London Wicket Event November 21st
November 4th, 2009 by dashorstSomething special is brewing in downtown London on Saturday, 21st November. jWeekend is organizing a very special event at the iconic Foyles Bookshop in central London.
Join core committers Matej, Alastair, Jeremy and Martijn together with WiQuery gurus Richard and Lionel for an afternoon of intellectual Wicketness.
Join us for some very interesting, high quality presentations and to chat with fellow Wicket users and developers at all levels. We’re expecting this to be another popular event and since places are limited book and confirm early if you can make it. Details and registration are at the usual place.
There is a cool little Jazz cafe at Foyles too, where there’ll be a live act (Femi Temowo) at 13:00 if you enjoy some Jazz guitar relaxation before your intellectual stimulation. They offer a decent range of food and drink there too.
I’ll be available to sign some books, so Bring Your Copy of Wicket in Action—or buy one in the store and have it signed!
Timo Rantalaiho talks about Apache
September 28th, 2009 by dashorstFellow Apache Wicket committer and TDD enthousiast Timo Rantalaiho discusses how he came to Apache in this Apache 10th anniversary video:
Take a look at his shirt :)
Wicket Training at ApacheCon US 2009
July 7th, 2009 by jrthomersonI am very happy to announce that there will be a one day training course at the 2009 ApacheCon conference in Oakland, CA (USA). Before I tell you more about it, consider the following “top ten” list:
Top Ten Reasons You Should Attend ApacheCon US 2009:
10: Hacking is encouraged at the Apache Hackathon two day event.
9: Free beer! http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheConUS2009Program
8: Meet members of your favorite projects (i.e. me last year getting Martijn to sign my copy of Wicket in Action: see Martijn signing my book)
7: Free two day BarCamp
6: Free meetups three nights of the week
5: It’s always a good time to visit California: http://oaklandcvb.com/
4: Support the tenth anniversary of the Apache Software Foundation and the many other great projects that will be there.
3: Did I mention FREE BEER?
2: Two attendees in the class will receive FREE copies of Wicket in Action
1: WICKET TRAINING! (more info)
More details will be coming soon, but if you are looking to get your feet wet with Wicket, you should certainly start making plans now to attend the 2009 US ApacheCon, and the Wicket training class that will be held. Those who register early get discounts, too!
The class will consist of fast-moving explanations of core design principles, Wicket components, and “The Wicket Way”, and each section will be followed by a coding practice where you can put into use what you just learned. We will focus on laying a foundation – how to use Wicket, create pages, organize your application, and create a Wicket application.
We will cover the following:
- The fundamentals of Wicket
- Handling data / working with objects and models
- Standard components provided by framework
- Containers / Application / Session / Page
- Effective code reuse strategies
ApacheCon site: http://www.us.apachecon.com
November 2-6, 2009 in Oakland, CA. Classes will be held on Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday through Friday will be for the conference sessions. The Wicket class will be held on Tuesday.
Follow ApacheCon on Twitter: http://twitter.com/apachecon
Wicket Paris Meetup was a blast!
May 4th, 2009 by dashorstI just returned from Paris where I was speaking (as the sole presenter!) at the Wicket meetup organized by Zenika. The event was really well organized (champagne before and after) and the audience was kind and attentive. I enjoyed the experience very much. Zenika ét tous qui étaient lá: merçi beaucoup!
Wicket presentation organized by Zenika
Just a couple of tips for folks travelling to Paris: the Thalys service is great. If you have an iPhone, purchase the Paris Metro application and finally avoid going to Paris on May 1st (everything is closed and the french are exercising their national pastime: protesting).
ps. with thanks to my dad who pointed out my bad french language skills…
Talking in Paris tomorrow
April 28th, 2009 by dashorstI’m doing a Wicket in Action talk in Paris (France) tomorrow (Avril 29, 2009) evening, and looking forward to meeting the french Wicket Community. This is a 2 hour event, starting at 18:30 in Club Confair, 51 Rue Laffitte, Paris. You can register online for free! This event is brought to you for free by Zenika.
Wicket Meetup Amsterdam 2009 video online
March 26th, 2009 by dashorstMost attendees to the Wicket meetup yesterday evening may have noticed the BFC (Big F’ing Camera) that was shooting those annoying pictures. These pictures made a very nice short movie (using iPhoto’09). If you were not able to attend for one reason or another, here’s a short impression and see for yourself why you should attend next time! (click the movie for a HD version)
Apache Wicket Meetup 2009 Amsterdam from Martijn Dashorst on Vimeo.
Wicket trainings at ApacheCon
February 12th, 2009 by dashorstApacheCon EU hosts 2 days worth of Wicket training March 23rd and 24th in Amsterdam: Introduction to Wicket and Behavior Driven Development with Wicket and JDave. These trainings will be given by core team members of the Apache Wicket project, giving you access to the experts.
You can pick and choose, but if you want the best experience you should book both courses. On monday I’ll be giving an introduction course to Apache Wicket. On tuesday, Timo Rantalaiho will give a course on driving your web application development using Wicket, WebDriver and JDave.
Pricing is available at the ApacheCon website. Book now and get your team up to speed with the best Java web development experience in just two days!
Introduction to Wicket
March 23rd, Martijn Dashorst, full description
Learn how to use Apache Wicket to create web applications on your own from the masters. This hands-on lab will provide a quick introduction to the Wicket framework and we’ll start with coding right away. At the basis for this course lies the Wicket in Action book, written by the course leader. We’ll start with setting up our project, move on from a simple hello world application to implementing an online cheese store. We’ll learn to connect it to services delivered by Spring and a back end served with a JPA provider (Hibernate or OpenJPA). During this course we’ll cover the end-to-end basics of web application development: unit testing, writing maintainable code, internationalization, security and deployment.
Behavior-Driving Your Apache Wicket Application: Making the Most of Webdriver and JDave-Wicket
March 24th, Timo Rantalaiho, full description
How to get good unit and black-box test coverage by expressive, executable specifications on your Apache Wicket application code, with JDave BDD framework and WebDriver functional testing tool.The training is mostly hands-on programming assignments of applying WebDriver and jdave-wicket for testing and adding features to a Wicket application.
German Wicket book
December 15th, 2008 by dashorstJust like most open source communities, Wicket is a global community. And with global communities come books in various languages. Wicket in Action is the third published Wicket book in english, and there has been one in chinese. Today I found the announcement of a german Wicket book which is simply called “Wicket“. Its subtitle is “Komponentenbasierte Webanwendungen in Java”. Even if you don’t speak german, the subtitle is easily translatable. The book is scheduled to be released in Juli 2009 and you’ll have to speak or learn german to read it :)
I haven’t heard about this book before, but I enjoy the fact that more people think it is worthwhile to write and publish books about the Wicket framework. More books means more community, which means more potential readers for all published books.
Geertjan: 5 steps to Ajax autocomplete with Wicket
December 9th, 2008 by dashorstGeertjan is a Netbeans guy, and he has been writing about Netbeans and Wicket for as long as I’ve known him. Today he published a new blog entry showing how to create an Ajax auto-complete text field with Netbeans’ Wicket support and Wicket in 5 easy steps. Can it get any better?
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.