It has been a while since I last posted here in the blog

Jan. 17, 2011 - PRLog -- It has been a while since I last posted here in the blog, mainly because since I

created the twitter and facebook account I've been posting feed updates through

there. However, today I will share some thoughts and numbers about the current

status of my BatteryCare project.
I must say, I never thought that my little app would become so widely used around

the world! As you know I keep developing it because that's something I love to do

and I'm proud that people enjoy it alot.
Recieving positive feedback and congratulations about my work is the most rewarding

thing in a developers world!
So, some facts:

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We are almost reaching 1 year of public release status and until now, the program

has been updated 46 times! This is the consequence of being constantly in the

workbench, improving!
Since the last update, on the 4th of February, more than 50.000 updates were

downloaded, so what does this mean? Well, at first glance it could tell us the

aproximate number of BatteryCare installations out there, and we might assume that

there's around 50.000 people using the program around the world.

Everytime the program boots, it checks for updates by contacting the update server,

so I have the statistics about the daily usage of the program, here's a graph to

better ilustrate:
As you can see the number of visits are also around the 50.000.
I never thought it would reach a scale like this!I'm very happy that there is a

full stadium of people using BatteryCare around the world!
So, the current status is presented, now what are the guidelines for the future?
Well there's so many improvements I want to bring to the app, but recently I haven

't had the time to develop them!

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Some things that are on the roadmap for a near future:
   * A new settings panel, since the one in the main window is small and will not

have the ability to acomodate the growing number of options in the program;
   * Automatic battery calibration procedure;
   * Automate the process of running BatteryCare with admin previleges even with

UAC activated;
   * Provide more robust discharge cycles managment, sometimes the file that

contains this info gets corrupted if Windows crashes;
   * Improve the main window interface so that it can blend better with the Windows

Aero style, giving the program a more professional look;
   * Provide the user with the most configurations possible, in order to give the

user full power and control over the application, full customization is the key;
   * Ultimately, some harder stuff, like monitoring multiple batteries, and also

providing the ability to create battery profiles so that users that swap batteries

keep different statistics for each battery.

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