Tag Archives: tips

Clustering Guice Java Web Applications

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Considering the origin of Guice (it’s use in Google Adwords, one of the largest apps on the Internet), it’s fair to say it should support clustering / session replication. There’s not much in the way of documentation around that aspect … Continue reading →

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ResourceTransformFilter – DataUris, LessCSS, Javascript and CSS Compression Made Easy!

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Richard Nichols

ResourceTransformFilter is a swiss-army-knife for HTML/CSS/Javascript transformation in Java web applications. It’s a new addition to the visural-common Apache 2.0 licensed project. Apply this filter in your Java webapp to get – Automatic CSS DataURI image inlining for supported browsers Automatic … Continue reading →

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MHTML Browser Compatibility – CSS Inlining

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Richard Nichols

MHTML is a technology implementing by Microsoft in Internet Explorer for packaging images, stylesheets and other resources inside a single HTML file. Typically this is used for things like help files, ebooks or other “published” content, but more recently has … Continue reading →

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Implementing Facebook OAuth 2.0 Authentication in Java

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Richard Nichols

I recently switched onmydoorstep.com.au‘s Facebook login feature from the old “Facebook Connect” API implemented with facebook-java-api over to the new Facebook Graph API / OAuth 2.0 authentication. This was far easier to implement than the original authentication, particular under Apache … Continue reading →

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