Richard Wilkinson’s Blog

New look

I’ve had the same theme for a while now, so I decided it was time for a change.  I think you will agree that it looks alot better now, thanks to the free Statement theme from here.

Now I just need to brush up on my image editing skills to create a better icon for the top left.

A GMail eureka moment

Today I had a eureka moment with GMail.  As with many other people I get loads of so joke emails with embedded pictures.  Sometimes I get ones which actually are quite funny so I want to forward them on, but up until today GMail would always turn the mail to plain text and remove the images.

Its not just with joke emails either, any email which has embedded images, fancy formatting would get stripped out.

Turns out the solution to this problem is to make GMail send html emails rather than plain text ones.  To do this click ‘Rich formatting’ link just below the subject line.

Thankfully GMail remembers your preference so you won’t need to do it every time.

Happy Emailing

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In the brain of Ari Zilka

Last night I attended a free session at skills matter by the terracotta founder and cto Ari Zilka.

While I was already a terracotta user it was useful to see some other terracotta use cases, apart from http session clustering.

After the session at the pub (where else ) I got to talk to Ari about my wicket issues (see my previous post), although I had actually been having a conversation on the terracotta forum with him about it anyway.  Regardless I think its always nice to be able to put a face to someone you have been conversing with on the internet.  It was interesting to hear about the super large scale systems that he has worked on in the past.  I also learned one of the tricks how to sell software in China, which I’m sure will come in handy one day.

I would also like to thank they guy who paid for the drinks, but as I’m terrible with names I managed to forget yours.  Thank you anyway.

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