From the monthly archives:

September 2003

New books from Addison-Wesley

September 27, 2003

Just got an email from Addison-Wesley with a list of the new books that they are publishing. Here are a few of them that I found interesting based on their title and description.Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans.This is not a book about specific technologies. It offers readers [...]

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HP Buys BEA in the next year?

September 27, 2003

Found this interesting thread of TSS that's talking about how BEA and HP are growing closer and BEA deployment on HP is up 31%. I posted my thoughts there and wanted to post them on my blog as well.
I think HP and BEA will continue to get closer and closer, but I personally don't [...]

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Blogger and Blog*Spot Woes

September 25, 2003

It has been a strange week – Blogger and Blog*Spot, the hosting service of Blogger that allows bloggers to host their blogs in vanity domains has had tons of problems in the last week. The service at Blog*Spot has suffered several Internet outages making all blogs inaccessible. Another major issue was permalinks, where [...]

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XMLBeans arrive @ Apache

September 16, 2003

Just caught this email in my mailbox and I'm really excited to see this development. I was blogging about this topic earlier and I am really glad to see this happen.
—–Original Message—–From: Cliff Schmidt [mailto:cliff@bea.com] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:05 PMTo: announce@incubator.apache.org; announcements@xml.apache.org; general@incubator.apache.org; general@xml.apache.org; announcements@jakarta.apache.orgCc: pmc@xml.apache.org; pmc@incubator.apache.orgSubject: XMLBeans code has been checked [...]

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[OT] Goodbye to spam – Maybe

September 15, 2003

I'm sure you have the same problem. I've used the same email address for the last 9+ years and in that time, I've probably subscribed to every programming related newsletters out there. I've also posted in Usenet and several mailing list with my email address and I now get about 500+ email messages [...]

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The Tomcat Bible – A must own book for anyone using Tomcat

September 13, 2003

I've had this book for a couple of months now and I finally posted a review on Amazon. Here's a copy of what I posted on Amazon.
Tomcat: The Definitive Guide is a great book about the most commonly used open-source servlet/JSP container. Tomcat is the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and [...]

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My Love Affair With JRockit

September 12, 2003

I am in love with JRockit! JRockit is the high performance JVM developed for server-side applications that is bundled and integrated into the BEA product line, including WebLogic Server. BEA acquired Appeal Virtual Machines AB, a Swedish company that made JRockit in 2001. Since then, they have worked closely [...]

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BEA gets in the act

September 8, 2003

Over the weekend, I was checking out dev2dev.bea.com to see what was new and I spotted the entry entitled 'Blogs We Like'. dev2dev has had links to Adam Boswoth's and Byron Sebastian's blogs for a while now, but this has expanded into a section of the site where they have links to other blogs. [...]

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I know what I want for Christmas

September 5, 2003

I know what I want for Christmas! Well, besides 60-inch Plasma Flat-Panel HDTV TV. I just saw the launch announcement for the Sharp Actius AV18P notebook on Gizmodo and CNET. The Actius AV18P notebook is 1-inch thick, weighs 3.9 pounds and comes with 802.11b wireless networking capabilities. It uses the [...]

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Sun Mulls Joining Java Eclipse Effort

September 3, 2003

Just saw this on Yahoo via this blog. The headline, 'Sun Mulls Joining Java Eclipse Effort' almost knocked me off my chair. The article states that Sun has indicated it might be willing to join the IBM-sponsored Eclipse project. The VP of the developer tools division said that he favors a [...]

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