Always say “Thank You”
I’m a big fan of O’Reilly tech books, which is partly why I was just perusing the site for Fluent Conf, which ended a little over a week ago (even while the rest of the nerdom is enthralled with WWDC). Continue reading
URLEncoder Function for MySQL
Today I needed to convert some URL segments that are stored in a MySQL database from raw UTF-8 strings (many of which contain multi-byte characters in several hundred languages) into URL-encoded strings. This is for some work I’m doing using Continue reading
Making SiteTree Fields Longer in SilverStripe 3.X
Aside: In my ongoing internal battle to try to write regularly on my blog, I have decided to try blogging about little things that I do in my day-to-day programming (and other tech endeavors) that may be helpful to others Continue reading
Blog Moved
I finally moved my blog off of my old server to my new one. Most users should not see any change (unless you notice I chopped www and /blog/ off the URL). Hopefully now I’ll start writing some more posts!
Catching all feedback messages that aren’t rendered by other feedback panels
There are many times in writing our Wicket applications that we want to render feedback messages close to the component that registered the message – especially in forms. But, we also typically want to display all the other messages in Continue reading
More great reasons to go to ApacheCon US 2009
ApacheCon US 2009 is fast approaching. And for all you Wicket lovers out there, or anybody interested in getting started with Wicket, you know that I will be presenting a one day training as well as an Introduction to Wicket Continue reading
Wicket Training at ApacheCon US 2009
I am very happy to announce that there will be a one day training course at the 2009 ApacheCon conference in Oakland, CA (USA). Before I tell you more about it, consider the following “top ten” list: Top Ten Reasons Continue reading
I’m now a Wicket core developer
My intention is not to blow my own horn, but I was so excited to have been asked to join the Wicket development team (link) that I knew it was time to dust off the old blog and start trying Continue reading
Wicket Stuff Reorganization
So last week and this weekend I was swamped spending pretty much every night trying to get the Wicket Stuff project organized. When I started, the trunk of Wicket Stuff had over 85 folders (subprojects) in it. It was a mess. Continue reading
Wicket in Action Book Signing
Martijn signs my book! Yes, it’s dumb, but I took advantage of ApacheCon 2008 by having Martijn Dashorst sign my personal copy of Wicket in Action. Fortunately Bruno Borges was on-hand to document the momentous occasion! Now I just need Continue reading