Similar to my XPath Designer this free simple Windows tool allows you to quickly and easily tweak String format expressions. Useful when you want to figure out to format a hex number with eight padded zeros as shown in the screen shot.
Enter the Value you to format, select the type and then enter the format string. See the code and results live.
Similar to my Regex Designer this free simple Windows tool allows you to tweak XPath Expressions quickly.
Enter the XML you want to query then enter an XPath expression and see the results live.
My next "big thing" is coming soon...
BookLineup makes finding great books to read easy.
I've had this idea for a long time and decided to actually do something about it. It's a site designed around the idea lists of great books. I'm not going to tell more until we have it running as we are still discovering exactly how it will work.
If you are intersted in learning more signup at BookLineup for a one time launch email.
It actually happened about a week ago but ProductCritic is live and running. It took a long time for us to actually get off our butts and build the site instead of talking about it but once we started really working on the site it took about 2-3 months of evenings to get the initial data, design the layout and code it up.
I'm very happy how it turned out. If you are intersted in researching a new Digital Camera, Camcorder or Cell Phone you'll find this site very useful.
The site was developed using Ruby on Rails backed by a PostgreSQL database running Ubuntu Server on a Virtual Private Server slice.
