Might be interesting: http://www.jsystemtest.org/

Some notes from the Agile Scandinavia 2008 conference:

• Scrum seems to be the most popular agile methodology these days. If you want to impress co-developer then tell him/her that you are using scrum.
• in order to get the full benefits of any agile process you need to change the thinking in whole organization towards lean/agile. If your development teams are doing scrum but operations and business people are still geared towards waterfall, you will not gain much. …

Random thoughts from the conference:

The night before

When I arrived to the airport, I discovered our flight was scheduled 20 minutes before the time marked on our tickets. Luckily we had some time left and we managed to check in without problems. The security check guys did a good job making our bags lighter (deodorant, tooth paste, shaving foam - all taken away). Anyway, an hour later, after a bumpy road through the air, …

Sample DDD application has been released. I guess it's sort of DDD "reference implementation" since Eric Evans' company is also involved.

I think that having such sample applications which concentrate on good design practices rather than features of some framework or library is very beneficial to the whole community. …

Probably everyone has sometimes come across comments like this:

// fix for issue #3604 Ronald        
if (response == null) {
    ...
}

It seems to me that some people are adding such comments in sincere belief that it will make code more easily understandable. Unfortunately the result is quite the opposite.

Issue id itself will not tell anything about the rationale for given fix. So we have to find it from issue tracker. …

Dear Friends

Pencil in Thursday, November 6th as the date for the grand opening party of Aqris new office!

At 5pm an amazing „Around the World Tour" departs from our office (Shnelli Ärimaja, Toompuiestee 35, Tallinn) and we promise your safe arrival around 8pm (or later, if that's what it takes). Meet & mingle with fellow IT folks on your tour around the world:

• "warm-up" with RUSSIAN vodka and zakuska
• enjoy ASIAN delicacies while watching (dare participating!? …

As said in article below if you have fixed price project then it may be beneficial not to have very detailed requirements spec referenced in contract

http://feeds.dzone.com/~r/zones/agile/~3/401890175/fixed-price-contracts-agile-pr

Problem

You want to create association based on some advanced condition not just primary and foreign keys.

For example each Asset can have one or more AssetOwners but only one of them is the primary owner.

Solution

<class name="AssetOwner" table="asset_owner">
  <id name="id" column="owner_id">
  ...
</class>

<class name="Asset" table="asset">
<id name="id" column="asset_id">
...
<join table="asset_owner" inverse="true">
<subselect>
SELECT o.owner_id AS primary_owner, o.asset_id
FROM asset_owner o
WHERE o.asset_id = asset_id
AND o.</id></id></class></join></subselect> …

Today is the day when 6th season of Hansapanga tervisejooks is coming to an end.
It has been great 21 weeks, all filled with joy and whats most important just feeling good of yourself!

We hope for the best to be the winners of this season tervisejooks. The odds are not so good 1/384 = 0.003%, but if you compare it to some lottery, then I think we have good chances

Big thanks to Aqris SK team members Oliver, Dea, Mart, Juri and Rene, …

According to new maintenance policy after every major release (3.0, 3.1, 4.0 etc) bugfix releases for it will be freely available for 3 months. After this time bugfixes will be available in source repository but binary releases will be available only for subscribed users. Also bugfixes to any previous major release will only be available to SpringSource Enterprise customers. …