{"id":23,"date":"2004-01-09T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:08:39","slug":"macpad-why-didnt-i-think-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/macpad-why-didnt-i-think-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"MacPAD&#8230;  Why didn&#039;t I think of this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macshareware.net\/\">MacShareware.net<\/a> today released an SDK to help save Mac software developers time when releasing their applications. If you have released a piece of software before, you know it is a ton of work. I usually spend a couple of hours writing something up, and posting it to all kinds of web sites. With MacPAD, it will be a lot easier. From their site, it sounds like Windows developers already have something similar to this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Basically, how it works is you create a PAD file with information about your application release.  This has a short description, long description, release notes, etc, all contained in an XML file.  You then upload this file to your website and let other websites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.versiontracker.com\">VersionTracker<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/\">MacUpdate<\/a> know where your PAD file is. Then, all you have to do to release a new version is to simply update the PAD file at that URL. Other servers should pick up the change in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>I really hope that other software sites adopt this method of updating software, as it would make my life a lot easier when releasing XRG.  The project is open source and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/macpad\/\">page on SourceForge<\/a>. You can find out more information about the MacPAD SDK <a href=\"http:\/\/macshareware.net\/sdk.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacShareware.net today released an SDK to help save Mac software developers time when releasing their applications. If you have released a piece of software before, you know it is a ton of work. I usually spend a couple of hours writing something up, and posting it to all kinds of web sites. With MacPAD, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}