I’m just starting to review the edits our copy editor has performed for chapter 10 of Wicket in Action. This is quite some work, and I sit in my garden with some music, birds chirping, and an agreeable 66F (19C) temperature. In front of me: 26 pages of edits and comments waiting to be reviewed.
If you read this blog directly on the web you will notice something new in the site structure: links to a shop. In this shop I have collected several books that complement Wicket in Action.
One of the things I’ve added is the Wicket starter kit. This kit contains three books that should be present in your cupboard when developing Wicket applications:
I think these three books provide you with the stack of choice for Java web development: Apache Wicket, Spring and Hibernate. Since not everybody is a starter I’ve also compiled a couple of lists with books that complement Wicket as a technology. For example:
Enjoy these books!
Eelco and myself will be joining the JavaRanch and answering your questions. Ask a question and you may win a copy of Wicket in Action!
The announcement:
We are thrilled to have Martijn Dashorst & Eelco Hillenius on the ranch to promote the book “Wicket in Action”. The promotion will be held in the Application Frameworks forum which can be found here:
Participate in this week’s giveaway by asking Martijn Dashorst & Eelco Hillenius a question or two and you may win a copy of the book!
- The giveaway starts on Tuesday, May 20th 2008.
- The drawing will be held on Friday, May 23rd 2008.
See you on the ranch!
In a previous post, which happens to be high on Google’s search results when looking for OS X drivers and Logitech products, I lamented Logitech’s driver support for not working and mostly keeping quiet about it.
I’ve recently upgraded my MacBook Pro to Leopard and it seems that the freezing problem has been fixed. I haven’t encountered the spinning beach ball of death due to connecting my Logitech headset. But I must confess that I am very cautious currently when attaching the headset, and haven’t used it for a while. I’m slightly optimistic that this problem is solved.
Recently the Wicket team released the first milestone release of Wicket 1.4, the new and Java 5 based release that will supplant Wicket 1.3 rather soon. We have adopted the release schema of Eclipse as our M.O. to smooth the process of introducing (amongst others) generics into our code base.
In the same tradition as Eclipse, we now have our very own New and Noteworthy release document for Wicket 1.4-m1.
Now I hear you ask… How can I help out? Well, you can! By using this milestone release and providing us feedback on how this release suits you.
Enjoy!