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wicketinaction.com is getting traction

My new website for all stuff related to Wicket is getting some traction: the number of visitors is rising, though not at the same level this one has. The goal of wicketinaction.com is to become an official place for Wicket Community related news, not just book news. Expect release announcements, events announcements and articles to [...]

What next for the US economy? FEAR.

We have officially reached the next stage of the great collapse. Fear. It will potentially be quite a while before this ends, but fear is truly here now and with good reason. Anger will be next and TH

Extreme Programming Topicus Style

Extreme Programming from Vincent van den Noort on Vimeo. Digg it and vote for it here.

On Government

The most vital and determining characteristic of a government is how it organizes cultural corruption.

Wicket Design Environment?

Had an interesting idea today on wicket-user. You could really round out Wicket’s design story by creating a very slim and easy-to-use version of Eclipse or Netbeans targeted at Wicket designers. Ther

New Wicket in Action site live

Like I promised, I’ve revamped the Wicket in Action companion website. I think it looks decent enough, and this format allows me to focus the Wicket writing in one place (and promote the book even more).
Expect to see all Wicket related content to move to that site. I reserve this site for ramblings about Maven, [...]

Now on your door mat: Wicket In Action

Finally, we’re done! Wicket In Action, the dead tree edition, is out! Order it from the publisher, Manning, get it from Amazon, or maybe even a store near you. I hope it will be useful for people. First reviews have been good. If you like the book, please don’t be shy rating it on Amazon [...]

Wicket Quotes

Recently added this to my site: a few quotes about Wicket. Let me know if you see any other good ones.

Working on wicketinaction.com

I’m currently working on the official support site for our book wicketinaction.com. This website will become the new home for my Wicket related blogging, freeing this blog for more personal related stuff (like new cats, beer bellies, rants on other ... [More] open source projects, etc.).

The website is already running, but I’m working on a Wordpress based [...] [Less]

Nathan Hamblen: Web development with Wicket, Part 3

In Nathan’s continuing series of articles about Wicket, he just delivered the final installment on JavaWorld. The subject this time is persistency and Wicket. In this article he discusses four ways to connect your Wicket application with a ... [More] database:

Spring
Hibernate
Databinder
ActiveObjects

On Wicket and persistency:
Wicket was designed with the intentionally narrow focus of “enabling component-oriented, programmatic manipulation of [...] [Less]