Tag Archives: ui

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

Implementing a “Draft Mode” with Apache Wicket Forms

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Richard Nichols

A question came up on wicket-users recently about whether it’s possible to implement a form in Wicket whereby you can bypass the validation temporarily so that users could save prior to submitting the form. Think something along the lines of … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged guides, Java, ui, web, wicket | 3 Comments

LessCSS available in Java and Wicket – less.js

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Richard Nichols

For the uninitiated, LessCSS is a powerful extension of CSS, that adds variables, mixins, operations and nested rules. What this means is the ability to remove the repetition and redundancy which almost always pops up in CSS for complex web … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged css, Java, ui, visural-wicket, web, wicket | 8 Comments

Can’t Publish A Google Form Outside Your Domain?

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Richard Nichols

This one was way harder than it should have been to figure out – if you want to publish a Google Spreadsheets Form and you use Google Apps For Your Domain, make sure these radio buttons in your Docs service … Continue reading →

Posted in General | Tagged Google, ui | 1 Comment