This is addressed to people who have asked for or are interested in a heavily discounted promotional rate for our new Wicket 1.3 course this weekend. In short, we've put much care and hard work into preparation and are just about ready to go now, JIT! We have places still available so we have decided to offer those remaining places on our first "Introduction To Apache Wicket 1.3" course this weekend, at 50% of the price. If you would like come, you should book online ( http://jWeekend.co.uk jWeekend.co.uk ) by 22:30 BST today. I hope it's not too late for a few of you to take advantage of this (and it's looking decidedly like "the weather's too nice" is not going to be a valid excuse).
And now in more detail if you're still interested... Al Maw and I have been finishing off and reviewing the material - there really is a lot of high quality stuff to cover; the course will be quite intensive and the labs should be fairly challenging, even for those who have experience with Wicket. There should be plenty to learn for just about everyone. But, we do start on day 1, right at the very beginning (building, configuring and running a 1.3 quickstart Eclipse project from the beta2 distribution, components, models, forms, validation, conversion, markup inheritance, panels, listviews, Ajax ...) but quickly move up through the gears up to material as deep and as broad as people wish to take us on day 2 with Al (including behaviours, custom components, security, performance, i18n, more Ajax, testing and plenty more). The sample app those attending will build in the labs will also be quite impressive and functionally quite rich and illustrative. If you cannot make both days (we realise this is short notice), as this is our first course, we will accept people coming just on the Sunday to enjoy a full day of Al, or if you want to formally review the basics or are new to Wicket, just come on Saturday, but we prefer people to be there for both days. We will be sticking rigorously to the schedule set out on our site (we have put a lot of careful thought into the structure and appropriate and interesting labs) and there will be plenty of opportunity to get the low-down from Al on any other Wicket matters we can fit in. The class this weekend will be held in London, NW6 4HY (search for this postcode at maps.google.co.uk). 4 train stations, 3 tube stations, all sorts of buses and the A5 are all within 1-10 minutes walking distance. The courses will run from 09:30 to circa 18:00 on both days (the last session on each day is a lab so those who really must can leave a bit earlier and finish the last lab in their own time - and look at the worked example solutions too). If you have some time this weekend, on one or both days, and would like to take up this introductory discount, good for roughly another 11 hours, please make sure you enter the promotion code: 20070721 into the booking form and let our "built on Wicket" web app calculate the discount (you will see your 50% discount applied after you hit the Google Checkout button, on their billing page). Those who are on this last minute discount rate are encouraged to bring along a laptop if at all possible, with JDK1.5+ and Eclipse installed and in good working order. Hope you can make it. Cemal jweekend wrote: > > If you'd like to see some subtle yet effective Ajax with Wicket, in a real > world (albeit simple), application have a look at our course booking page > at http://jWeekend.co.uk jWeekend.co.uk . > We are porting the site to Wicket 1.3beta2 and the booking page went live > early yesterday AM. > We were aiming for an uncomplicated UI that's nice and easy to use. It > must be OK functionally because we'd already had an online booking by > yesterday PM. > I hope to write something up about how I integrated Google Checkout into > this Wicket app (with a few time-saving tips from Matej), maybe even for > this weekend's course. If there's enough interest, I'll write an article > about this. > Regarding the "simple" look of the site, if anyone (preferably in London > or Brighton) with good CSS and Wicket skills, a healthy imagination and > some time on their hands wants to get involved by helping us with the > site's general look (whilst keeping it clean and simple), please contact > us at the site with your ideas and estimates. > Finally, regarding our Wicket course this weekend; since much of the > interest we have had is from continental Europe, if you are looking to fix > accommodation first before confirming attendance, the local Marriott > Hotel, (Maida Vale) about 350m away still has some rooms. Just go to > maps.google.co.uk and type in "London NW6 hotel" (without the quotes). > For those of you thinking of coming along (mainly to to see Al Maw in > action I imagine) who know each other or from the same company, make sure > you book together (in the same session/checkout) to get the appropriate > discount. > Cemal > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wicket-1.3beta2%2C-Ajax---Google-Checkout---CSS-help-tf4095795.html#a11705979 Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
