Converts to the MacGourmet import/export format.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, feel free to send them to me at mangiaconverter=ATSIGN=hotmail.com and I'll see what I can do about helping you out :-)

Be sure to read the README file from the archive once you've unpacked it.

Download the archive and extract it somewhere (like your home directory).

(12:17) [/dev] mangia6

Converts to the Yum! XML import format.

If you have questions, comments, suggestions, feel free to send them to me at mangiaconverter=ATSIGN=hotmail.com and I'll see what I can do about helping you out :-)

Be sure to read the README file from the archive once you've unpacked it.

Download the archive and extract it somewhere (like your home directory).

(15:44) [/dev] mangia5

If, like me, you've been using the Mangia! recipe management program on the Mac, you're used to it's quirks and annoyed that it runs under OS9. But since it's flat out still the best recipe program I've ever used overall, it's hard to give it up.

Even worse, it has no export capability at all and it's database format is shrouded in mystery. Which means that all of your collected recipes are locked into an increasingly outmoded program.

Well, I have a partial solution for you -- you won't like it much and it doesn't preserve everything from Mangia! (at least, not yet). But you won't have to type in hundreds of recipes from scratch in order to move them to something newer!

Be sure to read the README file from the archive once you've unpacked it.

Download the archive and extract it somewhere (like your home directory).

(21:09) [/dev] mangia4

I've upgraded from my old RG-1100 (which "just worked" right out of the box) three times now. Once with Linksys, once with Netgear, and finally with an Airport Express.

With both the Linksys and the Netgear, I could not get my mixed bag of computers all working at the same time (with the Linksys it was the Macs, with the Netgear it was the Windows machines).

Finally, I went for the more expensive Airport Express, and it has proved to be worth every penny. With the addition of Linux WPA Supplicant on my Linux mythtv box, my entire network is now using WPA Personal instead of WEP, and the machines with 802.11g run much, much faster.

Well, amost, anyway. My Windows PC with a Linksys WMP54G appears to work fine, at least initially, and then the connection just drops and is completely hosed when it reconnects. The routing tables look good, it gets an IP address from DHCP, it just fails to actually talk to the network. After two weeks up playing with drivers and plowing through multiple web pages that described various efforts to make things work, I finally broke down and bought a second Airport Express -- and after configuring it for WDS mode, I'm using and ethernet connection to get my PC on the network and everything is fine.

(02:34) [/dev/wow] wireless

Well, to WorldofWar.net - The Unofficial World of Warcraft Site anyway. That's where to find the latest "release" versions of Fishing Buddy.

Random beta-ish version will be on this site -- no guarantees, use at your own risk, etc. Download the pre-0.7.8 version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

If you have comments, or suggestions, you can contact me on Windrunner -- Sutorix.

(04:00) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy8

• Add an option to leave off those pesky percentages
• Add an option to only watch the fish while you're actually fishing
• Update the version of OutfitDisplayFrame

Download the updated version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

If you have comments, or suggestions, you can contact me on Windrunner -- Sutorix.

(02:37) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy7

Found a serious memory leak (thanks to some smart people on ui.worldorwar.net

Download the updated version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

If you have comments, or suggestions, you can contact me on Windrunner -- Sutorix.

(05:24) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy6

Updated for 1.6

Download the updated version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

If you have comments, or suggestions, you can contact me on Windrunner -- Sutorix.

(16:16) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy5

A few bug fixes -- stole some more code from the newer version of TackleBox for finding the Fishing Pole "Spell" without having to translate it (look for the texture, instead!). The new version can now sort by fish, as well as by location, so you can find out where you actually have caught Stonescale Eel..

Download the updated version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

If you have comments, or suggestions, you can contact me on Windrunner -- Sutorix.

(03:30) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy4

Never test your own stuff -- you only see what you want to see, with the data you already know.

Download the updated version of Fishing Buddy in the usual fashion.

(15:13) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy3

I've updated it a little bit and cleaned up some code. Mostly added an option to just show me what I've caught this session -- much less visual spam and it tells me what I want to know.

Download the latest version of Fishing Buddy and enjoy!

(05:37) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy2

One of the great things about World of Warcraft and its interface is that you if you don't like it, you can change it. If it doesn't do something you think it should, you can add it. They've made the entire UI completely open -- well almost, there are some things where they cheated and the work is done in compiled code.

I had been using TackleBox and Impp's Fishing Info add-ons, but they didn't quite do what I wanted. And having looked at the code, I knew I could do better :-) So I shamelessly stole their ideas and put them together in something that works much better for me.

Thus, Fishing Buddy. It's actually two bits of add on code -- the second part is called OutfitDisplayFrame, used to show your "fishing outfit". The UI is brought up with "/fishingbuddy" (or "/fb") and "/fb switch" will switch you into and out of your fishing outfit. There will be more documentation once I've worked through all the bugs...

(02:35) [/dev/wow] fishingbuddy

Between work and life, there's been World of Warcraft, which doesn't leave much time for anything else, let alone maintaining a blog. Even maintaining the blog failed -- I managed to destroy two posts!

Blizzard has done an incredible job -- it's worth the multi-year wait. The game has just the right balance of "toon" versus "reality" (whatever reality means in an online game) and it's presented consistently. Because it's so well done and, more importantly, so evenly done, it's very easy to fall into the "suspense of disbelief" necessary for a truly immersive experience. It's amazing easy to let a couple of hours slip by without noticing!

(18:35) [/thoughts] timesink

I forgot a couple of key points:

• The importer really doesn't do any importing :-) it's a set of perl scripts that convert the text output of Print2PICT into a file that can be imported
• The output format that's understood by A Cook's Books is "MasterCook" format (--format mc).
• To get the text output from Print2PICT (there's a local copy of the 3.7.1 archive here):
  1. Launch Mangia!<./li>
  2. Select 'Page Setup'
  3. Click on the 'Options' button
  4. Select 'Extensions'
  5. Either 'Search' for the extensions or use 'Select', but either way make sure the folder with the Print2PICT extentions is in the text box
  6. Close the Options dialog and choose 'Print to Text' from the dispositions popup (you may have to close Page Setup and try again to get it to show up)

(21:32) [/dev] mangia3

An apology to all of you attempting to hit my blog over the last few days. A spate of nasty trackback spam attacks crippled the machine I'm hosted on. We've moved to a mod_perl server, so the attacks are at least less damaging now -- and blosxom appears to be continuing to work!

(19:49) [/notes] damnspammers