Wicket 1.3 snapshot refactors IConverter, makes n8 late for work.

Wicket ponders undoing constructor change for 2.0. Databinder, whose 2.0 branch has cobwebs in its cobwebs, shrugs.

Coderspiel redux’s news feed begins crank out (not necessarily correct) data.

Submitted a patch for that ajax submit bug. (See, it wasn’t just me!)

Everyone knows that soap isn’t supposed to float. Although I’m sympathetic to the Wineriean ideals of SOAP, PayPal remaking their API for Name Value Pairs (talk about old-skool!) feels like the end of the beginning of the end for it.

Derby doesn’t like tables named User or tables with a $ in them – what exactly does Princess Derby like?

Wicket ajax totally crashes Safari. Just sayin’.

Fractional opacity fixed-position elements scroll badly in all browsers, whether it’s a PNG with alpha bits or styles.

The Aptana Eclipse plugin is pretty sweet for editing plain HTML (as we do for Wicket), more features than Amateras and better behaved too (has an update site, is listed in Manage Configuration). Databinder will shortly recommend it, I expect.

Since everyone’s talking about OpenID, I confirmed that there’s an okay-looking Java implementation. I bet it won’t be long before you need one of these to comment anywhere, so I’d better get going if I don’t want to be stuck using my AIM account. Shame!

Copy & paste is unreliable in Linux apps I use. Maybe it’s “only” the keyboard shortcuts that are broken. (If that’s good enough for you, please don’t write interactive software.)

Comments functionality is up, and I’m not crazy so it does query Akismet. Just a few more essential features (notification e-mails) to go!

Sorry, but “pi day” is lame.

All hail the new Wicket roadmap. Personally, I can’t wait for all this 1.x code I have running in production to depend on released software!

Just came across this article about Wicket from January. I like that he says Wicket is not for “semi-programmers or the usual half-wits who occupy your average corporate IT stable.” But I don’t agree that those types would fare better with Rails. The best thing for them (other than firing) is straight HTML layout work, which Wicket has and Rails doesn’t.

Fun programming language comparison: “I think RubyGems, not Ruby on Rails, is the main reason of Ruby’s surge in popularity.” Agreed! This is why Maven is so important to Java. Also, taw has the right reality check for facile Java-hating (it’s the JVM, stupids).

Javalobby ponders, “How much time do you waste during the day waiting for your Spring based application to restart after a simple XML change?” This backlash is so EJB 2004.

Ew, Interface21 uses the Bank Gothic typeface in their logo. Good thing I went with Helvetica for Databinder’s, though I’m happy to be using B.G. dynamically. (I’d like to see them try that on their own Plone-based site.)

Comments were broken for people who weren’t logged in—so, everyone but me. No wonder it’s been so quiet around here. (Fixed now.)

Locke on DAOs: “Every method concerning your User model that does database access … winds up in the DAO and you’re left wondering if you’re still programming in Java.” DAO dead-weight is heretically absent from Databinder (but could drag down a client app if desired).

Is there anything worse than wrestling with redirect rules? One thing I’ve learned twice now is that you can’t redirect or rewrite anything under a ProxyPass. So if you want to redirect a base like /n8 but not everything under it, you have to proxy all the subpaths individually.

I love Policyd, but I don’t love how its restart command fails and will leave your server silently rejecting mail until you notice. And spammers are starting to get wise to the whole “authenticated triplet” thing—we knew that day would come.

Cory Doctorow discovers that (Time Warner) cable Internet sucks. No kidding! It’s better to ride the DSL choo-choo—at least that’s usually going somewhere.

An IModel refactor has hit Wicket 1.3.0 snapshot. Databinder snapshots will be broken for a bit. What, still no generics though? Databinder doesn’t understand.

Databinder has fixed up its snapshots, at least enough to make them compile.

Nick Bradbury says to build something you need. Jinx! (Except my post was up four days before his.)

Finally, a non-boring post at the Hibernate weblog. They still haven’t learned the art of linking with words instead of URLs, or the difference between a “blog” and a “blog post,” but who cares when there’s a blog war to fight!

bigheadco is experimenting with Wicket and Groovy. And Databinder too, which is good because I’m as tired of Java’s chunky syntax and linguistic shortfalls as every other sane person.

Groovy + Hibernate Annotations is not far off, and it sounds like we would have had it already if both projects hadn’t been bogged down setting standards.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force…as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Google Guice, a dependency injection framework, came out Monday.

Coderspiel has two new feeds split from the original everything feed: short posts and long posts. Choose your poison.

If this endorsement of Markdown made Gruber’s day, I wonder how he’d feel about Databinder’s dirty Java love affair with Markdown? We too have decided to use it (Maruku actually) for everything. FCKeditor and its ilk have ruined enough of our days.