C|Net reports that Thunderbird 1.0 RC has been released. A great email app, and would be my first choice for a thick client, but I often find myself returning to ssh and my highly tweaked Pine. It’s just more convenient when it comes to reading mails.
A great article about project management here. It focuses on Crystal Clear (which seems to be an agile methodology?), but really is applicable to any smaller software project.
Eric over at Manageability has a good list of Java books to read here. I’ve just finished J2EE without EJB by Rod Johnson and I might even consider having it higher on the list. It does an excellent job of explaining The Spring framework but also explains when it is sound to use EJBs, JTA etc. in your projects. It has much more background information than I thought it would. An absolutely excellent book.