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A comment on the problem "Some Steam games can't be recognized correctly" in Wakoopa:

I updated the entry and renamed it to match ep1's name; that changed the URL to http://wakoopa.com/software/half-life... (which the old URL should have redirected to). – Chris Charabaruk, on June 18, 2009 22:51

A comment on the problem "Some Steam games can't be recognized correctly" in Wakoopa:

Well, it seems to be doing a much better job, now, although it's still not detecting Episode Two properly. Of course, that might be because ep2 still doesn't have a database entry. – Chris Charabaruk, on June 16, 2009 19:54

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A comment on the update "Tell us what you want on your user profile!" in Wakoopa:

YES. – Chris Charabaruk, on June 14, 2009 07:21

A comment on the problem "Some Steam games can't be recognized correctly" in Wakoopa:

Ah. Probably pushed a tracker update that I've not received yet, then. Guess I should reinstall the tracker. – Chris Charabaruk, on June 12, 2009 05:42

A comment on the problem "Some Steam games can't be recognized correctly" in Wakoopa:

Still not working for me properly. – Chris Charabaruk, on June 12, 2009 05:02

A comment on the problem "Valve games recoginized as Half Life 2" in Wakoopa:

It's not Wakoopa's place to detect just which game mods you're using. What game, yes, but this is an app tracker, not a mod tracker. – Chris Charabaruk, on June 08, 2009 20:43

A comment on the problem "Valve games recoginized as Half Life 2" in Wakoopa:

Check the .exe file path. It's in the form <steam path>\steamapps\<user name>\<game name>\hl2.exe – Chris Charabaruk, on June 08, 2009 20:42

Chris Charabaruk replied on June 08, 2009 20:39 to the problem "Some Steam games can't be recognized correctly" in Wakoopa:

See http://gsfn.us/t/84im for my take on this. The issue of actual mods can't really be handled by Wakoopa, and in fact, since they are mods of existing games and not new games themselves, I don't know if they really need to be.

However, the issue of Wakoopa tracking the HL2 episodes, TF2, CS:Source, etc. as Half-Life 2 is correctable, so long as the file path to the game executable is tracked. Since Steam keeps each game segregated to its own directory (and, in fact, segregated by user as well) the tracker just needs to know where Steam is installed. From there, you can find out what game is running, and what Steam account is running it, by comparing the full .exe file path to this:

<steam path>\steamapps\<user name>\<game name>\hl2.exe

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Chris Charabaruk replied on June 08, 2009 20:34 to the problem "Separate Adventure Games Studio editor and games" in Wakoopa:

There's a similar issue with games from Valve based on their Source engine. See http://gsfn.us/t/84im for discussion.

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Chris Charabaruk replied on June 08, 2009 20:32 to the question "Same filename, different programs: But Wakoopa figures it's all the same?" in Wakoopa:

The executable may be the same, but the way Steam works, each game is put in its own directory structure, typically:

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\<username>\<gamename>

All that's required is checking the file path of the running executable to determine which game is running, and you get to find out who's running it as well, for free.

And while this impacts people playing Source Engine based games from Valve, there are many other applications, more serious ones, which share file names and a number of common resources, yet are different apps. Some level of path comparison should be added to Wakoopa so that these false results are easier to find and fix.</gamename></username>

Chris Charabaruk replied on June 08, 2009 05:05 to the question "Same filename, different programs: But Wakoopa figures it's all the same?" in Wakoopa:

I just found out that Wakoopa is also tracking Team Fortress 2 as Half-Life 2.

Chris Charabaruk started following the idea "Define same GUID (per software) into every RSS feeds" in Wakoopa.

Chris Charabaruk asked a question in Wakoopa on June 06, 2009 15:23:

Same filename, different programs: But Wakoopa figures it's all the same?

Wakoopa is treating the Half-Life episodes (Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two) as plain old Half-Life 2. They're different executables, in different directories, but they all share the same basic filename, hl2.exe. Does Wakoopa pay no attention to file path in this case?

A comment on the idea "OpenID Account Support" in Wakoopa:

I have more people than I care to deal with. Could we demand something else instead? ;) – Chris Charabaruk, on May 08, 2009 17:30

Chris Charabaruk shared an idea in Zemanta on April 24, 2009 21:55:

Add TradeVibes and/or CrunchBase widget support

It'd be great to have Zemanta let me add a TradeVibes or CrunchBase widget for companies and products I mention in my blog posts. Rather than just linking to the company or product in question, I can show off information about them right on the blog! For anyone writing a business blog this would be a great addition since they won't need to fiddle around with other things just to get those info boxes.

Chris Charabaruk asked a question in Wakoopa on April 21, 2009 04:11:

How do I mark releases as stable, beta, or alpha?

I noticed that there's now more information about software releases, such as OS and release quality. However, for my programs the information's a bit... wrong. How can I change release quality? It doesn't seem to be in the editor (yet).

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