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A Great Example Of Clear Wording In An Online Form

I was just trying to buy next months train ticket and came across this brilliant attempt by first capital connect to trick their customers into agreeing to all of the marketing junk that you always get with any sort of signup to online services:

The text reads:

We may, from time to time, send you useful information and special offers about both our and our selected partners products and services. We will however NOT provide your details to any third parties, except in accordance with our terms and conditions, other than the train company you travel with. If you do not wish to receive this information or these offers simply clear the box.

As the saying goes ‘Clear as mud’, surely ‘Check this box to receive junk mail’ is sooo much clearer?

Next London Wicket Event

Tags: lwug, Wicket

More Warped Wicket

Earlier this year I wrote a post on integrating wicket and warp persist, and I thought it was about time I posted an update, but this time I included working example projects.

The first project is a basic wicket / warp persist setup with hibernate and an apache derby database.  It allows you to persist the Event class used in the hibernate examples.

wicketwarp.zip

The second project is the same, but also makes use of warp-servlet for hooking up all your other servlets and filters in guicy way.

wicketwarpservlet.zip

In both cases i’ve tried to keep xml configuration down to a minimum, as I hate xml config.  So the hibernate classes are configured with hibernate annotations.  Wicket itself involves no xml configuration as always.

As warp persist and warp servlet are not in a maven repository (as far as I know) you will need to manually add them into your maven repository in the normal way.

Thoughts, Code patches, Comments, etc are welcome.

Tags: warp-persist, Wicket