Well, I have not been very active around here lately (busy work schedule and all....)
Some of you may or may not remember this:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1671
I had begun discussion of creating a recipe tracking system. The premise is to allow users to either upload a recipe from a Promash file, or input one themself. Then we would track ratings and tasting notes, and allow users a really flexible manner to search through the recipe database.
The project got put on hold form a while, but I think you may all be happy to hear I have restarted it.
I have completed the first big task in being able to parse ProMash files. I tried hard to be able to actually use the .rec files that it generates, but could not. Instead, if you use the Print feature in ProMash and export the recipe to a text file, I built a parser that takes the recipe and inputs it into the database. The tough part here was getting all the individual ingredients into a database, but I did that with some homebrewer ingenuity.
With the database structure defined, all I need to do now is begin working on the UI. I have a lot of good ideas about it. I really would love to have it associated with a community, but I don't know much about VBulletin myself. I know IPB, but am hesitant to begin a new community out of respect to this one. I am interested to hear everyone's ideas though.
Some of you may or may not remember this:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1671
I had begun discussion of creating a recipe tracking system. The premise is to allow users to either upload a recipe from a Promash file, or input one themself. Then we would track ratings and tasting notes, and allow users a really flexible manner to search through the recipe database.
The project got put on hold form a while, but I think you may all be happy to hear I have restarted it.
I have completed the first big task in being able to parse ProMash files. I tried hard to be able to actually use the .rec files that it generates, but could not. Instead, if you use the Print feature in ProMash and export the recipe to a text file, I built a parser that takes the recipe and inputs it into the database. The tough part here was getting all the individual ingredients into a database, but I did that with some homebrewer ingenuity.
With the database structure defined, all I need to do now is begin working on the UI. I have a lot of good ideas about it. I really would love to have it associated with a community, but I don't know much about VBulletin myself. I know IPB, but am hesitant to begin a new community out of respect to this one. I am interested to hear everyone's ideas though.
