Last week I uploaded the latest version of Sommelier.net.au.

The biggest upgrades are those that are behind the scenes. I upgrade the site’s framework to Cakephp 1.3 (from 1.2) which was relatively smooth but a few errors I wan’t expecting popped up, about the place. For example, the pagination is slightly different now and you need to print the flash statements which used to do so automatically (although, for consistencies sake, I think this is a good move). But for the most part, it was as simple as replacing the core cake files.

I also updated to JQuery 1.4 and JQuery UI 1.8. This was also quite straight forward and will hopefully mean from performance improvements. It also means including one less Javascript file as the Autocomplete widget is now part of JQuery UI so I don’t require bassistance’s wonderful plugin (it’s now part of the standard package).

So all in all I’m quite pleased.

I also added a ‘Ready to Drink’ section to the user home page which randomly selects 10 different wines in your cellar that have a ‘try next’ year of the current year or earlier. My hope is that this will mean you don’t overlook wines that you wanted to drink.

I also rearranges some fields so that they are grouped better in forms and improved some of the documentation.

As always, please send any comments you have on the site to wine@sommelier.net.au