Years ago I purchased the domain KimmysCookbook.com as a joke. A friend on facebook had posted a picture of her taking a turkey out of the oven and a bunch of us started commenting on it and eventually the domain came to be. She is a good cook, the joke wasn’t about her cooking, just about making a cookbook.
Anyway, I never did anything with it really, just posted that picture and let it sit. Got to thinking that it would be a cool recipe site and with all the new stuff coming out of Redmond recently, why not take the time to build it up piece by piece using these technologies.
I’ve been toying with the idea for a while, so I’ve already created a database locally for storage, but since we are looking to use new technologies and also doing it on the cheap and fast, we’ll use EF4’s code first ability tied with SQL Server CE 4.
Here’s the path I’m looking to take. Each of these will be a separate iteration and push to the server.
- Quick ASP.net MVC 3 with EF4 code first site
- Add Silverlight support for ingredient editing
- Add OData support
- Silverlight out of browser with touch support
- Windows Phone 7 application
As with any project, these items may change as we go along. Next entry will outline step 1.