I’m am looking forward to Øredev 2011 more than I have looked forward to any of the previous ones. The reason for this is that Øredev has finally become a leading conference for dynamic programming. Øredev has always been good in the enterprise sphere led by Java, .Net and mobile tracks, but it has been [...]

The panel of Øredev 2009 proved to be a great group of people ready to take the panel format further. As the moderator I wanted something other than your daddy’s discussion – something edgy or just plain edutainment. I certainly got what I asked The folks on the stage were: James Bach – Author of [...]

The Øredev conference was a real success. I’m involved in it ,so that probably makes me biased:-). However, I struggled for the first 10 minutes of my presentation to get my slides on the projector. A tip for you Mac users out there: Plug the adapter (dmi to vga) into the VGA cable first! I [...]

Last friday I attended an excellent session at Øredev 2008, on Android by Mike Jennings from Google. At the end of the presentation Mike show the code for a simple application with a bouncing blue ball, controlled by the accelerometer. What stroke me was that the git of the application was 85 lines of code, [...]

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.

Hi there, Øredev was great success, especially all the people and the organization – a big Thank You to Michael and Emily for making this possible, you rock! Now, it was really awesome to exchange Android games with Mike Jennings fro the Android team, and get him excited over the recent Android port to the [...]

Since the release of the Android SDK 1.0, people (including me) have been complaining about the lack of connectivity for the very convenient Smack API to talk to Googles GTalk servers following http://davanum.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/android-just-use-smack-api-for-xmpp/, see here. However, yesterday @Øredev, I met Mike Jennings from the Android team and together we looked into this problem over a [...]

Just a quick note on Scrum Shock Therapy. I will give a session on this subject at the Øredev conference on Tuesday at around 10 o’clock. If you can make it I will talk about the whole shebang – recipes for the team, management and organisation. I’d love to get your feedback. See you in [...]

As most of you know Jayway is one of the organizers of Øredev. Knowing that, and knowing how much we love our own conference, you might not trust our judgment in this review. We beg to differ, and ensure you that Øredev is just as enjoyable as we describe it in this article. The Conference [...]