Fault-tolerant ESX datastores for free
Preamble: NFS works great for ESX datastores. Its a whole lot easier to manage than iSCSI and although iSCSI is generally considered to perform better, we find that the flexibility… Read more »
Author Archives: roger
Using mocking to keep development agile
We had built up a mocked service layer for our Wicket Tester unit tests (with Mockito). This enables our unit test to start any page or panel in our app… Read more »
Using Maven for production deployment
We use Maven to manage dependencies during development. This entails adding a pom.xml file to our Eclipse project which defines the jars which the application depends. Maven then takes care… Read more »
Abbreviated component paths in wicket tester
Wicket tester combined with Mockito is fantastic for unit testing your web application. However, developing the tests is harder than it should be because you have to refer to components… Read more »
The Palchinsky Principles
My holiday reading this year was “Adapt” by Tim Harford. One of the most interesting parts was about Peter Palchinsky, a great russian engineer who was an advisor to both… Read more »
Wicket needs a component catalog
I’m a big fan of Apache Wicket, but there’s an urgent need for a better-organized component-ecosystem around Wicket. To write a real web application you need a framework (that’s Wicket)… Read more »
Shadowed variables in inner classes
Yesterday we had a bug caused by the following situation: a class X had a variable “user”. Class X had an inner, anonymous class extending class Y. Inside the inner… Read more »
Deciphering anonymous class references like MyPage$1$1$2
If you work with anonymous classes a lot (as Wicket applications do), you sometimes get confronted with compiler/tool messages referring to anonymous (inner) classes with names like MyPage$1$1$2 (for instance… Read more »
Wicket 1.4 and browser tabs
We had an amazingly annoying problem in a Wicket application. A specific user was continuously having problems with ajax controls on pages (search fields, auto-complete fields etc). The problems were… Read more »
Java logging in development and production
Logging is tricky. Even some major open-source projects don’t do it correctly, so if you use their libraries, you end up with log files you didn’t ask for cluttering your… Read more »