Tag Archives: open-source

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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visural-wicket 0.6 released – lots of new components!

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Richard Nichols

It’s been roughly 4 months since the first public release of visural-wicket, a set of open-source components and tools for the Apache Wicket web framework. Since then the project has seen 150+ developer downloads and a generally very positive reaction … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, open-source, releases, visural-wicket, wicket | 10 Comments

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 | 4 Comments