Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Google Statistics On Popularity and Relevance

Interesting stuff... I've played around with Google Code and got the following results when searchings for labels among all hosted projects:

1st for: calculator, desktop, OSX, Qt, Qt4, and cross-platform

2nd for utility

3rd for Linux and Windows

4th for CPlusPlus

Monday, October 20, 2008

Thank you, SVN. Hello, Git.

From today on, SpeedCrunch is no more using SVN at Google Code as its version control system. Instead, it is now hosted at Gitorious, which uses Git. There are dozens of reasons for this move, but I won't mention them here. Googling on why Git is a better choice than SVN returns thousands of results.

EDIT: I've added a page to our wiki with instructions on how to get the latest development code. It is now also the page that you get when you try to access the Source tab in our Google Code site. Note that all the other services (issue tracker, wiki, download hosting, etc) from Google Code are still our official sites, only the code repository has changed to Gitorious.

SpeedCrunch Success as a Portable App

SpeedCrunch has a Windows Portable Edition (as in "carry-with-you" or "no-installation-needed") since version 0.10. The lastest release, 0.10.1 (May 24), has a Portable Edition download count of almost 11000 as I write this (source).

But since August 22, our fellow folks at PortableApps.com have incorporated SpeedCrunch in their distribution (page). This is absolute good business for us, since the download count is at this moment a bit above 47000 (source).

This is quite impressive and gives SpeedCrunch yet another boost, since it basically doubles our Windows (installable and portable together) download rates for 0.10.1. A big thank you to portableapps.com!