Comments for Wille Faler's Buzzword Bingo

Comment on WiQuery – JQuery integration for Wicket by Daniel Walmsley

Daniel Walmsley — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:03:01 +0000

I’ve been using WiQuery for a few days and it’s pretty good. I’ve gone to the trouble of integrating it into the core of my CMS platform because, to be honest, even if WiQuery has its shortcomings JQuery is such a strong toolkit that it’s basically the only choice for me.

I needed to standardise on something, and so far WiQuery fits the bill perfectly.

Two issues I bumped up against:
- Doesn’t have wide support for JQuery UI components yet, but they’ve got the basics right and I think individuals should contribute the rest
- Does some things (e.g. JavaScript generation) in a new way, not to say it’s bad but there’s a bit of a learning curve there. They did this for good reason – it unleashes the full power of the JQuery toolkit.

Comment on JSF – Still pretty much a steaming pile of donkey turd by harry

harry — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:30:33 +0000

this article is outdated now. JSF seems to have improved…
I recommend you delete this article..

Comment on On Money & Recessions – Recessions are not the problem by dinarbanker

dinarbanker — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:51:51 +0000

Love the hangover metaphor. It feels great to do anything to excess, but there’s always a consequence. Just like alcohol has toxins, we’re feeling the effect of all these “toxic” assets.

Comment on On Money & Recessions – Recessions are not the problem by Liz@ buytolet mortgages

Liz@ buytolet mortgages — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:02:36 +0000

You hit the nail right on the head here, I agree with you absolutely.

Comment on On Money & Recessions – Recessions are not the problem by Produce The Note

Produce The Note — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:39:25 +0000

You’re absolutely right with this post. A lot of people treat the recession like it’s a natural disaster that no one could have possibly prevented.

Comment on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a Sony Vaio SZ4-XWN by Ian Rothwell

Ian Rothwell — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:49:48 +0000

Thanks for the superb advice.

FYI, the Merlin XU870 HSDPA card works fine.
Ubuntu automatically installed the drivers on my Vaio and behaves much better than it did when I had Windows Visa istalled.

Comment on Kanban success story by dpjoyce

dpjoyce — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:19:27 +0000

I have blogged results from a team moving from Scrum to Kanban here http://leanandkanban.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/kanban-results-part-3-from-scrum-to-kanban/

We have seen similar improvements.

Comment on The mistake most developers and development organizations make by Robert Dempsey

Robert Dempsey — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:41:10 +0000

Great point Willie. This is why Agile requirements are written as user stories – so that you never forget who will be using your software and why. As you say, this shifts the mindset to focus more on creating the most usable and best feature for a customer. While it is a subtle difference, the impact to the work as the approach is huge.

Comment on Kanban success story by Project Management Hut

Project Management Hut — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:12:54 +0000

This is the second interesting post I read today about Kanban.

So far, it seems that Agilists applying Kanban are quite satisfied with the results.

Comment on Did Java snobbery set up Ruby-on-Rails success? by Mark Menard

Mark Menard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:06:02 +0000

I think you’re likely right. I used to be one of those Java guys. I followed the blueprints. I did the EJB thing. (Still have one succesful commercial product using it, and it hurts.) Many of us learned on Java and thought well this is the way it has to be. Thankfully Rails came along and taught us differently. Lately I think, “why did we listen to the c people and not the Smalltalkers?” We would likely be far ahead of where we are today. Although I much prefer Ruby over Smalltalk.