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Posts Tagged ‘data’
Generating random data on the client side
In: data| javascript| libraries| testing
21 May 2010Automatically creating fake or sample data is a frequent requirement for front-end web developers. Although usually not tedious, there are times when you need to quickly and automatically generate structured data for your html forms or CMS systems for testing purposes.
Faker.js is a JavaScript implementation inspired by Benjamin Curtis’s Ruby Gem Faker and Perl’s Data::Faker [...]
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Number to text conversion
In: data
25 Apr 2009phpguru.org offers a small and useful class to convert numbers to their textual equivalent. If you are building a accounting or invoicing application it may come in handy. The class can be downloaded form here. A sample code using the class is shown below.
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Free Geolocation API tool
In: tools
12 Apr 2009NOTE: http://www.ip2location.com have done away with the free api access from their site. So the following sample code will no longer work. They now provide a free sample database on their site and also a complete paid version.
iplocationtools.com offers a free geolocation API that lets you query with an ip address and get the [...]
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- Tags: curl, data
Generating test data for MySQL
In: mysql
25 Mar 2009The most common type of web application a developer encounters are database related. But rarely is the case when you have the required data in your database during testing, making it a frequent source of frustration for programmers, who than have to manually populate the database. Having a dummy set of data is always a [...]
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