Tag Archives: open-source

Quick Tip – Make Anything A Windows Service

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Richard Nichols

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 →

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visural-wicket 0.7.0 release with support for Wicket 1.5

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Richard Nichols

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 →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, open-source, visural-common, visural-wicket, wicket | 2 Comments

Implementing security in Wicket with visural-wicket

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Richard Nichols

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)

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Richard Nichols

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 →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged guides, images, Java, open-source, ui | 26 Comments