May, 2009

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May 09

MeltingFood – Arborvitae Release

We’re up to the fourth minor release of MeltingFood (and the second in a week if you’re keeping count). It’s all part of the more rapid 1-2 week release schedule – or 4 days in this case.

We apologise that the last release was substantially broken in Internet Explorer (now fixed).

Highlights

  • Recipes can now be seen by everyone (no sign-up required).
  • The recipe layout has been re-jigged to fit things in a little more snugly (hopefully less scrolling needed when your hands are covered in dinner).
  • For Internet Explorer, the broken javascript is fixed and buttons should look a little prettier too.
  • Opt out of email has been added – so we don’t disturb anyone.
  • The recipe list and noise pages are slightly faster (cleaned-up some inefficient code).

There are also a couple of other tweaks, like using your whole name on your recipes – just to make sure people know who to thank.

Progress

We’ve got about 10 current users (accessed in the last month)! Yes that includes us, so back to 8 really ;)

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May 09

MeltingFood – Apricot Release

Just finished off the third minor release of MeltingFood, the recipe / food sharing website for the new millennium (the new millennium line is still good ’til the half way point – 491 years to go, then we switch from ‘new’ to ‘next’).

Highlights

  • When searching for your friends, auto-complete drops down to help you.
  • See friends of your friends (if your friends have any friends you can now see a list of those friends – clear?).
  • More ajax-y responses (for the non-geek, when you delete your recipes, add friends or reject friends, you won’t have to wait for the page to reload).
  • Slightly smaller pages (for the geeks, javascript framework change from Prototype to jQuery – more conducive to removing in-line js and forms).
  • Google Analytics – so we get some idea of how people are coming to / using the site.
  • Rough business plan.

There’s also a bunch of other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Progress

We’ve got about 8 current users (accessed in the last month)! And about 45 total users referred. This is without even resorting to nagging everyone we know (we’re keeping half in reserve ;p). Based on the business plan, this means we’re at 0.008% of the target (100k unique people per month :)).

But keep your eyes open in the next month… we’re eating our words and going public!