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 [...]
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‘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 [...]
Merry Christmas. Here’s a little javascript brewsession present. http://ror.deanandadie.net/table.html I was thinking about the ingredients table Greg designed. While it is good looking and we’ll definitely use it, I would rather see a very simple list to start with and give the option to have an “advanced view”. It occurred to me to let the [...]
BrewSession is not off the ground in a professional capacity, therefore all the code is housed on a machine I have running on my home network. A week and a half ago that machine’s disk controller corrupted my data. Then I screwed up the backup copy of that data in the restore process. The data [...]
Since there has to be a first post some time, I thought I’d start. I need a break from coding, too. All hop utilization formulas are “best fit” calculations to enpirical data – researchers look at results from their expirements and try to find an equation that best fits the data. This reality produces a [...]
Jumpy, jittery, convoluted video and audio For a long time, Myth did well. It did everything we expected it to and even a little more. Then shows began to degrade. It may have been a driver or software upgrade or a settings change – these things don’t “just happen” – but I could not trace [...]
I do not miss the advertisements Previously, I blogged about how I got to be a MythTV user. Possibly the best thing about Myth is automatic commercial skipping! It is not perfect, but when it works, you barely know your’re watching broadcast television. It works by marking suspected commercials and jumping over those marks during [...]
TiVo was cool, but I wanted something more. Enter Robert X Cringely, a technology columnist for PBS . He has 20-some years in the industry and writes compelling articles. In late 2004, I read this article which launched me into a homebrew PVR project. Cringely wrote about Andrew Greig, a man in Canada who works [...]
