Tuesday, May 30, 2006
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Windows Vista Beta 2 Up Close and Personal
Vista Beta 2 is finally out. What's good and what's bad? Wei-Meng Lee
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Josh Peterson from the Robot Co-Op
Brady Forrest interviews Josh Peterson, CEO of The Robot Co-op, in this
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/05/26/where-podcast-josh-peterson.html>
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Building a Self-Healing Network
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/05/25/self-healing-networks.html>
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Telling Stories at JavaOne
JavaOne 2006 left attendees with an incomplete answer to the big question:
will Sun open source Java? The answer was better than a definite maybe,
but not by much. Daniel Steinberg looks back at the conference, its mixed
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<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/05/24/telling-stories-at-javaone.html>
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Standardizing Java Persistence with the EJB3 Java Persistence API
Dissatisfaction with entity beans as an "official" means of persisting
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annotations. Debu Panda looks at how to put this new standard to work.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/05/17/standardizing-with-ejb3-java-persistence-api.html>
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