by Ben on December 9th, 2009
Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the Apple iPhone Tech Talk in New York City. Tech Talk content is similar to Apple’s WWDC sessions but much more distilled. Because of this you are presented with, in a one day event, all the things that Apple feels are most important or generally applicable when building iPhone apps. It is hard to explain how useful this is. In particular the sessions on user interface design and web technologies were outstanding.
What does this mean for SousChef? It means that SousChef for iPhone has gotten a nice bump of inspiration and some more ideas that I think will make it a killer recipe app for iPhone when it comes out. As always, we don’t comment on release dates since we’ll invariably miss them and make you unhappy.
Tags: Apple, iPhone, SousChef, tech talk
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by Kurt on November 24th, 2009
This morning we released SousChef v1.2.3 (v712). This update fixes several bugs and improves stability.
Version 1.2.3 fixes a crash during cloud searches performed by some PowerPC machines, and problems opening imported VRC and MacGourmet files. Problems occurring when certain recipes with images were posted to Blogger now work correctly. Stability during recipe editing has been improved, especially when removing items from recipes. SousChef now warns you before deleting a collection or folder of recipes. In addition to these, we’ve made a number of smaller improvements and bug fixes.
Download SousChef 1.2.3 Now
We hope you enjoy the latest version of SousChef, and continue to let us know how we can improve our software for you.
Tags: bug fixes, SousChef, update
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by Ben Lachman on September 9th, 2009
We’ve released SousChef 1.2.2 (v643) to address a crash that some users were experiencing when searching the cloud. This update is available via auto-update or for downloading here.
Just to note, the crash was due to a change in the GCC 4.2 tool chain that only occurs when building on 10.5.x (the versions of SousChef that were built using GCC 4.2 on Snow Leopard don’t exhibit the same crash).
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by Ben Lachman on September 8th, 2009
We released SousChef 1.2.1 (v641) today. This update fixes many bugs and introduces Snow Leopard support officially (previously available in beta).
A short list of fixes and improvements follows:
Bug Fixes
- Snow Leopard compatibility fixes
- Autocomplete is more subtle
- Focus doesn’t jump to previously selected text fields when editing recipes
- Can now reorganize recipe collections within a folder
- Fixed a bug where printing or mailing a grocery list wouldn’t work with a blank ingredient
- Fixed issues where you could select and edit outside the text fields
- Fixed a crash involving recipe importing after deleting
- Fixed a bug where ‘$’ in your recipe would stop you from blogging a recipe
This update may be downloaded here.
Tags: bug fix, snow leopard, SousChef, update
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by Ben Lachman on August 28th, 2009
We are making a beta version of SousChef that fixes compatibility issues with Snow Leopard available publicly. You can download it here (update: changed link to point to 1.2.1 final). Look for a full release in the near future. If you are seeing compatibility issues with Snow Leopard after installing this beta, please contact our support team and make sure you reference the build number shown in SousChef’s about screen as we’ll be updating the beta periodically.
Update: We’ve released 1.2.1 final. Get it here.
Tags: beta, snow leopard, SousChef
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by Ben Lachman on July 3rd, 2009
On Wednesday, SousChef’s online recipe database passed 100,000 recipes. This represents an order of magnitude more recipes than I ever though might be submitted in the first year of the product’s life. This number of recipes brings SousChef onto the same level, in terms of amount of content and in our opinion vastly superior in terms of user experience, with some of the medium size recipes sites. This is something I never really expected to happen. Ever. But definitely not in the first year. This huge amount of growth has not come without growing pains—we continue to work on improving search performance, both in speed and accuracy, and are working to add more features to the cloud.
Because this is such an important milestone for SousChef, I want to share some stats to illustrate the current size of the cloud:
SousChef now has over 30,000 active users, of which almost 4,000 have contributed recipes. This works out to each contributing user adding, on average, 25 recipes. In reality, many contribute more—our largest contributing user alone has added a staggering 20,315 recipes. To cook every recipe in the database it would take you 92 years cooking 3 courses per meal per day. Lastly, the recipes in the cloud contain references to roughly 1.1 million ingredients, bringing the the cloud to an average of 11 ingredients per recipe. I don’t know about you, but I am stunned by some of these stats.
In closing I just want to say thank to all our users and we hope to continue making a it easier and more fun for you to cook with you computer (and soon iPhone!) going forward.
In other news: We have a couple other projects and possibilities in the cards so stay tuned for more info!
Tags: 100000, cloud, SousChef
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by Ben Lachman on May 16th, 2009
Users trying to search the SousChef recipe cloud today (Saturday May 16th) may have experienced no search results. This was caused by corruption in the recipe cloud due to optimizations put in place to better handle search load. We’ve been working to fix the issue and now have the cloud back online without any loss of data.
We are instituting stricter testing methodology for the future so that an issue like this, should it ever happen again, will be detected quickly which would have made the diagnosis and fix more straight forward.
Our sincere apologies. Thanks for bearing with us.
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by Ben Lachman on May 5th, 2009
This morning we released SousChef v1.2. Only six weeks ago we released v1.1 for MacHeist. What became version 1.2 was originally going to be a quick bug fix release. However as we looked at the feature requests and possibilities to improve on v1.1, it became apparent that with the amount of changes and additions in the update it did warrant a full point release.
Version 1.2 adds metric support, a highly requested feature, and the ability to convert recipes from one system to another. In addition the recipe import engine has been improved drastically in the area of ingredient detection. We’ve also expanded the base ingredient dictionary we work from to over 1,600 ingredients. In our testing the import feature is now much more accurate. In addition to metric support we’ve added the ability to page through search results in the cloud, allowing you to find the exact recipe you’re looking for and increases the speed of searching. Along with these feature’s are a myriad of smaller improvements and bug fixes. Enjoy!
SousChef v1.2 Press Release
Full v1.2 release notes
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by Ben on April 11th, 2009
We’ve been getting a lot of e-mails about users having trouble using the cloud – search results are extremely slow, or nonexistent. We believe the lag in search results had to do with SousChef’s recipe cloud being overloaded during the final days that the MacHeist bundle was on sale. The rapid increase in users means that our recipe cloud is growing by leaps and bounds – the cloud has grown to over 40,000 recipes, which is amazing! But such swift growth led to some serious delays.
We’re pleased to report that we did a lot of performance work on the cloud over the past several nights, and things should be greatly improved. That being said, if you’re still not receiving any results from the cloud, keep reading. Licenses were being generated through MacHeist at such a fast pace that we’ve discovered that some were not correctly added to the cloud, which is why some users may still not see search results since your license key is used to verify your access to the cloud. We’ve since created all of the missing accounts. If you are one of the people who are experiencing this issue, simply double check that your license key is entered correctly and then clear your username from the General pane of SousChef’s preferences by clicking “Edit Username…”, deleting the existing username and clicking “OK”. You may then enter a new username or use the same one by clicking “Edit Username…” again.
We’re sorry for the inconvenience, if you continue to have trouble please don’t hesitate to contact our support team.
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by Ben Lachman on March 31st, 2009
Version 1.1 has been released via Auto-Update for all versions prior to 1.1. Click “Check for Updates…” in the SousChef application menu to update to the latest version.
Note that Mac OS X Tiger support has been dropped due to issues with Tiger and the new Grocery List feature.
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