Tag Archives: automation

Use Hudson (now Jenkins) to restart a Windows service…

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Richard Nichols

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 →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged automation, ci, Java, releases, windows | Leave a comment

How to: 10000 photos from Adobe Photoshop Album 2 to Picasa

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Richard Nichols

If you’re (un)fortunate enough to have your entire photo collection stored in the now-ancient Adobe Photoshop Album 2, you’re going to be rather stuck. In theory, it should be possible to do “backup” operation from Album 2.0 and import into … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged automation, Java, off-topic | 5 Comments

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 →

Posted in Design, Java, Software Engineering | Tagged automation, css, Java, javascript, open-source, tips, visural-common, web | 13 Comments

OraDocletPlus – enhanced Oracle DB documentation generator released

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I just finished testing and packaging OraDocletPlus – a modified version of the OraDoclet DB documentation tool for Oracle. The main differences with this version over the original are one or two bugs fixed and a revamp to bring the … Continue reading →

Posted in Databases, Software Engineering | Tagged automation, database, doclet, documentation, open-source, oracle | Leave a comment