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andrew
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Email notifications
Thanks! I'm going to get cracking on a few more enhancements for the site also - I was unable to earlier this year, but things are opening up now. Good to see the icons are getting a workout, even if some of them are a bit silly... :o3
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andrew
April 2012
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Email notifications
The script runs every 30 minutes so it won't be the cause of the delay. I think what has happened is that the email is being delayed by your ISP because our email host is a new one (I'm using a hosted email solution for the notifications t…
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andrew
March 2012
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Email notifications
Thanks! @zosia, it's possible that one was posted to the site while the email script was running, in which case it may have accidentally been marked as done when it wasn't. I'll look into that.
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andrew
March 2012
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Email notifications
How's it going with the notifications? Any issues, anyone? Suggestions?
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andrew
March 2012
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Clever/silly idea
Very funny! I imagine this would be one expensive lasagna.
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andrew
March 2012
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Newest Challenge - Paula Wolfert's Moroccan Cooking
Information is here for anyone interested: http://www.jamesbeard.org/awards You do have to download a PDF however, to see the whole list of nominees.
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andrew
March 2012
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Email notifications
Thanks everyone! I've added you all to the list of email notifiers. You can change your preferences by going to 'My Bookshelf' and 'tools', where you'll see a new 'notifications' section. You can then check or…
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andrew
March 2012
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Duplicating a recipe
Hi @Zosia - I've deleted the recipe you entered. Forgot that although you can delete your own reviews, for safety reasons, you can't delete an entire recipe.
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andrew
March 2012
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Duplicating a recipe
You should be able to delete your own reviews - just click the 'edit' link on the review itself and there should be a delete option at the bottom of the review text. It would be simplest if you re-entered your review under the original. To…
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andrew
February 2012
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Newest Challenge - Paula Wolfert's Moroccan Cooking
I'm always open to alternate suggestions for relevant prizes, but it does look like there are quite a few Wolfert titles available to choose from. Glad the recipes are proving to be interesting on this one!
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andrew
February 2012
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Newest Challenge - Paula Wolfert's Moroccan Cooking
Apparently the newer book is a rewrite and update of quite a bit of the older book, so there will be some overlap. I think your idea to wait until after the contest to post in one of the books is a good one, and posting in the most common book would…
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andrew
February 2012
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2012 Challenges
Okay - we are good to go on the challenge. I've just launched it and I'll do a new topic on the forum about it too.
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andrew
February 2012
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2012 Challenges
Just a quick update - the Morocco challenge is not dead, just postponed. I had a bit of a 'perfect storm' of work and family commitments the last few weeks and I haven't been able to get things going yet. I'm hoping for this week…
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andrew
February 2012
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Yard Sale Finds
Although I don't go to yard sales often, I am always on the lookout for cast iron - it lasts forever and people often don't value it now since it seems so old fashioned compared to a teflon pan (which will wear out in a few years and have …
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andrew
February 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
Thanks, Jayme. As for what to do In general I believe that we shouldn't program links in Cookbooker to open in new windows because once this happens the back button in the new window becomes unusable and if a user doesn't realize they are …
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
@BethNH - Here you go. I will add a link / button to this page in the export section soon, but for now, clicking this link will show you a page with the ISBNs from your cookbooks only. It is set so it will only show ones from the bookshelf of the pe…
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
@BethNH - I've done some looking into this, and the file is being output correctly - ISBNs sometimes have X characters at the end. However I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong, that you're opening the file from Cookbooker in Excel. …
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andrew
January 2012
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2012 Challenges
I'll see if I can get this worked up as a challenge later this week. Definitely we'll announce it this month and it will go for the usual 6 weeks or so, so likely into early March. I should get preserving lemons too...
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
@kateq - definitely! If they allow you to export your bookshelf, then I can add them to our list of import options. If they don't have an export option, ask them if they can create one. I'll also need a sample file if/when they allow expor…
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
Thanks @BethNH - I'll be able to look at this Monday and see what I can see. Peckish - I'll look into it. The whole sorting process and interface could use a facelift. I'll put it on the ever-growing list!
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
@kaye16 - you can email a link to a recipe to a friend but no, not at the moment can you invite someone to the site itself. I'll set something up on the sign-in page, but in the meantime it will have to just be a regular email. Funny how that h…
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andrew
January 2012
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Site improvements & suggestions
@BethNH -Send me a copy and I'll have a look. It seemed to work fine when I set it up but that was a while ago and my bookshelf is fairly modest. There may be a bug I hadn't noticed in testing.
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andrew
January 2012
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Linking recipes
Sorry Zosia - forgot about that part. No, we have not added links to the notifications feed, and I don't think we will. The links are not added to your reviews, unlike comments, but rather are added to the recipe as a whole, so they're not…
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andrew
January 2012
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Holiday Challenge 2011: The Pie and Pastry Bible
Glad to hear it! Lovesgenoise - please get in touch, as I haven't heard back from the email we sent you about your prize. andrew - at - cookbooker.com will do it.
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andrew
January 2012
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Linking recipes
I never anticipated that people would be adding links and questions at the same time. QS, it would have been better to post that link in the comments area, as the links area is just for links to the original or similar recipes online, but not for co…
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andrew
January 2012
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Need to remove a photo
Glad you got it! Just for anyone else wondering, in your bookshelf there is a tab labelled 'photos' where you can see all photos you've uploaded and remove them as you please.
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andrew
January 2012
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2012 Challenges
There were two Moroccan books in 2011 which were well reviewed. Mourad and Paula Wolfert's 'The Food of Morocco'. Paula's looks to be more wide-ranging and authentic, and I've heard that 'Mourad' is very much a res…
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andrew
January 2012
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Holiday Challenge 2011: The Pie and Pastry Bible
As usual, it took me longer than I thought to get sorted for the challenge. I'm happy to announce the winners now, however, all of whom have been emailed just now about their happy situation. Winners: Zosia, Peckish Sister, lovesgenoise. Than…
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andrew
January 2012
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Holiday gifts
Happy New Year, everyone! Great to hear there are good cookbooks being given as presents. I didn't get any cookbooks, ironically (probably because everyone I know assumes I always have all the latest ones, which isn't actually true...). I …
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andrew
January 2012
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Skim milk or whole milk that is the question
Sorry to intrude on a family discussion, but isn't heavy cream normally 40% fat or so? Here in Canada, we have whipping cream, which is about 35% fat, but I know that in the US, heavy cream has more. If I were using 40% fat heavy cream, I…
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andrew
January 2012
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