Category Archives: Software Engineering

ResourceTransformFilter – DataUris, LessCSS, Javascript and CSS Compression Made Easy!

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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Thoughts on the WordPress & Thesis GPL hoo-haa

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Richard Nichols

The blogosphere has been railing back and forth the past week about the assertion made by Matt Mullenweg that themes are covered by the GPL, as is WordPress. This post is a pretty good jumping off point if you need … Continue reading →

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Detecting Which Browser In Java Servlet/Filter

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Richard Nichols

The newest version of my open source tools project, visural-common – 0.4, includes a new feature the com.visural.web.client.WebClient class. The purpose of this class is simple – User-Agent string goes in -> Browser, version and platform comes out. The “User-Agent” string … Continue reading →

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MHTML Browser Compatibility – CSS Inlining

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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