Archive for May, 2011

Wicket Tutorial, part 7 – editing and removing item locations

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Welcome back to our practical Wicket tutorial series. I apologize for long break after last post (shame on me as it was published more than 1,5 month ago) but I had many unplanned things with higher priority: Wicket demo appplication  on 33rdDegree conference to prepare, a conference itself and most time-consuming one, I damaged knee ligament during football match and after that everyday for three weeks I was driving to the hospital for rehabilitation so day became too short to write something here. But now everything seems to be ok and I have some spare time to continue Wicket tutorial subject.

Today we will add two new features: editing and removing locations from our application. Currently we don’t have any items connected with locations so deleting shouldn’t be too complicated. Later on, when we add some items, we will have to rework this functionality but now it shouldn’t bother us too much.

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Why we don’t like public speeches and what can be done about it

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The first step to eliminate your weaknesses is to realise that they exist and name them. I know I am not good when it comes to public speech. My diploma thesis is quite good, source code isn’t so bad at all, but the way I presented them in the front of people  who could say “Yes” or “No” to my degree, was really far away from the state I could summarize as “decent presentation”. In short:  it definitely wasn’t the best performance ever but probably was close to the worst one :)

And that’s why I recently bought an interesting book “Confesions of a Public Speaker” by Scott Berkun.

The most important thing you should know before you even consider buying this title is that:

Reading this book will NOT make you a better speaker, only practice can do it.

But this book will tell you why you should practice, what you should practice and how you could prepare to your speech to maximize probability of performing really well.

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