<quote who="Marcus Ramberg"> > For the last six months I've been working on a pet project with my > designer > friend Arne.
It looks very cool and well designed. > We call it iusethis, and it's a website for keeping track of > the apps you use. It's for the mac for now, and it's based on Catalyst and > DBIx::Class. Like any modern web app, it's got rss feeds, and a social > network. The intention behind iusethis was to make a site where it was > easier to find the good apps. We believe that the best people to advice > you > on what apps to use, are your friends. You can track what apps your > friends > are adopting through subscribing to new apps they adopt, and > recommendations > from app neighbours. We don't believe in browsing through 10 sucky apps to > find the good one. We believe in our friends and fellow users, and that > our > approach is a lot smarter. > > We've used the opportunity to play with lots of ajax goodness to make the > user experience smoother. We don't believe star rating is efficient, so we > use more binary values. Mostly it's stuff like incrementing use count > without page reload, system messages and setting switches. > > We also want you to effortlessly find the app you are looking for. To > that > end, we made categorization based on tags, and we also feature a > full-powered free text search engine based on the Xapian engine. > > Registration and use is free, and anyone can register applications, upload > icons and screenshots, and register versions for their app. We also > feature > a system for claiming apps, so that app authors can maintain their own > apps, > if they wish. We also have a comment system with avatar support, and offer > trackback linking to your blog for reviews and other articles related to > apps. Right now, we are running in public beta, but are planning to remove > that label as soon as everything checks out ok. > > We also have some plans for new features for this system, for instance, we > want to add support for version checking your apps, so that you can be > notified of updates only for apps you use. There is also a tool for > extracting and uploading icons in the works. We'd also like to expose a > public API, if we can figure out what people want. > > Feel free to try it out at http://osx.iusethis.com/ and give us feedback. > We'd love to hear from you :) I played with this a few weeks/months ago? Still great! Is the source FYEO? I would love to take a look at a big complete app like this and learn new things. Cheers, Gavin. -- Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just ask!!! http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=386673 _______________________________________________ List: [email protected] Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
