Joining Wicket IRC chat using Pidgin

From Pidgin's Buddy List, choose Accounts -> Manage and then click the Add button.


This will open a NickServ tab in your conversation window.

In this window type the following commands:

/msg NickServ REGISTER <your-password>

/msg NickServ set hide email on

/msg NickServ set email <your-email-address>

/join ##wicket

Ta-da. Now you are in Wicket chat with the gurus. :-)

You can find out more here.

GWT doesn't work with 64-bit JVM

For the Getting Started samples to work on 64-bit Linux, you must install the 32-bit JVM and perform the following:

export JAVA_HOME=~/opt/java
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/opt/gwt-linux-1.4.60/mozilla-1.7.12

You can find out more about the problem here.