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Non-Apple Sherlock 3 Channels?

Posted by Cliff on from the elementary-dear-watson dept.

AnamanFan queries: "I've been a bit curious about Sherlock 3 and the release of the Sherlock SDK. I wondered if there were any new channels out there, but my Googleing came up dry. There are a few nifty developer-related channels by Apple that feature an XPath Finder, as well as JavaScript, HTML, & XQuery interpreters, but I was wondering if anyone out there has made use of the SDK."

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  1. massinova by rajiv · · Score: 4, Informative

    massinova has a sherlock 3 channel. i believe it was the first non-apple sherlock 3 channel. it was created months ago when the first version of the sherlock 3 sdk was posted, before it was pulled. check out the massinova extras.

  2. Just a thought... Slashdot channel! by Steve+Cowan · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't it be cool if... ...there was a Sherlock 3 Slashdot channel?

    1. Re:Just a thought... Slashdot channel! by Steve+Cowan · · Score: 4, Informative

      As much as Slashdock is cool, it doesn't give you the ability to search Slashdot.

  3. SDK is terrible, that's why... by sammaffei · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It wouldn't have to do with the fact that the SDK is probably the most convoluted, kludged thing I've seen in years. XQuery and Javascript? To gag...

    Watson's Cocoa based SDK is much easier to code for.

    I mean it's so fun that Apple hasn't even provided us with new channels. Watson is constantly being improved upon and getting new tools.

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  4. I've got one by Victor+Ng · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can find my own Canada411 Sherlock channel with GPL source at:

    source:

    http://homepage.mac.com/vng1

    channel:

    sherlock://homepage.mac.com/vng1/Canada411/Sherl oc kChannel.xml?action=add

    I highly suggest you go to the Apple Sherlock dev mailing list. You can find it at lists.apple.com

  5. Fedex Channel by coty · · Score: 3, Informative
    FWIW, I've hacked together a Fedex Channel for Sherlock 3. Even IMO, it pales by comparison to the Watson Packages plug-in. That said, Sherlock has the advantage of being built into MacOS X.

    I haven't done any Watson development, yet. (I'd like to give it a shot and compare it with Sherlock 3, when I get the time.) As noted above, Victor Ng has great notes on his experience with the SDK. As Victor notes, the most frustrating bit has to be the complete lack of feedback for even the simplest syntax errors. The developers of Watson have a brief, but informative comparison of the two SDKs, as well.

  6. Post in review: by AnamanFan · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I thought I'd give a review of the comments from this post:

    The common agreement is the the SDK could stand more improvement.

    The following are some of the channels that are available. Clicking will add them to your copy of Sherlock or link to the homepage of the channel:
    Canada 411
    Google (not officially from Google)
    dotmac.info
    massinova.com
    Libplussa
    FedEx Tracker (not officially from FedEx)

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