My most downloaded resource
Last week I started wondering how many downloads my products really had had throughout the years. Seeing that I didn’t have complete statistics over the downloads since I’ve rebuilt the sites lots of times and moved servers and such. Currently, these are the download stats from CrazyBeaver Softwares homepage:
- BeaverSFV 1.1 - 167
- CrazyBeavers YouTube Downloader 1.01 - 6
- CrazyBeavers Calendar Class 1.1 - 143
- CrazyBeavers RSS Class 1.3 - 188
- CrazyBeavers Upload Class 1.2 - 233
- CrazyBeavers Chat 1.3 - 123
- Imager Gallery 5.5 Prerelease - 1276
- CrazyBeavers Upload 2.4 - 207
- CrazyBeavers ZIP 1.0 Prerelease 3 - 69
- Imager Resizer 2.4 - 957
Looking at this it seems quite clear that Imager Gallery and Imager Resizer would be the best candidates for downloaded products. These stats are just for the past few months though but if they’ve had similar numbers since they were released during 2004-2005 it would give quite a lot of downloads. Lets elaborate a bit further though, most of my old ASP and ISAPI/COM applications are listed on HotScripts and Aspin aswell, lets look at their popularity there to the calculation.
- CrazyBeavers Calendar Class 1.1 - 5 565 views on HotScripts with 3 votes (4.33 average)
- CrazyBeavers RSS Class 1.3 - 2 175 views on HotScripts with 2 votes (5.00 average)
- Imager Gallery 5.5 Prerelease - 22 271 views on HotScripts with 74 votes (4.39 average)
- CrazyBeavers Upload 2.4 - 3 415 views on HotScripts with 15 votes (4.20 average)
- CrazyBeavers ZIP 1.0 Prerelease 3 - 651 views on HotScripts with 2 votes (5.00 average) - Listed under CGI & Perl though, wasn’t allowed in the ASP category
- Imager Resizer 2.4 - 6 246 views on HotScripts with 176 votes (4.78 average)
- Imager Gallery 5.5 Prerelease - 26 940 views on Aspin with 9 votes (5 stars)
- CrazyBeavers 2.4 - 6 147 views on Aspin with 1 votes (5 stars)
- Imager Resizer 2.4 - 17 325 views on Aspin with 37 votes (5 stars)
Now thats some numbers, over 22 000 views of Imager Gallery on HotScripts and almost 27 000 on Aspin. If we go a bit crazy and assume that a third the of people (probably it would be closer to a quarter of the people but that isn’t as fun to count with) also downloaded the script we would have 16 000 downloads of Imager Gallery there! If we then add the numbers we would have 17 000 assumed downloads which is quite a lot. Still, Imager Gallery is only the second most downloaded of my products. The true winner, and the only product which I know for sure how many times it has been downloaded, is CrazyBeavers Winamp Controller. Counting in at 25 239 downloads since January 27th, 2005 its by far the most downloaded product I ever created and one of the few that I don’t use myself!
This article was just a little ego boost for myself but it feels so damn good that people actually seem to appreciate my work enough to download it over 20 000 times!
Hi There,
I have just downloaded you image resizer and think it’s amazing. I have been looking for something like this for ages and it was so easy to install and start using.
I have however encountered a really strange issue. I have build a simple form which allows users to enter a height and width value to resize an image. Each time I submit the form and run the resize script the height and width values are getting switched.
For example: if I enter width 400px and height 300px and submit I get exactly what I would expect, e.g. a landscape image set to these dimensions. Now, if I do *exactly* the same again I end up with a portrait image (width 300px height 400px) - the height and width values have been swapped. If I do the same a third time and it’s another landscape image, and so on.
Have you got any ideas why this might be happening.
With thanks and best wishes,
Malcolm
Comment by Malcolm — October 31, 2008 @ 12:48 pm
Hi Malcolm,
The problem you are describing is due to a “feature” that was added early in development that takes into consideration the orientation of the image before resizing. It was turned on by default (didn’t even have a setting for it from the start) and I haven’t dared to change that behaviour since then (since some scripts depends on it). You can however turn it off in later versions by specifying &autorotate=false in the querystring or setting oImager.AutoRotate = false if you are using Imager Class.
Comment by Karl — October 31, 2008 @ 3:11 pm