Gerry Shaw http://organicbit.com Gerry Shaw's blog en Format Designer Tool http://organicbit.com/2007/02/14#2007-02-FormatDesigner <p>Similar to my <a href="http://organicbit.com/Posts/2007-02-XPathDesigner.html">XPath Designer</a> 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.</p> <p>Enter the Value you to format, select the type and then enter the format string. See the code and results live.</p> <p><img src="http://organicbit.com/files/formatdesigner/formatdesigner.png" alt="Main Window" title="" /></p> <p><a href="http://organicbit.com/files/formatdesigner/formatdesigner.zip">Download Format Designer (including C# Source)</a></p> XPath Designer Tool http://organicbit.com/2007/02/12#2007-02-XPathDesigner <p>Similar to my <a href="http://organicbit.com/Posts/2002-01-Regex.html">Regex Designer</a> this free simple Windows tool allows you to tweak XPath Expressions quickly.</p> <p>Enter the XML you want to query then enter an XPath expression and see the results live.</p> <p><img src="http://organicbit.com/files/xpath/xpath.png" alt="Main Window" title="" /></p> <p><a href="http://organicbit.com/files/xpath/xpath.zip">Download XPath Designer (including C# Source)</a></p> BookLinup.com http://organicbit.com/2007/01/16#2007-01-BookLinup <p>My next "big thing" is coming soon... </p> <p><a href="http://booklineup.com">BookLineup</a> makes finding great books to read easy.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>If you are intersted in learning more signup at <a href="http://booklineup.com">BookLineup</a> for a one time launch email. </p>