Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Cricfeeder - The Live Cricket Score Updater Desktop Application

Hi everyone! More than a year ago I made a little Desktop Application called Cricfeeder which is an online live Cricket Score updater. I built it around January of 2011 because it was the prior season to the ICC World Cup 2011 and I wanted to watch the matches so bad but unfortunately I had no chance as I'm working. So I wanted to get the live updates of the matches while I'm working, so I built a desktop application for that. And that is what called "Cricfeeder".




What's so special about Cricfeeder is, it has the facilities of,

  • Displaying a Ball-by-Ball live commentary
  • User friendly pop-up (from the bottom of the Desktop) commentary bar with a commentary flow with all the score updates.
  • Switching between Ball-by-Ball commentary and Over-by-Over commentary.
  • Switching on and off the commentary bar
  • Setting the Commentary bar or the Main Display Window on Always On Top method or off.
So you can download the Desktop application from the following links. The Application is built purely on Java so you will need to have the Java Runtime Environment installed in your PC to use the application.


Also I am running a simultaneous score update using this whenever I can on Facebook and Twitter. I update the live score updates of almost every major Cricket match on them based on following rules.
  • Updating at the first ball of each innings
  • 10 Overs to 10 Overs Automatic update
  • Automatic update instantly when a Wicket has been taken
  • Updating when the match has been finished.
If anyone want they can simply have an SMS update too on the score updates. You just have to subscribe for the SMS service for the Facebook page or Twitter profile.

Known Bugs: When there is a test match going on and the record of that test match is on the top of it, the application fails to load the data. The format they provide the data on Test matches is a bit different than the others and I didn't notice that back then as there wasn't any test match going on. I will fix that problem as soon as I catch some free time to do it again.

And don't forget me to send me your ideas and anything you wanna say about this. Just send me an email with your comments and they would be appreciated a lot. My email address is given in the application.

So I hope you all will enjoy the application. :)







Monday, April 23, 2012

First Step into the Blogger Community

Hello everyone! My name is Ruwan Rathnayake, a total crazy and proud Geek. I was hanging around in the Geek community for many years now but I didn't do any blogging until now. Don't ask me why even I don't know that. :D Anyway so here I am now starting to be a resident of the blogger community. And I would like to share what I know in IT world with you. Mostly I would like to post about programming tricks and tips, and to share the tools and software I make. So I hope you all will like my blog and be with me always. Thank you guys! And let the blogging begin!! :)

P:S: You can catch me on many social networks as well
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/RuwanR88
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Gmail, gtalk & Google+ - RocketRu1@gmail.com
Ymail & Yahoo Chat - c_ruwan@yahoo.com
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