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Wicket on Google’s App Engine - Posted April 10, 2009

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you’ll probably have noticed that Google’s App Engine now lets you run Java web apps. This includes those created with Apache Wicket, although you’ll need to tweak a couple of settings to make it play nicely. The App Engine sandbox imposes some restrictions. The [...]


Snow - Posted February 5, 2009

It’s been snowy in London. I went out on Sunday and took some photos. I like this one the most. ;-)


London Wicket Users Group at Google on October 1st - Posted August 29, 2008

October’s London Wicket User Group meet-up is happening on Wednesday 1st at Google’s office in Victoria. It’s shaping up to be a really good event. We’re pleased to have Ari Zilka (who founded Terracotta) coming along. He will be giving a talk, as will Richard Wilkinson, who has interesting things to say about integrating Wicket [...]


Wicket is on the Google Open Source blog - Posted April 8, 2008

The latest London Wicket get-together has been featured on the Google Open Source blog. Check it out for links to photos, etc. I’ve also put up some presentations and code samples from the event, including our dynamic AJAX image-cropper component.


London Wicket User Group is today! - Posted April 2, 2008

If you’re in England and you’re reading this over your morning coffee, fresh off your RSS feeds, it’s your last chance to sign up for today’s London Wicket User Group, held at Google, next to Victoria station. I’m going to show you how to make a dynamic AJAX-powered image cropper, just like the one you [...]