I'm delighted to announce that Base 2.0 is now available.
Version 2 of Base is the first major upgrade since the original application was released in November 2008. Almost every part of the app has been tweaked and improved, with several areas getting almost completely re–written. The result is an application which is just as quick and easy to use as the original, with a lot more power.
Now that some of the fuss around the launch of the Mac App Store (MAS) has died down, I thought it would be a good time to explain what my plans are for the future of Base.
Features and pricing: The current version of Base is being submitted to the MAS. It will have the same features and the same price (actually one penny different - £9.99 / US$16.99 / €13.63). I hope it will be available when the Store opens, but we don't yet know when that is.
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The most common support request for Statistics for WordPress is from people struggling to find the details for their site.
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:
Base 1.4 is now available for download.
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:
Yep, it’s that time again. I could do with a handful of people to try out the latest version of Base. The main changes in this version are large updates to SQL and CSV importing, so I’m looking for people who can put these areas though their paces.
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.
Read MoreBase 1.3.4 has been released today. It only has one change over 1.3.3 which fixes a bug causing the app to crash on quit (very annoying!).
As usual you can download the update from it’s product page or by checking for updates within the app.
A year ago today, Base was introduced to the world as a shiny new 1.0.
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!
Read MoreI’m very pleased to annouce the release of Statistics for WordPress, our latest app for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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.
Read MoreUnfortunately, yesterday the graphics card on my mac died (apparently it’s a recognised problem) and so I’ve been unable to do much in the way of coding or support. Thankfully, Apple have been good about this breakage and have agreed to fix it even though the machine in question is out of warranty. The downside is that while I’m trying to find a machine to work on while that mac is being repaired, email support will be quite a bit slower than normal.
Read MoreBase 1.3.3 has been released today. Among it’s changes are two highly requested features: Inclusion of full-text searching (the FTS3 module) and improved handling of SQLite internal tables (those with a name starting “sqlite_”). You can now enable/disable visibility of internal tables in the app preferences.
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.