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Plumber's Hack 2: Blog o' warez

So i wrote this warez to parse my articles in "poor text format" and generate my desired output, eg. HTML for my weblog, with syntax highlighting. Another feature is switching between online image URLs, and local offline image files.

There's a GUI interface, for previewing the HTML. This could be used as a tool for syntax highlighting and escaping Java and XML snippets, to cut and paste into your blog entries.

Read the full article on java.net CVS.

Ssh ssh, Show me the warez

Here is the Web Starter...

(Quitewriter, Java5, 450k, unsandboxed)

Which looks like this...

The code for the above demo in the quitewriter package on vellum.dev.java.net, but moving to quitewriter.dev.java.net. The main class to run the GUI is quitewriter.gui.QuitewriterGui.

Other Reading Material

Last week, in Swing and Roundabouts 1M: Emission DTs, we implemented a publish/subscribe message bus, for dialogs and such.

Comments

• Interestink. This is something I tend to do as well; write these little macro processors. I keep a lot of information in notepad files since it truly is a "light-weight" editor.

  Posted by: ilazarte on September 06, 2006 at 05:06 AM

• I thought that I might make sure that you know all the connotations of the word "warez":

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez

  Posted by: afishionado on September 06, 2006 at 11:08 AM

• I use jEdit as my general utility editor - jEdit is awesome, innit!? But i edit articles and JNLPs and such in Netbeans. So i can Ctrl-Tab between the article and Java code, and of course use Alt-O to open classes and what-not. Also i can CVS commit my articles and images - for backup, but also for publication and amendments - it's my personal paradise :)

  Posted by: evanx on September 06, 2006 at 11:13 AM

• Warez is software you download from the internet, innit. Usually copylefted. Copyrighted material is relic warez that no one is interested in - so why download that? ;)

  Posted by: evanx on September 06, 2006 at 11:17 AM

• hmmm... a blog entry about a tool that you used to write the same blog entry that you wrote the tool for....

  Posted by: kirillcool on September 06, 2006 at 10:50 PM

• Hey Kirill, i quite like such Escheresque entangements :) i'm looking forward to writing an article about a micro webserver (webservlet.dev.java.net), where the Web Start demo runs the webserver, serving up the article itself to your browser, which is generated on the fly (by quitewriter), with its images embedded in the jar as resources :)

  Posted by: evanx on September 06, 2006 at 11:43 PM

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