Things are starting to shape up for the big release of DataCleaner 1.5. We are starting off with a bit of excitement around in the data quality community.

Probably the most dedicated online magazine about data quality,  data quality pro, have launched a series of articles about profiling, validating and comparing data with DataCleaner. So far an introductory tutorial (including a complete and realistic example data-set) and a background article/interview have been published:

•  Learn how to profile and validate data (for free) using DataCleaner
•  Interview with Kasper Sørensen, creator of DataCleaner

We hope that you will enjoy the articles and we thank  data quality pro for their great interest in our community.

I've spent the last couple of days implementing a couple of cool enhancements to the DataCleaner desktop-application:

• Automatic download and install of popular database drivers. Followed along with template connection strings in the "Open database" dialog. This will hopefully make it much easier for less experienced users to set up a connection to their database of choice.
• Direct integration with the new RegexSwap system so that the regexes that you post online will be accessible from within the desktop-application.

Screenshots have been posted to the  media page.

Wait for DataCleaner 1.5 for these features or build it yourself to check them out now.

Only a few days after the launch of the  new DataCleaner website, we are once again ready with new exciting features. This time we are launching the first edition of our new regular expression (regex) sharing subsite called "RegexSwap".

 RegexSwap is a specialized forum for sharing, categorizing, commenting and voting on regular expressions that can be used in DataCleaner and other regex-based applications. It is really easy to post your own regular expressions, test them online on the website, comment and vote on the regexes that you have found useful. In time the next releases of DataCleaner will also take advantage of this online "always up to date" regex resource and offer direct integration with RegexSwap.

RegexSwap is still in beta but is ready at a functional level which is why we are launching publically it now. It will recieve dedicated attention in the weeks and months to come.

Dear everybody,

As a special christmas present we have been working hard to design a new website for DataCleaner! Hopefully you will all enjoy the new site, which have been designed to further support our community and let it grow by incorporating more features to socialize and share ideas online. So go visit it now at the new URL:

•  http://datacleaner.eobjects.org

Among the new features are a more  personal profile system which is linked to some of the communities that our users already use frequently, namely  LinkedIn and  SourceForge. We have a whole new  media section with cool screenshots and webcasts. We are also redesigning our  mailing list structure. Instead of the single mailing list that we have been using so far, we are launching new "announcement" and "dev" mailing lists.

Our goal is to continuously launch new features on the website. The first one being a  user survey to gain a better insight into the minds of our users and community. So be sure to fill it out. In the future we will add more exiting features such as online sharing of regular expressions and reference data for DataCleaner dictionaries.

The  old website will continue to exist, but primarily as a wiki and bugtracking system. During the next couple of days we will be editing the wiki pages to make them more suitable for wiki-style editing (by everyone) as opposed to the former readonly strategy.

We hope you like our christmas present and that you will  let us know. and we wish you all a great 2009. Without a doubt, it will bring exiting times for DataCleaner and the DataCleaner community.

I'm happy to announce that eobjects.org have gotten new hosts and that the troubles that we have been experiencing the last couple of months due to weird server crashed is finally over! My final word on the matter is - getting a large OSS-based J2EE environment up and running on a proprietary power pc platform is kind of a nasty affair! :-) So luckily we've found a better solution. This also means that we can once again say hello to our friend Hudson, the continuous integration system. While it is already online I will be tweaking it for the days to come so look out for periodic builds, test-reports and all that stuff that we all love!

Update: After some initial problems cloning the old environment we have finally ruled out all the small defects I think. So lets have a cheers for our new postgresql server (humly hosting the trac system) and our new Hudson server:

•  http://jee.eobjects.org/hudson

We've just uploaded a webcast of the new DataCleaner 1.4 which provides a long awaited update for the old 0.4 webcasts!

Go enjoy the webcast - and be sure to download the newest version of DataCleaner. Over and out!

During the last year eobjects.dk have grown rapidly and attracted a lot of attention both from Denmark where the community was originally founded, but also internationally from users and contributors in all parts of the world. We believe that this world wide interest in eobjects should be reflected in the website name and address, which is why we have acquired the  eobjects.org domain name as of today! Eobjects.dk will still prevail and the domain names are exact aliases but forward on we will undergo a gradual name change from .dk to .org. This will be reflected in several matters;

• The official name of the website will change to eobjects.org.
• For the sake of compatibility we will not change the package names of our java classes just yet. Only major version releases will include such changes (ie. wait for DataCleaner 2.0 and MetaModel 1.1).
• The same principle goes for our Maven artifacts. In time they will probably change though, but this also depends on the repository crew at apache.

We are happy that we now have a domain name that symbolize the international appeal of our software and we hope that it will enforce the community with a likewise global culture and sense of vitality.

After a great deal of work we're happy to announce the launch of the new eobjects.dk website at our new server host! Thanks to  Copenhagen Business School we now have a much better bandwidth available as well as more powerful hardware. Take a look around - a lot of things have changed, but the important stuff is still the same.

• The most remarkable change is probably what you're looking at right now - the News page! With the News page we'll be sure to keep you updated with all that goes on at eobjects.dk - project releases, roadmap changes, events, visions and goals etc. etc.
• There's a new left-hand side menu to ease navigation. We've created a new Docs page and a Downloads page for quick access to common inquiries. You'll also notice that the projects have been highlighted in the menu to give a better overview of our work.
• For contributors and developers, the Hudson continuous integration is still not migrated yet. So we hope you have patience and discipline to live without CI for a couple of days.

We hope that you like the new website. If there's anything you'd like to comment on or anything that doesn't work as it should, please don't hesitate to go to the discussion forums and point it out for us! We will then make sure that the new website lives up to all the hopes we have for it.