On 9/12/07, karthik Guru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Congrats!
>
> 47 slides! how long was the talk?


It took 55 minutes, including some very basic demo of a datatable component
with filters and sort (from the databinder baseball players example), of
Ajax components (using the guestbook demo and quickly showing the source
code), a live demo of community activity (number of e-mails sent on the
mailing lists during the talk) and a more detailed demo of the custom
component (I didn't show the slides with source code, but rather the actual
source in eclipse with more detailed explanation). I first thought I could
showcase detailed error reporting with a bad wicket id in the custom
component demo, but I was too short in time.

In the past i have had trouble running
> through all of them in little less than an hour. I have mine coming up
> late
> october in India and i have only 50 minutes to sell Wicket!.


It can work, it depends on how long you spend on each point. Maybe I talked
a little bit too quickly (with the stress of the presentation, controlling
the speech flow is not easy). Watching the recorded talk would be the best
to evaluate the time, but I don't think it'll be available before october.

I like the reference to "Pro JSF & Ajax" - I had the exact same feeling
> reading that book sometime back and i even pinged Eelco and told him.


I didn't actually read the book, but I attended to a talk from the authors
at last javapolis, and was not convinced by the "simplicity" of creating
custom components for JSF they were talking about. I first thought I could
bring the book to show it instead of having just a cover picture, but I
forgot it in my hotel room :-)

How I wish I had learnt JSF before coming to wicket - Am supposed to do a
> session comparing both. So in my spare time am forced to try out exercises
> in JSF - its so painful to go backwards in life ! :-(


 I understand your pain :-) Some points of comparison from what I know of
JSF (I may be wrong): control over your URLs, use of HTTP "verbs" (GET vs
POST) and of course custom components.

Also this -
>
>
> http://chillenious.wordpress.com/2006/05/12/a-word-about-custom-components/


Yes, I quoted a phrase from this wonderful post!

Btw, do you mind if i "re-use" some of your slide contents ? ;-)


Sure, no problem, most of the slides are from Martjin's presentation anyway
:-)

Xavier

thanks,
> Karthik
>
>
> On 9/12/07, Xavier Hanin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Wicket community,
> >
> > I've just finished my presentation on Wicket at JavaZone! Presentation
> > outline:
> > * What is Wicket
> > * Wicket core concepts
> > * Creating a custom component with Wicket
> >
> > The slides I've used are available here:
> > http://people.apache.org/~xavier/wicket/wicket-javazone-07.ppt
> >
> > The source code (as an eclipse project, with all required libs, no ant
> nor
> > maven build, sorry) is available here:
> > http://people.apache.org/~xavier/wicket/wicket-javazone-07.zip
> >
> > From my point of view the presentation went pretty well, the room was
> > almost
> > packed, if only I had a better spoken english level maybe I would have
> > wake
> > up a few tired attendees in the back :-)
> >
> > Thanks to all of you who helped me prepare the presentation, and special
> > thanks to Eelco and the JavaZone committee to have trust me to replace
> him
> > for this talk.
> >
> > Xavier
> > --
> > Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
> > http://xhab.blogspot.com/
> > http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
> > http://www.xoocode.org/
> >
>
>
>
> --
> -- karthik --
>



-- 
Xavier Hanin - Independent Java Consultant
http://xhab.blogspot.com/
http://incubator.apache.org/ivy/
http://www.xoocode.org/

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