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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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Quick Tip – Make Anything A Windows Service
I recently had to get nginx running as a Windows service and I came across a little project called “winsw” (Windows Service Wrapper) which was created by Kohsuke Kawaguchi – creator of Hudson/Jenkins. Apparently he created it while at Sun for … Continue reading
visural-wicket 0.7.0 release with support for Wicket 1.5
Today I pushed out release 0.7.0 of visural-wicket. This release is primarily a bug-fix and minor enhancement release, with one major feature – support for Wicket 1.5 which was released as stable yesterday! You can get the downloads here (note … Continue reading
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Implementing security in Wicket with visural-wicket
Wicket has a nice mechanism for plugging in security whereby all components (including pages) have three cross-cutting hooks which can be validated by a security rule – Instantiation Render Enable You can build your own security framework using the IAuthorizationStrategy interface … Continue reading
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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