WizTools.org Blog

WizTools.org Commons Lib: 0.3.0 Release

2012-01-27T01:58:00.000-08:00

Commons Lib has undergone a revision, and is now enhanced with additional utility classes. The new version is available in public Maven repository:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.wiztools.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>wiztools-commons-lib</artifactId>
  <version>0.3.0</version>
</dependency>

Release notes available here: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools-commons-lib/wiki/ReleaseNotes.

WizTools.org projects dependent on Commons Lib will be updated in a phased manner.

How-we-use-the-tool tutorial on Servlet Path Info

2012-01-13T12:04:00.000-08:00

How-we-use-the-tool tutorial on Servlet Path Info: http://fileit.in/p/395: This note explains how I was able to test Apache mod_rewrite quickly using Servlet Path Info.

Web Tester (online tool hosted in Google App Engine)

2012-01-09T23:01:00.000-08:00

Web Tester is a online tool to host your HTML page temporarily in a web-url. The tool is configured to expire content after 24 hours of publishing.

This tool was developed for a specific use in a project I was involved with. In this project we used Schema.org defined rich snippets for SEO purposes. For testing this we required Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool. Unfortunately, Google's tool was available for use only for pages available in the internet. I had to enable my team to test content during development itself. So, I developed this tool wherein the development version of the pages can be web-enabled for immediate testing using Google's tool.

I am sure this is just one use of this tool. I am sure users could find many other interesting uses of it.

The source code of the tool is available here: http://code.google.com/p/gae-web-tester/.

Cache Lib: A Cache Abstraction API

2012-01-07T05:50:00.000-08:00

Cache Lib is a simple Cache abstraction API. The API defines two interfaces Cache and CacheManager. Using these interfaces, adapter implementations for existing Cache APIs can be developed. A sample adapter implementation for EhCache is provided in the source repository.

JWGet 0.2.0 Released

2011-12-29T21:25:00.000-08:00

JWGet is the command-line download utility available from our mini-projects. 0.2.0 version has support for better name resolution when naming the downloaded file. Download location.

Article on new framework from Commons Lib project for consistent toString generation

2011-12-29T11:16:00.000-08:00

Link to the article: http://fileit.in/p/387. The article will take around 10 minutes to read.

Wiz WebServer 0.2.0 Released

2011-11-28T02:57:00.001-08:00

Version 0.2.0 of Wiz WebServer, a tiny web-server written in Java is available for download. The new version sports better command-line parameter support, and fixes a bug which was mapping the URL parameters also to the file-system path.

Release 0.2.0 of WizTools.org oEmbed Java API

2011-11-17T10:27:00.001-08:00

The new version has the OEmbedUrlBuilder convenience class, which simplifies building oEmbed Urls. The project is hosted at Google Code and downloads are available here. Maven users can easily link to the dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.wiztools</groupId>
    <artifactId>wiztools-oembed</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>

Version 0.1.0 of WizTools.org oEmbed API Released

2011-11-11T05:55:00.000-08:00

The first ever release of WizTools.org oEmbed API is published. This is not yet available in the Maven central repository, so it is recommended to build from the source after checking out 0.1.0 release:


$ hg clone -r wiztools-oembed-0.1.0 https://code.google.com/p/wiztools-oembed/

The JavaDoc API is also available.

Launching Java API for oEmbed 1.0 Specification

2011-11-04T10:50:00.000-07:00

I am happy to announce the launch of WizTools.org oEmbed Java API project. This is an implementation of the oEmbed specification. The aim of this project:

Minimal external dependency. Maybe, the only external dependency I forsee is for JSON parsing.

XML parsing is done by super-fast StAX.

API should be easily extendable.

Validation for compliance to the specification should be in place.

Should be available in Maven public repository.

The initial version of the code is committed in the mercurial repository---interested hackers, have a look!

CSS Import Resolver 0.3.0 Released

2011-10-22T21:28:00.000-07:00

CSS Import Resolver is a new tool from WizTools.org Mini-projects. This tool resolves the @import url(...); statements in input CSS files (by replacing the @import statement with actual content of the linked CSS) and creates a huge output-CSS (written to STDOUT by default). Including the combined-css in your webpages will improve the performance of the site by avoiding additional HTTP roundtrips. More information in this wiki. Download from the Mini-projects download url.

Tutorial on Multicast Tool

2011-09-30T04:43:00.000-07:00

A quick tutorial is published: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/wiki/MulticastToolTutorial.

Multicast Tool: Bug fix version 0.1.2 released

2011-09-28T04:46:00.000-07:00

This is a bug-fix release specially for the Windows environment. For some strange limitations of the Microsoft platform, I was not able to read from the STDIN a bigger buffer size. This has been fixed in the 0.1.2 release.

Multicast Tool: Bug fix version 0.1.1 released

2011-09-27T21:23:00.000-07:00

A bug-fix version of Multicast Tool has been released. For sending data to a multicast group, the sender port is randomly picked by the application now. The help text is also formatted for better readability compared to previous version.

New tool from Mini Projects: Multicast Tool 0.1.0

2011-09-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

Usage:

Download from: Mini-projects Downloads.

XSLT Transform Cli Tool

2011-09-16T20:55:00.000-07:00

A tiny command-line tool to do the XSLT transformation. Usage:


$ java -jar xslt-transform-VERSION.jar stylesheet file [file ...]

From the WizTools.org Mini-Projects.

Amazon S3 Upload (Cli) tool updated

2011-08-11T07:52:00.000-07:00

The Amazon AWS S3 Upload (Cli) tool (previously named s3backup) is updated to version 1.2. Improvements in this version include:

Support for uploading multiple files.

AWS credentials can be loaded from a properties file.

Download.

Amazon AWS SES Email Cli Tool

2011-08-09T23:30:00.000-07:00

Simple Email Service (SES) from Amazon Web Service (AWS) is a cool cloud service for sending (bulk or otherwise) mails. I wrote a simple cli tool to use this service for sending mails. Download.

JFind by Tom Ball

2011-07-10T14:58:00.000-07:00

During my younger days, I remember visiting:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/2005/09/03/jfind-simple-jar-file-locator

This became one of my most valuable tool in my Java programming life. The tool basically finds the Jar file(s) which has the searched class in it. The tool is executable from command-line.

The trouble with the tool was unavailability of it in binary-executable form. So I had copy of this tool in my cloud drives so that I can fetch from any machine any time.

Recently I was in need of this tool, again. I thought: would it not be good if I am able to build the tool and give an executable version of it, for all to download? So it is here:

http://code.google.com/p/jfind/.

Wiz WebServer 0.1.0 Released

2011-04-26T10:32:00.001-07:00

Wiz WebServer is a fork of the Mini WebServer project. The fork has additional features:

Java 6 build.

Maven source code organization.

New MIME types added.

Code cleanup.

Command-line parameters for port and folder path.

UTF-8 encoding enforced.

HTTP 1.1 response.

Download release from: https://bitbucket.org/subwiz/wiz-webserver/downloads.

Checksum Compute 0.2.0

2011-04-02T21:17:00.000-07:00

This is the renamed version of Digest Compute tool. There have been some aesthetic improvements in the UI compared to the previous edition. Download from the usual location: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Digest Compute 0.1.0 Released

2011-03-29T04:59:00.000-07:00

This is a tool from the mini-projects is for computing checksum of the selected file. Checksum is computed using the following algorithms: MD5, SHA-1 and SHA-256.

This is developed in behest of my friend Sunil Patel. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Timezone Converter 0.3.0 Released

2011-03-13T23:08:00.000-07:00

This has an important UI change: inclusion of the date. Download from: http://code.google.com/p/wiztools/downloads/list.

Timezone Converter 0.2.0 Released

2011-03-02T00:44:00.000-08:00

This new version features:

Refresh button near the Source TimeZone to update to the current time.

A copy-to-clipboard button near the Destination TimeZone.

The tool remembers the timezone last selected when re-opened.

Ability to swap timezones using short-cut key Ctrl+S.

Download.

Timezone Converter 0.1.0 Released

2011-02-03T03:19:00.000-08:00

A nifty tool to convert time between various zones is available for download. This tool is part of WizTools.org Mini-project.

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