Apple Computer, Dell and HP are challenging a recent ruling in Canada that would impose an extra fee ($25) on digital music players.

Marcus — Unit Testing Performance.

Java Implementation of Speex 0.9. A Java port of the Speex speech codec.

Rael — Security by Profanity.

Macworld review: Eudora 6.0.

Jicarilla 0.3-alpha, a platform for developing Java applications and components.

PalmSource stealth releases OS milestone. Hush hush.

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XML-RPC in Java programming. The simplest route to interapplication communication.

2D animation with image-based paths. Take the heavy coding out of fixed-object animation.

Daniel — Goodbye again, JavaWorld.

JavaPerformanceTuning Interview: Jayson Falkner.

The Middleware Company announces the launch of TheServerSide.NET.

Diego — oops.

Matthew — Opera supports RSS.

Tutorial: Session management with J2ME and PHP.

Tutorial: Writing a J2ME App for the Nokia 6610.

Sketsa 1.6, a WYSIWYG SVG Editor.

Opera 7 now on PDA: Sharp Again Goes for Opera in New SL-6000.

Anthony — On Groovy.

Brian — Plain English and UI.

David — IntelliJ Aurora, build 1094 available.

Jeremy — box: wrapped up in a webapp.

Lasse — JavaRanch up for a Jolt Award.

Hani — IDEA: What happened to innovation?

Geert — CodeGuide Amethyst build 807 released.

Brian — cvs udpate -dP.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Mike — Eclipse Plugin Idea.

Kenneth — Python IDE: ERIC3.

Kevin — Debugging JSPs.

AWStats 6.0, a powerful logfile analyzer.

jboard v0.20, a bulletin board project written in Java.

IBM releases XL compilers for Mac OS X. Fortran 77, Fortran 90, and Fortran 95.

Review: TiVo Series 2.

No WMA for the HPod. Wired News says that Paul Thurrot is wrong.

Mike — Yet Another Rental Car With GPS Gives Out Secret Fines and Court Says No On Aimster, Junk Fax Cases.

Yahoo Proposes Anti-Spam Standard For Internet. Domain Keys.

J2ME CD Player. Philips EXP5371.

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Erik's Pulse has been published.

Rael — New POP3 email client (beta) for the Treo 600 and SPOT Watch Review.

Mike — Penn State Napster Launches.

Geert — Visual javadoc editing.

Frank — Friendity.

Dominic — Enterprise J2ME book.

Keith — LDAP and JNDI.

Leslie — Quick Links.

Bill — $.50 per Gigabyte.

Brent — FeedDemon and Atom.

Steven — A Simple Tip For Improving Your RSS.

UJAC 0.9.4, a set of Useful Java Application Components.

New Queen Mary 2 offers high tech on the high seas. The ship's massive data network is built around NetWare 6 and Oracle and SQL databases.

Ellison hands Oracle chairmanship to CFO. Founder to stay on as chief executive.

RIAA adopts paramilitary garb for parking lot bust and 50 Cent and Crow torpedo HP's RIAA love-in.

Tip: Force the Extension of a Class Without Overriding Any Single Method.

Java Signals, a library which provides support for catching 'signals.'

James — Converting HTML documentation into wiki notation using groovy instead of XSLT.

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