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Wicket DateTimeField - trick for young players

If, like me, you tried to use the DateTimeField component in the Wicket extensions library and saw an extra spurious TextField appear in your form and you didn't know why... then read on: It turns out that the DateTimeField is actually rendered as a Panel by Wicket. Being a field in a Form I naturally (according to what I saw in some online example code) just entered markup within my form like this: <input type="text" id="startDate"> but of course that can't work. Wicket can't render a panel into an input element (well not with any success at least!). It turns out that as a Panel the DateTimeField is best entered as a <div> in your markup: <div id="startDate" /> That allows the DateTimeField to be rendered correctly. Yeehah! Once again I want to congratulate the Wicket team on the world's best object oriented, component based, Java User Interface framework.... a big claim I know, but try it and I think you'll a

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New website for Step Ahead Software Development

The software development section of Step Ahead Software now has a new website. It's at: http://develop.stepaheadsoftware.com If you need any software or web development let us know. We have been providing outsourced software development since 1994 and have a large range of satisfied companes from small businesses to large corporations like Canon and Lucent. We specialize in development in the following fields: Windows Desktop Web application development Enterprise website application development We are experts in the following languages, frameworks and databases: Java, JDO, JPA, Wicket, Echo, JSP, J2EE, DataNucleus, Hibernate C++, MFC, OWL, .Net, GDI, GDI+ MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL Server We also have 'off the shelf' modules for fast 'time to market' of a variety of projects: Entity management framework: For extremely fast implementation of websites or desktop applications that require users, people, groups, organizations, authentication, products, etc., Visual editing

Step Ahead: Authentication in the Matrix!

A little while back one of our customers, Matrix Education, expressed a desire to improve the security and protection of their rather sophisticated intranet based enterprise management software. To this aim we discussed integrating our entity management system into their web based intranet application. Our entity management system is a powerful role based system that allows the management and authentication of entities including users, actors, organizations etc., It comes with a powerful, intuitive web based user interface to allow easy creation and management of entities and such as users and their roles and 'access rights'. Our separate workflow management system plugs right into the entity management system for customers who want to manage processes within their organization efficiently and automatically. The customer understood that integrating our well established 'off the shelf' user management and authentication framework would provide a more reliable, high qual

pagebloom's Media Asset Manager shines!

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Motivation About this time last year ago we conceived an idea to enhance our pagebloom enterprise content management system (ECMS) to help manage the media assets (images, Flash intros etc.,) for the websites that it hosts. The idea was to create an advanced and powerful auto replicating media asset management system that could serve images from the most appropriate media host chosen from a range of available media hosts located around the world. That system was implemented and integrated with the pagebloom hosting service earlier this year. How it works If a particular host goes down or is under high traffic then the media assets can be served from alternative media hosts - all without site visitors experiencing any negative affects from the loss of performance on the degraded or lost media server. Concept payback! Since the integration of the new media asset manager none of the media hosts have experienced any problems, luckily. Well that was until today! And pagebloom carried fort

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