iusethis pepper for mint
I’ve got a number of secret pages that display things like sales data and download stats. My pages were ugly. As a fan of mint, I decided to see what would be involved in turning these ugly pages into private, roobasoft peppers (one “sales” pepper, one “downloads” pepper). Turns out, it’s quite easy (Kudo’s to Mr. Inman for making it easy). If interested, there’s a tutorial. A lot of folks (especially PHP heads) can probably just look at existing peppers and figure it out.
After I finished my sales and downloads peppers (these were very roobasoft specific) I wanted to write something I could share. Enter, roobasoft’s, iusethis pepper. It’s very simple. It displays the “use this” count from osx.iusethis.com using iusethis’s javascript include-isms.
Grab it here.
The preference for the ‘iusethis’ pepper lets you specify which apps you want to watch, comma separated.
I threw this together pretty quickly. Let me know in the comments if it has issues.


September 22nd, 2006 at 8:13 am
Really cool
Please let us now if you need anything else from us API wise.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:24 am
Brian,
Nice work, and thanks for sharing. Not only will this make a nice dashboard for viewing your own products, but you can use it as a view of your competion’s progress too, assuming fairly high adoption rates for iusethis.
Oh, and thank you for your work on rooSwitch. I enjoyed the demo and purchased a license. It is a nice app testing sidekick.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:32 pm
awesome