We start making you money today!

Dear fellow chefs,
I’m pleased to announce that we rolled out our first ads via Google AdSense today.  Effective immediately, the “Community Browse All” and individual “Recipe view” pages will feature a single banner ad at the top.
Every ad shown under the recipe view page will state the name of the person (who entered that recipe) [...]

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Server side index search kicks in

Sometime yesterday (Nov 2) we crossed internal threshold of the minimum number of recipes in the index required to trigger a server side search. What this means is that while filtering recipes down with search terms in the browse section, you can hit the space bar to cause a server side refresh of the table [...]

Code optimized with Google Closure Compiler

Today we released version 27 of the code optimized with Google’s Closure Compiler and SIMPLE_OPTIMIZATIONS. YouCooks was fast enough already, but hopefully you still see a marginal improvement.
Cheers
- Nauti

On YouCooks and Google TV!

At YouCooks, it is an understatement to say that we’re endlessly excited about HTML-5. Yeah, we’re computer geeks and we’re language and platform agnostic and all those nice-to-say things. And yeah, we hated JavaScript at one point too. But hey, the world has changed and changed for the better. Though we don’t think too badly [...]

About YouCooks Tech

Hello All
This is Nautilus, the chief architect of YouCooks. I’ll try and post here about some of the exciting “yappenings” within the tech team at YouCooks, and hopefully also talk about some of the nuances in our technology that made it such a joy to put YouCooks together under the fearless leadership of our Chief [...]

Hello Cooks!

This is the official YouCooks blog.  I’ll post notes about the site and upcoming features here. I hope to receive your feedback in the comments section when I open it up.
Cheers!
Mathangi