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Hello World! On behalf of everyone here at RoaringApps (read: bcammo), it is a pleasure to launch the site after many months of planning, coding and designing. Please take a look around and tell me what you think of the site.
For the next week, we will be in a beta phase, which means you can create fake apps, test comments and pseudo-developers to give the site a good working over to help squash any final bugs. One week from today I will remove all test apps, developers & comments and we can start databasing Mac apps for real. A big thank you to you for visiting the site, and I hope you'll stick around to see the community grow.

Cheers,
Bryce - RoaringApps creator

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Wonderful Site Bryce! I would love it if I could help out in any way with this site.

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You just made Wikidot sing and dance, beyond my wildest expectations.

It is simply amazing how well this site works - and shows just how great a site can be with Wikidot when you combine Data Forms and CSS3.

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And you haven't even seen the best of it yet - there's a couple of little tricks around the site (especially the forum) that I'm sure will delight you :)

@MDesign, sure thing! Once (or if?) the site takes off, I'm sure there'll be some spam for you to kill.

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In many ways, this is exactly what we need at Kempies.

Only instead of applications there are paintings, and instead of developers there are artists.

(I am referring to how everything is linked and tied in together in the back-end code here, and the CSS where it is used to provide functionality, i.e. the application list)

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What I would really like is the ability to select backlinks in ListPages - this would tie the developers in nicely with the rest of the site - i.e. to be able to list (with custom format) & count their apps, rather than using the Backlinks module.

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I can do that :)

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Do you think an application from this site will come out in the future? The Snow Leopard Compatibility wiki – which seems to me to be inactive now – had an application called SnowChecker.

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Something may be developed in the future, however given I'm not a developer, it won't be by my hands. Should someone wish to create such an app, the Wikidot API may be useful to grab app statuses directly from this site.

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I could create such an application - though I'm not sure why it would be needed? Could you explain a few of the benefits, when it would pretty much just show the same information that is already available here?

Cheers,
Shane

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Besides RoaringApps having its own app, I am not sure. :)

I got the idea when I saw the Snow Leopard Compatibility wiki's app, SnowChecker. Maybe it could be used as a version checker to tell the user quickly, without first going on the web, if they have the latest version of Lion software – although there are a couple of similar apps out there I think.

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Ah, I see. So the benefit would be to automatically check the list against what you currently have installed.

Most of my experience is with Java applications, rather than the native Cocoa framework, but I suspect it still may be possible for me to do this. I can only know for sure if Java is capable of it, or if a native app is required, once I understand where the version number of existing applications is being pulled from.

AppFresh seems to do this somehow.

I'll look into it…

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Yes.

The source for the version number of applications would be this site. Or did you mean the user side? If so, I think it is stored in the applications' "Info.plist" file. Apple's own System Profiler application tells the user, usually, what version the apps on their computer are at too.

Appfresh says it uses osx.iusethis.com as a source.

Oh well, just an idea.

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Yes, pulling information from RoaringApps.com would be simple - it was the user side I'm not sure about since I'm a relatively new Mac owner.

I know about the existence of the Info.plist file in application bundles, but haven't looked at it in detail. I'll take a look ASAP and see if there's a way for me to retrieve what I need directly from there :)

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Actually, looking at this page it seems that the SnowChecker app only checked the name of applications on your Mac, rather than the version. So in the case where I can't detect the version number for whatever reason, I could always fall back on displaying all versions for the apps that are installed.

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Oh I see. I guess that is easier in the end anyways? The only thing is that the site's applications' versions would have to be fairly updated. For instance, the latest stable version, the latest beta version, etc. I don't think the user would want to be shown an application have many versions of one kind, for example stable version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, etc. which I have seen on some pages. It should be updated as 1.3, or whatever it is, versus just added on – for each kind of course.

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