Dazed & Confused

Setting up XRadar these days. Should probably complement it with some of these tools too.

My Nokia E60 arrived today, and from what I have tested so far it’s really excellent. I can’t really understand how Nokia could leave out timed keylock though. But since this is a sweet Symbian (9 something with Series 60 r3) phone there was no trouble installing an extra app that fixed that. Check out [...]

IBM DeveloperWorks has a good article comparing TestNG and Junit 4. I havn’t really paid much attention to the issue before, but it seems I should have a look at TestNG. It will probably be a better match for our higher-level integrationtests like the author states.

This is one of the reasons to why i chose to be a software developer;) But on the other hand, taking over a messy project that lacks documentation isn’t a pretty sight either.

Check out http://rita.nrk.no/community/oya/ for some great music. I’m not sure it’ll be up longer than through august, so hurry, hurry. I loved The Twilight Singers concert.

Some of the guys at work are testing out which WS implementation to use. From the little I know (I haven’t done much WebServices), there are a handful of decent ones.

Axis 1
Axis 2
XFire
Spring WS (Ok, it’s only on Milestone, but it should be decent if it has the same quality as the rest of the [...]

You hear about the great ghost of outsourcing a lot of the time. Rands has an excellent piece on why some jobs can’t be outsourced.

Before you start using Google WTP i strongly sugest that you read this post by Jevgeni Kabanov. Do also check out the alternative projets the post refers to! There are lots of alternatives out there:)
Opinion: Will Google Web Toolkit Matter?
I’ve listed some of the projects here if you don’t bother to read the post(but [...]

Considering using Joda Time on a project. There’s a good writeup with details of it here.

Joel has a series of articles on management:

Intro
Command and Control
Econ 101
Identity

It’s a good read