Crisoft Ricette

Yesterday I branched Crisoft in the CVS tree to allow some tests for the 2.0 update. It will be based completly on CakePHP, a great framework for rapid application development and I finally made it to import old recipes into the new database structure. I have to improve the script db_upgrade.php which will handle the process to convert all fields into the correct new values. When I finish the upgrade script, I will release a very-very-early-alpha of the new Crisoft 2.0, but it will come without any plugins and extra stuff - just the plain view/edit/delete pages for the recipes, comments, categories and users.

I hope you’re all back then to give me feedback in our bug and feature tracker.

Today I want to start a Logo Contest for Crisoft Ricette. As you may have noticed, this site is a default template of our blog system Wordpress and it’s not looking good. And there isn’t a logo in the wiki. I feel sorry for this and as a good project we should have a good logo. But I’m not a graphics designer and all my tries were a complete mess. But to give you a hint about what I want to achieve for Crisoft, here is a simple logo that I created by following a tutorial:

If you feel like helping me out of this situation, please write a comment. Thanks for you help!

Oh, and at the moment I try to figure my way through CakePHP, a nice framework for rapid application development. It really helps me with getting a feeling for a good application. I try to build a simple mockup of a web software supporting users, groups and a “web2.0″ feeling of editing, adding and deleting recipes.

Today I added some Screenshots to our wiki. As you may notice, there is some multi-language text in this screenshots. This is because I’m using the current development version and I’m still fiddling with the translation. The active style is called Slick and is just for demonstrating purposes. I hacked it from scratch in a quite minute to show the new theming ability of Crisoft Ricette.

Guess what: Crisoft Ricette got a Wiki now! If you want to contribute or work with us on the future of the project, please register yourself and start editing.

In the next days there will be a lot of changes in all sections of the new wiki. I try to create some pages for bug reports and feature requests and - of course - some development hints like a coding style and a place to paste all useful PHP snippets we could us.
For me, the wiki should take the place of our Sourceforge project page because I think that is not useable for the average user who is only interested in our recipe management software. And he doesn’t want a full-features SF account to play with, just to file a bug report or suggest a feature. So he should go to the wiki instead and just edit a page to submit his comments. Like this weblog it should be easy to use and everyone should  be able to post something.

As always, feel free to comment and give me some feedback. Oh, and you’d be glad to hear the the translation makes good progress and it will be finished soon. Right after finishing the translation stuff, I’ll go for some new features.

As you might have noticed, there is a new developer aboard: DrSweety. I think this will improve the progress of our loved project and we can bring the project up to the next level. Today we chatted about our next edits and the way we want to share the work and I think we can smoothly go on with my plans on GNU Gettext and XHTML/CSS support.

May the source be with you, DrSweety!

For all of you wondering why there are no more news about the development progress: At the moment there is no progress. Unlucky for the project, lucky me. I’m in a new job and a new city, without internet connection and even without a PC. So I can just make up some thoughts and think about new features - or better: think about improving the existing wonders of Crisoft Ricette. But I think it won’t be for long - I’ll get myself back onto the net with a shiny new laptop. But it will take me some more weeks. Until that I hope I can use my laptop at work to get back into development.

So keep visiting this weblog to get in touch with Crisoft Ricette, our favorite recipe management application!