Wesley's Tool-Box - News:WDSoft

App now listed in "What's Hot"

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:02:00 +0900

Korean Power Grid Info is selling like hotcakes (click for full screenshot)

A couple of days ago, before end of August, Korean Power Grid Info app for iOS devices surpassed 2,000 downloads. That took only about three weeks, and considering the somewhat obscure nature of the software, I think it's selling pretty well. It's consistently present in top 50 free downloads chart in the Business category. I think the word is going out somehow, and there's always quite a bit of people who download it every day.

Now, it seems that Apple has noticed this and put the app under "What's Hot" section of the Korea iTunes App Store's Business category. That's pretty hot! I'm glad it's getting a favourable recognition. Thanks for everyone who downloaded.

스마트폰 앱 출시 관련 신문기사 모음

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:36:16 +0900

1주일 전 앱스토어에 등록된 "대한민국 전력망 정보" 앱에 대하여 아래와 같이 여러 언론에서 보도가 잇따르고 있습니다. 참고로, 등록 닷새만에 1천 다운로드를 돌파한 상태이며 매일 꾸준히 순위 및 다운로드 수가 유지되고 있습니다.

- 전기신문 2010.08.16 "전력거래소, 스마트폰에 적용할 응용프로그램 개발"

- 전력신문 2010.08.12 "전력사용 현황 스마트폰으로 본다"

- 한국에너지신문 2010.08.12 "전력사용량도 '스마트'하게 체크"

- 에너지데일리 2010.08.13 "전력사용 현황 스마트폰에 떴다"

- 에너지경제 2010.08.12 "스마트 폰으로 전력사용을 한 눈에…"

- 투데이에너지 2010.08.12 "전력사용 현황, 스마트폰에"

- 디피뉴스 2010.08.12 "스마트폰으로 대한민국 전력사용 현황 볼 수 있어"

Selected again - this time in US App Store

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:18:03 +0900

Recognized in the USA, too (Click to enlarge)

I suppose the Korean Power Grid Info app isn't particularly interesting to the people in the United States. The rank has been steadily moving down (started at 113, now at 160). Maybe I need to find a way to let the folks in the power grid business in the US know about the app? Still, at least I can take comfort in the fact that the app will nevertheless be staying on top of the Business category for a while. The Apple has selected it as "New & Noteworthy" for the US App Store, as well. Thanks for recognizing!

ADDENDUM 12:18 - The New & Noteworthy has added a few more apps and now my app is pushed out of the first page, although it's still in the list if 'See All' is clicked. Meanwhile, the visibility did apparently garnered some interest as the rank got boosted to #109 for now. Interesting...

ADDENTUM 17:38 - Hey, it's now #95. Finally broke into top 100! Pretty cool.

App selected as "New & Noteworthy"

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:42:00 +0900

Thank you for noticing! (Click for larger image)

Only into its third day of sale, Apple recognized the "Korean Power Grid Info" app and put it right on top of the Business category of the Korean App Store, listing it under "New & Noteworthy" section. It's doing okay on the popularity as well (peaked at #15 on the free apps in the category, and doing #16 as of this writing), so I hope a lot more people will notice and download the app for some time to come.

Meanwhile, the app is chugging along slightly below top 100 in the Business category in the US App Store. I'm guessing a few Koreans are downloading from there, which in turn keeps the rank up. An app review and listing site called PodGate is listing the app as one of the top 100 most popular. Rank floats around #92 to #98 so far.

First iPhone app now in App Store!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 09:44:00 +0900

Korea Power Grid Info (대한민국 전력망 정보) listed in iTunes App Store

Three months of labouring has finally seen light. Apple has approved my first iPhone app and is now listed under 'Business' section of iTunes App Store worldwide. It's called "Korean Power Grid Info" - more info on WDSoft.com or App Store. Folks who want to see how much Korea as a whole spends electricity in real-time should find this app useful.

FYI, the app is released under Korean Power Exchange instead of my name or WDSoft.com because it represents the app best. All relevant data and information comes from there.

WDSoft.com gets a makeover

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:03:04 +0900

WDSoft.com Logo for 2010

WDSoft.com website got a complete makeover, and moved the hosting to XiGL.net instead of a subpage in Tool-Box.info. The old pages still exist, but are not actively linked anymore. Why the change? One reason is that the old one was languishing - it has been left as it is for about five years now. But of course, if there was nothing to add, there wouldn't have been much of a reason to overhaul it. So... you know what this means. A new application is coming up! And it's for iPhone, no less.

You can head over to the Products page at the new website to check out what's new. This new app called "Korea Power Grid Info" is a result of 4 months of self-teaching and 2 1/2 months of hair-pulling development. This app should be most useful to folks in the electric industry, but general users who has an interest in conserving electricity should take a look, as well.

The app is currently in the review process at Apple, and I hope it gets approved soon.

New s9y plug-in: Comics

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:29:07 +0900

You'll notice that there's a webcomic on top of the website. This is implemented by the new plug-in I made, named "Comics." It shows the latest comic on top of the front page, and adds a navigation link on the bottom of the comic so you can go to the first / previous / next / latest comic available.

The functionalities are simple at the moment, but I think it gets the job done, so I decided to officially release it on SourceForge CVS. Refer to the README file for details. As always, SF CVS web view has a few hours of delay, so come back later if it's not showing up yet.

Oh, and the comic. It's called "The Toon-Box" as a parody of the website name. I have thousands of images from my digital camera archive and I decided that this may be the best way to present it. Hope you like it. I plan to have it as a daily feature.

Google quicksearch plug-in

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:24:00 +0900

Since s9y's default quicksearch plug-in indexes only the default language, Korean versions of the pages were mostly ignored. But because Google indexes the website every couple of days, including the Korean pages, I've decided to make the Google search function into a plug-in. It appears in the sidebar looking like the quicksearch, but the search results page is generated by Google. For best results and functionality, it is recommended to be used with a Google AdSense account.

Google Quicksearch plug-in is downloadable at SourceForge CVS.

Korean support out-of-box: s9y 0.8.3

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Fri, 05 Aug 2005 02:31:26 +0900

The new point release of Serendipity (s9y), version 0.8.3, came out a few hours ago, which can be found in the official download page. This marks the first official s9y release with full Korean support, completed by yours truly. Previously, the first s9y version with such support was to be the next major release, 0.9. I have already noted this in my previous post. However, I thought it would be better to have this come out sooner than later, so I backported the changes to the 0.8 branch, and naturally the new release came out with the changes integrated.

Of course, the new version also comes with an ample set of security patches and bugfixes, making it a recommended update. My 'HTML Nugget on Page' plugin can now function fully with this version because
a new hook intended for 0.9 was backported and is part of 0.8.3. Complete information related to the 0.8.3 version update can be found in the official s9y blog.

Serendipity has full Korean support

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:51:05 +0900

Administration page snapshot

I have just finished all the Korean translations for the core s9y package in the trunk. That includes the main language file, all the plug-ins, and the Kubrick template which needs a separate language file. They're available in the SVN trunk now, and should come with subsequent nightly snapshots and eventually, 0.9 release.

When I started using s9y 3 weeks ago, Korean localization had been effectively nonexistant. Now I believe it has the become on par with the German and English versions for the package itself. With the translation in place, I think s9y can cater to a wider audience - there have been very few Korean folks using s9y at this moment probably due to the lack of Korean support.

Still messing up with plug-ins

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:26:15 +0900

I'm trying to have more freedom on where the items that comprise the website can be put. The page nugget plug-in now boasts five possible locations (one of them needs the latest s9y SVN). The plug-in that shows the previous and next entry links for a given entry has been modified so that the links can be placed on the bottom of the entry instead of just on top. You might notice that these modifications have taken effect on this website already.

More nuggets, less filling

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:05:42 +0900

I've created/modified both the 'page' type and the 'sidebar' type HTML nugget plug-ins so that the nuggets can be configured to be shown only under a specified language. Simply put, I can utilize this to have different navbar or sidebar for each language of my website, thus making it more 'localized' than before.

Oh, and starting with the 'new' articles on this website, I've decided to actually use that 'extended body' function. Instead of the whole article showing on the overview, only the first part will be shown. This is done so that the main page won't become too long. I think it looks nicer. I'm not sure what to do for the older articles yet.

HTML nugget anywhere?!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:40:33 +0900

As noted in my previous entry, I made a plug-in that would let me place an HTML nugget on the top of the entry page. It was nice... but the fact that it's limited to showing up on the entry page only and that it's only for the top of the page, made it limited in its usefulness.

So after much wrestling with the code, I have re-written the plug-in so that it can place the HTML nugget on the top, on the bottom, or even inside the HEAD tag. And it can be configured to show on the entry page, the overview page, or both. All the flexibility of the original HTML nugget plug-in, but in more locations.

The plug-in is now called HTML Nugget on Page. It should appear on the SourceForge CVS as serendipity_event_page_nugget soon.

"Choose Language" flexibility!

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:19:28 +0900

Big chart.

Okay, I think it confuses the heck out of many people to have the 'Choose Language' sidebar showing... 23 language options. So what did I do? Modify the plugin so I can choose what language to show on the dropdown box.

Box on the left (click for larger image) shows how it looks like from the admin screen. Since this blog is currently written in English and Korean only, I disabled all the other languages from selection. I may re-enable other languages if I get motivated enough to write in other languages, such as Japanese.

I have the plugin modification (now version 1.3) committed to the Sourceforge CVS. It takes a while before it shows up on the web, so come back later if the plugin is still version 1.2.

Korean localizations in s9y SVN/CVS

wesley96@gmail.com (Wesley) — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:42:10 +0900

The Korean localization data I've done is now in the main trunk of the s9y SVN at BerliOS, so it should be readily available starting with next release. The plugins' localizations are also in their respective SourceForge CVS trees. I recommend that the folks needing the localizations get them from these distributions from now on, since I now have access for updating them there.

s9y BerliOS SVN (language file in trunk/lang/)
s9y plugins SourceForge CVS