Recipes - Recipe Module

Submitted by Diliny C.
on Tuesday, 10th April 2012 - 21:57

I'm in the process of transferring over my recipes from 'blog' content in The Cookbook to the format provided by the Recipe Module.  This module utilizes the Schema.org Module which I already had running on my site.  [Looking up the url of one of my recipes on Google's Rich Snippet testing tool or in Google Recipes - will show you what data is machine readable.]

My biggest qualm with the recipe module?  Out of the box the output looks like someone threw up on my site.  I ended up copying and pasting the recipe.css content to my custom.css file in my theme layer and edited the page using firebug/firefox to get the layout to my satisfaction.  The image is actually a schema.org configured image added as a field - so I used my already established method of creating 'round images' to give the image round edges for a smoother look.   

The default picture for recipes was found on Stock.xchng and is 'forklove' by stuntcrazy.  

Example recipe - Lemon Coconut Squares

I went around in circles...

Submitted by Diliny C.
on Thursday, 29th March 2012 - 20:35

Core mentoring, and xjm's guide to patch review

I just wanted to copy a link to somewhere so that I can read and use this later.  While doing that, i had the thought - can't I add a rich snippet (facebook like) to my blogsite?!  Alas, the Drupal module that would allow for that has yet to have a stable D7 release!  But it was  good thought, and cost me 30 minutes of hunting around and reading before I came to that conclusion. (Facebook Style Micropublisher module)

Conducting interviews...

Submitted by Diliny C.
on Wednesday, 28th March 2012 - 14:49

Relax!  Just be yourself... talk and chances are the interviewer is as nervous as you may be!  That said, I came across a quick article and I'd love to post it here - ALWAYS send a Thank You note (preferably email!)  The reasons are pretty sound.  I've currently got about 25 people on my list to be interviewed and generally the people I interview get access to my email address.  Even if they don't, they have access to our jobs email address.  After each interaction, if a person still wants to be considered - they should follow up with a Thank you and how they were happy to hear x,y,z, and how the position would better fulfill their lives.  Knowing how keen a person is to get the job adds to my excitement at pulling them to the next round!  So far, only a few people have responded with such enthusiasm.