[Sparkle] Sparkle Digest, Vol 12, Issue 15

[Andy Matuschak]

Not yet; I want to add garbage collection and more awesome delegation  
and things. But what's in SVN should be stable.

- Andy Matuschak

On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:38 PM, Jeremy Matthews wrote:

> Does this mean 1.5 is official?
>
> -j
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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.
>>
>> - 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
>>>
>>> Cheers - Chuck
>>> http://chuck.habilis.net
>>> mailto:chuck at habilis.net
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