Dairy Science and Food Technology Forum : Announcements and forum news

Announcements and forum news : Google Email Address Problems

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:47:47 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: Google Email Address Problems
Posted: 14 Apr 2013 at 8:47pm

The forum and the Dairy Science and Food Technology website gets a substantial volume of Email from Google mail users. Since most of this mail is usually SPAM I have missed a number of genuine Emails sent from webforms on this site to Google Mail users that have "bounced" back to me as site administrator.

These Emails were declined by Google because this company has very responsibly implemented enhanced measures to reduce SPAM from its servers.

I have upgraded all the Email scripts on the Dairy Science site to comply with Google protocols and there should be no further problems with Emails from this site reaching Google mail users.

Apologies to anyone using Google mail who had been expecting an Email from the Dairy Science site that did not arrive.

Announcements and forum news : Cheese wedding cake

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:30:43 +0000

Author: Emay Smith
Subject: Cheese wedding cake
Posted: 30 Mar 2013 at 9:30am

Now that there area unit many ways to make and sculpt food during a style of textures, colours, shapes your choices area unit endless. one thing as easy as selecting distinctive color to white will build your cake standout because the unique centre piece of a reception.

You can modification the marriage cake topper, you'll build AN uncommon bridecake by merely dynamical the most form to squares, spheres, towers, cylinders, pyramids, you'll have the cake graven into figurines, a form of one thing you and your domestic partner fancy doing. Some samples of a number of uncommon wedding cakes area unit below - football, baseball, climbing, cycling, pet owner couples. Some brides favor to alone specific their temperament in special sculptures like a princess's castle, flowers, etc.

Announcements and forum news : New member logon problem fixed

Sun, 06 May 2012 16:14:11 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: New member logon problem fixed
Posted: 06 May 2012 at 4:14pm

The forum software was upgraded to comply with EU privacy legislation (advising users about use of 'cookies') a few weeks ago. During this process the settings for issue of logon activation Emails were not updated and account activation Emails were not sent.

I wish to apologise for this error which has now been fixed.

If you have recently tried to logon and were not successful please email me at webmaster at dairyscience.info and I will reset your account.

Regards

Michael Mullan

Announcements and forum news : Cheese wedding cake

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 23:21:08 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: Cheese wedding cake
Posted: 27 Mar 2012 at 11:21pm

A work colleague attended a wedding recently. One of the innovations was that the bride had ordered a collection of cheeses made in Britain and Ireland in place of the normal wedding cake. The 'cake' is shown below. Thanks to JOB for the image.

Announcements and forum news : PHP mySQL driver does not work with IPv6

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:28:29 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: PHP mySQL driver does not work with IPv6
Posted: 16 Feb 2012 at 9:28pm

Over the last few days some users will have noted that the main site pages were loading slowly. This has now been fixed.

The major part of this site uses the free Open Source CMS called Joomla. This free software has been produced by hundreds of people working collectively for the common good and is an impressive product.

Hosting companies are currently upgrading their servers from IPv4 to IPv6 to take advantage of recent developments concerning the use of new domain names and the slow loading of web pages was caused by the Joomla- PHP mySQL driver not working with IPv6.

Other mySQL drivers do support IPv6.

This issue was solved by my hosting company WebWiz in less than 15 minutes. Super support!

Announcements and forum news : Website upgraded to Joomla 1.7

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:27:38 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: Website upgraded to Joomla 1.7
Posted: 27 Nov 2011 at 10:27pm

I finally upgraded the Dairy Science and Food Technology website from Joomla version 1.5 to 1.7 today. Fairly easy. However 1.5 templates are not compatible with the latest version and you will note a new template. There is now the option to give each page a different template and there have been some changes to the database so quite big changes.

During the upgrading process the site was down for a few hours so apologies for any inconvenience. One of the advantages of Joomla 1.7 is that it has a built in updater. This should make version updating simple and quick to do in the future. Joomla is a really good example of what highly talented altruistic people can achieve and it is free.

I will be fine tuning the site over the next few weeks but this should only cause minimal disruption. So if anything is not working please try again in 30 mins or so and all should be OK again.

Announcements and forum news : Free consultancy!

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:27:32 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: Free consultancy!
Posted: 11 Oct 2011 at 11:27pm

Some days I get 50-100 Emails requesting help or information. This volume of Email has now reached the point where I can no longer respond individually to all Emails.

Over the next few weeks I will develop software to filter and automatically respond to most of these Emails. So apologies in advance if you receive a more 'robotic' and perhaps a 'sharper' response (e.g. I do not provide free consultancy).

I will also consider how I might provide a restricted forum to deal with queries that people who have made donations to the site have. This would enable me to give more comprehensive responses to queries e.g. the effects of pH, temperature and 'food factors' on the destruction of spores.

Please post queries for information or help on the forums and try not to send Emails. If you have obtained a spreadsheet or are using a site service and you have problems with the software continue to Email me directly. Please include an explanatory title e.g. help with spreadsheets or help with ice cream mix calculator or use words such as not working or error. I can configure the Email filters to select these for personal attention.

Announcements and forum news : Cheese colour (color) standards

Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:06:32 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: Cheese colour (color) standards
Posted: 22 Aug 2011 at 11:06pm

I have been asked to comment on a simple method for describing the colour or color (US) of cheese. There are several inexpensive ways of doing this. One of the simpler methods is to use a 12-color chart endorsed by the US National Cheese Institute.

The image below is of a slice of cheese compared against two Cheese color charts. Regretfully the colour is not quite right in the charts shown and I will try and get a better image.

Announcements and forum news : Free Online Food Safety Legislation Training

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:49:34 +0000

Author: basak
Subject: Free Online Food Safety Legislation Training
Posted: 25 Jan 2011 at 8:49am

F4ESL - From Farm to Fork European Food Safety Legislation Training Programme is an EU Project under EC LLP Leonardo da Vinci Program targeting to develop a curriculum on EU Food Safety Legislation.

F4ESL is an innovative and integrated online training programme on EU Food Safety Legislation ensuring vocational education for stakeholders of food chain via newest learning methods, and is going to be piloted across all European countries in 2 sessions, on March 2011.

The target group of the Project includes; food producers and processors, official controllers/inspectors, members of unions, chambers and associations related with food and food safety, local bodies, food importers & exporters, university and graduate students from relevant departments.

Applications for F4ESL already started on the Project web page, www.f4esl.eu.

Announcements and forum news : High cost of EU Food Information Regulation

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:50:51 +0000

Author: michael
Subject: High cost of EU Food Information Regulation
Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 11:50pm

An update on the high costs of an EU proposal to bring general and nutrition labelling together into a single regulation with the aim of simplifying and consolidating existing labelling legislation is given in the News Section.