Eating Your Own Hammer
Horizon 1.2 will be out in a couple of weeks, and with it a major new (secret) feature. Now, I’m not sure which saying is more appropriate, “Eating Your Own Dog Food” or “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail (especially when you made the hammer)” (that last part is mine 
). Anyway, my web server’s logs only go back 5 or 6 days, and then revert to a monthly summary. I want to track daily downloads of Horizon, daily hits to appcast.xml (the file Horizon checks to see if it needs to update itself, and downloads of Horizon.zip (the update-only version of the file.
So, I fired up Horizon, made three categories, turned off the currency formatting, and started entering numbers from the server logs. And what I’ve found is that the new feature makes it really easy to do quick and dirty analysis of these stats.
The secret new feature is in testing right now, and should be ready in a couple of weeks. I hope other people can find new and creative uses for it, too.
Stumble it!
