Well, it’s been a little over a fortnight since the last update; despite that, progress continues on RecipeRadar.

Multi-device Collaboration

After some deep thought regarding a technical design for multi-user collaboration on RecipeRadar, we now have a specification written up. The engineering team is working towards implementing this.

Most good software includes tests to ensure that the code does what it intends to and that it doesn’t break during future changes. Unfortunately we’re hit a slight roadblock when attempting to write unit tests that cover the database functionality included in the application. The team has reported the issue upstream and is working on a possible fix.

Hacker News Discussion

There was a recent discussion thread on the popular ‘Hacker News’ technology forum regarding recipe search websites. You can read the entire thread here; RecipeRadar participated in the conversation, and as a result:

• We fixed some issues related to missing tuna-and-teriyaki-related recipes

• We received some feedback and ideas regarding ‘staple’ kitchen ingredients

• Some users contributed suggestions regarding kitchen pantry inventory management integrations

Coming up next

We’re hopeful that work on multi-user collaboration will soon become unblocked.

While we’re waiting for that to be the case, there are also a few smaller feature items that may we start work on, including showing some of the ingredient nutritional data (that we recently integrated into the knowledge graph) alongside each recipe.