Wednesday 21 January 2009

Add Household Items to Shopping List

EXPERIMENTAL IDEA : But you can try it.

How do you add "other" items to your shopping list?

If you click the screenshot on the left, you will see two "other" items. Well I have hacked about a bit and finally thought up a friendly way to do this.

Further Development Required
Ideally I will need to add a switch when creating new recipes, whether it contain a bunch of items or ingredients of edible products.

Also in the shopping list I'd change the column heading "ingredients" to "items". OR I could move the "OTHER ITEMS" away from the ingredients sections altogether and have that in a sperate list on the side possibly.

Just Household Only Shopping List
Create a new menu called, "Household" and then attach it the new housesholds to it.



WARNING:
Since it is an experimental idea and DO NOT want to give any stupid ideas of mixing recipes up with non edible items. I strongly advise that you do not fill in your method with mix instructions.

You can use the method area to explain why such items is your favourite brand possibly.

Where is this Rough Guide?
The instruction with examples are here.

Tuesday 20 January 2009

Shared Cookbook : Update 1.1.2

Search engines love meta data to index, this website needed its recipes indexed there too. also implemented Sweden language support.

Changes
+Sweden language support
+Improved meta support
*View Recipe
*Main Pages

Friday 16 January 2009

Web Environments


Database Management
http://freshmeat.net/projects/phpmyadmin/

HTML Text Editor

http://freshmeat.net/projects/fckeditor/

Project Management and Tracking
http://freshmeat.net/projects/achievo/

System Info
http://phpsysinfo.sourceforge.net/

Sunday 11 January 2009

Shared Cookbook : Update 1.1.1

I have been requested to include video embedding support, his one simple request kept nagging in my brain mentally for a while, until I eventually caved in and started coding.

Similar system to Images only it's videos now. At the moment the system only supports Youtube, an example of their video urls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0quDfpfRUQ

Check out the results of an embedded video here.

Changes:
v1.1.1
+Implemented Videos
*Youtube only for now.

Saturday 10 January 2009

Launch Article and Features Explained

This is the launch article I made to help showcase the website, explains the reasons behind the site as well as the main features.

Read the full article here.

Friday 2 January 2009

Shared Cookbook : Update 1.1.0

As of 1st January 2009, [Shared Cookbook] got updated!!!! Took a lot of mental pushing power on my side, setting up my a new dev environment to match with the live host, and finally did the first update. Hopefully you will notice roughly 3 things.

A major bug was discovered not too long ago, and prompted for urgent attention, have to thank the bug for giving me this, "urgent feeling" and major enhancement to my mental health, which finally prompted a quick update. Users can now set ingredients with preparations, like slicing and dicing. They can make up their own preparations up if they wish or choose from one of the many pre-configured preparations.

I apologise in advance for any inconvenience, that major bug fix has left a mark to the data already in the system. Look out for "-1", those are the ones you need to "Re-assign/re correct" yourself manually. They will be found in the recipe ingredients and menus.

Course I am one man band it here, so bare with me still if things look rough :P

Following fixes/enhancements have been made.

+ Add "Canada" to countries
+ Smaller Font size
+ Implemented Preparations
! Minor content changes
*Welcome
*About
*Credits
*Feedback
*Layout
! Added Captcha to Feedback form
! Fixed major user data look up bug:
* Preparations
* Measures
* Ingredients
* Images
* Recipes