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It’s funny…There are days when I enjoy my current place of work, and there are days that I’m literally a few seconds away from losing it.

I just published an updated version of the Wicket/Scriptaculous Project.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all you folks out there.

The Wicket ListView is an excellent core component when you need to display a list of objects.

Wicket and Scriptaculous are two fantastic libraries and they work extremely well together.

Holiday time has come again, and my time available for blogging has shrunk to almost none.

I’ll be continuing on the pattern/antipattern postings today, even though it seems that the large majority of people really missed the point of my previous entry.

Today marks the start of a new series of blog entries that identify common patterns (and antipatterns) that can be applied to everyday programming.

I’ve been a hardcore Linux user for the past couple years, and I commonly refer to Linux as The Poor Man’s Apple.

The title says it all.

Modern IDE’s have been putting a lot of effort into improving their tools to support code refactoring.

How should validation frameworks integrate with “wizards”?

With all of the Javascript needed to work with AJAX, it gets messy pretty quickly when you’re building Javascript programatically within Java.

I’m jumping back into web development after my recent stint building rich client apps.

I think it’s time to put back on my Wicket hat, and start kicking ass again.

With my recent annoyances with the JRoller hosting, I’ve decided that it would be best to try and remove any unnecessary dependency on their lackluster product.

I’ve always had difficulty with regular expressions.

I’ve been debating the best avenue for client apps to present help information to users.

I often hear complaints from users of the springframework event listener API.

I think I’m becoming addicted to Ruby syntax.

I have really grown to like prototype and all of the extensions it brings to Javascript.

I love how naive some software developers are.

JSP is so damn ghetto.

Over the past several months, I’ve been exposed to more language features than ever before.

For the past few weeks I’ve been working with spring rich to try and build a simple solution for performing units of work within the gui framework, but so far, my solution has been anything but simple.

I finished adding two new pieces to my website this weekend.

I’ll send out a bright shiny new nickel to whoever can guess what this spring xml file is actually accomplishing. :) <bean id="importDatasetCommand" class="com.codecrate.shard.ui.command.SpecificApplicationEventActionCommandExecutor"> <cons…

I’ve been using Maven2 as my primary build tool for shard for several monthes now.

I’ve been continuing work on shard, and one aspect that’s been bothering me is how we handle importing of datasets.

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged about how much I HATE JSP.

I’ve been undergoing an experiment to build my own website, and I’ve come to realize the importance of Javascript for next generation websites.

Whew…I just wrapped up releasing a preview of the new shard-minotaur d20 character generator application that I’ve been working on for quite a while.

Ruby’s got a lot of momentum going for it right now.

I can’t say that I’m exactly impressed with the folks who run JRoller.

I would like to think that most developers can avoid hardcoding web content (html, javascript or CSS) directly in Java code.

Here’s a little snippit that could end up on The Daily WTF.

I spend the majority of my “real” work on a webapp that goes through weekly releases.

I’ve come to the realization that there is no “silver bullet” for software development processes.

There are more than a few validation frameworks out there.

My reading group recently finished Head First Design Patterns and is now diving into Domain-Driven Design.

Let me get one thing clear: Software performance is important, but it’s also completely overrated.

For the most part, I’m a Javascript hack, but I keep getting pulled into doing more of it.

Let me start by saying that I like clear and concise code.

For the most part, passion is a great thing.

My previous incarnations of the wicket:preview feature have fallen short when trying to preview multiple levels of components.

Third times the charm, right?

Previewable Wicket pages, take two… My previous blog started the ball rolling with previewable Wicket pages, and it’s definately worth spending some more time in this area.

One of my favorite features of Wicket is the ability to preview a dynamic page without nasty embedded scriptlets or JSP custom tags.

The common Swing components created by l2fprod.com just accepted the code I wrote recently to integrate Spring-RCP with JTaskPane.

Imagine that.