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Meet the Wicket Community: Nino Martinez Wael
The Wicket community has grown quite a bit since Wicket’s inception. The core Wicket team is pretty visible through the various blogs and meetups?but the community is more! Meet your fellow Wicketeers and read all about them.
Our first victim is one of Wicket’s most visible supporters: Nino Martinez Wael. Read more about Nino and his [...]
Wicket Store (Re)Opens
Welcome to The Wicket Store.
US Elections’08 made in Hollywood
I think the script writers in Hollywood are taking notes, because this year’s election in the US are just incredible. It feels like a horror movie made by Sam Raimi (I love his Evil Dead trilogy!) where humor, slapstick and horror mash into a brilliant movie.
As an outsider I can’t believe what the GOP (Republican [...]
De-mock-racy
Or is that demockery?My GOD, it just keeps coming! The McCain/Palin candidacy may be the first in US history to be laughed out of the race. At least, I’m hoping so.At this rate, SNL is going to
First Wicket article by Igor Vaynberg
It is a great day: Igor Vaynberg, the most prominent committer for Apache Wicket (he has the most commits I think) has written up an article about building a smart EntityModel. You can read it at the official Wicket blog: wicketinaction.com
The Elephant in the Room
The Elephant
The Boys Who Called Bailout
The nightmare scenario that’s now keeping me up: First of all, $0.7T is not going to cover this failure. There will be a second bailout and a third. Not that big a deal. It will be ugly politically an
Wicket in Action Book Review
http://bluxte.net/blog/2008-09/28-10-58.html
Goodbye
The whole world is a little darker today without one of my own personal heroes. We’re all going to miss you, Paul Newman.
Speeding up hibernate startup time using terracotta?
I’m in the middle of creating a conversion utility from one database to another, and I have to reinitialize my Hibernate configuration quite often. When you have a couple of hundred entities that need configuring, starting up Hibernate can take a long time. My initial thought was to serialize the SessionFactory and deserialize it upon [...]