Archives "March 2009"

Don’t get me wrong, Mystic Paste is great! However if I’m on ##wicket and someone asks a question about some code, and I know I’ve written that code, I want to be the first to respond. I don’t want some n00b making me look like a n00b by responding first So instead of: copying code [...]

Thanks again to everyone who made it to Mystic’s presentation on Architecting Applications using Apache Wicket. I enjoyed sharing the information with you, hearing your questions, and offering solutions for them. If you have follow ups that were thought of later, please contact us. Here’s a link to the presentation for the interested: Architecting Applications [...]

Heath Kesler was the final presentation of the day that I attended, and covered one of the other hot topics these days, SOA. Many enterprises have attached to the ideal of a service oriented architecture, but have found issues during implementation that the core team were unable to overcome. Charly^HHeath put together an informative presentation [...]

Eugene Ciurana’s talk was on the new hotness, the buzzword du jour Cloud Computing. One of the main goals as a presenter which I learned watching Eugene, is that your role is not just to teach and blather on, but to entertain. Eugene definitely has an air of confidence while he speaks, and it makes [...]

David Geary’s talk on Google Web Toolkit was one of the highlights of the day. Oddly enough they held it in the polar room and kept it at a brisk 30 below! Aside from feeling like we were stuck in the North Pole, the presentation was informative and engaging, and David’s dry humor left us [...]

The next talk I attended was presented by Kito Mann from Virtua and went over the new items that are expected in the next major release. JSF2.0 will be part of Java Enterprise Edition 6, and the official JSR is 314. Kito has a professional grasp of all the new aspects of JavaServer Faces 2.0, [...]

The conference was kicked off with a great keynote speech by Neal Ford. The presentation was “Productive Programmer: On the Lam from the Furniture Police” and was a subject near and dear to many developers who have ever worked in a cube farm, and wanted to squeeze more productivity out of your day. As “knowledge [...]

Mystic will be in attendance in Vegas for The Server Side Java Symposium this year, as we’ve mentioned. We’ll be doing regular updates and reviews of the sessions we attend, and what was learned by the presenters. As we are also giving a talk on Friday, we know how hard each speaker has worked to [...]

Here we are, the last day of our Apache Wicket series.  While there was only one day that focused on Apache Wicket, we’ve laid the groundwork needed to get a J2EE project that uses a web framework off the ground.  And step-by-step, if you follow along with the team on all 4 days preceding, you [...]

So… you should now have a fairly good understanding of how to put Wicket together with Spring and Hibernate, creating your DAOs and services and putting that code through the test gauntlet. We can see that our foundation is rock solid… but we’re missing the eye-candy… so let’s hop over to the UI and show [...]