Tag Archives: tips

Netbeans 7 + Git plugin on Windows Issues?

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I just started checking out Netbeans 7 which has a nice Git plugin available now in the plugin manager. I was horrified though when I opened a project to find every single source file was being shown as “modified” by Netbeans, although … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged git, Java, netbeans, tips | 4 Comments

Getting a non-relative (absolute) URL for a Wicket page

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Just a quick Wicket tid-bit I found today – generally with Wicket, when you create a BookmarkablePageLink or use “urlFor(…)“, the resulting URL is stated as a relative path, e.g. “../../something/mypage” (i.e. those that contain “..”). Sometimes you need to … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, tips, web, wicket | 2 Comments

Guice / Java IoC best practices – using annotations for configuration

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Richard Nichols

18 months ago I introduced Guice 2.0 into my workplace development team. So far it has been doing a good job of making inversion of control / dependency injection approachable, light-weight and helpful for the whole team. The biggest issue … Continue reading →

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Converting Ebook Formats – .mobi to .epub

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Richard Nichols

As I recently blogged, I picked up an iPad, and have been using it (mainly) as an ebook reader. I prefer using the Kindle app on the iPad to read ebooks, and the Amazon Kindle book store seems to have … Continue reading →

Posted in IT | Tagged apple, ebook, off-topic, tips | 15 Comments