Here’s a question that recently hit our inbox. I thought others out there might be interested in how to log wines through the WineLog Mobile site and might not even know about the cool send yourself a message feature.

The email:

I really like your mobile site, and it looks great on my iPhone. But it would be REALLY great if I could add new wines to my log through that site. As I’m out and about, and reading about new wines or at the store or at a friend’s house, it would be so helpful to be able to add them to my log immediately. Do you have plans to add that to the mobile site?

My response after the break…

So the server was down earlier this morning. It’s back online now. We’ll be watching things closely to see what’s going on and make sure the site is running as smoothly as possible.
Sorry for the inconvenience. And thanks for your patience.

Good Wine
Well I hope everybody is having a fantastic Holiday. Firstly I’d like to apologise as I have been stacked out with lots of things over the last few weeks…but hey that’s December for you. Christmas presents are always hit and miss don’t you think? Well I’d like to give a big thanks to […]

My article on hacking the long tail is available at the Stranger Studios blog. The article backs up the presentation I gave at BarCamp NYC2. In fact, the article goes into things a little more than I was able to at BarCamp since we got a bit distracted by the wine we were tasting that day.

Not much on wine in the article, but if you’re interested in how things work behind the scenes at WineLog, have a read.

In this post, I promised to show the world how I achieved my digg-style pagination effect. I’ve written a demo over at Stranger Studios describing how I did it.
I hope this helps those who were interested. Please post any questions or comments concerning the code at the Stranger Studios blog post on the demo. Thanks.

I noticed that some people’s notes and comments were being cut off. I’ve increased the amount of space set aside for comments and notes in our DB.
The new DB can handle notes and comments as large as 16,777,215 characters, which should be good for most mortals.
Sorry to anyone who wrote a nice long comment or […]

We appologize to anyone who has tried to sign up for our mailing list over the past few days. It’s working now. Goto our homepage and enter you email address to be added. If you are not sure if you are on the list yet, it won’t hurt to enter your email again.
If you are […]

We’ve been back to work on the site now for a few days. Here’s my current to-do list:

Admin Screen for Editing Wine Entries
Star Ratings for Wines
Wine Recommendations
Comment System
Pagination for Search Results

As you can see, I’ve made some progress on the search results page. Things are formatted a little better, but the biggest addition is the […]

Browse around the WineLog DB a bit, and you will notice some anomalies. Excel fans will recognize the all too familiar “#VALUE” where a winery or wine variety should be. It’s likely that a tweak here or there in our DB scraping or parsing code would clean up this data, and we’ll be looking into […]

The most exciting bit of programming (at least to me) that went on this weekend revolved around the user registration system. You’re probably familiar with the typical system used these days, it goes something like this.
1. You fill out a form with your email address, name, and a desired password.
2. An email is sent to […]