Dummy data

I often find myself in the position of creating applications but mindful they aren't using real world data. It can be time consuming creating dummy data - and unimaginative for demonstrations. (How many times do we have john doe, mickey mouse etc as example names?)

I came across a website today which has a great excel plugin (windows only) which creates dummy spreadsheets for all sorts of data. It could be names, addresses, products, financial data etc.

Thought I'd share it here as it has been brilliant in creating some user and product spreadsheets I could upload to a database as dummy data for testing.

http://samradapps.com/fake-data

Best wishes
Terry