xReplace is a project I was working on for a very specific need – it turned out to be a procedural text editor to define a process of text manipulation which will be performed for multiple files described using XML. xReplace also supports third party plug-ins for extra features. I developed this tool because I had to create a reproducable ‘search and replace’ style of text manipulation on thousands of content files whilst migrating a website from one CMS to another. Once I wrote the transofrmation script, I was able to rerun it over and over as the templates evolved up until the site went live. Becuase xReplace supports plugins, its also great for doing very specific yet repetitive tasks – there is an example plugin for creating ZIP files and source code to start making your own. There is extensive documentation in the installer.
BizBlox 1.6 has finally been released on SourceForge. It has been being used in production for a few months by several enterprise projects but everyone was working from the source. Thanks to Stephen Trembath for putting the new installer live on SourceForge.
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