Developer's Toolbox

ResourceBundle Editor - Eclipse plugin for edit resource bundle files

thiamteck — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:29:05 +0000

Edit multiple resource bundles file with plain text editor is error prone. It is difficult to detect the missing of certian entry in one of the file. It is also troublesome to convert non-ASCII content to the Unicode represetation of format “\uXXXX” So the ResourceBundle Editor come in as a handy tool for such task. The [...]

OpenSMPP/SMS Tools - Java Open Source SMPP API

thiamteck — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:09:59 +0000

As the name imply, OpenSMPP is an open source SMPP API that written in Java. It is conform to SMPP 3.4 while SMPP 5.0 is in the road map. It is originate from Logica Open SMPP until version 1.3. And was continue to be maintain in sourceforge. So you may found version 1.3.7 at OpenSMPP with [...]

Open Command Prompt from any folder - “Open Command Window Here”

thiamteck — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:06:00 +0000

The default Windows command prompt always start from user home directory (C:Documents and SettingsUsername). After install “Open Command Window Here”, you may right click any folder to open command prompt from there. “Open Command Window Here” is one of the utility under Microsoft PowerToys.

IE Tab - use IE within Firefox

thiamteck — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:52:30 +0000

Firefox is an excellent browser that make many people forget about IE. However, there is still some scenario where you will need IE. For example, web developer would like to check the web compatibility across browser. End user need to view a page with ActiveX. And IE Tab will be useful by allowed you to run [...]

Detect Cycle Dependency with JDepend4Eclipse

thiamteck — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:25:19 +0000

Cycle dependency among packages is dependency among package where 2 or more packages depend on each other. For example, package A depend on package B, while package B also depend on package A. Another exaple is package A depend on package B, package B depend in package C, package C depend on package A. The cycle [...]

Java Logging Wrapper with Static Binding - SLF4J

thiamteck — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:30:12 +0000

When think of logging wrapper for Java, I believe Apache Common Logging come in to most developers mind. Even if you don’t use it, the API/framework you use are very likely depend on it. It able to auto discover your actual implementation, with the cost of complexity. The class loader and reflection based dynamic binding might [...]

3 ways of transform XML with XSLT

thiamteck — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:18:46 +0000

XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) is a XML-based stylesheet that used for transform XML from one format to another format. It generate new XML without alter the exisitng source XML. To transform XML with XSLT, a XSLT proccessor is required. It can be develop based on API such as Apache Xalan. But if you just want to [...]

FindBugs - One Click Java Source Code Review

thiamteck — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:19:13 +0000

Having code review is good to identify overlooked bad practice that lead to future problem. But the cost is high and the benefit is very dependent on the skill level of the person who review the code. So what about have a software to do it for you? FindBugs is the answer. As the name [...]

SciTE - source code editor & excellent log file viewer

thiamteck — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:52:58 +0000

Notepad is always not a good choice to view source code. The used of CRLF as line break also make it not usable for viewing log file that downloaded from Linux server. And so far in my life, I never successfully open a huge log file with Notepad. So there are plenty of text editor out [...]

XML Copy Editor - Open source editor for XML

thiamteck — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:33:01 +0000

XML is great machine readable format for exchanging data. Personally I feel it is human readable, but not human editable. Especially when you try to edit it with notepad. So a XML editor that provide feature such content folding, syntax highlight, auto tag completion, etc will be helpful. XML Copy Editor is an open source (GPL) XML [...]