Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-27 Thread Martin Grigorov
cantly > >>> easier > >>>> to modify or extend later. > >>>>> > >>>>> When I was younger, and monitors smaller and lines constrained, I too > >>>> loved ramming as much functionality into the smallest of visual spaces > >> in > &g

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-27 Thread Michael Pence
hite space and simple, clean code. >>>>> >>>>> It's all about scroll wheels and big monitors! :) >>>>> >>>>> ... and Wicket and the super-fast modern JVMs... and t's still >> quicker >>>> and easier and ultimately less verbos

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-27 Thread Martin Grigorov
and Wicket and the super-fast modern JVMs... and t's still > quicker > > > and easier and ultimately less verbose to do something in Wicket/Java, > > than > > > pretty much any other Web framework, IMHO - regardless of Java as a > > > language. > >

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-27 Thread Mike Pence
... and Wicket and the super-fast modern JVMs... and t's still quicker > > and easier and ultimately less verbose to do something in Wicket/Java, > than > > pretty much any other Web framework, IMHO - regardless of Java as a > > language. > > > > >

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-27 Thread Peter Henderson
with Wicket, or Groovy with Wicket - both are native > JVM languages - would these give you greater benefits to your style? > > > > Cheers, > > Col. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Mike Pence [mailto:mike.pe...@gmail.com] > > Sent: 26 June

RE: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-26 Thread Colin Rogers
riginal Message- From: Michael Pence [mailto:mike.pe...@gmail.com] Sent: 27 June 2013 02:28 To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: A Wicket in Ruby Scala is even more expressive and powerful than Ruby, so Scala + Wicket is definitely my dream stack. I am just nervous about not having a bi

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-26 Thread Martin Grigorov
ess verbose to do something in Wicket/Java, than > pretty much any other Web framework, IMHO - regardless of Java as a > language. > > > > You could try Scala with Wicket, or Groovy with Wicket - both are native > JVM languages - would these give you greater benefits to your st

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-26 Thread Michael Pence
framework, IMHO - regardless of Java as a language. > > You could try Scala with Wicket, or Groovy with Wicket - both are native JVM > languages - would these give you greater benefits to your style? > > Cheers, > Col. > > -----Original Message- > From: Mik

RE: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-25 Thread Colin Rogers
could try Scala with Wicket, or Groovy with Wicket - both are native JVM languages - would these give you greater benefits to your style? Cheers, Col. -Original Message- From: Mike Pence [mailto:mike.pe...@gmail.com] Sent: 26 June 2013 06:48 To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: A Wicket

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-25 Thread Mike Pence
That is a good question that I have been mulling over these last few says. I think that I need to suck it up and just re-familiarize with Java -- it is less verbose, with annotations and closures now, right? -- for all of the benefits that the JVM with Wicket will bring me. I got a bit spoiled by y

RE: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-23 Thread Colin Rogers
Mike, I hate to be the old cynic and doomsayer, but generally I find that whenever a two programming technologies are 'crossed' over, with the idea that you'll get the advantages of both - the exact opposite occurs and actually you end up with a technology that only has the disadvantages of bot

Re: A Wicket in Ruby

2013-06-22 Thread Martijn Dashorst
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Mike Pence wrote: > Am I crazy? Yes, but that shouldn't stop you. While a straight java -> ruby conversion is possible, I doubt it will lead to a satisfying result. I'd rather do a Wicket "inspired" new development, which would lead to a better fit in the ruby la