http://code.google.com/android/adc.html 

Cool apps that surprise and delight mobile users, built by
developers like you, will be a huge part of the Android vision. To
support you in your efforts, Google has launched the Android Developer
Challenge, which will provide $10 million in awards -- no strings attached -- for great mobile apps built on the Android platform.

How It Works

The award money will be distributed equally between two Android Developer Challenges:

AJAX DWR Singleton Creator - In one of my messages in the DWR mailing list, I asked about how to use a singleton class in DWR, they kindly refered to http://getahead.org/dwr/server/dwrxml/creators/scripted the solution is to use BSF (Bean Scripting Framework) to initialize the class in dwr.xml, you should download & use the jar of BSF. I didn’t like both [...] [Ahmed Hashim]

Sun announced the public availability of Sun's JSE 6 platform http://java.sun.com/javase/6/

A quick overview of technology changes http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/features.html

For download http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Michael's eHome :: Free Coder ...

Very cool video by Juggy

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/thejavafinch/archive/2006/11/the_finch_wire_1.html

How to make a Successful Java User Group - Mmm, you can ask this question if you have an inactive user group, or when you are going to establish a new user group. How to make a successful Java User Group?
After talking with JUG-Leaders allover the world, and with the support & idea of Aaron Houston, the Sun JUG program coordinator we reached the [...] [Ahmed Hashim]

IntelliJ IDEA Plug-in Contest - JetBrains, the creators of IntelliJ IDEA, are holding a plug-in contest. The contest, which began on September 1, will judge submissions on usefulness, creativity, completeness and quality. Those plug-ins that meet the requirements for submission will be contributed to the IntelliJ IDEA Plug-in Repository.

[The Server Side]

I will be out of office & out of home too :) because I have to travel for 1 week start 17 August and ends 24 August. I wont be able to access mail, JUG or any other way.

For any administration issue, contact Amr

Regards,

Ahmed Hashim 

Test cases nightmare - al salamo alikom wa rahmat allah wa barakatoh
Today was the first time for me to write real test cases, and really it wasn’t a GOOD experiment…
I discovered today that writing Test cases may be harder than developing the feature that needs to be tested.
The most thing that was a real headache for me during writing [...] [Mahmoud Rabie Blog]

I am not quite sure what the author means by test case. If he means
the one for unit testing, then, you should isolate the unit under test and test
it in isolation. You can inject stubs or mock the surrounding objects to your
unit under test.

There are some few useful tools for that easymock, jmock ,
.... what about using aspect oriented programming to mocking? Good idea huh?!

In some real situation, you may not need to isolate your
database and you typically need to hit the database and do some CRUD on it.
Although this is not meant to be unit testing, 
you can use something like DBUnit to handle and manage this.