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We’re Finally Making Progress On A Better Community Site Experience Chef is awesome. Our existing community site experience…OK, but not awesome. We announced plans to revamp and open source the community site at the Community Summit in November and now were making good progress on that with Supermarket.

Nathen Harvey
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Hello! We are pleased to announce the release of a new version of the Management Console for Enterprise Chef 11, 1.2.1. Please contact support@getchef.com for details on obtaining this release. Several new configuration options exist to implement the functionality detailed below; review the docs for more information. Security Updates Update to Rails 3.2.

Nathan Smith
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Ohai chefs, As you know the next major version of Ohai (7.0.0) has been in the release candidate phase for a while now. You can learn about it more in our previous blog post or in Ohai 7 Release Notes.

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Here at Chef we’re working closely with Microsoft and the wider Windows Community to make Windows a first-class Chef experience. Microsoft is a big supporter of Chef and we’re continuing to add functionality and build out our joint engineering road map together.

Lucas Welch
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With four weeks to go until #ChefConf, we’re continuing to highlight the many Awesome Chefs presenting at the show. Today we’re previewing “Cynic to Believer – A Continuous Delivery Story w/Chef” by Sander van Harmelen from Schuberg Phillis. Sander’s talk takes place at 11:35 am on Wed., April 16.

Lucas Welch
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One of the most useful extensions available to Chef cookbook authors is the ability to write and use any arbitrary Ruby code as a library. These libraries are often no more than a few lines long, but can also be as simple or as sophisticated as you want.

Julian Dunn
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We’re just over a month away from #ChefConf 2014 and have already spotlighted some very cool training opportunities and released the full show agenda. To continue answering the question, “Why should I attend?” we’ll be spotlighting each of the keynote presentations and a handful of the session presentations over the next few weeks.

Lucas Welch
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This post originally appeared on Julian Dunn’s blog. I started my job at Opscode Chef a little over a year ago, on March 4, 2013. I admit that job-wise, I have a short attention span. Usually by this point in a technology job, I’m getting antsy and bored, but not at Chef.

Julian Dunn
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Ohai Chefs, It’s always exciting when Chef makes its way to a new platform. Today we’re announcing the availability of the preview release of Chef Client 11.10 for the PowerPC-based AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1 operating systems.

Adam Edwards