My website has finally been resurrected from the grave. This was mainly the result of canceling our cable and runnig out of interesting books to read. Never fear, I will soon be back to dishing out the horrible neglect my site has come to expect.
This site is now divided into 3 main sections: a blog (such an awful word), a wiki and a catalog. Yes, it’s an overly complicated scheme but as my old teachers will tell you, I excel at doing everything the hardest way possible.
Mutterings
Mutterings is the blog section. I probably won’t get around to updating it very frequently but it does have an RSS Feed.
Recipes
I’ve exported all my online recipes into a wiki. I’ve never really played with wikis before. My only real experience is in using Wikipedia and I’ve always been too scared to try editing anything. However, I think a wiki may turn out to be the ideal forum for my recipes. This allows my friends to easily add their own favorites. In addition, it allows mistakes to be easily rectified when my mother-in-law notices that I have managed to leave all the salt out of the Wheat Oil Pastry recipe (yes, this still needs to be corrected). So, if you have a great recipe, please feel free to add it.
Kiesa’s Library
Currently, there are only 7 books listed in the catalog. However, I plan to import my collection soon. I added the catalog so I have a handy list of all the books I own. Hopefully this will prevent me from wondering “Do I already have this book?” when I visit The Bookworm.
Book Lists and Links
Since I already have the wiki installed for my recipes, I will probably start adding to it. I plan to start adding book lists and links to websites. After that, I’ll see how the wiki evolves.
I like the new site! Goodness gracious, you have a lot of recipes! I might have to find a few that I can try making (with my usual style of a few random modifications, of course).
Yes, I do have a lot of recipes :) This is basically the entire collection of both my mother’s recipes and my mother-in-laws. It’s very interesting to note the distict style the two have. When I entered the recipes, I also included the ones they had clipped out but never tried before. So, some of the recipes have the potential to be down right awful.
It isn’t cooking unless you make modifications to the recipes :) That’s another reason I like the wiki idea. If I find an interesting modification, I just just add it at the bottom of the recipe (assuming I can remember what I did, of course :)).
Yes, I like the new site!
I am interested that you are using a blog program written in PHP this time, and last time it was Perl? Care to comment on the change in language? How does your husband feel about you using PHP?:-)
Side note: I browsed the Serendipity site a bit and noticed that at least 4 of its developers are very active in developing the core of the PHP language itself. They are all names I know very well from subscribing to the PHP-DEV core developers mailing list for the last 2 years.
Yes, PHP was a conscious choice this time. While these days I’m not terribly proficient in any language, I’m most comfortable with PHP (it’s what I used most in college). I figured it’s more important that I understand what my website is doing than that my husband knows :) Besides, I don’t think Jaeger is nearly as disturbed that I’m using PHP as he is disturbed by me using MySQL ;)
Hee hee. Yes…MySQL. Well, if it is any consolation, MySQL and PHP go together more than any other combination. While PHP works with many databases, since PHP and MySQL are paired together the most, there is wonderful cross-product support from both MySQL and PHP communities.
For example, almost every database example on php.net is using MySQL, and the examples I’m referring to aren’t official documentation, they are the examples other users post.
In fact, a new language extension specifically for MySQL was added to PHP 5 (functions that start with “mysqli_”). I think the “i” stands for improved. The old functions that start with “mysql_” are still supported. The “i” ones are just supposed to be even more wonderful.
Do you have a complicated database schema for your recipes?
I haven’t really looked into how the wiki stores information. Probably one of those things I should figure out :)