• Roman Strobl: Netbeans 4.1
• Roshan Shrestha: Take your tomcat on the road
• Romain Guy: Profile your code with JVMPI

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• no/meaningless subject
  
• mails are send to large amount of people (CC everybody)
  
• bad spelling, capitals
  
• quotation: 80% of people I know answer to mails on top the original mail
  
• HTML mails: 90% of mails I receive don't need formatting, but people use it, see [2]: dangerous, bandwidth, can connect to the internet by itself, render slowly,
• signatures that are longer than the mail itself
  
• can't inline code fragments (diff) easily
• unfinished list

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• Write down what the library should do and take care that she only do what you have defined
• Avoid cross dependencies: it's up to your application to use the lib, not to the lib to know the application -> provide container with your lib that applications can use for data exchange
• Construct classes from the outside in: write first a sample app that use your lib. This will help you to identify what your lib need. See [2]#
• Extensions: a commonly error with own libraries is that at the beginning they are well designed. Than comes the need for more functionality which is not directly par tof the library, because it is easier to adapt the library. Quickly you will have things in your library which shouldn't be in and also might have dependencies to other libraries which shouldn't be (because you need it for the new functionality). Better is to give the application which use your library the ability to extend/customize it. One easy way is to use abstract classes which must be implemented by the application
• Debugging: see [1]
• Encypsulation: users shouln'd know how your lib works internally
• Constants: what if you want to share constants accross your applications and libraries? unfinished
• Use classes for constants, not interfaces (this is not what they are thought for). This implies: don't "implement" interface to easier use constants.
• Library versioning: unfinished
• cross lib dependencies: Application use A-Lib which use B-lib. But App also use B-lib directly, but in another version ... how to solve the problem, unifinished.
  

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• Real object oriented language
  
• easy pluggable technology: interfaces
  
• strong type checking at compile and runtime
  
• C/C++: lack of pointer, arraybounds checking
  
• build in concurrency
  
• namespaces: public/protected/private ...
  
• single inheritence: describe problems of multi inheritence ..
  
• Java checks that variables are initialized
  
• memory management: you don't have to release memory when you have to -> performance
  
• multi threading and concurrency primitives build in
  
• multiple interfaces
  
• extensibility through interfaces and dynamic class loading
  
• class loader
  
• large standard class library
  
• Java community offer many components in internet
  
• higher level of abstraction
  

• http://www.rovol.com/archives/000074.html
  
• http://www.idiom.com/%7Ezilla/Computer/javaCbenchmark.html
  
• http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=153
  
• http://www.kano.net/javabench/

• 20 million users
  
• current version: 12
  
• 63% cheaper that MS Office
  
• specially strong in governmental and law markets
  

• WP history from Microsoft
  
• Linuxmafia wp faq introduction
  
• Linuxmafia wpfaq taxonomy
  
• WPDOS chronology
  

• libwpd a general purpose library for reading WordPerfect files. See features and news. The most important news for me: "A version of WriterPerfect compatible with this version of libwpd is slated to be released with OpenOffice.org 2.0". WP support was one major missing feature of OpenOffice (though Sun StartOffice had a proprietary filter inside). Read this blog entry from Scott Granneman to see how you can convert your WP documents in batch with libwpd.
  
  

• Kurt Pfeifle: What the Linux Desktop needs?
• Hans Oischinger: Java for the people

• First, I Kurt Pfeifle say that there are 16 different Linux versions of NX clients (Suse 7.x...9.2, RedHAt/Fedora, debs, ...), but only one Windows client (which runs from Windows 95 to XP). I wonder why so many packages are needed for NX client, but other large Linux applications can be installed from only one package: OpenOffice, Sun java, Firefox, Thunderbird.
• I agreed with Hans Oischinger. Java is a great language, very good for desktop applications and KDE support (my favorite desktop) would be even better (but don't forget other Windows managers).
  

• R.J. Lorimer: Eclipse: Managing Multiple Eclipse Installations
• mconway: Setting up eclipse for painless upgrades
• Colin Sampaleanu: Managing Plugins in Eclipse

• it would be nice to be able to use MS Word templates (or MS Office in general) as templates in OO.
  Correction: I saw that you can "import" templates by "organizing" your templates. Select "File -> Templates -> Organize". Select the destination of the import, right click and "Import tempaltes". Now you can select the (one) MS Office temp
  
• Quickstarter should contain "Recent Documents"
. In 80% I am continuing to write previous documents. Of course I could use desktop "recent document" functionality, but this doesn't always work (doesn't know about document open in OO).

• Outline numbering: this is difficult to understand and confusing. It never worked as I expected it until I found the "Tools -> Outline Numbering" menu. For each level, set the paragraph style you want to use (usually Heading1...Heading9) and the number format (1...3, A...C, ...). Now select the style "Heading1" and apply it to the text (I recommend also to select "AutoUpdate" in the Organizer tab of the style).
  There is a anoying bug in OO2.0. Outlines get lost when you close and reopen the document....hope it will be fixed soon.
  
• Languages: first, you can install new languages using the "File -> Wizards -> Install new dictionaries" Wizard.
  Once dictionaries, word lists and thesaurus are installed, you can set the default language of your document in "Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Languages". This will be the language that styles use if not set differently (that means, if you select the "Default" style and didn't change it, it will use the language you have configured as standard language (I don't know if you can also set a default language per document, instead of application).
  Now, if you want to set a different language than the standard language in your document, create a new style by copying an existing one (linked to the existing one), call it "OriginalStyle-NewLanguage" and specify the new language in the font tab of the style.
  

• JMF homepage
  
• Java Media Framework Introduction
  
• MP3 PlugIn
  
• JMF supported formats
  
• JMF solutuions: use JMF in Swing, buffer size, frame seeking, RTP, transcoding, concatenation, split/merge, screen capturing (Robot), render video on 3D surface, network webcam
  
• JMF Forum
  
• Complete Example-Deploying Java Media Framework as Java Extension
  
• JMF lecture
  
• Reading from a camera
  

• Dave Child: CSS Cheat Sheet
  
• Firefox ad
  
• Java Media Framework introduction (old)
  

• ScrapBook: Testing/debugging code on the fly in eclipse blog entry.
  
• good article at weblog.java.net from Stanley Ho about the JRE Download Size.
  

I have a collection of pictures of me on my homepage. I tried the age tranformation tool on one of them, so now I know how I will look like in 10,20, 30 and 40 years:

Today (31):

• German GSM tutorial
  
• mobilecomms-technology.com: operators, prof. mobile radio, satellite, standards (BT, EDGE, GPRS; GSM, TETRA...)
• UMTSlink GSM network:
  
• GSM overview: architecture, interfaces, protocols, channels,
  

1. change T-online from flat rate to call by call (as backup, in case somethign doesn't work with congster, no basic charges)
2. Register at congester. Few minuts later you get your name and password.
3. Change ISP settings