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Roundup – Royalty Free Icons and Images for Web Developers

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Richard Nichols

We all need, ‘em – quality icons and images for websites and applications. One of the biggest problems is finding packs that are – Consistently high quality Have a consistent look and feel There’s little point in have a hodge-podge … Continue reading →

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Wicket – forcing page reload on browser back button…

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Richard Nichols

An interesting issue arises when doing AJAX with Wicket, where you have an AJAX-enabled page with a bunch of controls that get generated/refreshed by AJAX. The user then navigates to another page, and subsequently hits the back button and returns … Continue reading →

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1 second guide – enabling gzip compression in Apache Tomcat

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Richard Nichols

This is one of those note-to-self posts. Add the following attributes to the <Connector> in Tomcat’s server.xml to enable gzip compression of responses: compression=”on” compressionMinSize=”2048″ compressableMimeType=”text/html,text/xml,text/csv,text/css,text/javascript” Done.

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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 →

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