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Things Adrienne & Dean Do, Think and Write

Browsing Posts published in January, 2007

I am at the beginning of pulling all the recipe bits together. Like some of the older brewing software available, you will be able to track each time you brew a particular recipe. I am calling each separate time a “brew session” and each recipe can have many brew sessions. Part of the fun in [...]

Ruby on Rails allows for plugins to extend its functionality. My first attempt at one is nothing special but I am going to blog about it anyway I needed a way to check if a number is within a range before saving a record to the database. Rails has a number of good validations built [...]

I’m happy to see we’re getting some traffic and, being a new blogger, I want to just crow a little about it. (9:43:00 AM) Greg: we suddenly have 89 unique visitors to the blog. At the beginning of the month we had 0. (9:43:28 AM) Uh, me: very nice (9:43:57 AM) Greg: and for our [...]

I originally published this on MySpace in January of 2007. Thanks for taking the time Thank you for taking the time to read this. I realize the post is quite lengthy, but it is important to us that you have an idea of what we are going through. These are mostly not my words – [...]

Before the death of my drives I had a flexible Measurement class written up. As most of you know brewing involves all kinds of measurement – hop weights, boil volume, bitterness, etc. The class served as a base that more specific classes would inherit and provided the framework for converting between different measurement systems. For [...]

So years ago I stopped making New Year’s Resolutions. I figured that waiting until the new year to come up with grandiose ideas about changing your life where were doomed to fail was a rather stupid way to live. However, I did decide it was a good idea to have life goals, and each new [...]

‘Been working hard on BrewSession for a few days and I’d like to tell my readers (or is it reader?) about it. I got the hop data Greg compiled and the BJCP style guidelines back into the database. It feels like an accomplishment because this data is critical to meaningful brewing software. Next up is [...]