Here’s a handy little script for web developers / QA specialists who need to generate human-related data for use in testing software. This program lets you rapidly build custom test data including names, phone numbers, email addresses, states, provinces and random text of varying size. You may download the information as an excel spreadsheet or view it as HTML. And (naturally), it’s free.

Data Generator

I wrote this program for generating sample submissions for my Form Tools script. Very useful indeed!

New script! Form Tools is a program I’ve been developing on and off for months, built out of the ashes of various other projects I’ve worked on. Here’s a quick description:

Form Tools is written for web developers who work on online registration sites, or sites that require any form of information gathering from their online visitors. Put simply, it is a form processor, storage and data access script written in PHP and MySQL, designed to work with any existing web form. With a few minor changes to your form, you can stop using old-fashioned form-mail scripts and instead store form submissions in a database, instantly providing your clients with options such as mass data export via excel, printer-friendly pages, data sorting, form submission editing and optional email of form submissions.

Rather than release in on this woe-begotten site, I thought I’d dedicate an entire site to it – I needed some space for the online demo, user and developer documentation and other site stuff. So take a look! Visit: www.formtools.org

BP est fini – nice to have that done. The client is happy, which makes all the difference. I’m very pleased with the result: a simple, elegant registration form. Very user-friendly. The ProBono Law of BC is looking pretty darn good too and the CMS is coming along nicely. Today I’m implementing them a geo-search to allow coordinators to map cases to lawyers depending on location. Fun stuff.

Hmm… what else? I recently gave my old Realty Management Software another upgrade for Black Tusk Realty to allow auto-removal of listings. Cool feature; badly needed.

My Form Tools script is one online demo away from being released. I plan on releasing it into the wild sometime early this week. Be nice to have that monkey finally off my back. Once that’s done I can

1. Finally finish off the Flash Image Scroller
2. Release a little tool I’ve been meaning to show off: a random sample data generator. I wrote it for my online demo to generate mock data. Remarkable I couldn’t find anything like it out there. (Qualifier: anything FREE out there).
3. Begin redesigning this old dog of a website.