Check That. It’s CloneSpy Beta.
Update10/11/2005
CloneSpy, the BBClone Stats Widget for Konfabulator has a new home. You can read up on the little guy and download him there.
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After a lot of fiddling with the Konfabulator API and a general coming-to-terms with the feng-shui of widget design, I’ve retagged my widgeteering venture and sexed it up a bit. I also trimmed the width down to a conservative 183px, bringing it in line (so to speak) with the very popular and seemingly ubiquitous Weather widget. I'm sure I'm not the only one who likes to keep things square on their desktop.
The code is simple, but as it stands, I think the stats that are shown in the minimal state might be too detailed. Right now I am still debating what stats to put in and what to leave out (Total for the past year? Yeah, umm… I might hide that one for good).
Now all I have to do is prepare a little HOWTO on setting up the gateway, a little page to track downloads (can never have enough pointless stats) and then I’m off to foist it upon the Konfabulator people.
5 Missives So Far
01 wheat said on Thu Oct 6 9:39:39 EDT
Nice work, Josh. You should consider taking over the BBClone porject, since they are, according to their website, without a maintainer.
Another thing: I noticed links to hinkybox.com are going to your own design, while www.hinkybox.com are going to the new one. Is that a bug or a feature?
02 Gone Away said on Thu Oct 6 10:41:17 EDT
Looking good, Josh. What platforms does it run on (in other words, is it Linux-specific)?
03 josh said on Thu Oct 6 14:22:51 EDT
I was thinking about it, wheat. I've got some othet things to finish first though (like wb, wba, j.o.b. :))
Hah no shit. I've been getting random hits on the old stylesheet, and couldn't figure out why. I did a little changeover magic by duplicating everything, modifying it, and then just swapping virtualhosts -- hence the reason .hinkybox still shows up as the old version. Thanks for the heads up.
Gone - The software that makes the widget work on the local side is called konfabulator, and it runs on both Windows and Mac. And its free now, because Yahoo bought the company a few months back.
04 wheat said on Thu Oct 6 20:14:17 EDT
BBClone question: I was reading up on how to use it. Did you do the .htaccess hack and let it prefix the required code onto your *.php pages? Or did you drop it in manually? My host uses Urchin, and I'm pretty happy with that. But now that you've made this cool Konfabulator widget, I want to check it out.
05 josh said on Thu Oct 6 22:30:21 EDT
Wheat: here's the code I use attached to my header page, modified slightly to coincide with wheatblog's setting of the $page_title var just before rendering the HTML:
$bbc_title = (isset($page_title)) ? $page_title : substr($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'], 1); define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $bbc_title); define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/var/www/slinky/public_html/backend/bbclone/"); define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
Easy enough.
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