myJaxon

Jesse and I are starting a new venture together. Some of you may or may not know that I have a huge cookbook online. Well, I do. All of the recipes are ones we either like or have been given to me by someone. It had come to my attention that a lot of people use it. More than I thought did at least. Jesse gives it out at work a lot. Of course, this may be due to all the food I send in with him. I like to cook. I like to try new recipes. What I don’t like to do is make a four serving meal and have leftovers that never get ate. So I like to find guinea pigs and I’ve found that the best ones tend to be geeks or co-workers.   Each time Jesse has taken in something, someone always asks for the recipe, so he gives them my cookbook address.  It’s handy. Well, this last time, one of his co-workers wanted to leave a comment and they were talking and the next thing I knew, opensourcecook.com was conceptualized.

Basically, Jesse is going to help me completely revamp the look and interaction of my cookbook. It’s going to get a newer and cleaner design (I hope), a place where people can submit variations to recipes as well as comments, rate their favorite recipes, etc. I will tell you this, it’s going to take a long time to do. We just don’t have a lot of time to devote to it right now (three weddings and a 7 month old who is crawling means we’re sorta busy). However, I’m hoping to have it up and running by the first of the new year, but something tells me that is wishful thinking.

If you’re interested in knowing what we’re thinking of doing or would like to make any suggestions, check out our planning page at Jesse’s wiki. Once we stat to seriously work on it, we’ll put up a development page so we can report our progress.