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.
Follow @richard_nichols
Also on Github.
Category Archives: Design
ResourceTransformFilter – DataUris, LessCSS, Javascript and CSS Compression Made Easy!
ResourceTransformFilter is a swiss-army-knife for HTML/CSS/Javascript transformation in Java web applications. It’s a new addition to the visural-common Apache 2.0 licensed project. Apply this filter in your Java webapp to get – Automatic CSS DataURI image inlining for supported browsers Automatic … Continue reading
Posted in Design, Java, Software Engineering
Tagged automation, css, Java, javascript, open-source, tips, visural-common, web
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MHTML Browser Compatibility – CSS Inlining
MHTML is a technology implementing by Microsoft in Internet Explorer for packaging images, stylesheets and other resources inside a single HTML file. Typically this is used for things like help files, ebooks or other “published” content, but more recently has … Continue reading
What’s In A Name? (or “my right to be an anonymous jerk on the Internets”)
I found it interesting to watch the reactions around Blizzard’s recent announcement that from now on, the community forums provided for customers to discuss their games will use the user’s real names, and not a character name or alias. When … Continue reading
onmydoorstep.com.au – officially launched!
So as of tonight, onmydoorstep.com.au is officially launched! What does that mean? Basically I’m just telling anyone who’ll listen, about it. This site represents around 3 months work, in spare time and on weekends. It’s the reason my blog posts … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Design, General, Java, Software Engineering
Tagged guice, Java, jpa, onmydoorstep, warp-persist, wicket
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