The Johnson Blog

The day has finally arrived. We have a “Chef PC” in our kitchen!

This is the HP Touchsmart IQ770. That’s right, it’s a 19″ widescreen, touchscreen, all-in-one desktop running Windows Vista Home Premium and Microsoft Media Center. We first saw it Friday night at Office Depot, and today they had it on sale [...]

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It has been a while since mentioning Chef here, and I’ve had a few people ask me about it.  So here’s a quick update.
No, no sales yet.  I am getting a few downloads per week, which I’m pleased about since it is a 260MB download.  Maybe one of these days someone will take the plunge and [...]

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It has been a lot of work, but tonight I finished updating the website and released Version 1 of Chef Kitchen Management System. Give it a whirl and then tell others to try it too!

Now it’s on to the world of Google Analytics and AdWords

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Ok, so I have a question.  Which of the following domain names should I use as the main domain for Chef?
EjiChef.com
EjiChef.net
MyRecipeSoftware.com
TheRecipeSoftware.com
EjiSoftware.com
I own all of the above, and will point them to whichever is the best to use as the main domain.

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As I mentioned last night, I made the 1.0.0 build of Chef and started doing some installation testing on Vista.
It’s official - Vista’s UAC is kicking my ass.   It’s during the database setup that I’m having the problem.  Sql Server gets installed OK, it’s for some reason the database restore that times out.
Kinda tired of [...]

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This evening I started to work on the registration process for Chef. There are so many ways to accept payments that it makes my head spin.  A couple months ago I signed up for a RegNow account and they even waived the $20 setup fee for me.  I’ve only recently started setting things up with [...]

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The upload has just completed, so download it now!
There are numerous bug fixes in this release, alongside the major new feature of Recipe Sharing.  Users can now create Chef Recipe Packages and give them to other Chef owners to place into their collection.  Please feel free to check it out and let me know what [...]

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As a continuation of my last post, I thought some of you .net developers may be interested in hearing about some of the issues I ran into when strong naming.
Admittedly, this is my first real attempt at using strong naming as it’s intended and therefore I just wasn’t aware of a few things when I [...]

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