mia: my stat needs fulfilled!
written by Stuart on May 26th, 2006
Having seen Michael McCrackens excellent idea to create a single site web viewer (not a browser, becuase you can't browse!) for Gmail, I thought it might be a nice introduction to mac applications - and Xcode - to have a play around and create a stats viewer for my website.
Before I go any further I should note that I'm not releasing this, simply because you can't configure it to go to your desired site, my preference is hard-coded into it. But, if you want something similar, hop along to to the example code in your Developer folder and set about making your own from the WebKit demo…
You may have noticed a developing theme here, in that I have now made both a widget and a standalone application to keep track of my statistics. Well, you got me, I'm addicted, and I always (used to) have my stats open in a tab of my browser, which is not only a waste of valuable space in my tab bar, but recently safari has been becoming more and more of a memory hog, so this might even help a little on that front. Or, I might well decide tomorrow that it was all a silly idea, and go back to viewing stats in my browser, who knows.
Tags: mint, stats, application, programming
Why can’t you release the source but just change the source link to point to the mint demo or some fake site instead of your mint install? I would really like to be able to use this for myself if possible.
If you go to Michael McCrackens site you can get the source code he used, which is essentially the same as mine.