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,
Öredev 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 Neo FreeRunner! [...]

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 @Oredev, I met Mike Jennings from the Android team and together we looked into this problem over a beer [...]

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 [...]