To this end, I have written a very small WordPress plugin which displays the API key and URL used by the WordPress.com stats plugin.

Download and install the stats helper plugin (link below) and you will find a new item in the ‘Tools’ menu:

Click this and your details will be displayed. These should be entered into the iPhone app exactly as you see them on-screen. Now the app is ready to go!

stats-helper.zip

The major changes in this release are CSV importing and overhauled SQL importing.

The CSV importer can either create a new table from your data or you can import directly into an existing table. For an example of CSV importing, see the following screenshot:

There’s also a whole load of minor changes to Base. Highlights include:

• A toolbar button to vacuum the current file
• You can now drag and drop entities from the source list into the SQL tab
• Improvements to how numeric data is handled when edited, particularly when no column affinity is set (see the SQLite docs)

Base also now collects anonymous system data when checking for updates. If you’d rather not participate in this, you can opt-out in the app preferences.

You can download Base 1.4 from it’s product page or view a full list of changes.

Anyone who wants to try it should mail me (info@menial.co.uk) and I’ll be in touch with directions for downloading the app.

As usual you can download the update from it’s product page or by checking for updates within the app.

Well, perhaps not that shiny.

A bit of a rookie error meant that anyone buying the app couldn’t actually use the license file they’d just bought until 1.0.1 a few hours later. Version 1.0.2 followed the next day after someone found noticed another bug. Both of these were things that should have been found during testing, and served to show how thoroughly you should test an app before releasing it. That mad scramble had a chastening effect and all releases since have been much more comprehensively tested!

Since then there have been 3 feature releases, each introducing quite large changes – from syntax highlighting to a custom table editor – and the user base has continued to grow at a steady pace each month. The emails of suggestions, encouragement and complaint sent by both existing and potential users have helped shape the apps development and show it’s future direction.

There is still a lot of work to be done on Base, and a long list of features to add. The trick will be adding them without adding clutter. I use Base in my other development projects and want it to be an app that you can use without thinking too much. Something that you can dive in and out of without distracting you from the greater task at hand.

So, after this minor reminiscence I’d like to say thank you to all the users of Base. It’s been fun making it, and you enable me to keep at it. Please continue to get in touch with your comments, requests and complaints. They all help to make Base a better app.

Statistics for WordPress lets you track visitor numbers across your WordPress-powered sites using a clean and easy to use interface with multi-touch graphs.

For more information (including requirements and screenshots) you can check out it’s product page or see it on the iTunes Store.

If you need assistance with anything from here, please do still send an email. Just don’t be surprised/offended if it takes a little while for you to get a reply.

FTS3 does come with a minor caveat. It seems that there is not a reliable way to identify tables that are part of an FTS3 index. Because of this, I have disabled the modification of virtual tables from the user interface. You (the user) will be responsible for not modifying or dropping the *_content, *_segdir and *_segments tables generated by the FTS module. I do hope to improve this in the future.

You can download Base 1.3.3 from it’s product page or view a full list of changes.

Edit 2009-10-08: There was a bug causing a crash which slipped through my testing. This crash would occur when you tried to alter any table. I have updated the download of Base, but not changed the version number as it was a very minor fix. If you are affected by this problem, you can download the fixed version by checking for updates within the app. I apologise for the annoyance this has caused.

You can download a fixed version (v1.5.1) from the BatteryInfo page. It also includes a Japanese translation by Takeshi Sagara.