We have released 1.0 of PowerMock just in time for the Øredev conference! PowerMock is an open source mock framework based on EasyMock that allow you to mock static methods, private methods and even constructors. Our intent is mainly to allow unit testing of legacy code and people really seemed to appreciate this idea at the conference.

We have got the privilege to borrow an Azul Vega 1 which is the smallest of Azul’s monster machines. This evening a bunch of us Jaywayers gathered to try it out. Installing the Azul JVM was painless and all of us were up and running very quickly. Read more…

This year at JAOO all 5 keynote speakers were language designers so there was a clear trend talking about new languages, for example Scala, F# and Fortress. What motivates this is the trend toward more parallel computing with more cores per machine and also to increasing popularity in cloud computing. That is, parallel computing applies [...]

Back in 1994-1995 me and a friend wrote a game called Gravity Force 2 on the Amiga. It got very popular and we still get the occasional email about it. Some people have requested to look at the source code and now it is finally released!

After seeing MockME developed by some of my colleagues I started thinking about how this could be made in a generic way.