Presenting Wicket at Øredev
November 18th, 2008 by dashorstI’m in the fortunate position that I can join the ranks of the best presenters and technologists in the world and present Apache Wicket at the Øredev conference in Malmö next thursday (November 20th—which also happens to be my birthday). I’m flying into Copenhagen tomorrow and will be joining the ranks of Bruce Snyder, Alef Arendsen and Robert C. Martin for the speakers dinner.
I’m looking forward to meeting all those new guys, and especially Nino who is trying to interview me this time.
Meet the Wicket Community: Jeremy Thomerson
November 12th, 2008 by dashorstIn the continuing series of interviews with the Wicket community, I was fortunate to interview Jeremy Thomerson and to meet him in person at ApacheCon US 2008 in New Orleans. 
As I expected, Jeremy is really a great guy (just as Bruno Borges, whom I also had the honor to meet in person).
Jeremy develops the Wicket based website “Texas Hunt Fish“, one of the long standing public facing websites using Wicket. And he is giving training for Wicket which you can book through wickettraining.com. If you want to learn more about Jeremy’s style, just browse the Wicket user list archives or read his
blog and see how he’s doing. If I didn’t write the book about Wicket, I’d hire Jeremy to teach me :) I’m honored to share this interview with Jeremy with you.
Enunciate and Wicket sitting in a tree
November 11th, 2008 by dashorstWeb applications rarely exist in a vacuum—usually they have to publish their guts using web services to third parties. One typical problem of publishing web services is the art of documenting them correctly.
Enunciate is a great product that goes above and beyond the task of publishing web services: it makes them useful by combining best of breed technologies, such as CXF, jax-ws and javadoc. The end result is a web application that delivers your web services through a documented web site. Ryan Heaton (the author and maintainer of Enunciate) has written an integration guide for using Enunciate in your Wicket application. Read it, and use Enunciate in your projects—your customers will love you for it.
Extending Confluence using Wicket
November 3rd, 2008 by dashorstConfluence is a Java based, enterprisey WIKI that is built using the precursor to Struts 2. So I consider it newsworthy when someone takes the time to write about extending Confluence with the best web technology currently available: Apache Wicket. Gustavo explains how to do just so:
The advantage would be avoiding completely XWork, possibility to use wicket advanced features and possibility to run the feature outside confluence (more testable).
Thanks for the write up, Gustavo!