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A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab You’re sitting in a restaurant, and hopefully, it’s a restaurant that has a coloring book because you’ve brought one or more of your little rug rats. The coloring book is engaging enough that they are quiet until mealtime, and even give you a bit of [...]

A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab We bring our phones everywhere with us. And more and more, for a lot of us, the iPad is replacing most conventional uses of a computer, and introducing new usages we weren’t aware of years before. With the advent of Yoga and other eastern teachings [...]

A full list of the ideas currently in the IdeaLab Lately, I’ve been cycling down to the beach. It’s roughly five miles there, so my total ride is ten miles each time. One thing that struck me, about every time, was invariably some cyclist would speed past me, and it was an impetus to work [...]

For reasons of sanity, I’ve decided to integrate the content of WicketByExample.com into the Mystic blog. This will provide for easier content management, and hopefully provide an avenue for updates. After talking with a few folks notably Martin Grigorov, I’m particularly excited to see the new stuff coming in 6.0. All content, comments, and original [...]

Recently I gave several talks in Europe at Scandev on Tour in Stockholm and Java2Days in Sofia. Each time I’ve given a talk, I’m not only teaching up there, but learning from the crowd. It’s an immense and enjoyable experience, and a great passion to impart information and knowledge to those who attend my talks. [...]

The first computer I spent any time on, was an Apple ][. Three decades later, I’m writing this on an iMac. And many of you will read it on some Apple-designed device whether it be a Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. The company at the forefront of several revolutionary products, Apple, just lost their [...]

EDIT: Follow this link for the latest scripts which utilize Spotify’s more enhanced Applescript support If you’ve been following the latest invite craze, the latest one has to be for the European import Spotify. Basically millions of tracks you can play instantly on your computer for free + ads, and for a fee they’ll remove [...]

There is a bit of discussion over on the new favorite social network Google+. Some enterprising folks are copying Google’s short URL for accessing Google which appends a plus sign following the domain like so: mysticcoders.com/+. In this short article we’ll show you several methods of achieving this on your WordPress blog from cleanest, to [...]

Here at Mystic, it would come as no surprise to anyone who has read our blogs or worked with our team that we love Apache Wicket. I was pleasantly surprised when the team at Packt Publishing emailed me about reviewing the new Apache Wicket Cookbook. In equal measure I was happy to see that they [...]

I’ve been reading a copy of Apache Wicket Cookbook by Igor Vaynberg and will be posting a review soon. Igor is one of the fantastic core developers for Apache Wicket and seems to have an amazing ability to crank out awesome code, and answer questions on the very active mailing list. Apparently, he might be [...]