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July 2003

Beggregator 0.2 available

July 31, 2003

The latest release of coolest newest slickest RSS news aggregator, Beggregator is out. The 0.2 release includes tons of new features and bug fixes. You have to check this out, even if you are happy with your current RSS reader. JIRA for tracking features and bugs for Beggregator @ http://jira.eugenebelyaev.com. [...]

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Good week for BEA Systems

July 30, 2003

Looks like a pretty good week for BEA Systems. The stock (NASDAQ: BEAS) is up a lot in the recent day and I caught a few decent press releases about Portal and JRockit.
Saw this article about the eWeek Portal article. Also caught the JRockit JVM Benchmark on TSS.
I know from personal [...]

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public class HowToKeepYourJob extends OutSourcing {

July 29, 2003

My MSNBC News Alert starting flashing, and my Pavlovian response was to click the little red blinking icon in my system tray. The first article that caught my eye was titled 'Outsourcing to usurp more U.S. jobs'. A lot of us in the IT industry are dealing with this reality. [...]

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Reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser –

July 29, 2003

Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 has been released and here are some reasons to switch to the Mozilla Firebird browser.
If you ask, as I did – 'What's the difference between Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla?' The FAQ answers: Mozilla (Application Suite) is a complete suite of web related applications, such as a browser, a [...]

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Sun proposes new Web services specs -

July 28, 2003

Just caught this article this article about Sun proposing a new Web services specs on CNET's News.com. Looks like Sun, Oracle, Iona Technologies, Fujitsu Software and Arjuna Technologies will submit the specifications, the Web Services Composite Applications Framework (WS-CAF), to W3C or OASIS for acceptance. Never heard of WS-CAF before.
To quote the article, [...]

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iPod: The Missing Manual

July 27, 2003

O'Reilly has just released iPod: The Missing Manual. Written by New York Times tech columnist J. D. Biersdorfer, this book is a collection of useful tips, tricks, and shortcuts.
This book covers all iPod models for both Mac and Windows, including the new 15/30GB iPods. It is also a guide to iTunes, MusicMatch [...]

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Tech Talk with Gregor Kiczales on Aspect Oriented Programming –

July 25, 2003

Found this on TSS — TSS is hosting a Tech Talk with Gregor Kiczales on Aspect Oriented Programming.
Gregor lead the PARC team that developed AOP and AspectJ at Xerox. In this interview, Gregor looks at the history of AOP and the current challenges it faces moving forward. He discusses the meaning of [...]

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Goodbye FeedReader – Hello Beggregator: My new favorite aggregator –

July 24, 2003

I have used FeedReader as my default news/feed aggregator for a while now. FeedReader works just fine and is a pretty decent product. But I had to switch when I first discovered Beggregator. Beggregator is a great feed reader written in Java by Eugene Belyaev, President and CTO of JetBrains – the [...]

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BEA dev2dev Releases AOP System for WebLogic –

July 24, 2003

I saw this on Cedric's blog first – BEA has released a WebLogic Aspect Framework that is based on AspectJ and is made of a set of predefined pointcuts that WebLogic users can simply reuse and write aspects for. You can download the framework at the dev2dev site
I haven't kept up with the AOP [...]

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Buy.com launches digital music service –

July 22, 2003

Just caught this on CNBC Squawk Box this morning — Buy.com launched a new digital music download service called BuyMusic.com. My first reaction was finally!! A solution for us non-MAC (i.e. non cool) people. Here are some basic facts about this new service. They will charge 79 cents per song vs. [...]

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The Ideal Programmer

July 21, 2003

Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: 7-20-03 The Ideal Programmer

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Sony Breaks Ground With New PDA

July 20, 2003

- Just reading about the new PDA from Sony called the PEG-UX50 . The PEG-UX50 is the latest beautiful PDA from Sony running Palm's OS (v5) with built-in support for 802.11b WiFi and Bluetooth. This PDA also includes a 0.3 megapixel digital camera that supports up to VGA (640×480) resolution. You can [...]

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Is there any bloody value in coding standards? –

July 17, 2003

Just caught this blog at the Software Craftsmen – Is there any bloody value in coding standards? And I have to answer with a resounding 'maybe'
But really, I think there is a lot of value in coding standards but turning them into religious wars isn't right. I have to agree Oliver's comment [...]

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Software Craftsmen

July 15, 2003

Found these great articles on Mike Hogan's blog while surfing TSS. Hosted under the site are 2 great articles titled Maintainability Pattern: Manage Dependencies and Maintainability Pattern: Write less code.
Apparently, Mike has been working on the same 50,000 lines of code for the last 2 years and obviously had some great exposure [...]

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My Amazon.com habit :)

July 12, 2003

Just got back from my trip to Boston to find a few pretty Amazon.com boxes waiting at the door. woohoo
My Amazon habit, as my wife calls it has me buying about 10-15 books a month. The latest packages include a few new books including Java Persistence for Relational Databases by Richard [...]

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BEA Releases XMLBeans to open source

July 8, 2003

Just back from vacation and catching up with my daily dose of TSS when I see this headline – BEA Releases XMLBeans to open source. I was just blogging about this topic earlier this month. This is great news and I hope the Apache group will accept XMLBeans as an Apache project and [...]

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Who says programmers don't have a sense of humor :)

July 5, 2003

In my daily browsing of my 'must-read' blogs, I ran into this entry from Cedric's blog. Cedric is another Uber WebLogic geek and the creator of EJBGen, an EJB code generator) The entry titled, 'import *' considered bad for your breath talks about limiting the usage of lines like 'import java.util.*'. And I [...]

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Gizmodo : The gadgets weblog

July 4, 2003

Just discovered my new favorite new website – Gizmodo : The gadgets weblog.

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Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative

July 3, 2003

A friend of mine just picked up a copy of the Pete McBreen book, Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative and he was pretty impressed with it so far. The book presents an alternative approach to software development. I guess the premise is that organizations should spend more time on building people vs. getting [...]

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eBays J2EE backend serving over 400 million transactions a day

July 2, 2003

Just saw this on TSS and was really excited to see the headline – eBays J2EE backend serving over 400 million transactions a day. Wow. This is just huge for J2EE as eBay was implemented using Microsoft technologies. In reading the TSS thread, I agree with Cameron's comments about the real number [...]

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