Random password generation using Commons Lib 0.1.1

A tutorial on generating random password is added to the Wiki.

Commons Lib 0.1.1 Released

WizTools.org Commons Lib project has released 0.1.1 version. Usually a library providing common functionality needs to be extensively documented with API document availability. But I have not been able to document this library much. Probably I will correct this in later versions. This library is now used in many WizTools.org projects, as well as in many commercial projects I am involved in.

Date Arithmetic Tool

What date is 2010-02-15 plus 165 days is? In the standard input of this tool give:

2010-02-15 + 165d

to compute the date. Download from here.

Bulk Mailer Perl Script

By accident I came across a site which archived one of my older scripts. This is a Perl script which I wrote and used during my college days to send Newsletters to my friends. Brought back sweet memories of those days :-) Now I have repackaged and committed it in the WizTools.org mini-projects repository. This will ensure its continued development and maintenance.

Download release 1.0.

WizTools.org commons-lib has a new home

WizTools.org commons-lib has a new home: http://wiztools-commons-lib.googlecode.com/. The source is hosted in a mercurial repository.

Regular Expression Tester 0.4.0

On the night of 31st December 2009 I released a new version of Regular Expression Tester. The previous versions of the tool did a search of only the first match of the RE pattern. The new version corrects this, and displays all the matches in the input text.

Download.

Regular Expression Tester Updated

Version 0.3.0 of RegularExpression Tester has been released. This version eliminates the need for the "Match" and "Clear" button. The regex pattern matching happens as you type. This I found considerably improve my productivity. Screenshot:



Download. To run this:

$ java -jar re-test-0.3.0.jar

Digest Hex Compute Tool

It is become a kind of standard to store hash (digest) of application user passwords in the database encoded as hex string. The proliferation of this technique can be identified due to the PHP functions like md5() and sha1(). When debugging login-problems of such applications, I always used to write a PHP file for computing the password when comparing/updating it with the DB stored hash. I found this difficult. So I developed this tiny tool which does the computation:



Download.

Regular Expression Tester

We are pleased to announce the addition of new tool to our family of developer productivity tools: Regular Expression Tester. Download version 0.2.0 [7.7kb download, executable jar].

The Great Wall: New micro-blogging project started

We are pleased to announce the initiation of a new micro-blogging software written in Java with MySQL backend: The Great Wall. This is being developed with the help of Arun Jeganath. We are aiming at late January 2010 for the first release for this project. Wish us luck!

jEdit macro to compact code

I have published a new jEdit Macro to compact code into to single line. This works on C-derived languages, and can also be used to compact CSS.

I developed this for creating a bookmarklet with single-line JavaScript.

For a complete list of jEdit macros published by WizTools, visit this Wiki.

Mac OS X edition of RESTClient available

Thanks to the latest committer of RESTClient @pilaftank, we now have a Mac OS X edition of RESTClient (with Mac compatible UI and key binding) for download.

Sys-info-webapp 0.1.0 released

A Web App to display system properties, environment variables and runtime information like free memory and number of CPUs in the system. Particularly useful in a closed environment when you can use this to escape the bureaucratic hassle of asking these details from Sys Admin (once this is deployed by the Sys Admin!). Download.

Desktop Color Picker

A tiny new tool has been added to the WizTools.org mini project. This is a screen color picker application. It is written in Java and works in all major platforms. As always, this is shipped as a executable Jar.

jEdit Macros @ WizTools.org

jEdit is a popular programmer's text editor. To boost my productivity, I have written some basic macros for it. All the macros solve some common programming problems faced by programmers. Hope you find it useful.

Video View Portlet using HTML5 <video> element released

The JSR-286 compatible portlet (tested in Liferay 5.2.3) for displaying videos in HTML5 <video> element is released. Download from java-portlets project site.

JavaDoc Jar Viewer

It has become a standard to distribute JavaDocs as Jar files. These distributions are handy when used with tools like Maven and your IDE. But what happens when you want to view it? We have to create a temporary directory to extract the Jar, then launch a browser to view the content. What a pain! Now we have a command-line tool to do these manual steps for you. Check out its documentation.

Pomodoro Timer 1.0 Released

Pomodoro Timer, a software tool to mimic the usage of Pomodoro Timer (aka Kitchen Timer) for practicing Pomodoro Technique is released. Screenshot:

Multi-threaded TCP portscan tool

We are happy to announce the availability of the new multi-threaded TCP port scan utility. Download the utility from Google Code. This is an executable Jar. Usage:

$ java -jar portscanner-cli-0.1.0.jar <hostname>

By default, 4 threads are spawned for verifying port availability of the destination host.

Base64 Cli 1.0 Released

Base64 Cli 1.0, a commandline tool to encode and decode content using Base64 is released. This tool reads and writes to the standard input and standard output respectively.

Example usage:

$ java -jar base64-cli-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar < a.txt > a.txt.base64

For all commandline options:

$ java -jar base64-cli-1.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar -h

Tool to encode/decode URLs

Continuing our effort to quickly test standard Java APIs, we have published a new tool encode and decode URLs using java.net.URLEncoder and java.net.URLDecoder. Download it.

Java System Properties Displayer

I often found myself writing programs to print out the system property values in different environments. You know the standard public static void main programs. Today decided I will not write these types of programs again. Wrote a command-line tool to display all the System properties. The keys are ordered alphabetically for easy identification.

Download it!

Java Tool to test java.text.SimpleDateFormat Pattern

A new Swing tool to test java.text.SimpleDateFormat is available.

Java Portlets: New Project From WizTools.org

We are glad to announce the launch of our new project, Java Portlets. The project currently has two JSR-286 portlets available: Arbitrary Text Portlet and Video View Portlet (Flowplayer based flv streaming portlet).

RESTClient 2.3 Released

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of 2.3 build of RESTClient. This version has the following features:

• New extensible framework
• Usability improvements
• Bug fixes
• Command-line tool for batch execution of tests

Detailed changelog can be read here: http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/wiki/ReleaseNotes.

I am happy to make this release on my birthday, 15 February 2009.

RESTClient featured in Dustin's Blog

A kind review of WizTools.org REST Client is posted by Dustin.

RESTClient 2.2 Released

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of RESTClient
version 2.2:

http://rest-client.googlecode.com/

Two prominent feature additions from version 2.1 are:

1. Syntax highlight support
2. SSL support

The complete changelog is available here:

http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/wiki/ReleaseNotes

New features and bugs can be reported here:

http://code.google.com/p/rest-client/issues/list

Kudos for RESTClient from Ian Dickinson of HP Labs

Ian Dickinson of HP Labs has commented on RESTClient in his blog. The title of the post is "RESTful service client-side testing tool", and he ends the post with: ... kudos to the developers. Thanks Ian :-)

RESTClient 2.2 Alpha 1 Released

WizTools.org RESTClient 2.2a1 is available for immediate download. This being an alpha release, requesting user feedback. Release Note is also available.

Text Encoding Util

New project has been published: WizTools.org Text Encoding Util. This is a command line utility to convert text files between encoding types, and a testing tool to check if a text file supports the charset specified by a particular encoding. Minum requirement is Java 5. This code is available under public domain.