I’ve just updated the generatedata.com website to run the latest code. This new version made some pretty substantial changes behind the scenes, including mysqli for database connectivity and proper resource bundling and minification for CSS, JS and the requireJS modules. The resource bundling is a very nice addition: it’ll help speed up page loads (over 200KB less to download, and half the resources!) and it also includes cache-busting md5 filenames to help eliminate problems caused by old files being cached by the browser.

If anyone encounters any problems with the site, please email me at [email protected] and I’ll look into it. Thanks!

- Ben

I’ll be updating the website soon with this upgrade. Here’s the changelog for 3.0.7.

• LDIF Export Type support – thanks, Marco Corona!
• Proper (genuine!) French translation courtesy of Michel Roca.
• Optional JS, CSS minimization and bundling via Grunt. See help documentation for more information:
  http://benkeen.github.io/generatedata/developer.html#bundling
• PHP 5.5 compatibility fixes: database connection now with mysqli; Generator class renamed to DataGenerator due to naming conflict.
• Bug fixes: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata/issues?milestone=7&page=1&state=closed

Smashing Magazine tweeted about generatedata.com yesterday:

Pity Dreamhost wasn’t up for the challenge, apparently the site went down for a bit. I really need to find a better hosting provider…

It took a little longer than expected, but I just released v3.0.6, which includes some contributed code by Andre Fortin (thanks, Andre!) for a new Costa Rica Country plugin and a new Phone-Regional Data Type that generates a phone number in an appropriate format for the row. Very nice additions, both of them.

I also ended up re-designing the Country plugin classes a bit to make them more future-extensible. Now, rather than loading up the class with new member vars every time a new country-region-specific data item gets added, it’s stored in a generic $extendedData private member var. Should keep things lean and mean, going forward.

Visit the website.

And… another generatedata.com update.

3.0.3 includes a new Currency Data Type, and some small bug fixes.
Site: generatedata.com
Download: https://github.com/benkeen/generatedata/releases/tag/3.0.5

This release includes two new features:

• Italy Export Type, courtesy of Marcello Verona
• Regional Names Data Type added, data for Italy and France from Marcello Verona

Just bug fixes this time. Nothing terribly major, but a rather nagging problem with the installation script has now been fixed.

http://www.generatedata.com

I just released 3.0.2, which includes a shiny new Spanish Country plugin and translation, courtesy of Roberto Aragón and Charo Baena. Thanks, guys! It’s now available for download on github.

I’ll be updating the main site later today.

I just updated generatedata.com. It includes a number of little bug fixes, and a new MSSQL option for the SQL export type, courtesy of Kent Chenery. Thanks, Kent!

This weekend, assuming all goes well I’ll be rolling out the new generatedata.com. And about time! I’d originally expected to get the script re-written by January, but found myself spending inordinate amounts of time birding and doing other non-programming related activities. Oops.

The new website is a private fork of the free, downloadable version I’ve been re-writing this last year, which includes a few additional features: a donation section and some extra blurb for people to learn more about the script.

I’ve enjoyed the re-write tremendously, but very happy to see it finally get out there. I’ll make another post when it’s been released.