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New eChef Site is Live

Posted on Thursday, April 24th, 2008, at 6:03 PM

My excuse for not blogging or generally producing any other content for the last couple months has been that I was busy working on a project for eChef. And so I am incredibly relieved to finally announce its completion.

Behold echefsoftware.com, the new home of eChef online! This new site is almost a complete rewrite. Neither Megan nor I were ever totally …

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eChef Update

Posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008, at 5:36 PM

In which I notify you that eChef 1.2 has been released, and expound upon my favorite new feature. With fancy zooming images!

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On Pixels and Knowing When to Quit

Posted on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008, at 4:06 PM

This weekend I attempted to fix a cosmetic bug in eChef that had been bothering me for a long time. It didn’t go so well.

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New eChef Store

Posted on Monday, July 30th, 2007, at 9:05 PM

This weekend we unveiled a brand new eChef store. This project has been the focus of my attention for a while now, and I’m really happy to finally have it live.

Previously, we were using Zen Cart for our store, which is a fine e-commerce solution in its own right, but was simply not designed with our type of business in mind. With …

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Software, Update Thyself

Posted on Saturday, March 10th, 2007, at 2:18 PM

I know it will be hard to wait, but the next installment of my captivating series of Japan posts is going to take a while to get up. The majority of the ones I’ve posted so far were at least partially written while I was still in Japan, but not so much from here out. In the meantime there are a couple …

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Long Story Short

Posted on Thursday, January 25th, 2007, at 8:14 PM

Ah, blogging, how I’ve missed you. First post of the new year, and man have I got some catching up to do. Somehow I didn’t even get around to mentioning that I would be in Japan for two weeks, even though Japan is likely my favorite thing to talk about ever. And here I am, back already.

So, quick recap: the Wii …

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An Adventure in Increments

Posted on Saturday, December 2nd, 2006, at 4:32 PM

And so, after many trials and tribulations, our heroes managed to finally release eChef 1.1. Peace and joy spread across the kingdom, and there was prosperity for generations to come.

The 1.1 release doesn’t have a lot of fancy new features. There are a few bug fixes, but thankfully we haven’t found very many things that need fixing. The …

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