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WizTools.org homebrew repository live

2018-12-23T10:02:00.002-08:00

Happy to announce the availability of WizTools.org's selected products in our very own homebrew repository. Configure the repository:

brew tap wiztools/repo

To install, say xsd-gen, you would do:

brew install xsd-gen

For a complete list of formulas and casks available, visit the repository:

https://github.com/wiztools/homebrew-repo

Any Url Http Server v1.1.0 Released

2016-06-18T10:08:00.001-07:00

Version 1.1.0 of anyurlhttpserver is available now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/anyurlhttpserver. This version introduces -C parameter to support CORS headers.

WizTools.org RESTClient 3.6 Released

2016-05-29T08:09:00.001-07:00

The flagship OpenSource project from WizTools.org has a shiny new release. This release boasts of multiple features like GET with body, better support for ignoring SSL certificate warnings like expired certificate, and custom HTTP methods. Also, as part of our continuous improvement plan, we also moved the build to Gradle. Enjoy our new offering:

Downloads now distributed via GitHub.
Release Notes available in the Wiki.

wiz-cliparse: the cli parsing lib that Node deserves

2016-04-27T02:00:00.001-07:00

A couple of weeks back, when I started working in a Node.js project, I had to use a cli-parsing library for my requirement. On searching, I was repeatedly directed towards commander.js. It looked powerful and seemed to satisfy our need. But as I started using it, I found it sucking my time. Bad, and wrong documentation. No support. And overall, badly designed and executed. Every option that I tried, always ended up in opening issues, asking for help in SO.

I decided to put a stop to this mediocrity. Node deserves better. And today, I am happy to announce the better option from WizTools.org, the wiz-cliparse library:

GitHub: https://github.com/wiztools/wiz-cliparse
NPM repo: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wiz-cliparse

commons-lib has a new group and artifact id

2016-04-02T08:05:00.001-07:00

Happy to announce the availability of v0.4.2 of commons-lib. Note that the artifact id and group id of the project has changed:

Group id [Old => New]: org.wiztools.common => org.wiztools.
Artifact id [Old => New]: wiztools-commons-lib => commons-lib.

This release fixes a error in ZipUtil.unzip() that was not failing on corrupt zip files.

Commons Lib has a new home @ GitHub

2015-11-12T02:23:00.001-08:00

wiztools-commons-lib, the library holding collection of commonly used convenience classes and data-structures for Java has a new home at GitHub.

anyurlhttpserver 1.0 released

2015-10-28T22:13:00.001-07:00

anyurlhttpserver, a tool for mocking HTTP services is released.

PHP OOP Book Updated for PHP v5.6

2015-08-23T08:53:00.001-07:00

The popular book on PHP OOP is now updated for PHP v5.6. New buyers will get the updated version of the book. I am working with Amazon to push the new version of the book to existing owners. Push notification should be received by existing owners after that.

How is your OSS used?

2015-05-06T21:34:00.001-07:00

The beauty of OSS is this: you never know how people are going to use it. I recently discovered that my tool xsd-gen, a pure command-line tool is also being used as a library by someone (see this SO post). I love the freedom I offer my users by publishing my software as Open Source!

RESTClient 3.5 Released

2015-04-26T11:54:00.001-07:00

Happy to announce the release of 3.5 version of RESTClient. This version boasts of various minor bug fixes, improvements in multipart body requests, and internal code reorganization to support new persistence formats. Complete Release Notes available at the usual location.

Version 0.3.2 of StaGen, the static site generator, is released

2014-11-22T07:11:00.001-08:00

Happy to announce the release of 0.3.2 of StaGen, the static site generator written in Java 8. StaGen supports Markdown for content and StringTemplate 4 for templating. This version boasts of builds in .tgz and .zip with executable shell-script and Windows batch script stagen. Download the release from GitHub. To install, extract the compressed distribution and add to PATH the bin directory. Fire StaGen from command line:

$ stagen -h

RESTClient 3.4.2 Released

2014-10-18T01:52:00.001-07:00

The latest version of RESTClient has support for selecting the type of multipart body that is sent with the request. Certain web API endpoints were not supporting the default RESTClient mode of multipart messages, while a simple curl request succeeded. To support these websites, RESTClient now supports specifying the mode of multipart body type.

Quick links:

Download and purchase link in GitHub.
Release notes.

RESTClient 3.4.1 Released

2014-08-29T08:29:00.001-07:00

Happy to announce the immediate availability of RESTClient 3.4.1 for download and purchase. This is a minor release that fixes a UI rendering bug in Mac, supports UI scaling in high-resolution display devices among other bug fixes and enhancements. Read the release notes here.

JSON Validator: Cli Tool

2014-08-09T18:23:00.001-07:00

JSON validator is a command-line tool for validating/formatting JSON files. The tool is inspired by the cli options of the ever popular xmllint tool.

StaGen: 0.3.1 released

2014-06-18T18:12:00.001-07:00

A minor update to the static site generator from WizTools.org is released. This fixes a bug that was not detecting changes in sub-folders when executing run command.

Wiz WebServer with Jetty Engine

2014-06-17T05:01:00.001-07:00

Wiz WebServer, the web server project has a tumulus history. It all started with the need for me to quickly test JavaScript and minor Ajax scripts. I quickly forked the Java Mini Web Server Project, to create Wiz WebServer. It was pretty heavily used by me and my team for development purposes. But maintaining this code base did not seem to be a good idea, especially when we have such excellent alternatives like Jetty. So, today, with heavy-heart, I scrapped the HTTPD code base of Wiz WebServer, and changed the engine to Jetty. The new release, 0.4.0 version, may be downloaded from: https://bitbucket.org/wiztools/wiz-webserver/downloads.

RESTClient 3.4 Released

2014-05-25T09:14:00.001-07:00

This release focuses on two important features:

Drag and drop support as explained in above video.
Support for PKCS12 keystore format for SSL certificates.

Download, release notes and purchase links available at GitHub.

RESTClient Book Second Edition

2014-05-17T22:21:00.001-07:00

Happy to announce the second edition of RESTClient book:

The book will be available for free from May 19 to May 23 in Kindle store (PST time). The 3.4 version of RESTClient covered in this book is scheduled for release on 25th May.

Sneak peek @ how WizTools.org books are made...

2014-05-04T10:16:00.001-07:00

I am working on updating the RESTClient book. And this is how I work:

I use BBEdit project feature.
The whole book is written in Markdown.
Pandoc is used to convert from Markdown to HTML.
Ant is used to build single HTML.
Kindlegen from Amazon is used for building the mobi book.

RESTClient 3.3.1 Released

2014-04-15T08:37:00.001-07:00

This release fixes a nasty bug #7 that was causing NullPointerException when POSTing. For this reason, request everyone using 3.3 version to upgrade to 3.3.1. Quick links:

Download from FossHub.
Read the Release Notes.
Purchase signed Mac build.

StaGen: First public release

2014-04-02T23:02:00.001-07:00

The first public release of StaGen, the static site generator powering WizTools.org, is now available.

StaGen: The static site generator from WizTools.org

2014-03-31T07:04:00.001-07:00

Maintaining websites is a hard task. The last version of WizTools.org was maintained using RapidWeaver. In the quest to design a good looking site, I had sacrificed the joy of working with text. While working on recent updates to the site, RapidWeaver brought back nightmares of using MS Word five years back—just a minor text formatting that I could do in less than a second in Markdown was taking minutes of workaround in RapidWeaver.

Then I started researching the best tool for maintaining my site using just text. I just wanted to fire up BBEdit and be productive. Jekyll sounded attractive. But is written in Ruby—I did not want to invest time in hacking this. JBake is in Java, but seemed bulky and used Freemarker templates. I had been sold out to StringTemplate couple of years back, and did not want to maintain my site in Freemarker.

Based on these parameters, I finally decided to write my own static site generator—specific for my needs of maintaining a tiny site like WizTools.org. And thus was born StaGen. Right now, there is no public release of StaGen (it was just written last night!)—but it already is powering WizTools.org home page as of now.

The Joy of Unix in Windows: Cli Tools Bundle

2014-03-27T08:07:00.002-07:00

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of WizTools.org Cli Tools Bundle for Windows. This is a commercial build of OpenSource software available for $5.

RegularExpression Tester in Mac App Store

2014-03-17T21:36:00.001-07:00

US store link.
India store link.

RESTClient 3.3 Released

2014-03-16T22:54:00.001-07:00

Project home page.
Release notes.
OpenSource download location.
Purchase signed Mac build.