Samsung is launching a new, open mobile operating system called Bada. It seems to be based on a proprietary OS they already have.

We are using Project Lombok in a large project, and I thought I should write a few lines about it. I think it is a really nice idea, but it also causes a lot of troubles. For those who don’t know project lombok: It creates a lot of bytecode for you, you just have to annotate your java classes. For example, you can write a java class like:

I don’t like doing pointless things. Sometimes it’s OK for me to do them anyway, for example when things which seem pointless to me are important to somebody else. Or when it is company policy to do things that way, and this policy could ne-ver be changed.

Yesterday, the second sprint of my current project started. It is my first scrum project, and I am really glad that I have the chance to work in one. I was always interested in Agile development, and scrum in particular, but so far I never had the chance to get hands-on experience. Now this is about to change - I am even considering to become a certified scrum master.