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Naming Dilemma

August 26th, 2007 @ 5:16 pm by EJ · 3 Comments

I need your help.

I’m implementing something in Chef and cannot come up with a good term for it. It’s the ability to scale a recipe (double, triple, halve, etc.). I have it implemented in such a way that you basically get a temporary, non-editable, non-savable version of the recipe with the amounts changed as desired.

Before implementing it, I referred to them as Scaled Recipes, but now that the framework is in place for more such temporary modifications I’ve taken to referring to them as Virtual Recipes. I think that would confuse some people, am I right? Do any of you have any other suggestions? If so, please leave comments or email me (ej@ejinnovations.com).

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  • 1 Dave // Aug 28, 2007 at 4:42 pm

    You should call them virtual buckets of synergy. People will get what’s going on.

  • 2 EJ // Aug 28, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    Thanks, Dave.

    :)

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