Crisoft Ricette

As I said on our mailing lists, I work on a complete XHTML/CSS re-write of Crisoft Ricette. I added a simple way of changing stylesheets in the configuration section of the admin area and changed some of the pages to XHTML/CSS standards. It is a lot of work, because the codebase is spread widely over the files and some errors aren’t easy to find in existing code. Writing a completly new webpage is much easier then finding every bit in an existing one.

However, I make progress and I checked some of the basic pages with the W3C Validator yet. I can’t check all pages at the moment, because I have to think about how to create all errors but I will change that parts, too. For the moment I can tell you in a simple sentence, what’s the importance for new users is:

You will be able to change “the look” of Crisoft Ricette to match your own website.

I hope this improvement gets attention from new users and they try to install our recipe management. To make it easier for non-gurus, I will change the installation script soon. I like the simple way of installing Wordpress, so I will try to copy their installation…

Today I got a little improvement in session management of Crisoft. I noticed that on many pages the Session ID wasn’t displayed. You can see an old bug report at XYZ (sorry, the link comes later, SF is down…). For some reason, the variable SID wasn’t displayed and that caused some pages to loose the session. I replaced SID with session_id() and it started working. At the moment I replaced the SID only on a few pages, but whenever I stumble over it, I will replace it with the proper function.

If anyone of you has an explanation for that behavior, I’d be glad to hear about it. Maybe I find the solution later, then I will notify in this post about it.

You found our newly created weblog, congratulations. At the moment, “we” only includes myself and the former developer, lorello. My name is Carsten Ringe and I am now the head developer of Crisoft Ricette, our famous recipe management database. For this first moment I want to give you all needed links to keep in contact with our fine project:

• Our project page at Sourceforge
  
• This page: http://crisoftricette.sourceforge.net/
• exported Project Summary
• Forums
• Feature Requests

That’s all. You see, it’s very easy to keep contact. You should visit this weblog every time you want some information. I try to keep the sourceforge project page as a source for developers only, so you - as a user - don’t get confused by bug tracking, task management, developer informations and stuff. I think it’s a fair deal, what do you think?

If you feel like commenting or asking questions about Crisoft Ricette, feel free to use the comments on this page. As long as it doesn’t become too confusing, I want to keep this weblog open for everyone and every comment. Of course, Spam Karma is installed, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t comment at all.

In the next few days I want to setup pages with basic information about installation, configuration and translation of Crisoft Ricette and I’d be glad if I get some comments about that pages, about the project and about everything else. Keep coming back!

Carsten