…it wasn’t bad at all. As you may have noticed, Fridge to Food beta 2 has been released.  It is now running on top of CakePHP and working wonderfully.  The rewrite took a little longer than I’d hoped, but all in all, a week and a half to completely redo 8 months of work is pretty spectacular.  I’m enjoying Cake.

There have been some added features and design remakes.  Also some lost features.  I dropped tag filtering from the main search for now.  It will soon return in an advanced search page – never fear.  I added view counts and ribbons.  There are only 5 ribbons you can gain right now, but there are many more to come!  Furthermore, there are lots of new ways to browse and an — I think — much improved browsing interface.  You can see only unphotographed recipes, or browse through photographs themselves as they get uploaded.  Also, the photo uploading interface has been much improved using Uploadify and JCrop   Great plugins those two!

All in all I’m very happy with the results.  Especially the design change that came after the initial release — the one where I moved the title and votes/comments/views bars to the top and bottom of the image respectively.  A huge shout out to @goingwithmygut and @labna on twitter who’s feedback inspired it.  That change was one of those things where, after I implemented it on the test server, neither Shel nor I could use the old Fridge to Food.  It was just too ugly by comparison!  Also a big shoutout to @RecipeTaster who’s excellent feedback lead to many small changes and tweaks.  Thanks guys!