I felt it appropriate to resurrect an application that I put together some time ago just for the fun of it. Since Starbucks decided to get back to their customer-oriented, coffee slinging ways and refine their espresso techniques, I thought I'd make it easy for them to find great cofee recipes. Using it you can find the recipe for an espresso beverage - although there's a few other kinds in there as well that don't have any espresso. Go ahead . . .give it a shot . . .
Click through to read some of the details . . .
In case your curious:
I created this application a couple years ago.
So, while it may be a relatively small application it represents several weeks of work - as well as several iterations of the work. I redid the interface, the back-end coding and the client-side coding. I still want to re-work parts of it to include some other stuff - but this was kind of an experiment to see how easily it could be embedded into a blog post.
I'd really love to hear any comments or criticisms ( constructive one's preferred ).
This is a bit of an introduction of something I'd like to do on a more regular basis, but in the future using APIs that can be found on other sites.
I created this application a couple years ago.
I'm using Yahoo's javascript library for XmlHttpRequest calls. You can get the library here. Although the version I'm using is not the latest.
And . . . the loading image I got here.
All the recipes in the database are from the book to the left - Espresso Quick Reference Guide by Phillip Janssen. It took me several nights to enter all the data and do the associated programming.So, while it may be a relatively small application it represents several weeks of work - as well as several iterations of the work. I redid the interface, the back-end coding and the client-side coding. I still want to re-work parts of it to include some other stuff - but this was kind of an experiment to see how easily it could be embedded into a blog post.
I'd really love to hear any comments or criticisms ( constructive one's preferred ).
This is a bit of an introduction of something I'd like to do on a more regular basis, but in the future using APIs that can be found on other sites.
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