The Johnson Blog

Chef has a feature called Recipe Slideshows which allow you to view a recipe fullscreen in a PowerPoint-like format that’s much easier to read while you’re cooking than the small text of a cookbook, or the regular view of a recipe in Chef for that matter. I’ve had that feature around for a while, [...]

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Version 1.2 is now available; get the upgrade if you’re already a user, or give it a try for the first time!
This release contains a few bug fixes and enhancements as requested by users.  The best new feature is Recipe Scaling, check it out.
Also along with this release is a modified installation procedure.  Rather than [...]

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Version 1.1 of Chef included a new feature for submitting crash reports if they happen in the wild. When one happens, the user has the option to send one in along with any comments and their email address (optional). It has always sounded like a good feature to have, but it took me [...]

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The dilemma is over, thanks to a few suggestions from David.
Here’s the result:

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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 [...]

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Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Chef Version 1.1.   Download the full version here, but if you’re a current user, you can download a much smaller upgrade now!
Enjoy!

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With just a few hours remaining in July, I’m happy to report that this month saw my first several sales of Chef. It’s interesting how that very first sale made me feel - just a couple days prior I had been asked by a few people if I had sold any. At [...]

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Due to an internet connection mishap and some resulting downtime over the past two days here at home, I decided it’s time to upgrade my hosting account and move my Chef website to it.  No longer is it running out of my basement.

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