Today PicUP 2.0.1 was released. It fixes a bug in interface to Facebook that prevented successful logins. Hopefully Facebook won't change their login procedures and API so often anymore.

Go to Android Market to get the new version of PicUP.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of PicUP 2.0. This version adds support for uploading images to FriendFeed service. Additionally, the application is now redesigned to be more deeply integrated to Android platform. So, you can open up camera application, capture the image and share it via PicUP. Or, you can browse through your images on SD card and, again, share them via PicUP. If you have both [Facebook|http://www.facebook. …

Our friends at Regio now have their own blog. Go and have a look.

Hamcrest library that provides Matchers used in Junit assertThat feature has interesting technique for documentation.
If you try to create new custom matcher by implementing Matcher interface you will also need to implement this method:

void dont_implement_Matcher_instead_extend_BaseMatcher()

Seems to be more effective than Javadocs

Today, Aqris has entered the world of Android. Our first application, PicUP was successfully released to the Android Market.
PicUP is an application for sharing pictures with your friends through social networking sites. The first version lets you upload pictures to Facebook.

In the few hours it has been available, we already have had many downloads and feedback from the users. Overall impression from the users is great and we will keep improving PicUP based on the requests from users. …

It seems that from requirements management perspective there are two types of non-functional requirements. These that can be implemented once and for all ("independent" requirements) and these that affect many other user stories and hence will not get done until almost all user stories are finished ("distributed" requirement). …

Recently we had a problem with Hibernate (version 3.2.6) mapping with subclasses that threw a ClassCastException upon casting to a concrete subclass.

The mapping file:

<class name="..." table="...">
  <many-to-one name="pet" column="..." not-null="true"/>
</class>

<class name="Pet" table="...">
  <id name="id" column="...">
    <generator .../>
  </id>
  
  <discriminator formula="type"/>
  
  <subclass name="Cat" discriminator-value="cat">
    <join table="...">
      <key column="..."/>
    </join>
  </subclass>

  <subclass name="Dog" discriminator-value="dog">
    <join table="...">
      <key column="..."/>
    </join>
  </subclass>
</class>

The code:

class Pet {
boolean isCat()

Pet pet = ...;
if (pet.</discriminator></generator></many-to-one></key></key> …

Scrum followers say that often Scrum fails because it is just used to label some existing waterfallish process. Interestingly Scrum offers quite many such labels like sprint, scrum master, daily scrum, backlog etc.

If one wants to improve the current process then one should find out what are the problems and then deal with them. In some cases using "solutions" like [Containment Building|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki? …