A Wicket Diary

Nino Wael is organizing a Wicket User Group event at the Øredev conference in Malmø later this year. Attending the Wicket User Group day will give you an additional discount for the conference according to Nino. But this is provided there’s enough interest in the event.

The Wicket User Group would consist of a whole day of presentations and guiding with at least yours truly and of course Nino. I’m going to see to get a presentation on integrating some Google goodness into your Wicket applications. But more on that subject when the Book is finished.

So: are you going to attend Øredev? Or if you are interested in Wicket only, are you going to the WUG@Øredev? Will you be able to give a short presentation on your product, or open source project? You can reply (preferably) on our user list where Nino is searching for interest in this event.

In a pretty much uninspiring match, mostly due to Romania refusing to do anything about their future, Holland defeated Romania with 2-0. I find it strange that when the goal of Romania should be to actually win the match to survive in the tournament, they resorted to playing defense.

This strategy turned out to be very unfortunate for Romania and my enjoyment. Romania’s offence didn’t create any problems for the Dutch defense and as a result lost with 2-0.

Given the uninspired performance of the Romanians I’d love the Italians and the French to continue in the tournament. But only one of them could go through. The winner of their match would be the one to progress in the tournament, so there was a significant incentive to win for both teams. Their match showed a crippled France trying to defeat the Italian forces. The Italians did their job well and defeated the french rightfully with 2-0.

Based on the performance against the Dutch, I found the french to be stronger, but apparently they were still tired from the last match and couldn’t put up much of a fight against the Italians. In any case, they had a bad day already with their bus driver unable to make a corner without crashing two cars and a fence. Their defeat will not be too good for their mood.

That said, I think Holland has done great: three wins out of three, and 9(!) goals. I can’t wait for the quarter finals to take place. Basel here we come!

Even though I’m not a very big football fan (soccer for you Yanks :)), I do enjoy a good football match. This night’s soccer match between the Netherlands and France was a great match with good football coming from both sides. The french did put up a good fight but weren’t as fortunate as the Dutchies. Anyway, getting kicked in the ball by us dutchies must feel like punishment. 4-1 and 3-0 to the number 1 and 2 of the WORLD. That must count for something.

Anyway thanks to France for a great match. Fortune has mistreated you. Kudos to the dutch guys as well. You’ve been marvelous.

The Apple iPhone 3G is nice news, but it didn’t surprise me as much as Oranje (how we call the dutch football team) beating Italy with 3-0 at the European Championships in their first match.

Wow!

I had this old scanner laying around and found the need to scan some old photos. Of course I could take a picture of the picture using a 10MP digital camera, but somehow that isn’t as pretty or convenient as just scanning.

Apparently I didn’t search well enough for OS X scanner support last time I wanted to scan something. If you go looking for support for your old trusted Windows scanner after you’ve migrated to OS X, you may run into the same trouble I got myself in. Fortunately open source developers have provided the world with a set of drivers for OS X that enables your old trusted scanner under OS X. W00T!

Developers of TWAIN SANE: THANKS!