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Discussion on: I Regret Being a Hipster in Tech

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Khalil Najjar

Thanks for sharing this! I find it incredible how you have been working consistently with the same tools for years and still love them!

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Driving change

They say "A bad worker always blames their tools".

That could be one possible explanation for the insatiable thirst for "new shiny tools" in the software world ;)

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Driving change

"When you're on a good thing - stick to it!"

It helps when the Apache Wicket devs are proper software engineers and each feature is properly thought out and each release is rock solid.

If I hadn't chosen Wicket in 2008 I would have probably had to rewrite my UI 3 or 4 times by now.