I've wanted for some time to make a central place to store the recipes that I enjoyed and that were important to my family. Since I wasn't quite positive of the site structure I wanted, I decided to use a wiki to put the thing together. Enter the Recipiki. You can edit the index, add new recipes, and browse and print from there. It's not completed yet, but many of my favorites are already in. The only condition to adding a new recipe is that it has to be good. Something tasty. There's a link over in the right-hand navigation bar. Come on, go check it out now.
I wanted to post on this earlier, but technical difficulties kept me from commenting before then. I love Iron Chef. I've watched it for 5-6 years now, and have long lamented it not appearing on any DVD set. So I was apprehensive when Food TV wanted to redo the show. I have great respect for Mario Batali and Wolfgang Puck, but really can't stand Bobby Flay. He's talented, but his ego just gets in the way.
With this in mind, I actually enjoyed the new series. It felt a little sterile, but Iron Chef went on for many years, so I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and see if it grows into something truly interesting. All I can hope is that every battle with Bobby Flay doesn't feature some form of tamales. I mean, I love tamales, but I'm curious if Bobby can do something besides southwest cusine. Trout was a major win for him in the secret ingredient department. I want to see him grimace like Chen did during “Yogurt Battle.” That was priceless.
After several years of developing custom web application software, I've decided to try and sample the Open Source offerings out there. Since musch of my experience lies with ASP.Net and C#, I decided to start there, though not before marvelling how easy Blogger and WordPress are to start using. Wordpress is literally three steps:
- Modify configuration file
- Upload to web server
- Run installation script
I won't go into the process of setting up a .Text site, but needless to say, it's more complicated. So why stick with it? Partially to understand how it works, and to mix it up and make it better. So, after some amount of egregious hacking, I've totally reworked FlexWiki into a recipe database, and put together this weblog. Next will be reworking the previous software I worked on to handle all the photo gallery duties. Just from now on, FlexWiki developers, can we agree that putting HTML tags in Response.Writes in C# code-behinds is not the best solution?