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Three new interesting Wicket articles

Just landed on the Web. These follow the release of the 1.5 version of Apache Wicket last September, which is now at 1.5.2 point release.
Wicket 1.5 brings a lot of new stuff and I am very satisfied with it. Wicket gets old good, keeping original spirit and making stuff simple and nicer for the modern Web. Is still my reference choice to develop a WebApp. Productivity is amazing, there are a lot of plugins and integrations like WiQuery for Jquery.

Here are the articles.

Apache Wicket – three years of lessons learned
written by a Bosh Engineer
http://blog.bosch-si.com/apache-wicket-lessons-learned

Wicket with Scala and CouchDB for Fast, Quality Web Apps
http://www.dzone.com/articles/wicket-scala-and-couchdb-fast

Apache Wicket - Best Practices
http://www.devproof.org/wicket_best_practice

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Looking Software Developer for a Startup in London or Milan

Hi. The startup I'm actively working with since last summer is looking to hire a new software developer to empower the team. We're going good and we're building some pretty cool staff I'm personally very proud of. So here's the announcement, get in touch or spread it!

[updated on Nov 28 2011]


Career Opportunity as Software Developer
We are looking for a software developer to join the current developing team of our startup.

This new venture consists in the launch of an online gaming operator in the videogames industry. The platform is currently entering private beta testing and is planned to launch in Q1 2012.
The product consists in a Web and Mobile application built with cutting edge technologies, trying to bring the videogaming industry models to a new level and aiming to become the reference Cloud platform in the field.

We need a talented and motivated developer, with the right attitude to work in a young and ambitious startup environment. We are building the platform with cutting edge Javascript technologies on the client side, like Backbone.js and WebSockets to name a few, while core platform and external integrations are made with Ruby on Rails and Java running on Heroku, using Mongo, Redis and other technologies behind the scenes. The architecture of the platform is completely Service Oriented so we can built services with language we prefer.

If you're looking for a place where the new stuff are being used and want to drive the technology innovation of the company, faceit.com is that place. As of this, a specific skill set is not our main requirement, but just an ambitious, talented and flexible developer, that aims in being part of a relatively young but strong project appreciating the growth opportunities offered by such an environment.


The position is open for London / Greater London, but we are ready to consider Milan-located developers as well.

Contact us at careers@faceit.com or drop me a quick twit @ildella

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10 minuti

Ci sono giorni interminabili, durano tante ore e sono pieni di eventi.
Una buona giornata di lavoro iniziata presto, che prosegue con una
bella serata in cui si va un po' lunghi. O quando viaggi in aereo
verso Ovest. O in qualche nottata passata guidando in autostrada in
improbabili viaggi estivi per approdare al mare all'alba.

Altri giorni al contrario si risolvono in poche ore di veglia e un
solo evento significativo che dura pochi minuti.

Dopo si puo' tornare a letto ad aspettare l'indomani. E' inutile fare
altro: e' gia' stato fatto abbastanza.

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My trips this year

March: Tel Aviv.
Thousands of people camped on the streets for weeks. 200 thousands of
people in the street during weekends. Bigger demonstration in Israel
in decades. Also, third Intifada rumors gets louder and louder.

April: London
City on fire for three days. Never seen anything like that since...
decades, I think.

August: Oslo
A guy killed 80 people out of "nothing".

August: New York City, US
5.9 Richter earthquake in Virginia. People on the street scared also
in NYC. I did not feel anything at all.
24 hours later, Steve Jobs resigned as Apple CEO

And the show goes on.

PS: I've never been in Tripoli, I swear.

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Getting ready for the kick-starts

August 15th, Copenhagen. A cafe' in Norrebro.
The city usual activity around me as I prepare for the next week, where the actual kick start of two projects I'll be involved next year will take place in Milano. Just right after that, a two weeks tour in the US, mainly NYC, then the real start in September.

My activity lately has been focused on finding people to join the team that will work with me on those new projects.
Aside from that I am preparing to manage the team, writing notes on where to start, making analysis, evaluating some technology and of course, enjoying bars and pubs in the cities I've been: Sant'antioco (Sardinia) first, then Oslo and Copenhagen now.

We're all sparse around the world: partners, me, other developers but things are getting along. I've found some interesting people to work with and the projects are definetely interesting.

Also, in Milano, some people I'm very close to, are working hard on preparing a new bar that's going to open this fall, and that's another thing I am very excited about: As soon as I'll be back in Milano, I'll go visiting them and see what I can do to help.

Despite all the bad news we all read on newspapers, it seem is going to be a super exciting fall and year.

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Il rischio di sacrifici inutili - LASTAMPA.it

la misura centrale, il «contributo di solidarietà» sui redditi superiori a 90 mila euro, è profondamente ingiusta. Essa infatti colpisce una minoranza di cittadini (poco più dell’1%) che ha due sole colpe: guadagnare più di 4000 euro netti al mese, e pagare le tasse.

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The non-place

A place is never an answer. That's why my place is the non-place.
Because leaving is hard, but staying is harder.
(download)

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Giro di boa

Un piccolo giro di boa, sono a meta' della mia attuale permanenza a Tel Aviv.
Nel complesso l'operazione sembra riuscita perfettamente. In tre settimane sono stato completamente concentrato sul bootstrap di una startup (di cui parlero' credo gia' da settimana prossima) senza distrarmi in vicende domestiche o lavorative di casa. Questo immerso nella adorabile atmosfera e nel piacevole clima di questa citta'. Trascorrero' qui altre tre settimane, il sole e' presente, una buona fetta di lavoro fatta, il piano e' di alzare la testa dal computer e iniziare a mostrare in giro l'embrione del prodotto.

Lo stile vagabondo, gia' provato in passato ma senza la certezza della continuita', che conto di iniziare ad avere da quest'anno invece, sembra quindi funzionare, e l'idea di replicare in autunno mi alletta gia'.
Nel mentre, un appunto personale per il prossimo anno: marzo e' pieno di eventi in tutta Europa cui e' potrei e dovrei partecipare, inoltre a Tel Aviv il clima, comunque buono, puo' essere minato da qualche giorno di pioggia e un po' di freddo. Meglio forse ritardare la discesa qui a fine marzo e prolungare la permanenza fino agli albori dell'estate, i primi giorni di Maggio.

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Preoccupazione?

Quando sono partito per Tel Aviv a inizio marzo tansissimi mi chiedevano: "ma sei sicuro, con quel che succede in nord Africa?". Trovavo cosi' folle la domanda che di solito nemmeno rispondevo ma quando lo facevo mi limitavo ad affermare che ero seriamente piu' preoccupato per loro che restavano considerato che la Libia e' assai piu' vicina, in tanti sensi, all'Italia.

Le cose sono andate pure peggio del previsto, almeno di quel che ingenuamente potevo prevedere a febbraio. Ora l'Italia e' in guerra con un paese assediato che fara' di tutto per resistere a una invasione straniera in piena regola, che non trova alcuna spiegazione plausibile negli eventi che la hanno preceduta, anche se fossero forti come quelli, io credo in buona parte inventati, che ci sono stati raccontati dai media nel corso dell'ultimo mese.

Guerra nel mediterraneo quindi. Un piacerone. Sarebbe bello poter pensare che persino questa sia una messinscena, ma e' realmente difficile.
Lascio qualche lettura ne ho molte altre su richiesta, alcune gia' segnalate su twitter di recente.

Un Mondo Nuovo: Risoluzione 1973 delle Nazioni Unite
La Stampa: Il ritorno di Napoleone
CHI ABBIAMO CONTRO (due articoli di John Kleeves)

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You just need to install elementary and then choose the theme  in System | Preferences | Appeareance.

There are two ways to install the theme:@

The easy way:

From a terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementaryart/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install elementary-icon-theme elementary-theme elementary-wallpapers

To get the terminal, press CTRL+ALT+T or launch it from the Application menu, Accessories.

The hard way:

From Applications menu, choos Software Sources.

Now fro the menu, Edit | Software Sources

Now choose the Other Software tab, press add and finally insert:

ppa:elementaryart/ppa

Now after reloading the sources, elementary theme, icons and wallpapers will be available.

In the end

Just choose the theme from the System | Preferences | Appeareance

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