Tag Archives: Google

301 Redirects Made Easy In Java

Posted on June 8, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I’ve just released a new version of visural-common – 0.3.2. This version includes a new Servlet Filter, which makes 301-redirects in Java a breeze. You’d recall that 301 redirects are useful for SEO (and just general good practice) for when … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged Google, Java, open-source, seo, visural-common, web | 3 Comments

AOP, Annotation-based caching solution for Guice projects…

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I just released a new version of the visural-common library (0.3.1) which includes support for a simple, flexible annotation based cache, for non-distributed projects. Why non-distributed projects? Unlike most other caching libraries I don’t offer integrations with ehcache or other … Continue reading →

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How-to: Add Code Syntax Highlighting to MediaWiki

Posted on April 6, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Here’s a short tutorial on how to integrate Google’s “prettify.js” (which does automatic syntax highlighting of code snippets) into a MediaWiki wiki installation. This is totally done MacGyver style, we’re going to patch the MediaWiki skin to do it. For … Continue reading →

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Wicket On Google App Engine (GAE) – Deployment Configuration

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Just a quick tip – generally with Wicket we want to supply our application with a way to choose between “Development” vs. “Deployment” mode automatically, so that we can get stack traces etc. during development and disable development features for … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged app-engine, Google, Java, open-source, tips, wicket | 1 Comment