About Me
I'm a contract Java developer working in Melbourne for the past 10+ years.
More recently I created onmydoorstep.com.au, a place to find out more about where you live in Australia.
I'm also active in the open-source community with several projects ongoing.
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Also on Github.
Author Archives: Richard Nichols
It’s Oh So Quiet…
Five months and no blog posts? Aiya! I’ve been extremely busy through the first half of 2011, mostly because my wife and I are expecting our first baby (only a few weeks to go), and most of my free time … Continue reading
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Use Hudson (now Jenkins) to restart a Windows service…
Here’s a quick tip – you can easily make Hudson restart a windows service, by using its “Windows Batch Command” build step in combination with the command line windows “net” command. Here’s an example of how we can get Hudson … Continue reading
Face Detection in Java – Haar Cascade with JJIL (how-to)
A requirement came up on a recent project to automatically crop displayed profile images of people to just the “face” area for a thumbnail. This seems like a job for a face detection algorithm. Searching for appropriate open-source Java implementations … Continue reading
Looking back on 2010…
Each year I try to look back over my year and take stock of what I’ve spent my time on, what I’d like to improve on, things I’d like to do more, or do less. This year was a very … Continue reading
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