Recent content by idahoDal

Thank you to those people that have found a use for the app. My sincere apologies to those that have had problems with it and have found bugs. Especially to those that have upgraded to iOS 5 and found the app to not be as mildly useful as before. I do intend to fix it soon but by soon I mean...

The main problem here is that BeerXML itself is honestly in serious need of an overhaul. The spec as it currently stands is very difficult to work with and inconsistent. Not to mention that most of the major software tools implement it as best they can. I fault no one for any of this, it is...

Wort doesn't show signs of ferment: don't worry (but open it up and take a reading, that's cool) Don't secondary and leave it on the cake for a month: don't worry Drive it a little ways before pushing it into an oxygen filled bottle 50+ times: OMG Your beer is the worzt!!!! The hell? Best...

I think I know what the problem is ith the chiller. No clue about BS v2 When the app drops you back to the phone's home screen that means it could not parse the file Could you pm me a copy of both types of files so that I have something to test? It's a free app and I use beerToolsPro...

The problem is with BrewTarget. The first line of the XML it creates is incorrect. If enough folks use BrewTarget I could spend some more time making my app handle the bug in BrewTarget, but really you should bug the BrewTarget people (just try to open the file it creates in a browser and...

Thanks for the bug report. I'll pm you my email and if you could send me an example XML file I'll fix it straight away. BeerXML is a "standard" by the very very loosest definition of the term :confused:

Btw, this weekend I unfortunately want to hear from y'all who's BeerXML import didn't work :-\ Its a standard by the very loosest interpretation of the term and I didn't bother to try to be very good and flexible. Please let me know what your application exports if it fails so that I can...

True. I suppose that addition should show up in the Recipe screen, but there isn't an alarm that could be associated with such an addition right? I'll certainly fix it for the recipe page but it will not show up on the Boil or Mash page... If you have to add something between the mash and...

Almost any desktop brewing software will export or save to a BeerXML format. Yeah I had thought about adding sparge volumes. I could see its usefulness just to have the data there (no alarms to go with it) though at some point I had to quit adding features and get the thing published :-) So...

You can either email yourself the file (the app is registered with the phone to be an "opener" for xml files), browse to a website with the file on it, or you can plug your phone into your computer. Then using iTunes select "Apps" and go down to the bottom of the screen where it says "File...

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/brewing-alarm/id428074772?mt=8&ls=1 Its a free app, that takes a BeerXML file (most desktop software can save to this format) and then with the press of a single button all of your mash or boil alarms are set and will go off at the specified times. I hope...

Adding a Crisp MO tomorrow afternoon! I really shouldn't be telling y'all about the secret plan but honestly the wave of Idaho can't be stopped so: http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/070607.html

Ahh... BeerXML, you're going to learn to hate it. You're on the right track though. What you'll also want is: [NAME] + " " + [INFUSE_AMOUNT] + " at "+ [INFUSE_TEMP] + " for " + [STEP_TIME] + " minutes for rest temp of " + [END_TEMP] Now the challenge for the reader is to figure out why...

BeerXML spec and some examples are located here: http://www.beerxml.com/ For testing my app I've been using the following XML. Its slightly tweaked in that I took out some, but not all of the, stuff that I didn't care about. You'll notice that the mash and boil times are really close...

Which is a stupid stupid field that shouldn't even been in the BeerXML spec. They only have it for hops, not fermentables and the XML should hold just data not display information anyway. But to continue my rant (I'm the one Walker was talking about above) BTP doesn't bother to export your...