Comments on: SimpleChili in RCP

By: Fargoboy

Fargoboy — Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:45:36 +0000

Definitely consider separating out the amount for ease of dividing or multiplying a recipe (decimals versus fractions would help as well):

1.5 cups Flour
…

This would be helpful for allowing unit conversion for International use as well.

By: kazi noor

kazi noor — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:59:32 +0000

Hellow,
I used your mini tab for my group project at Baruch college.
Thank you,
Kazi Noor

By: Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:56:06 +0000

Thanks. I built a simple PHP app to generate a week’s worth of (supposed to be) random menu items and print out a grocery list some time ago. I’ve been promising various friends and relations I would extend it to allow multiple users (so other folks’ items could show up in your list with recipe instructions), but never have. Now when I pimp my vaporware in the future I can mention all this. That or actually use it if I get off my duff.

By: Eric TF Bat

Eric TF Bat — Tue, 09 Dec 2003 01:51:39 +0000

I have a bunch of comments on this, but I can’ post them here because this blog’s HTML formatting is a little TOO dumb. Shame. The gist:
Categories: generate and maintain a glossary of categories, thus:

Each recipe can have zero or more of these.
Tag names:
“item” is too generic; use “ingredient”; then there’s no need to group them in a parent tag.
“description” is too generic; use “method”, which is a standard term in cooking
Don’t be redundant in the method; remove “Serves 4-6″, which is mentioned elsewhere.
Always use singular form, except in case of items that don’t sensibly have one (noodles, beans, etc); you can define a glossary to convert singular to plural.
Method can use plain HTML –

mainly, but possibly , , etc – prefer and over and since they are presentational markup and should be treated as such (but that’s a whole ‘nother flamewar).
Use decimals; these can be converted to friendlier forms such as 1½ in display.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:19:34 +0000

Edward – ha, I should’ve known someone had already thought of this. And now begins the RSS-like battle of specifications. Then someone will come along later on and write a whole new format (Atom). :-)

By: Edward Dale

Edward Dale — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:28:41 +0000
Somebody's beat you to the punch and written RecipeML. 0xDECAFBAD wrote about it recently here, here, and here.

By: Nick Finck

Nick Finck — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:13:14 +0000

When heading up to Timberline for a day of Snowboarding there is nothing better for lunch than the hot Chili they serve at the lodge… except, of course, Dan Cederholm’s SimpleChili.

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 07:41:04 +0000

There is a field for servings in the RCP file. It’s called . Take a look for yourself.

By: Kevin Marsh

Kevin Marsh — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:56:48 +0000

Maybe something like:
cloves

By: talon

talon — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 05:08:46 +0000

RCP needs a bit more work… for example, how is your fridge to determine that sufficient quantities are available if the values and units are stored in plain text with their items?