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Developer's Corner / Re: How to Share Your Programs with the World (PAD Files, installers, etc.)

« on: December 05, 2012, 04:39 AM »

Hello All,

I am selling my applications (shameless plug: Ron's Place Apps), and I use Inno Setup for the install files, which I host on my own website. The whole site and domain don't cost much more than 100 euros per year, so not a deal breaker.

For the PAD files, I made a base template from a few downloaded examples (I forget where from but they are easy to find), then populate changing fields with tokens like '<%ProductName%>'. At build time I can then generate the pad file for each product automatically, from generated meta data and a csv file containing product specific information. Of course I validated the first few runs but now it just works.

There is a little up-front time investment, but I have gained that back 10 times over. Of course the technology used will depend on the individual, and there quite a few details to think through but it has been worth it to me.

I hope that helps.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Ron's Editor (excellent CSV editor) and Ron's Renamer (batch file renamer)

« on: December 05, 2012, 03:43 AM »

Hello All,

On the invitation of mouser I am posting a little about a couple of applications I have written. For clarity I would like to mention that whilst am the developer that wrote said applications, I have decided to try and sell them, mainly so I can spend more time developing my own applications. All of them have an unlimited trial period though, so I feel I am being fair .

Ron's Editor is a powerful CSV editor, that has been under development on and off for quite a few years. It started as a simple CSV reader and evolved over time from my own needs and a huge quantity of user feedback. In fact to say I invented this product would be stretching the truth somewhat - in really is a product of evolution and unreasonable demands  . I personally feel it is currently the best one around, but I will leave the final vote to the masses.

Ron's Renamer is a batch file renaming utility that I just wrote to do a job that I felt other applications did not do very well. To be fair their are a few more file renamers around now than when I started, and I wont make a big point about being better than any of the others. I take a rule based approach that combines small tasks into quite complex jobs, which can more or less achieve any batch renaming job. It works well and handles large file sets elegantly - obviously I like it  .

Finally, I am fundamentally a C# developer so if anyone wants to pop me any questions feel free.

Please enjoy my products - I am always interested in feedback (actually I value it highly).