Tag Archives: visural-common

Writing reflective unit tests to improve code quality

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Richard Nichols

I’ve found that writing JUnit tests that do classpath scanning combined with reflection is a way to write unit tests that cross-cut the entire application. This can be useful to prevent anti-patterns, enforce code standards or just to prevent common … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering | Tagged Java, junit, tips, visural-common, warp-persist | 3 Comments

visural-wicket 0.7.0 release with support for Wicket 1.5

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Richard Nichols

Today I pushed out release 0.7.0 of visural-wicket. This release is primarily a bug-fix and minor enhancement release, with one major feature – support for Wicket 1.5 which was released as stable yesterday! You can get the downloads here (note … Continue reading →

Posted in Java, Software Engineering, Wicket | Tagged Java, open-source, visural-common, visural-wicket, wicket | 2 Comments

Looking back on 2010…

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Richard Nichols

Each year I try to look back over my year and take stock of what I’ve spent my time on, what I’d like to improve on, things I’d like to do more, or do less. This year was a very … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Software Engineering | Tagged off-topic, soap-box, visural-common, visural-wicket | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Design, Java, Software Engineering | Tagged automation, css, Java, javascript, open-source, tips, visural-common, web | 13 Comments