Here Be BeastiesAlastair Maw’s small soap box.

Cemal and I have been working hard refining jWeekend’s upcoming Getting Started With Apache Wicket 1.3 and Apache Wicket 1.3 courses. They’re scheduled for September 22nd and September 29th-30th respectively.

They’re an excellent way to get up to speed with Wicket and develop an in-depth understanding of Models, Behaviors, the AJAX functionality, advanced validation, etc., etc. As such, they will be useful to you whether you’re a beginner or a fairly seasoned Wicket programmer, so I’d encourage you to visit the jWeekend site for more information and to see just what you’ll be getting. We’ll be using the latest 1.3.0-beta3, so you’ll be brought bang up-to-date and ready to develop against the imminent 1.3.0 final release.

The recent talk I did at the last London Wicket event and Wednesday’s Java Web User Group is now available on-line (12Mb, Quicktime H264, plays fine under Linux using VLC or MPlayer).

There’s also a ready to run Maven 2 + Eclipse quickstart available to accompany it (built against Wicket 1.3.0-beta2).

Cemal, Matt and I are doing some talks at the London Java Web User Group on Wednesday.

Although it’s billed as an introduction, I’m going to cover some slightly more advanced stuff so that people can see just how powerful Wicket is, including a properly useful and reusable generic POJO editor in only a few tens of lines of code.

Hope to see you there!

jWeekend is running an Introduction to Apache Wicket 1.3 course on July 21-22. Their approach of running courses on a weekend means busy people don’t need to take time out of their day jobs to find the time for training.

This course is the perfect opportunity to really get up to speed with the latest version of Wicket, due to be released very shortly (we’ve now frozen the API ahead of the 1.3 release, so this course is as relevant as it gets). I’m going to be overseeing the second day; presenting the material and running the workshops. As one of the core coders on Wicket, I’m well placed to give you excellent insight into the framework and answer any questions you may come up with during the course.

Hope to see you there!