Eric
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DRINKABILITY REPORT
For a number of users, the drinkability report is their most essential tool on the site. I made a number of changes and enhancements to make this view more useful and actionable for folks:
- The report used to calculate its drinkability score assuming purely linear aging. Now I have fleshed this out considerably with a number of different algorithms including, bell curves that are early, late and centered; a fast-aging curving; a twin-peak curve for wines that are accessible both early and late with 'sleepy' periods in between. You can pick a specific algorithm if you prefer it, but the default drinkability score actually applies all of the different algorithms based on specific attributes of the wines. I will post separately on this.
- The drinkability score used to take into account all consumed bottles, even those sold, traded, returned etc. Now there is an option to only include bottles that you have drunk (or which you have marked as missing or consumed by a family member).
- The report used to treat all bottles as equal, regardless of bottle size. Now the report calculates based on 750ml equivalent. So if you open a 375ml bottle, that only counts as opening half a bottle. The actual count of bottles (if different) is still available by hovering over the various numbers.
- Now the report breaks out pending bottles from those in stock, although all bottles are taken into account for calculating a score.
- The report can now be filtered by bottle size, storage location, or bin. The total number of bottles for the wine are still shown (as the drinkability score is computed on the basis of all bottles), and there is an additional indication showing the number of bottles for that specific bin, locale or bottle size.
- NEW, LATE-BREAKING CHANGE! I was in the midst of rewriting the document that describes the availability report in detail, and I realized that the algorithm has been missing one of Paul Homchick's original ideas to help call out wines past their window. In his original algorithm, he added an additional 100 points to the drinkability score for any wine past the set drinking window. This was actually very, very easy to add so I added it.
You can read more here on the upgraded drinkability report.
MISCELLANEOUS QUERY IMPROVEMENTS
The grouped wine summary can now be filtered by keyword, wine name, wine locale, bottle size, storage location, storage bin and purchase price. The bulk-add valuation view can now be filtered by wine name, wine locale, and bottle size.
COOKIE HANDLING
I changed a number of things about the way that the site handles cookies. Deletion is handled more cleanly now by setting the cookie expiration to a date in the past. Also, all of the cookie deletion is now handled centrally in one ASP page. There use to be problems that would occur if a user logged into http://www.cellartracker.com and then later logged into http://cellartracker.com (notice the missing www subdomain) or vice versa. This is now handled by setting the domain property of the cookie to "cellartracker.com" which is a domain-global cookie. Users may need to flush out their old cookies by browsing: here, then here, then here, and finally here. (NOTE: You will need to log in again.)
If you really want to, you can also delete all forum cookies with this link.
The http://www.cellartracker.com/phone/ subsite now has cookies that will last for a year instead of just the current session. There is also a link to log out.
BEHIND THE SCENES
To be announced shortly in more depth, I now have my first official help in editorially reviewing the wine database. To better accomodate this, I cleaned up some administrative tools so that the site now has the concept of both an administrators and editors which I can easily add and remove from one central location.
< Message edited by Eric -- 4/6/2005 1:00:38 AM >
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Cheers!
-Eric LeVine
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