digital music without DRM

This one is a little off-topic, but otherwise quite hot. If your music preferences are a little off-mainstream you might be interested in this new offer. Key features are: no DRM, high quality mp3 (192kbps), 88cent per song.

I tried to test it yesterday and the server behaved quite slow. The registration procedure was buggy also, probably only little tested with international customers in mind. But I suppose they will get rid of those little illnesses over time. So, keep an eye on it.

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Free License For IDEA

JetBrains grants free IDEA licenses for everyone who is active committer to an active open source project. Anybody want to start such a project? I sure would like that license :)

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New EJB3 Draft

TheServerSide reports that a new EJB3 draft has been published. Read it, if interested. In case you don't why you should be interested: EJB3 addresses lots of the concerns that developers had in the past about EJB. It should become easier to use and more elegant. It incorpoorates ideas from Hibernate and JDO.

Current draft:
http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/edr/jsr220/index2.html

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