A Wicket Diary

A great blog entry (and a rather lengthy one at that) on the new AJAX features of the Wicket framework.

Karthik Guru has been using Wicket not too long, and is already enjoying it, and using quite some advanced features of the upcoming Wicket 1.2 release.

In his article Karthik works his way from a standard Wicket form to an AJAXified form that validates when the fields of the form loose their focus (’onblur’). The application then makes a validation AJAX roundtrip to the server and updates both the field component and the validation messages on the page.

Definitely worth a read when you want to catch up on the progress Wicket has made in this regard. I hope we can see more of these articles from Karthik and other users!

Today is the last day you can vote for the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards ‘06. You can vote for Wicket in the Development category.

I’ve voted for this framework and asked my colleagues to do so. Even my wife blindly voted for Wicket

This is a comment on my blog. I can’t say I’m not guilty of this as well. I have pressured my family, my inlaws and my co-workers into voting for Wicket: “Vote for Wicket or Else…”. I stopped at the “Else” part, because the left out part was: “you don’t vote”. Yes I’m a wuss.

There are 2 days left (European time) to cast your vote in the SourceForge Community Awards ‘06. I rounded up my family and friends to vote for Wicket, and I hope you will also choose to support Wicket.

As someone with an interest in Java development (otherwise you wouldn’t be reading JRoller) you might want to support the nominated Java projects in this award show. Prove that Java isn’t dead, vote for your favorite Java projects (I just hope Wicket is one of them).

My powermac with ATI 9650 video card has a strange problem. If you look at this blog style, you should see a grayish background on top of a white background.

When I look at my blog I see just a white background. The light grayish background has disappeared in white.

I tried looking with other browsers (Camino, Firefox and Safari) but they give the same results: white background. I tried calibrating my display card, but that also gave the same results. My 23″ cinema display and my 17″ Ilyama display both give the same result: white background.

I also captured a screenshot from my laptop computer that doesn’t show this problem and looked at it on my mac: white background. So it isn’t some HTML rendering problem.

So I guess it is a problem with my 9650 card that I find hard to solve. Has anyone had this experience also?

UPDATE

I just disconnected my secondary monitor and now I have the gray background back! It seems that this is a power problem of the card.

And now that I have switched the connectors, I can use both displays at once without having gray problems. This really was bugging me for a while, so I’m glad I figured this one out. Lesson learned, back to work.

“It kind of makes me feel as if I’m working with the Esperanto of the web framework world.” - Geertjan Wielenga

On Geertjan’s blog, Geertjan shows his affection for the Wicket web framework as he is writing tutorials for Netbeans modules, and creates excellent IDE support as an afterthought. IDE support is critical for many developers, and with Eclipse (Wicket Bench) and Netbeans support for Wicket the future is bright!

In other news, I just released the second beta for Wicket 1.2. The release is available for immediate download and coming to a SourceForge mirror near you in a couple of hours.

Help us finalize Wicket 1.2 by downloading this release and test it. And while you are browsing the SourceForge servers, why don’t you vote for Wicket along the way?