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In this section we'll publish web utilities (such as web services or applications) that have helped us on our daily work and as they are being useful to us we think they are worth sharing too

LonelyDrops: dropdown lists for your web projects

 
Some time ago, every time we started a new project where country or timezones dropdowns were needed, we had to make the effort to maintain and build (almost from scratch) the dropdowns and usually in a multi-language environment (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Basque, ...)

Tired of doing these maintenance tasks and manual db loads we prepared a small website that allows to create dynamic dropdown lists with all this data and completely multi-lingual in such an easy way that there's no need to keep these values on any additional database. In a matter of seconds, dropdowns will be ready containing, for example, the country list sorted by continents or timezone list sorted by countries.

The new service is called LonelyDrops: www.lonelydrops.com

Application Wrapper

 

As a web programmer in java, I spend my time compiling with maven, updating and commiting to subversion, stopping and starting the tomcat, viewing tails of logs, and a lot of executions of scripts.

After programming for the iPhone I wanted to program something in Objective-C so starting from the idea of Tomcat Controller I have developed an application that can run scripts and view results in a new tab if you want. For example, you launch a tail of the log of tomcat in a new tab and without having to open new tabs you can launch and stop the tomcat.

Every script that configure has its own environment, so if we need to define some environment variables we can do it without problem. For example, to launch tomcat in debug mode.

The application is able to launch any script, you can even write your own, some examples:

1 - cd /myFolder;. /myscript

This will execute myscript inside the folder /myFolder

2- open -e /etc/hosts

This would open the file /etc/hosts file with default editor.

Download here:

Application_Wrapper.zip

You only have to unzip and
move or copy to the Applications folder.


Adrià Febrer
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