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October 2003

Dilbert does XP

October 27, 2003

I’m not sure when this was officially published on dilbert.com, but I just found this when I was backing up my machine. This has to be one of my favorite Dilbert along with the UNIX/eunuch programmers and the token-ring network ones.

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My evening with Bob Martin

October 16, 2003

The Milwaukee SPIN Group (Software Process Improvement Network) had Bob Martin as their speaker tonight and it was a great time. Bob Martin or Uncle Bob is a consultant and trainer in the field of software project management. He is the author of Extreme Programming in Practice, Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices, UML [...]

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My favorite J2EE component is … DisplayTag

October 15, 2003

I guess I have to completely agree with this thread entitled Discussion: My favorite J2EE component is … DisplayTag on TSS. I have been using the display tag library since version 0.8 and have found it to be really useful and a huge time saver. Plus the ability to integrate with Struts is a nice [...]

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BEA jumps on security bandwagon

October 14, 2003

I first saw this on CNET in an article entitled – BEA jumps on security bandwagon. In a nutshell, the BEA WebLogic Enterprise Security product is an application security infrastructure solution that uses a service-oriented approach to enable security services for your applications. The product is based on most of the stuff that came over [...]

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Apple to launch iTunes for Windows

October 9, 2003

Just saw this on CNET’s News.com – Apple to launch iTunes for Windows. I am really excited as I don’t really like the alternatives in the Windows world. Companies like PressPlay have been offering online music sales for a while now along with newcomers like Buy.com, Musicmatch and other but they all offer DRM’d version [...]

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Can’t wait for IntelliJ IDEA 4.0

October 7, 2003

I really can’t wait to see the final GA release of IDEA 4.0. The JetBrains home page is also featuring the 4.0 coming soon splash graphic. I’ve been playing with most of the EAP downloads and the new features are really worth the 4.0 download or upgrade. I personally don’t care about the GUI designer [...]

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[OT] My Griffin iTrip finally ships

October 6, 2003

hoo hoo – Just got an email from Griffin Technology stating that the new iTrip for third generation iPods are now shipping! If you don’t know, the iTrip is a FM transmitter for the iPod that can play your music through any FM radio. Unlike other FM transmitter, you can choose any radio station on [...]

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IntelliJ does .NET

October 4, 2003

I first read about when I was reading Carlos’s blog. In an entry entitled, Is JetBrains Selling Arms to the Enemy?, Carlos was musing about the future of IntelliJ and IDEA as JetBrains starts making as Eugene Belyaev, President and CTO of JetBrains talks about the products after IntelliJ 4.0. In Eugene’s article, he talks [...]

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Merrill Lynch rips Sun Microsystems

October 2, 2003

Merrill Lynch’s top analysts put out a scathing report about Sun that said that Sun is in danger of becoming irrelevant and of being acquired unless it fires thousands of workers and refocus its business. Wow. I’ve been saying the same thing for a while now and I think this report just hit it right [...]

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O’Reilly Releases ‘J2EE Design Patterns’

October 1, 2003

O’Reilly has just released a new book called J2EE Design Patterns written by William Crawford and Jonathan Kaplan. The press release states that this is not your typical patterns catalog. Instead, the authors have chosen to introduce these patterns in a narrative style, while keeping each section sufficiently distinct so that readers can easily focus [...]

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