I use GMail for most of my mail. They have a cool feature with which you can add a string to your username part of the email address by ading a +-sign, like this: myusername+astring@gmail.com. Email sent to this address will go to myusername@gmail.com. This is perfect when you register your email at many sites […]

I ended up using JMUnit for my mobile java project. The Sony Ericsson jUnit tool is great when you have to run the tests from a PC on a real device or from a “real” jUnit application. It’s a more advanced tool, but for my needs at the moment, it’s a bit overkill. So I […]

I used to work for Sony Ericsson and my first job for the company was developing the J2ME SDK. The last thing I did as a developer was initiating the Mobile jUnit development (another guy finished it, though, and he should get the credit for it becoming a great tool.) This was a couple of […]

I’ll try using the iMacros Firefox plugin for testing a web service I’m developing. Will get back on how good it works. Speaking of Firefox plugins, Firebug is a must have if you’re doing web development. Updated: a quick test and comparison to Selenium makes the latter the winner for testing.

The following error message can occur when trying to use subversion on an apache2 server over https and dav: 501 Method PROPFIND is not defined in RFC 2068 and is not supported by the Servlet API. The error message is quite misleading. It can be caused by a simple misspelling of the server. In my […]

Beta is not what it used to be. It used to mean “buggy and unusable”, meant to be used in a transition phase from development to finished product. Now it means “usable, but still under development” or “we’re still adding new features” – or maybe just “free”. That’s slightly different. Well, it’s actually very different. […]