Cookbooker Forum Launches
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Aug 24th, 2010
We’re delighted to officially launch the Cookbooker Forum. Come and have a chat!
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James Beard Foundation's Bakers Dozen
Posted in Building Cookbooker on May 15th, 2010
The James Beard Foundation recently compiled The Baker’s Dozen, a list of 13 essential baking books that span almost four decades…If you’re going to start a baking library, this is a list of greats.
2010 James Beard Awards
Posted in Building Cookbooker on May 15th, 2010
Known as “the Oscars of the cooking world,” the James Beard Awards were announced in early May. We’re highlighting the book awards here with links to the titles on Cookbooker.
New features: magazine special issues & cover view
Posted in Building Cookbooker on May 11th, 2010
We’ve just launched the option to add magazine special issues in a new category, linked to the main magazine. As well, you can view your bookshelf in list or cover view now.
Adding Magazines
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Mar 29th, 2010
Adding magazines to Cookbooker is, how shall I put it, imperfect (okay, how about confusing?). Here’s some help.
Layout and Feature Updates
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Feb 4th, 2010
I’ve just updated the way that titles display on the site, especially cookbooks. This is partly for aesthetic reasons, the most visible being the new buttons on the page and the new layout of the main page for each book, but also to prepare for a couple of new features we’re quite excited about.
Feature Tweak – Index Only for Recipes
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Jan 29th, 2010
A very quick feature tweak. I’ve noticed that a few members had been adding recipes with no star ratings at all and deduced they were doing so in order to index them. So I’ve made this a new feature.
New Category – Web
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Jan 16th, 2010
We’ve just added a new category for recipe reviews: Websites. Simply put, you can add favorite websites/food blogs to your bookshelf as if they were cookbooks, and then rate and review recipes from them.
Connecting Editions
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Dec 9th, 2009
We’ve just launched a new feature – connecting editions. This was inspired by LibraryThing’s ‘Combine & Separate’ feature, allowing members to make connections between multiple editions of the same title.
Building Cookbooker
Posted in Building Cookbooker on Sep 21st, 2009
Cookbooker was built on a fairly standard LAMP platform. Since I have a day job, it was an evenings and weekends labour of love, and I taught myself PHP and MySQL programming using books and web resources.