January 2011
8 posts
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Adding Dynamic SVG Charts to Typica
With the changes in reports mentioned previously, I thought that I would be able to start adding SVG graphics to reports since I was using the same object to display the report as I had previously used for printing roast profiles. Due to the content getting to that object through a slightly different code path, it turned out that I needed to add 25 characters to the new code to turn that feature...
Jan 28th
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Improved Reporting in Typica
Recently I wanted to add a new report to Typica. This was a report showing an itemized comparison of year to date roasted coffee production compared to previous year to date roasted coffee production (with totals and changes) to make it easier for me to see on an ongoing basis how I’m doing compared with production goals (which in turn is a good proxy for sales). Unfortunately, I quickly...
Jan 18th
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“Sattinger’s Law: It works better if you plug it in.”
– Arthur Bloch, Murphy’s Law and Other Reasons Why Things Go Wrong (1977)
Jan 17th
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Sliders and Documentation
Lately most of my software development time has been spent on a mobile application for coffee evaluation. I’d say that it’s a cupping app, but this would cause people to expect that it is similar to other programs for handling cupping data (including the last two that I wrote) when it goes beyond cupping to a more general problem. Between consideration of some of the other use cases...
Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Roast Magazine →
Today Roast Magazine wants the word spread on their new site design. Roast is, in my opinion, the most useful trade journal for the professional coffee roaster to read. On the site, you can go to the Education Tab and click Roasting 101 to get a sense of the informative content delivered in each issue.
Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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A Year of Roasting
One of the nice things about having my roasting records in a database is that when I want to know some bit of trivia about my roasting, it’s often just a query away. With the new year, I thought I’d look back and see what I did at the roaster last year. Number of batches roasted: 1,418 Pounds of roasted coffee produced: 14,618.56 Lots of green coffee used: 73 Pounds of green coffee...
Jan 4th
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