[Sparkle] Sparkle Digest, Vol 12, Issue 15

[Jeremy Matthews]

Does this mean 1.5 is official?

-j

On Feb 27, 2008, at 4:16 PM, sparkle-request at lists.andymatuschak.org  
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> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:48:46 -0800
> From: Andy Matuschak <andy at andymatuschak.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sparkle] App usage sparklines using Sparkle queries
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> Very cool! And with the profiling stuff in Sparkle 1.5, you can plot
> OS / CPU / model trends and stuff like that. Good work, Chuck.
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> - Andy Matuschak
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> On Feb 26, 2008, at 8:12 AM, Chuck Houpt wrote:
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> Apologies if this is too far off-topic for the list, but I thought it
>> might be interesting to developer-users.
>>
>> One of the nice thing about Sparkle is that appcast pings give the
>> developer feedback on how often an app is actually used. Many
>> software sites display download counts, but downloads don't
>> necessarily translate into regular use.
>>
>> I recently added Sparkle to one of my freeware apps. Rather then
>> display a download count, I decided to display a mini-graph (a
>> sparkline) of daily usage for the last 100 days:
>>
>> http://habilis.net/validator-sac/
>>
>> Looking at the sparkline, one can immediately see a bump up in usage
>> over the last week due to a release that fixed a festering Leopard
>> bug. I hope graphic will help users judge the utility of the app,
>> rather than just raw download-popularity.
>>
>> I made the graph with the Sparkline PHP libary, and a shell script to
>> extract the Sparkle ping data. More background info on sparklines can
>> be found at Infosthetics.
>>
>> http://sparkline.org/
>> http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/09/sparklines.html
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>> Cheers - Chuck
>> http://chuck.habilis.net
>> mailto:chuck at habilis.net
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