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Why is Wicket called Wicket?
We where just chating here, and we're wondering where the name wicket comes
from ?
Looking it up on in the dictionary I couldn't really see the connection.
Anyone know how the name came about?
thanks
Wayne
Re: Why is Wicket called Wicket?
Posted by shetc <sh...@bellsouth.net>.
Because it's wicked, man!
(see http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/wicked
http://onlineslangdictionary.com/definition+of/wicked )
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Re: Why is Wicket called Wicket?
Posted by Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <ni...@jayway.dk>.
Seems so.
I like to think of the sentence
"a small framework at which the bowler aims the ball."
As doing a bullseye, within web frameworks:)
Wayne Pope wrote:
> thanks Nino, I knew I'd seen it somewhere but couldn't remember.
>
> so it was reference to the game of cricket stumps rather than to quote a
> dictionary: "a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as
> in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a
> teller's cage in a bank, etc."
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <
> nino.martinez@jayway.dk> wrote:
>
>
>> Jonathan Locke wrote something about it in his foreword in WIA:
>>
>> "Several 60-hour weeks later, the first version of Wicket was born. (In
>> case you're
>> wondering, Wicket was the first fun and unique-sounding short word that
>> Miko also
>> liked and that wasn't being used for a major software project. It also
>> appears in some
>> dictionaries as a cricket term for "a small framework at which the bowler
>> aims the
>> ball.") I'm happy to say that after more than four years and the input of
>> many manyears
>> of effort from the open source community, Wicket now meets most if not all
>> of
>> my criteria for a web framework"
>>
>>
>> Wayne Pope wrote:
>>
>>
>>> We where just chating here, and we're wondering where the name wicket
>>> comes
>>> from ?
>>> Looking it up on in the dictionary I couldn't really see the connection.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how the name came about?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> Wayne
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> -Wicket for love
>>
>> Nino Martinez Wael
>> Java Specialist @ Jayway DK
>> http://www.jayway.dk
>> +45 2936 7684
>>
>>
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Re: Why is Wicket called Wicket?
Posted by Wayne Pope <wa...@googlemail.com>.
thanks Nino, I knew I'd seen it somewhere but couldn't remember.
so it was reference to the game of cricket stumps rather than to quote a
dictionary: "a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as
in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a
teller's cage in a bank, etc."
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <
nino.martinez@jayway.dk> wrote:
> Jonathan Locke wrote something about it in his foreword in WIA:
>
> "Several 60-hour weeks later, the first version of Wicket was born. (In
> case you're
> wondering, Wicket was the first fun and unique-sounding short word that
> Miko also
> liked and that wasn't being used for a major software project. It also
> appears in some
> dictionaries as a cricket term for "a small framework at which the bowler
> aims the
> ball.") I'm happy to say that after more than four years and the input of
> many manyears
> of effort from the open source community, Wicket now meets most if not all
> of
> my criteria for a web framework"
>
>
> Wayne Pope wrote:
>
>> We where just chating here, and we're wondering where the name wicket
>> comes
>> from ?
>> Looking it up on in the dictionary I couldn't really see the connection.
>>
>> Anyone know how the name came about?
>>
>> thanks
>> Wayne
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> -Wicket for love
>
> Nino Martinez Wael
> Java Specialist @ Jayway DK
> http://www.jayway.dk
> +45 2936 7684
>
>
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Re: Why is Wicket called Wicket?
Posted by Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael <ni...@jayway.dk>.
Jonathan Locke wrote something about it in his foreword in WIA:
"Several 60-hour weeks later, the first version of Wicket was born. (In
case you’re
wondering, Wicket was the first fun and unique-sounding short word that
Miko also
liked and that wasn’t being used for a major software project. It also
appears in some
dictionaries as a cricket term for “a small framework at which the
bowler aims the
ball.”) I’m happy to say that after more than four years and the input
of many manyears
of effort from the open source community, Wicket now meets most if not
all of
my criteria for a web framework"
Wayne Pope wrote:
> We where just chating here, and we're wondering where the name wicket comes
> from ?
> Looking it up on in the dictionary I couldn't really see the connection.
>
> Anyone know how the name came about?
>
> thanks
> Wayne
>
>
--
-Wicket for love
Nino Martinez Wael
Java Specialist @ Jayway DK
http://www.jayway.dk
+45 2936 7684
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