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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 [...]

Every time I’ve visited Göteborg, Sweden … I’ve enjoyed it immensely. The people here are a lot of fun, and Swedish is great to listen to because it sounds like they’re always singing to each other (apparently Norwegian is even more so!). I used this picture above in one of my slides to discuss the [...]

Our signature sample is our “5 Days Of Wicket” tutorial app MysticPaste.com. And recently I decided to migrate the app from being proxied by Apache to nginx. We have always backed the pastebin with Jetty and this hasn’t changed. Without further adieu here is our config for nginx: ?View Code XML server { listen 80; [...]

So our little pastebin has been growing up lately! After playing the staring role in 5 days of Wicket as an example project, it’s been used as a public pastebin for almost two years. So as with all older stars, it was in dire need of a facelift. You can click through to the picture [...]

It’s the holiday season, and no matter how you celebrate – enjoy the present. We Wish everyone Happy Holidays and a Safe and Fun New Year!

That’s right folks, we’ve again taken the love for Apache Wicket on the road to Ft Lauderdale, Florida! The team that puts on these shows is the same that does the No Fluff Just Stuff tours around the USA. This show though, and Überconf before it are all about longer more in-depth sessions so you [...]

Here at Mystic, we love Apache Wicket for it’s clean separation of mark-up and logic, simple POJO data model and one of the first web frameworks to espouse lack of XML as a benefit. 1. Download Apache Maven. 2. Install it and ensure that the mvn executable is in your path. 3. Run the following [...]

Visiting a city you’ve never been to before, is initially disorienting. The logistics of a city are often different from your own, and the maps they provide are usually at a level of granularity just above guessing based on profit making landmarks.

Last year I had the awesome privilege of attending and speaking at a conference in Sofia, Bulgaria for Java2Days. The experience was unmatched to any previous conference, the organizers were amazing and gracious hosts, put on a great event and made sure that the speakers all felt welcome in their hometown. When it arrived this [...]