[clug] Linux recipe management

[Daniel Pittman]

Felix Karpfen <felix at spodzone.org.uk> writes:
> BAXTER,Adam wrote:
>> Time for a CLUG project?
>> I prefer PHP for these kinds of things, but I know some people don't like it.

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> The "fooddownunder" database is constructed with Microsoft tools; On the other
> hand, http://www.cuisine.at/ (bilingual - English/German), probably uses SQL.
>
> Both have been accessible for many years; each offers a choice of some 200 000
> recipes.

FWIW, SQL is a "standard" language, of which Microsoft provide one
implementation in their SQL Server product.  Anyway...

> I find it difficult to believe that information on shopping lists and
> nutritional content - missing from the above examples - would warrant the
> labour involved in creating yet another "recipe book".

...the biggest /other/ thing I want is a tool that collects /my/ recipes, to
help me manage the stuff I want.  200,000 recipes is great and all, but their
quality is going to vary, and when I look for "chicken" I am likely to be a
bit overwhelmed...

Also, unless I can edit every recipe there to my own tastes and experience,
and no one else bothers to do so, it isn't going to be exactly what I want.

Effectively, part of what I want is my personal collection.  The point isn't
really sharing them around, which works fine on sites like the above, but
managing them myself.

Oh, and owning the data: colour me paranoid, but I don't want to depend on a
third party to maintain my own recipe data, since I don't fancy paying extra
for it, and most of these sites won't let me pay for them to care anyhow...

        Daniel

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