Τρίτη 21 Φεβρουαρίου 2012

Σάββατο 18 Φεβρουαρίου 2012

Wicket TagIt!

I am not a web designer, but I really like fancy UI Components! Such a widget named Tag-It, which I tried to "wicket-ize"[1]!!

What is Tag-It?

  • Tag-It is a nice jQuery widget that lets the user enter multiple values that are kept in a old time classic input text field as a comma separated string. 

Why do I need such a component?

  • User Interface is not in 3NF!! For instance a single field might be used to enter multiple values.
  • Your users do not like scrolling, so you should render as less UI components as possible.
  • Your users are lazy and they want you to guess what they want to write, this feature is called autocomplete[2]! 

[to be continued when I will complete the implementation and testing of my TagIt-Wicket-ized. If you are interesting on this stuff contact me and I will send what I have done so far..]

Notes:
[1] I will soon publish my implementation as open source, but I am still working on that.
[2] Sometimes you guess wrong, or even worse you don't allow your user to write what really want to. I have such an experience using my iPhone 4s writing in Greek.. most of the times it guesses wrongly!!

Σάββατο 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2012

How to socialize my Java based web app?

Problem: "How to socialize my Java based web app?":
Solution: "Simply use Spring Social"!!
Problem: "Spring Social is integrated with Spring MVC, how may I use with my non-Spring MVC Java web app?"
Solution: "Translate the Spring MVC code of the Spring Social's web module!"
Problem: "I am lazy and I do not want to do so!"
Solution: "In case that you use Apache Wicket, simple use my solution that you can find in google code!"

Do you still have a problem, feel free to ask me!

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