Monthly Archives: August 2010

Using JQuery’s .fadeOut() with Wicket AJAX

I really learn a lot from Wicket and its way of being extensible.

For a project I need to integrate JQuery with Wicket, and being a little stubborn I do it without a lib, all by just extending standard Wicket components. I want to do AJAX calls, and the results should be beautified with things like [...]

The science of Mo

In order to figure out if racing in the relay of Challenge Roth 2010 has been a good idea, I went to the Munich Olympiazentrum and did a Spiroergonometrie. If you are interested in the results, and if you are not Norbert Romen, here are the results:
If, by chance, you are Norbert Romen, please click [...]

“Only for fans” – navigating Facebook’s obstacles

We often get the request that a contest is only visible to fans of a page. However, when integrating the contest on a Facebook tab, we have the problem that Facebook does not provide us with information about the user unless the user clicks a link. Hence, we first have to guide the user to [...]

Eclipse Helios/Ubuntu 9.10: “not configured properly”

Took me some time to learn about the new Eclipse version “Helios”. I eagerly went to download it… mostly because the last version of Eclipse (Ganymede) was giving me frequent crashes.

I downloaded the Linux version (I now always use the JEE version) and installed it to a local directory. It would not start, and just [...]