Build: 2026-06-08-816

Release Notes:

• Friday, December 5, 2025:
  • Updated libraries from libman.
  • Updated various nuget packages.
  • Corrected database connection string in HealthyEatingMaintenance Azure function.
• Thursday, November 20, 2025:
  • Rationalized variable names to explanatory as needed.
  • Established repo in github, rather than Visual Studio online.
  • Defined kestral port endpoints in appsettings.
  • Switched to slnx format for solution file.
  • Removed old admin and database projects from solution.
  • Added .vscode files and established compatibility with Visual Studio Code.
• Wednesday, November 12, 2025:
  • Updated to Visual Studio 2026.
  • Updated to .NET 10, C# 14.
  • Updated to SQL Server Management Studio 21.
  • Updated nuget packages.
• Tuesday, November 11, 2025:
  • Moved base js includes to head section of layout to eliminate various spurious not defined errors.
• Thursday, October 30, 2025:
  • Fixed Food Diary to fully handle session and login timeouts.
• Wednesday, October 29, 2025:
  • Browse foods was wrong! Broken since 7-30-2021!!!
  • Fixed by getting the measureIndex correct.
  • Removed superfluous ApplicationCache.Cache.Set() entries in food browser.
  • Updated nuget packages and libman libraries.
• Tuesday, October 28, 2025:
  • Fixed missing HttpUtility.JavaScriptStringEncode() in recipe analyzer.
  • Added additional register domain exclusions.
• Thursday, October 23, 2025:
  • Cleaned up legacy "@section scripts" odds and ends.
  • Fixed product label buffering on page change:
    • Changed to beforeunload, as onunload is deprecated.
    • Moved beforeunload from body to window, so that it would make the QuickBufferLabel() call.
    • Fixed QuickBufferLabel() to actually work.
    • To be fair, this code was 10+ years old, and changes/updates rusted it.
• Wednesday, October 22, 2025:
  • Added a max width to container-fluid (Bootstrap). On 4K screens, full width was silly.
• Saturday, October 4, 2025:
  • Switched layout to container-fluid to best use width on smaller devices.
• Friday, October 3, 2025:
  • Fixed inputmode on html inputs to use decimal and text keyboards where appropriate.
    • It was set to numeric even where decimal was called for!
    • Holy crap! This was wrong all over the place!
    • This only affected phones.
    • Mea culpa! I'm an idiot!
• Wednesday, October 1, 2025:
  • Fixed a Quill initialization error.
  • Added tooltips to the Quill toolbar.
  • Generalized the pauseCompletion/synchronization javascript code in the food diary.
  • Finished the Entrée/Recipe Manager re-factor in the food diary.
• Saturday, September 27, 2025:
  • Recipe analyzer deprecation work:
    • Recipes will be replaced by master entrées. These will still be called recipes.
    • Entrées are created (cooked, prepared) from recipes, formerly master entrées.
    • Entrées are what we can enter into the food diary as part of a meal.
    • The Entrée Manager view has been refactored to use the current recipe analyzer look and feel.
    • Diary.ts and RecipeAnalyzer.ts have been reconciled.
    • The Master Entrée manager is now accessible in the food diary even when not logged in.
    • This work is ongoing.
  • Fixed a cog bug in Food Diary.
• Tuesday, September 23, 2025:
  • Added a new bad registration rule.
  • Decoupled DiaryEntreeManager and DiaryFoodDay views from the index view in Food Diary.
  • Miscellaneous bug fixes.
  • Nuget package updates.
• Friday, September 12, 2025:
  • Expanded and fixed the guarantee of event ordering as needed.
    • For example, you might click "Save" after editing an amount or measure.
    • The onchange for the amount MUST complete a server call, and its adjustments to the DOM.
    • This completion MUST happen BEFORE the subsequent call to Save.
    • The DOM adjustments may include javascript, which may initialize controls.
    • If that javascript has not completed, references to controls updated by the Save may fail.
• Tuesday, September 9, 2025:
  • Finally, after years of annoyance, blocked all clicks during login. Lazy me.
• Monday, September 8, 2025:
  • Cleaned up some html formatting on the recipe and entrée screens.
• Sunday, September 7, 2025:
  • Updated TypeScript in IDE to ES2024.
  • Fixed next/prev bug when adding new entrée to food diary.
  • Fixed the issue around guaranteeing that textarea onchange event always completes before save button onclick.
• Friday, September 5, 2025:
  • Fixed SimpleEntree initialization in EntreeRebuildAnalyzerObjects(). Dopey me!
  • Disallowed no match ingredients on SaveRecipe() and SaveEntree().
  • Fixed onchange webapi call for textareas to complete prior to onclick from save button.
  • Fixed collapse of editor and instructions to animate as intended.
  • Added hide variant on notes/instructions buttons.
• Thursday, September 4, 2025:
  • Added AnalyzerData and SimpleEntree columns to Entrees table.
  • Added initialization, create and update refactors for the new columns.
  • Removed legacy json attributes from diary model.
  • Improved Font Awesome icons for lock, info, delete in EntreeManager.
  • Added nutrition label view for individual items in EntreeManager.
  • Fixed injected style bug in common.ts.
  • Gram weights on nutrition labels round to nearest int. The fractions were stupid.
  • Improved Font Awesome icons for lock, info, delete in RecipeAnalyzer.
  • Added nutrition label view for individual items in RecipeAnalyzer.
  • Fixed bugs related to jquery replacement.
• Monday, September 1, 2025:
  • Quill now clears and closes as needed when we load or delete recipes and entrées.
• Friday, August 29, 2025:
  • DeleteMasterEntree() stays on entree management screen, with a clear.
  • clearAutoComplete() now clears the control even when it is disabled.
  • If we re-add a Master Entrée that was previously disabled:
    • The master entrée is restored with updated servings, weight and ingredients.
    • The master entrée chain (if there were any uses) is restored, unchanged.
• Thursday, August 28, 2025:
  • Fully refactored SetDiaryView(). It was a redonculous mess.
  • Refactored EntreeManager() to reflect (no OO pun intended) new chain structures.
  • Requests to the database are greatly reduced.
  • Fixed a critical bug in EntreeReadAllAsync(). Your future is my past, and your past is my future!
• Wednesday, August 27, 2025:
  • Fixed text0 javascript exception in SetDiaryView().
  • SetDiaryView
• Saturday, August 23, 2025:
  • Fixed empty amount bug in diary input editor.
• Wednesday, August 20, 2025:
  • Fixed the sorting of favorites/recents dropdown in diary.
  • Limited favorites/recents dropdown to 100 entries.
  • Updated favorites/recents list when a new food gets added to diary.
  • Leftovers older than 14 days have been eliminated.
  • Fixed/upgraded "leftover food" bugs and annoyances.
• Monday, August 18, 2025:
  • Added additional rules to bad actor detector in register.
  • Fixed the vertical controls on left to not scroll off-screen.
  • Refactored entrée chains to use a double linked list.
    • Entrées were developed more than ten years ago as a solution for the food diary.
    • They enabled the concept of leftovers from recipe derived meals.
    • As the code evolved, I used an int column used to indicate deprecation to indicate a single linked list of changes.
    • This was a bad choice which I have now rectified.
    • This lays the groundwork to replace recipes with master entrées.
    • Master entrées are indeed recipes, and exhibit all their properties.
• Sunday, August 10, 2025:
  • Added checks (minimal) for bad actors on registration.
• Saturday, August 9, 2025:
  • Removed the legacy columns DateAccessed, PrepTime, CookTime and ReadyTime from Recipe.
  • Fixed secondary input html. We needed "module" rather than "text/javascript".
  • Added call to DeleteBadUsers stored procedure in Admin maintenance.
  • Updated nuget packages.
• Friday, August 8, 2025:
  • Removed legacy and bot users and their associated data.
  • Created DeleteBadUsers stored procedure to do the bad user and associated data deletes.
  • Removed the legacy "Sample" column from entrées and diary items.
  • Set Quill debug level to "warn". It was way too chatty.
  • Secondary input partial view (recipes and entrées) updated to use current controls and styles.
    • The original code dates to 2011. Wow.
  • Updated partial view (html) insertion
    • Any scripts with an id now delete an existing matching script from the dom.
    • Scripts of javascript now insert as such, rather than as modules.
    • All scripts inserted preserve id if it exists.
• Saturday, August 2, 2025:
  • Font Awesome kit downloaded and minimum needed files added directly to project.
  • Adjusted/corrected asp-append-version and crossorigin in layout file.
• Thursday, July 31, 2025:
  • Finishing an effort that began in January 2025, dependence on jQuery has been removed!
    • I have used jQuery for 15+ years.
    • In that time, JavaScript has evolved greatly.
    • For me, jQuery is no longer necessary. It is a bloated crutch.
    • Once Bootstrap eliminated jQuery dependence in version 5, the writing was on the wall.
    • Special thanks to Paul for shaming me into doing the right thing!
    • Lots of rusted code was sanded off, lingering bugs and annoyances fixed, and some folder structure adjusted.
    • This was a heck of an effort and a very satisfying scrum!
  • The last remaining libraries with jQuery dependence have been replaced:
    • Quill has replaced Summernote as our WYSIWYG editor.
    • BootboxJS has been replaced with direct Bootstrap 5 modals.
  • GitHub Copilot Chat (GPT-4o) used for much re-factoring. Here are just two examples:
    • Example 1: Refactor of $.post to fetch
      • $.post() was used in 103 calls.
      • I had Copilot refactor a single instance of $.post to fetch.
      • I edited and tested with any eye to minimizing .net controller changes in c# post controllers.
      • I then had Copilot refactor all $.post() instances in the file.
      • It made the correct implementation of a single wrapper function, then applied it everywhere needed.
      • The wrapper function was moved to the global heartBeat.ts file.
      • I then refactored and tested file by file. This was incredibly fast!
    • Example 2: Replacement of Bootbox library with vanilla Bootstrap/JavaScript modals.
      • Four flavors of Bootbox dialogs were used in 51 calls.
      • I asked Copilot to create Bootstrap functions to replace each of the four Bootbox flavors.
      • Code footprint reduced from 1200+ lines to 184 lines of JavaScript.
      • I tested each one.
      • I replaced and tested a file at a time. Very, very fast refactor!
    • Amazing amount of saved time overall!
• Wednesday, July 23, 2025:
  • Adjusted recipe/entrée tooltips in food diary to show normalized portions, with header.
• Tuesday, July 22, 2025:
  • Fixed minor nutrition label serving size anomaly.
  • Adjusted javascript uncaught exception handling.
• Thursday, July 10, 2025:
  • Finished refactoring all jquery to javascript in common.ts.
  • Moved toggleCheck(controlId) to recipeAnalyzer.ts where it belongs.
• Wednesday, July 9, 2025:
  • Cleaned up javascript exception reporting.
  • Removed incorrect result.AddText(..., "timeMilliseconds") when not logged in as admin.
  • Generalized timeMilliseconds performance display to users with "superuser" role.
  • Miscellaneous nuget updates.
• Sunday, July 6, 2025:
  • Fixed FixupLine() for " - " regex error.
    • This has been broken for many, many years.
    • Mostly benign, with VERY annoying ui dissonance.
    • Very, very subtle. Took some hours to understand.
  • Removed several invalid (but benign) valueSet() insertions.
  • Refactored common.ts to remove jQuery.
    • Refactored the lines GitHub Copilot failed on.
    • This was "rust" from code written way prior to 2015.
  • Updated libman.json and post build commands:
    • All libraries now update with minimum required files.
    • All libraries load to proper, common ""wwwroot/lib"" folder.
  • Basically, continued to modernize and reduce the code.
• Friday, July 4, 2025:
  • Fixed diary entries caching bug, greatly improving speed.
  • Fixed issues with libman restores obliterating custom mods to:
    • lekoala-bootstrap5-autocomplete: Autocomplete for Bootstrap 5
    • flatpickr: Datetime Picker.
• Thursday, July 3, 2025:
  • Updated nuget libraries to latest.
  • Began the final effort to remove all jquery references, which requires (mostly):
    • 1. Replace all $.post() with js fetch equivalent.
    • 2. Replace all $() references.
    • 3. Replace all bootbox calls with native bootstrap.
  • GitHub Copilot makes the jquery removal a breeze!
• Wednesday, July 2, 2025:
  • Removed legacy jquery-validate libraries.
  • Updated bootstrap, bootbox.
  • Removed the deprecated signalR library.
  • Confirmed endemic signalR functionality.
  • Updated libman and npm processes.
• Tuesday, July 1, 2025:
  • Fixed the missing Autocomplete.init("#searchMeasuresSelect"); bug.
• Monday, June 30, 2025:
  • Adjusted session/login expired.
    • If we hit the logout icon after expiry, we automatically start on the login page.
    • You have to log in to logout.
    • Rather than then redirect to the logout page after re-logging in, we redirect to the food diary.
    • This was the common use case I always executed during use.
• Sunday, June 29, 2025:
  • Adjusted label entry sanity check to allow acceptance.
• Saturday, June 28, 2025:
  • Fixed portion = 1 bug in master entrée save.
• Monday, June 23, 2025:
  • Added sanity check to calories on label entry.
    • I had a typo of 99g (rather than 9g) of fat on a label.
    • It had an entered value of 160 calories.
    • This led to cognitive dissonance in reports and diaries!
• Sunday, June 22, 2025:
  • Fixed rename labels.
  • Fixed master entrée manager labeling error.
  • Removed searchable entreeFilter from entrée edits.
• Saturday, June 21, 2025:
  • Fixed date change to work in food diary when not logged in.
  • Fixed session/login expire in food diary to clear model.
• Friday, June 20, 2025:
  • Adjusted bootstrap tooltips on iPad to display appropriately.
    • I had a hideAllBootstrapToolTips(); in Diary.ItemClick() after ajax post.
    • hideAllBootstrapToolTips() re-factored to optionally NOT hide the calling element's tooltip.
• Tuesday, June 17, 2025:
  • Fixed adjudicate cache git merge errors.
• Tuesday, June 17, 2025:
  • Re-worded carbohydrate label in progress reports. It bugged me.
  • Fixed the display bug in nutrition label to indicate proper unary serving size amount, i.e., "1".
  • Re-factored nutrition label BuildStrings() to always use human readable number notation.
  • Added more info to uncaught javascript bugs logged by elmah.
• Thursday, June 12, 2025:
  • Fixed a minor javascript exception managing a bootstrap tooltip.
  • Moved all deleteAllBootstrapToolTips() calls to before ajax posts, fixing potential minor js exceptions.
• Tuesday, June 11, 2025:
  • Outlines on some controls in progress reports were too fine. Increased line thickness.
  • Outlines on some controls in recipe analyzer were too fine. Increased line thickness.
  • Outlines on some controls in diary/entrée manager were too fine. Increased line thickness.
• Monday, June 10, 2025:
  • Fixed master entrée edit bug introduced yesterday. Oopsie.
  • Fixed javascript autocomplete exception on entreeFilter control.
• Monday, June 9, 2025:
  • Closed gaps and added curve in progress reports weight line graph.
• Saturday, June 7, 2025:
  • Fixed edge case where the food name and the amount are the same.
    • Example "1 leek".
    • This becomes "1 leek leek".
    • This is because one of the default amounts for "leek" is "leek."
    • This is contained in a USDA dataset.
    • This has been there for 10+ years. Weird.
  • Moved to SQL Server 2022 on Everleap.
  • Updated all Nuget packages.
  • Merged the "ReplaceTelerik" branch to "Main".
  • Refactored redundant initialization code.
  • Fixed a next/prev food diary bug introduced by the removal of Telerik.
  • Switched from SendGrid to Everleap for our smtp email.
• Monday, March 24, 2025:
  • Refined the foods search filter for a bit more speed and efficiency.
• Sunday, March 23, 2025:
  • Refactored the foods search for speed and efficiency.
  • This fixed an out of memory error serializing a humongous json object.
  • The json serialization was bogus, and is removed.
  • Foods search is noticeably quicker.
• Sunday, March 16, 2025:
  • It's been a while! And yes, not dead yet!
  • The Progress Telerik framework has been completely removed and replaced with open source widgets!
    • lekoala-bootstrap5-autocomplete: Autocomplete for Bootstrap 5.
    • My own bespoke numeric textbox.
    • flatpickr: Datetime Picker.
    • Chart.js: Charting Library
    • Summernote: WYSIWYG Editor
    • Grid.js: Advanced Table Plugin
  • Updated to .Net 9, C# 13.
  • Updated to latest Entity Framework.
  • Updated all other nuget packages to latest.
  • Many bugs and edge cases fixed.
• Sunday, April 7, 2024:
  • Fixed/updated Azure Function that manages SQL exception table.
    • Switched to isolated worker model.
    • Added deletes for bootstrap and signalR not found.
  • Updated nuget packages to latest.
• Monday, March 11, 2024:
  • No site crashes since the March 1 update.
  • The intermittent 503 locks when in .net 8 appear solved!
• Friday, March 1, 2024:
  • Added options.EnableRetryOnFailure() in several places where it was missing.
  • This may affect the intermittent 503 locks when in .net 8.
  • Updated nuget packages, mainly entity framework core.
• Saturday, January 20, 2024:
  • Looking into the intermittent 503 locks when in .net 8.
  • Executed a completely clean build and deploy, with website wiped of files previous to deploy.
• Sunday, January 14, 2024:
  • Added [HttpPost] to DeleteRecipeLine().
    • Some oddball crawler blasted the site with GETs, and it surfaced this missed attribute.
    • Thank you to whoever or whatever you are using servers in California and Germany.
    • I still wasn't compromised.
  • SetRecipeJsVars() made private.
• Friday, January 12, 2024:
  • Application returned to .net 8.
  • Fixed wrong amount update in foods browser, UpdateNutritionLabel().
    • This has been there for years!
    • Only caused display dissonance when a default serving amount was not one, e.g., "2 oz".
  • Removed ChangeMeasureRetainWeight() from FoodItem model.
    • It was only called once.
    • Replaced with two lines of code.
• Thursday, December 14, 2023:
  • Fixed a diary issue related to user login and timeouts.
  • Application reverted to .net 7
    • With .net 8, the application hangs after ~96 hours, no exceptions, no logs, no stdout.
    • Verified with several restarts.
    • Unsure whether it is the hosting environment or .net 8 itself.
    • Deferred until I have some time to solve.
• Tuesday, October 31, 2023:
  • Added logging to track memory cache use.
  • Verified cache use and memory stability (no leaks).
  • Sliding expiration in minutes split to user vs anonymous, stored in HealthyEatingDomain.Constants.
    • User session objects sliding expiration increased to 60 minutes.
    • Anonymous session objects sliding expiration reduced to 15 minutes.
• Sunday, October 29, 2023:
  • Added a ClearPreviousCachedLoginEntries() to Login, Logout and session expiry in SessionAuthController abstract base class.
    • This cleans up application cache entries associated with a logged in user.
    • It occurred to me that we would (and did) have memory leaks associated with session and identity expirations.
    • We must always remember that session timeout and identity timeout are independent, even if set to the same value.
    • This is also called to clean up expired user sessions via SessionAuthController, see the next comments.
  • Added a cache entry on login to save sessionId against userId (as key) in application cache.
    • This has a 30 minute sliding expiration, after which the key returns a null value.
    • This also has a PostEvictionCallback to clear expired cached values associated with this user.
      • The PostEvictionCallback executes ClearPreviousCachedLoginEntries().
    • This entry is queried by SessionAuthController abstract base class in every controller constructor.
    • Remember, PostEvictionCallback is NOT called on the sliding expiration, but on the eviction.
    • Eviction occurs on the next action on the cache, resulting in the callback and cleanup.
    • This works, as the callback occurs before the return to the cache action call.
• Thursday, October 26, 2023:
  • Updated nuget packages, mainly entity framework and identity.
  • Updated bootstrap, signalr, jquery and jquery-validate to latest versions (libman.json).
• Tuesday, October 24, 2023:
  • Removed all code and references to Branded Food Products Database (BFPD, from USDA).
  • Added "::MainFoods" override to label entry filter, to allow back fills from the main foods database.
• Saturday, October 14, 2023:
  • Adjudicate.cshtml was missing script tag for kendoGrid.min.js. Oops.
• Tuesday, October 10, 2023:
  • Fixed recipe analyzer where changes from secondary input are not recognized.
• Wednesday, October 4, 2023:
  • Updated favicon and manifest files for such.
• Sunday, October 1, 2023:
  • Fixed issue with guest labeling on progress screens.
  • Fixed background launch task for diary model and progress model on login.
  • Updated numerous nuget packages, mainly entity framework and support packages.
• Friday, September 29, 2023:
  • Fixed thrown exception when entrée input line ends in a number.
  • Updated maintenance SQL stored procedures to better screen logged elmah exceptions.
• Monday, August 7, 2023:
  • Increased to 225ms the delay in the dispose function in deleteAllBootstrapToolTips().
  • Added option EnableRetryOnFailure() to AddDbContext in Program.cs.
  • Fixed food diary exception when "item" view is mistakenly propagated on an item delete.
• Monday, July 31, 2023:
  • Fixed error in ReportSeriesUpdateAsync().
• Tuesday, July 25, 2023:
  • Fixed deleteAllBootstrapToolTips() to hide and wait for completion prior to delete.
• Sunday, July 23, 2023:
  • Tech Debt (.NET 7, C# 11.0):
    • Cleared unnecessary async/await.
    • Minimal new() declarations.
    • Changed regex to use regular expression source generators via [GeneratedRegex] attribute.
    • Changed string functions to use Span<> where applicable.
    • Changed string functions to use Concat with spans where applicable.
• Wednesday, July 19, 2023:
  • Fixed account settings weight options.
  • Fixed account settings nutrition label options.
  • Optimized account settings.
  • Optimized the flow through of account setting changes.
  • Optimized and cleaned up the login async initializers.
• Monday, July 17, 2023:
  • Updated nuget packages (Entity Framework, etc.)
  • Tweaks to tooltips.
  • Fixed userPrefs null exception issue in admin functions.
• Sunday, July 9, 2023:
  • Updated nuget packages.
  • Fixed minor labeling problem in food diary DailySummaryString() with edit to GetNutritionByMasterLabelString().
  • Added semaphore to UpdateSeriesForDay() to gate database update.
  • Re-factored Admin, Diary, Foods, Progress Reports, Labels, and Recipe Analyzer controllers:
    • Replaced Session Set/Get (serializers) with direct use of ApplicationCache.
    • Added semaphores to code that needed to be gated.
  • Replaced Session Set/Get (serializers) with direct use of ApplicationCache in all other cases.
  • Cleaned up and simplified SessionAuthController abstract class.
  • Cleaned up and updated Logout(OnPost) to correctly delete login dependent cache entries.
  • Cleaned up and re-factored LoginHealthyInitializer() to reflect cache re-factoring.
• Wednesday, June 28, 2023:
  • Updated Bootstrap to 5.3.0.
  • Re-factored html in Food Diary, with flex in mind. It was a Frankenstein mess implemented over 10+ years.
  • Re-factored food diary UI for useability, appearance and speed.
  • Object semaphoreSlimDiary now instantiates specific to user.
  • Moved DiaryModel to the main cache for speed, with sliding expiration.
• Saturday, June 24, 2023:
  • Fixed Food Diary issues involving multiple simultaneous posts:
    • Added await HttpContext.Session.CommitAsync() to _semaphoreSlimDiary protected code locks.
    • Refactored constructor and index of DiaryController.
    • Re-added OnPostInitializeModel() to all posts.
  • Fixed issue with client DateTime and iso time string.
• Saturday, June 17, 2023:
  • Fixed UpdateEditFoodAmount():
    • Added ParseFirstLeadingNumber() to get first leading number and pending operation.
    • Properly replace leading number string with underlying float value as necessary.
• Friday, June 16, 2023:
  • Fixed display issues with food diary nutrition labels. Buildstrings() was required prior to label serialization.
  • Added !string.IsNullOrEmpty(TodayDiaryItems[ItemIndex].Entity.AmountString) in UpdateEditFoodAmount() to fix null exception.
• Monday, June 5, 2023:
  • Fixed slight round off errors when adding or editing food diary entries.
  • General code cleanup and commenting.
• Thursday, June 1, 2023:
  • Continued refactoring and documenting NutritionLabel:
    • Removed redundant LOADRECIPE type.
    • Fixed NutritionLabel adder LOADRECIPE executions.
    • Renamed properties to reflect current, rather than historical, origins/use.
    • Renamed nutrition label types to better represent use.
    • Eliminated CompositeLabel boolean. It was unnecessary.
    • Removed dead code in NutritionLabel adder after CompositeLabel elimination.
• Monday, May 29, 2023:
  • Updated node and lint.
  • Cleaned up typescript files with lint.
  • Rebuilt diary nutrition labels in the database to correct for yesterday's fixes.
• Sunday, May 28, 2023:
  • Fixed Twilio/SendGrid account settings. Email was out. Sorry about that.
  • Removed LabelNutritionUnits, as it was extraneous.
  • Debugged using MasterNutritionUnits directly.
  • Fixed a lingering issue rendering nutrition strings to the displayed nutrition label.
  • Fixed nutrition label adder to preserve display order of nutrition units.
• Saturday, May 27, 2023:
  • Removed the deprecated nutrition label version.
  • Removed options allowing display of the deprecated nutrition label version.
• Thursday, May 25, 2023:
  • Cleaned up Measure() code.
  • Updated nuget packages.
  • Updated libman libraries.
• Wednesday, May 3, 2023:
  • Shortened portion descriptions with trailing parentheses when they are applied to labels.
  • Screened pluralization of portions for end words like raw, frozen, etc.
  • Added a pluralization function with simple lookup, and pluralization rules when lookup fails.
• Tuesday, May 2, 2023:
  • Fixed HumanReadableAmountStr() to retain/return float amount un-rounded to the readable string amount.
  • Fixed BuildStrings() to adjust for un-rounded floats from HumanReadableAmountStr().
  • Fixed DiaryController constructor to initialize _diaryModel, which is needed by post(s).
• Monday, May 1, 2023:
  • Updated UpdateSeriesForDay() to retrieve ("Calories").CalculatedForPortion rather than ("Calories").BasisWeight.
  • Updated nuget packages.
• Wednesday, March 8, 2023:
  • Fixed issues around asynchronous/out-of-order calls to DiaryItemInsert, DiaryItemSave, ItemEditAmountChanged, and DiaryItemDelete in the Food Diary.
  • Fixed the lack of EntreesRestoreNextPrev() in the re-factored code from last week.
  • Fixed issues around login/logout and diary model initialization.
  • Updated TypeScript to ES2021. Don't know why I haven't done this sooner.
• Friday, March 3, 2023:
  • Added inputmode="numeric" where appropriate to use numeric keyboard on mobile devices.
• Monday, February 27, 2023:
  • Fixed FoodDiaryModel.GetNutritionLabel() when just a single diary entry.
  • Cleaned up diary daily summary.
  • Fixed concurrency issues when Diary amount changes.
    • If insert new item or save item are pressed after the amount edit, multiple concurrent posts occur.
    • These are onchange for the amount field, and the insert or save for the button.
    • Amount is now posted with the insert/save and updated if necessary.
    • A semaphore slim is used to allow each call to complete synchronously.
• Saturday, February 25, 2023:
  • Fixed save edit after other item click exception in diary.
  • Added a GetDiaryModel to diary "inProcess" loops to ensure that a changed amount is caught.
  • Corrected a typo in the diary food input partial view.
• Friday, February 24, 2023:
  • Cleaned up Diary controller.
    • Moved entries cache generation in model to constructor.
    • Entries cache retains cache entries on date changes and when data user id doesn't change.
    • Cleaned up the timeout logic.
    • Verified single model creation as needed, no multiple calls.
    • Cleaned up and sped up diary initialization.
    • This speeds up diary overall.
  • Fixed single quotes in toISOStringWithTimezone() javascript.
  • Updated various libraries.
• Sunday, February 5, 2023:
  • Eliminated the use of moment.js. It is no longer required.
  • Upgraded TypeScript to ES2017.
  • Upgraded to .NET 7.0.
  • Removed unused code/arguments in diary.ts.
  • Updated nuget packages, including Entity Framework, Serilog, various build and code analysis libraries, etc.
  • Replaced checkboxes with javascript Font Awesome control in order that Mac Safari displays them correctly.
  • Checked diary local time for zero, re-adjust as necessary.
  • This was actually a fairly large set of updates.
• Thursday, November 3, 2022:
  • Updated nuget libraries, mainly entity framework.
  • Read the release notes from Monday. Scared myself.
• Wednesday, November 2, 2022:
  • Fixed issues around changing diary views with an edit open.
• Tuesday, November 1, 2022:
  • Fixed return from entrée edit bug I introduced yesterday.
  • Fixed the non-persistence of text lock in entrée edit. This has eluded me for years!
• Monday, October 31, 2022:
  • BOO!
  • Fixed nutrition label update for current DiaryItem on SaveEntree().
  • Fixed entrée tooltip to reflect description lock.
  • Fixed entrée tooltip to update after an edit.
  • Fixed recipe tooltip to reflect description lock.
  • Updated FoodDiaryModel.GetNutritionLabel() to use persisted nutrition labels.
• Sunday, October 30, 2022:
  • Fixed administration recipe label regeneration to output correct entrée labels.
  • Fixed SaveEntree() to update its persisted NutritionLabel.
  • Fixed SaveEntree() to update corresponding DiaryItem.
  • Fixed bug in EntreeFoodsPortionsUpdateAsync() to correctly update portions and ingredients.
  • Fixed NutritionLabel update in EntreeMasterSaveFromParsedRecipe().
  • Fixed EntreeUpdateFromParsedRecipe() to persist NutritionLabel.
• Friday, October 28, 2022:
  • Fixed insert entrée error introduced by refactor.
• Thursday, October 27, 2022:
  • Fixed ParseLineToMeasure() to correctly output human readable amount strings on edge cases.
  • Fixed GetNutritionByMasterLabelString() to return proper display string.
  • Fixed up entrée amount strings where they were not in kitchen readable form.
• Saturday, October 22, 2022:
  • Added [JsonIgnore] to NutritionLabel.LabelUnits, as they are display only.
• Friday, October 21, 2022:
  • Corrected rebuild of entrée and diary buffered nutrition labels.
  • Ensured proper nutrition label typing in food diary model.
  • Removed useless nutrition label calls in food diary model.
  • Removed unused column in entrée ingredients table.
  • Corrected the nutrition label string builders to properly handle entrées and diary entry types.
• Thursday, October 20, 2022:
  • Fixed entrée nutrition label errors introduced by re-factor.
  • Sped up processing of entrées when adding as a diary entry.
  • Sped up processing of entrées when loading in general.
  • Fixed edit amount as one error introduced by re-factor.
• Monday, October 17, 2022:
  • Fixed recents select bug. Javascript property needed rename.
• Sunday, October 16, 2022:
  • Fixed entrée save when deprecated, where deprecated was not properly cleared.
  • Fixed master entrée select list to exclude deleted/deprecated entrées.
• Saturday, October 15, 2022:
  • Complete re-factor of Food Diary model. Vast speed improvements!
  • Fixed entrée add bug introduced on October 10. Mea culpa.
• Monday, October 10, 2022:
  • Added multi-day loading/caching of food diary entries for performance increases when browsing diary history.
  • Added additional use of saved serialized nutrition labels, increasing food diary performance.
  • Updated nuget packages and various libraries.
• Friday, September 2, 2022:
  • Massive speed-ups (again) to the food diary by greatly reducing redundant sql server queries.
• Saturday, August 27, 2022:
  • Fixed the sample progress message on the progress page, as it did not disappear on login.
• Thursday, August 18, 2022:
  • Added crossorigin="anonymous" to javascript requests as needed.
  • Corrected some references to signalr.js causing unnecessary javascript errors in the debug environment.
  • Added try/catch to commom.js/action.action(execScript) to ignore selected and spurious 3rd party errors.
  • Added sodium to progress reports series table in the database.
• Friday, August 5, 2022:
  • Fixed and greatly sped up food diary initialization and sundry routines.
    • Mostly, this involved greatly reducing reads to the SQL database.
• Thursday, August 4, 2022:
  • Fixed and greatly sped up login process:
    • The asynchronous food diary initialization was being called twice. Fixed.
    • Maximized asynchronous food diary initialization.
  • Updated nuget packages.
• Wednesday, August 3, 2022:
  • Added tooltip to food diary entrée/recipe field when in edit mode.
  • Defaulted food diary entrée amount/measure to most recent entry when adding a new entrée entry.
• Monday, June 6, 2022:
  • Food diary move up/down bug on new entries fixed.
• Thursday, June 2, 2022:
  • Added the ability to scan (with text scan) nutrition labels with your phone, or pad, or initialize via a paste.
• Friday, May 27, 2022:
  • Fixed diary error when a label portion is changed in an update.
• Wednesday, May 25, 2022:
  • Fixed wait spinner to be centered on VISIBLE screen.
  • Added the desired Unit at all levels, to facilitate international unit changes to grams.
  • Added fixup maintenance for labels and recipes, tu update/convert nutrient units.
  • Nutrition units now convert iu <==> mcg, mg as needed.
• Saturday, May 14, 2022:
  • Renamed [FoodDiary].[DiaryItems].[Alias] to [FoodDiary].[DiaryItems].[RecentsGroup].
  • Fixed food diary save RecentsGroup omission.
  • Added rename function for user entered labels.
• Wednesday, May 11, 2022:
  • Meal name property 'Hidden' is now implemented.
  • If all meals hidden, a generic 'Add to Diary' is used.
  • Legacy meal assignments are preserved (as much as possible) when hidden is enabled later.
  • Updated nuget packages, mainly entity framework.
  • Updated bootbox to 5.5.3 (with added fix for bootstrap 5), moment to 2.29.3, and signalr to 6.0.5.
• Saturday, May 7, 2022:
  • Updated nuget packages.
  • Meal Names may now be customized on a per user basis.
  • Meal name 'Hidden' property stored, but not yet implemented.
• Thursday, April 28, 2022:
  • Added UserId and Hidden to Meal definitions.
  • Refactored to get Meal definitions by UserId, allowing for individual customization.
  • Refactored to use MealOrder in diary entries, rather than MealId.
  • Added Elmah to admin dropdown.
• Monday, April 18, 2022:
  • Fixed issues in account options razor pages resulting from session expiration.
• Saturday, April 16, 2022:
  • Fixed masking of deprecated entrées in diary recent list.
  • Regenerate diary model on label or recipe delete.
• Wednesday, April 13, 2022:
  • Re-ordered maintenance dropdown.
  • Cleaned up imminent shutdown message.
• Wednesday, April 6, 2022:
  • Fixed entrée issue involving past versions with changed portions.
• Monday, April 4, 2022:
  • Added signalR and bootstrap not found clears to elmah admin.
• Sunday, April 3, 2022:
  • Converted diary recipe/entrée tooltips to Telerik, for better behaviour on touch screens.
• Thursday, April 1, 2022:
  • Added tooltip to diary entries showing ingredients for recipes and entrées.
  • Fixed additional issue around bootstrap tooltips.
• Tuesday, March 29, 2022:
  • Fixed issue in progress report graphs, where total calories appear higher than those reported in the diary.
    • A manufacturer's carb calories may be less than x*4, since they account for metabolically dead carbs used in low carb products
    • Examples include Atkins Shakes and Mission low carb tortilla.
    • This is to be expected.
  • Updated nuget and libman libraries.
• Sunday, March 27, 2022:
  • Fixed error in asynchronous application bootup process.
• Friday, March 25, 2022:
  • Added net carbs column to report series sql server database table.
  • Updated database with net carbs series data.
  • Added net carbs and grams info to pie chart progress report tooltips.
  • Moved BuildReportSeries() to administration functions.
• Thursday, March 24, 2022:
  • Fixed issue with entrée past/future related to conversion to System.Text.Json from newtonsoft.
    • There was a missing { get; set; } in the cached model. Silly me!
  • Clarified text hints in entrée manager for 'Last Time' and 'Next Time' buttons.
• Wednesday, March 23, 2022:
  • Added calories and grams to pie chart progress report tooltips.
• Saturday, March 19, 2022:
  • Changed PostLocalDateTimeOffset() to always post on a get.
  • Fixed more issues with "sticky" bootstrap tooltips in food diary and recipe analyzer.
• Monday, March 14, 2022:
  • Fixed issues with "sticky" bootstrap tooltips in food diary.
  • Fixed issue with progress reports when we enter weight into diary immediately after login.
• Tuesday, March 8, 2022:
  • Removed some noisy logging.
  • Log user name on logins and logouts.
  • Threaded off login initializations, greatly speeding up the login process.
  • Removed redundant calls in food diary.
• Friday, March 4, 2022:
  • Adjusted recipe analyzer when trying to add a recipe name AFTER we have entered ingredients.
    • We now ask before obliterating work in progress.
  • Fixed issues around changing entrée entries in the food diary.
• Wednesday, March 2, 2022:
  • Tuned javascript and css loading for performance.
• Tuesday, March 1, 2022:
  • Fixed bootstrap tooltip issues.
• Monday, February 28, 2022:
  • Bundled kendo scripts to reduce loads.
• Monday, February 21, 2022:
  • Fixed issue in recipe analyzer where the portion is incorrectly swapped to "1 Recipe".
• Saturday, February 19, 2022:
  • Moved landing page content to static file for easier updates.
  • Updated various nuget packages.
  • Cleaned up login and register pages.
  • Admin can now read log file from ui.
  • Cleaned up logger messages.
• Thursday, February 17, 2022:
  • Cleaned up the deploy, reducing file load and footprint.
• Wednesday, February 16, 2022:
  • Added sitemap.xml generator. It was about freakin' time.
  • Updated various nuget packages to latest.
• Monday, February 14, 2022:
  • Generalized some static html content for non-deploy content/documentation updates.
• Sunday, February 13, 2022:
  • Additional UI cleanup.
• Saturday, February 12, 2022:
  • Cleaned up various html/bootstrap formatting issues.
• Friday, February 11, 2022:
  • Cleaned up navbar html.
  • Added vertical navbar for major functions.
  • Added instruction areas in label and recipe functions.
  • Added a cute salad to the logo, with egg.
  • Cleaned up tooltips, still some to go.
  • Continuing signalR work.
• Tuesday, February 8, 2022:
  • Adjustments to address errant signalR not defined.
• Monday, January 31, 2022:
  • Updated to ElmahCore 2.1.1.
  • Fixed navbar toggle set point.
  • Continued work on diet partnerships, chat and signalR.
• Wednesday, January 26, 2022:
  • Fixed/refactored various bootbox scripts.
  • Removed/replaced deprecated HTML.
• Tuesday, January 25, 2022:
  • Switched to Font Awesome Kit for CDN loading, which fixes previous FA loading bug.
  • Re-started signalR work for diet clubs and chat.
• Sunday, January 16, 2022:
  • Entrée cog now spins when active/available.
• Saturday, January 15, 2022:
  • Expanded profile and settings navbar dropdown.
  • Updated to Font Awesome Pro 5.15.4
• Wednesday, January 5, 2022:
  • Centered "Nutrition Facts" at top of nutrition labels.
  • Preliminary work to allow upload of food images.
  • Preliminary work to enable Azure blob storage.
• Wednesday, December 29, 2021:
  • Updated icons for various operating systems and devices. This hadn't been looked at in years.
• Monday, December 27, 2021:
  • Fixed bootstrap fallback path in layout.
  • Fixed missing DateCreated on new user registers.
  • Defaulted DateCreated to latest DateLastAccess for remaining legacy null DateCreated.
  • Fixed the cookie opt-in dialog.
  • Fixed Bootstrap 5 CDN fallbacks. Silly me.
• Saturday, December 18, 2021:
  • Added AddSessionStateTempDataProvider(); as appropriate to program.cs, to resolve lost status messages in identity UI.
• Friday, December 17, 2021:
  • Updated to Bootstrap 5.
  • Cleaned up scaffolded identity and management pages.
  • Fixed up bootbox close button styleing for Bootstrap 5.
  • Embedded bootbox in site.min.js, at least until a Bootstrap 5 version of bootbox becomes available.
• Tuesday, December 14, 2021:
  • Fixed problems with displayed nutrition info when selecting recipes and entrées in the food diary.
  • All files edited to file scoped namespaces to improve readability.
• Monday, December 13, 2021:
  • Replaced Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.NewtonsoftJson with System.Text.Json.
  • Fixed clear measure javascript error in browse foods.
  • Fixed default measure when entering from a label, on submit/verify.
  • Fixed delete master entrée from add/delete screen when no name.
  • Fixed various and sundry .net 6 conversion issues.
• Thursday, December 2, 2021:
  • Disabled nullable context across all projects. This is a non-trivial migration.
  • Fixed issue in Convert() in MeasurementTranslator that caused exception on non-convertible measures.
• Wednesday, December 1, 2021:
  • Enabled nullable context and implicit global usings across all projects.
  • Fixed EF core/database issues enabled due to nullable context.
  • Removed all unnecessary "using" statements.
  • Moved all startup.cs code to top level code in program.cs, preserving asynchronous startup tasks.
• Wednesday, November 17, 2021:
  • Updated all projects to .net 6.0
  • Updated nuget packages, mostly 6.0 updates.
• Saturday, September 25, 2021:
  • Fixed various Typescript issues
  • Fixed issues with tsconfig.
  • Updated various nuget packages.
• Wednesday, September 22, 2021:
  • Added ChangeMeasureRetainWeight() to FoodItem model.
  • Added CurrentAmount to FoodItem model.
  • The food browser now maintains weight equivalence when changing the measurement units.
  • The food browser now maintains the current FoodItemWithNutritionLabel across posts, greatly speeding up queries.
• Wednesday, August 25, 2021:
  • Fixed the recents query in the diary database.
  • Fixed error in measurement converter synonym lookup.
• Monday, August 23, 2021:
  • Fixed exception in add label when serving size is inconsistent.
  • Minor html formatting in secondary lists.
  • Restored full length recents list in food diary.
• Thursday, August 12, 2021:
  • Fixed several entrée chaining bugs.
  • Updated various libraries, mostly Microsoft framework stuff, via Nuget Package manager.
• Monday, August 9, 2021:
  • Fixed update errors in foods database and re-consolidated SR, FNDDS, and CN.
  • Added leftovers to recents list in food diary.
• Monday, August 2, 2021:
  • GetRecents() stored procedure adjusted to return only top 100.
• Sunday, August 1, 2021:
  • Improved default measure selection when searching for food items in food browser, food diary and recipe analyzer.
  • Added options (user and global levels) to display sugars as teaspoons.
  • Added global and user preference levels of "display sugars as teaspoons" toggle.
    • User level SugarsAsTeaspoons defaults to true, takes precedence over global level.
    • Global level SugarsAsTeaspoons defaults to true.
  • Fixed missing "drop" entry in "DefaultConversions.txt".
  • Fixed error in CompareInexact() that excluded some matches in food searches.
  • Added sugars imputed to zero when total sugars are zero.
  • Fixed display of imputed sugars on nutrition label.
• Wednesday, July 28, 2021:
  • Guid integrity check on save preferences added.
  • Preferences date modified on save fixed.
• Tuesday, July 27, 2021:
  • Reset various food models when nutrition label options are set/reset.
  • Fixed edge case in product label add/edit involving non-weight and non-volumetric serving size.
  • Fixed food browser to use proper userId when logged in.
  • Label entry with mixed weight and volume measures enters both.
• Wednesday, July 21, 2021:
  • Updated json packages and nuget packages.
  • Fixed javascript errors in SelectedFavoriteChanged().
• Sunday, July 18, 2021:
  • Fixed miscellaneous javascript quote mark bugs in 'diary.ts'.
• Saturday, July 17, 2021:
  • When adding entrée to diary, default to former measure if entrée was used previously.
• Thursday, July 15, 2021:
  • Additional javascript errors related to diary editing fixed.
• Tuesday, July 13, 2021:
  • Fixed javascript error on return from master entrée edit.
  • Fixed disable food selection on edit of existing diary entry.
• Sunday, July 11, 2021:
  • Updated elmahcore from local build to get current fixes.
• Saturday, July 10, 2021:
  • Added javascript error capture with post to elmahcore.
  • Added the elmahcore font resources.
• Friday, July 9, 2021:
  • Complete refactor of smart cache rebuild for speed and accuracy.
  • Moved log files to the Everleap default logfile directory.
• Thursday, July 8, 2021:
  • Refactored smart cache rebuild.
  • Added entrée ingredients to smart cache rebuild.
  • Added original text column to smart cache table.
  • Fixed duplicate id in administration cshtml/javascript.
• Monday, July 5, 2021:
  • In food diary model, skip hints required in AnalyzeHeuristics() when screening recents and entrées. Fixed.
  • Javascript error (benign) related to new nutrition label fixed.
• Sunday, July 4, 2021:
  • Fixed DateTimeOffset error in progress series update/save.
• Saturday, July 3, 2021:
  • Changed the term "Menu" to "Entrée" across the app and the database.
  • Fixed edge case in add food from label where we needed >=1 rather than > 1.
  • Fixed label display error in add food from label when specifying an ad hoc container/package.
• Tuesday, June 29, 2021:
  • Adjusted update on amount change when making diary entries.
• Sunday, June 20, 2021:
  • Site hosting migrated to Everleap.
  • This results in an almost 3x performance boost.
• Saturday, June 19, 2021:
  • Re-implemented food grid used for browsing foods.
  • Fixed weight units error when entering body weight in diary.
• Friday, June 18, 2021:
  • Smoothed graph when displaying weight in stone.
  • Re-implemented the footer.
  • Fixed (somewhat) the data grid size when browsing foods.
• Thursday, June 17, 2021:
  • Edited about and release notes layout.
  • Increased session timeout to 60 minutes.
• Tuesday, June 8, 2021:
  • Fixed MenuUpdateFromParsedRecipe() exception when there are no matches for an item.
• Monday, June 7, 2021:
  • Menu previous/next added dates of entry.
  • Diary menu small format (phones) fixes.
• Sunday, June 6, 2021:
  • Layout updates begun.
• Friday, June 4, 2021:
  • Fixed a subtle regex problem affecting subtraction on an edge case.
• Wednesday, June 2, 2021:
  • Added an image of The Programming Chef. It only took 10+ years...
• Wednesday, May 26, 2021:
  • Moved special rules from ParseLeadingNumber to NormalizeRawrecipe for efficiency.
  • Fixed special rule that broke subtraction of string amounts.
• Tuesday, May 25, 2021:
  • Fixed issue where unicode thin space (0x2009) is pasted into a recipe, generally directly from a web page.
  • Generalized white space solution for pasted recipes.
• Monday, May 24, 2021:
  • Fixed newly exposed Datetime/DateTimeOffset issue in food diary entries.
  • Fixed javascript ajax post error that sometimes called Diary/RecentChanged twice.
• Wednesday, May 19, 2021:
  • Updated nuget and libman libraries.
• Monday, May 17, 2021:
  • Additional smarts (heuristics) added to portion/measurement interpolation.
• Sunday, May 16, 2021:
  • New menus now insert in date order.
  • Fixed javascript disabled on menu next.
  • Added tooltips for menu next/prev to indicate day of entry.
  • Publish is now self-contained, winx-64, and pre-compiled.
• Monday, May 10, 2021:
  • Fixed additional display errors when adding from a commercial label.
• Monday, May 3, 2021:
  • Fixed save new master menu error (Newtonsoft.Json.JsonSerializationException).
  • Fixed amount display error when adding from a commercial label.
• Sunday, May 2, 2021:
  • Increased nutrition label width.
  • Fixed revised nutrition label formats.
• Wednesday, April 28, 2021:
  • Fixed edge case size error in saving commercial labels.
  • Fixed sugar amount hints when total carbohydrates is zero.
  • Fixed some minor javascript errors.
• Wednesday, March 10, 2021:
  • Turned off BFPD database to increase performance.
  • Fixed legacy bad data in food diary entries.
  • Added disable/enable during update posts in food diary.
  • Added search memory to grid food filtering.
• Wednesday, February 24, 2021:
  • Added delays to incremental searches to increase responsiveness.
  • Fixed grid filtering to return mimimum result.
• Tuesday, February 23, 2021:
  • Fixed bootup initialization out of memory problem.
• Thursday, February 4, 2021:
  • Updated Telerik libraries.
  • Updated Nuget packages.
  • Updated robots.txt.
  • Updated InitializeDomain for faster debug time.
  • Miscellaneous edits.
• Tuesday, January 5, 2021:
  • Fixed progress report update on weight changed.
• Monday, January 4, 2021:
  • Fixed "second operation was started on context" errors that occurred on production database.
  • Fixed food search in diary.
  • Fixed diary menu management errors.
  • Fixed recipe analyzer delete error.
  • Added wait cursors to several diary commands.
• Sunday, January 3, 2021:
  • Happy Birthday Matthew G!
  • NuGet updates.
  • Elmah 2.x update.
  • Finer admin detail on delete unconfirmed registrations.
  • Added last accessed datetime to user login.
• Friday, January 1, 2021:
  • Fixed created date on new user registrations.
  • Added deployment slots in Azure.
• Wednesday, December 30, 2020:
  • Added "Friend" as screen nickname when nickname not set.
• Monday, December 28, 2020:
  • Register new user clean up.
• Sunday, December 27, 2020:
  • Debugged password reset.
  • Refactored email for DI.
  • Adjusted SendGrid settings.
• Friday, December 25, 2020:
  • Food search fixed to filter correctly.
  • Food search refactored for speed.
• Wednesday, December 23, 2020:
  • Fixed weight diary bugs.
  • Fixed home page links.
  • Added Application Insights telemetry.
• Tuesday, December 22, 2020:
  • Removed legacy directories and paths.
  • Fixed delete ingredient buttons on the recipe analyzer view.
• Monday, December 21, 2020:
  • Label entry button fixup.
  • Analyze recipe button fixup.
  • Logging levels adjusted.
• Sunday, December 20, 2020:
  • Deployed refactored site to production.
• Saturday, December 19, 2020:
  • --- Updated to .NET 5.0 ---
  • Fixed up error page handling with custom pages and proper ajax failure response.
• Sunday, November 29, 2020:
  • Not dead yet!
  • Full tech stack retooling to .net Core 3.1
  • New updated USDA nutrition label added.
  • Many bug fixes during the single ship transit out (and back) to the Kuiper Belt
• ..... DISCONTINUITY.....
• Thursday, May 16, 2019:
  • Added menu repair on the fly. Fixes multiple chain issue in Food Diary menus.
  • Fixed time resolution (milliseconds) from moment.js and Food Diary model and controller.
• Friday, March 15, 2019:
  • KM entered 3000 for the year in Diary. Good one! Patched.
• Monday, February 11, 2019:
  • Fixed the Recipe and Menu comment editor.
• Monday, January 28, 2019:
  • Updated to Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC 2019.1.115.
  • Fixed editor access error in diary. (Menus comments still do not edit.)
• Thursday, August 16, 2018:
  • Fixed major bug calculating data series in progress reports when alcohol is reported.
• Friday, July 27, 2018:
  • Updated all nuget packages.
  • Updated to Telerik UI for ASP.NET MVC 2018.2.620.
• Sunday, June 24, 2018:
  • Fixed recipe portion string loses count after page switch bug.
  • Fixed egg/eggplant, water/watermelon type search bugs.
• Tuesday, June 19, 2018:
  • Fixed rounding error on number to human readable string.
• Saturday, March 24, 2018:
  • Fixed create/update food label bug.
  • Fixed two menu chain issues in the food diary.
• Saturday, February 17, 2018:
  • Fixed portion bug(s) in Menu Add/Delete.
• Sunday, January 28, 2018:
  • Updadated Telerik libraries to 2018.2.620.
  • Updated all nuget packages (bootstrap, jquery, etc.) to latest versions.
• Wednesday, January 17, 2018:
  • Fixed menu chaining bug.
• Tuesday, September 19, 2017:
  • Meaningless first word exclusion added to search.
  • "thick" added to ignore list.
  • Foods and Recipe controller null model fixes.
  • On meal stacked bar chart, you can click through to the meal diary for that day.
• Thursday, July 6, 2017:
  • Recipe line analysis is improved:
    • Mixed quantities are now combined if possible (1 tbsp + 1 tsp = 1 1/3 tbsp, etc.)
    • The word "plus" used in a line actually adds quantites together.
• Monday, June 26, 2017:
  • Added endsWith() polyfill. Damn you, IE12!
  • Fixed null reference in RecipeEditor.
• Sunday, June 25, 2017:
  • Fixed edge case string compare on portions. Curse you StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase!
  • Fixed edge case in ParsLineToMeasure introduced with inclusions/exclusions.
  • Updated Telerik libraries to 2017.2.621.
  • Re-activated efficient Telerik script bundling.
• Sunday, June 11, 2017:
  • Re-implemented "Delete Recipe" for users and admins on recipe analyzer screen.
  • Recipes and Diary Menus now allow for comments, directions, pictures, etc.
  • This latest feature will need debugging, and will be added to the diary going forward.
  • You cannot upload pictures yet, but that will be coming. This will be useful for recipes.
• Monday, June 5, 2017:
  • Fixed edge case bug in Food Diary Recents/Favorites.
• Tuesday, May 30, 2017:
  • Excluded "NS" from plural processing.
  • Turned "Suggest" and "HighlightFirst" off for combo controls on food diary entry.
• Monday, May 29, 2017:
  • Added exclusions (skips) and inclusions (required) to recipe and diary food item searches.
    • Any word that starts with a minus sign is used to exclude matches that contain that word.
    • Any word that starts with a plus sign is used to only include matches that contain that word.
    • This is useful when a search produces a long list, and you wish to winnow it quickly.
    • For instance:
      • "2 oz asparagus -boiled", will not return any matches that contain the word "boiled".
      • "8 oz ribeye +australian -petite", will only return matches that contain the word "australian" and not "petite".
  • Food Diary dropdowns now manage their widths.
• Saturday, May 20, 2017:
  • Fixed 1 5/8+1-1/4 math/regex bug.
  • Fixed LocalBootTime null error.
  • Fixed food diary menu future/past/save issues.
  • Generalized Session expiry/auth code.
  • Sample reports and food diary are now displayed for the current live Programming Chef entries.
  • Fixed reports public name bug.
  • Various admin refactors and fixes.
  • Label save bug fixed.
  • Default label measure bug fixed.
  • Report alcohol threshold value added to suppress very small percentages.
  • Fixed return from Add/Delete Menu to food diary bug.
• Monday, March 27, 2017:
  • Fixed Chrome rendering of input on a Macbook that caused overflow/visibility problems.
    • This was a real pain in the rear! Very subtle stuff.
    • Slight overflows were being hidden, but only in Chrome on the iPad and Macbook, with retina display.
    • Again, only Chrome failed, and only on iPad and Macbook.
    • Setting overflow to visible on the enclosing div solved the problem.
  • Fixed Chrome autocomplete problem on label input, by setting autocomplete to "off" on enclosing form.
• Saturday, March 25, 2017:
  • Fixed issues around past/future menu choices (leftovers).
  • Refactored diary code to reduce unnecessary and complicated code blocks.
• Friday, March 24, 2017:
  • Recipes and menus with unknown items save and restore properly.
  • The unknown items are preserved.
  • This refines yesterday's fix to preserve information as expected.
• Thursday, March 23, 2017:
  • Save Recipe with unknown item bug fixed. Unknown items are dropped on a save.
• Sunday, March 19, 2017:
  • Menus now appear in Recipe Analyzer searches when a user is logged in.
  • Menus can now be saved as a recipe in the Recipe Analyzer.
• Saturday, March 11, 2017:
  • Major clean up/fixes of session and identity timeouts.
  • Fixes/adjustments to login and threaded initialization.
  • Telerik library updated to 2017.1.223.
  • Updated to Microsoft.Net.Compilers.2.0.1.
• Friday, March 10, 2017:
  • Progress indicators added to ajax calls.
  • Admin clear elmah 404 functionality.
  • Elmah 404 filter for emails.
  • Google AdSense preliminary work.
  • Bread crumbs at top removed. They were pointless.
• Tuesday, March 7, 2017:
  • Safari textarea issues "fixed":
    • Safari displayed menus/recipes raw text as a single line.
    • It appeared to ignore the CR/LF between lines.
    • This required "white-space: pre" rather than "white-space: nowrap".
    • Interestingly, I think Safari is correct, and Chrome is wrong!
  • Textarea resize in menu management fixed.
  • Guest user copy menu links fixed.
• Monday, March 6, 2017:
  • Major rewrite of Food Diary Menus:
    • There has always been a problem logging leftovers from a menu.
    • Menus are now added/updated via an Add/Delete dialog. These are the "Master" copies.
    • Logging a menu in a meal adds a local/temporal copy.
    • Local/temporal copies are editable without affecting the master or other entries.
    • When one adds a menu, previous copies can be called up via "Last Time"/"Next Time" buttons.
    • So a tweaked menu from yesterday (or last week) can immediately be used to log leftovers.
  • Various guest user fixes various.
  • Data caching fixes.
  • Progress (graph) fixes and adjustments.
  • Various maintenance stored procedures re-factored / added.
  • Pulldown resize adjustments.
• Sunday, February 26, 2017:
  • Quick fix: Register emails are now re-enabled.
• Monday, January 30, 2017:
  • Recipe/Menu analysis views refactored for ease of use:
    • Analysis results/editors and controls moved above text area.
    • Delete button per line added.
    • Search result combobox now uses optgroup to display user's value.
    • Textarea controls now dynamically size.
    • Edge case bug involving letter case correction fixed.
  • 100 day trial begins for The Programming Chef!
• Sunday, January 29, 2017:
  • Orphaned recipes have been deleted.
  • The SearchCache has been regenerated.
  • The SmartCache has been regenerated.
  • The SmartCache has been adjudicated.
  • We are ready for a trial!
• Saturday, January 28, 2017:
  • Menus are now fully integrated with SmartCache learning AI and adjudication.
  • Menus now include 'Lock Text' buttons (like the recipe analyzer).
  • Several menu/analyzer bug fixes, edge cases around locked text.
• Friday, January 27, 2017:
  • Menu save bug when no entry chosen fixed.
  • Menu 'alias'/'original text' issues.
• Thursday, January 26, 2017:
  • Telerik library updated to 2017.1.118.
  • Kendo 'All' bundle duplication fixed.
  • Robots.txt updates.
  • Orphaned recipe cleaner added and exposed to admins. Recipes from the old site whose users have not migrated are deleted.
  • Fixed cache bug that duplicated search/analyze entries.
• Sunday, January 22, 2017:
  • SmartCache adjudication is in place for admins.
• Wednesday, January 18, 2017:
  • Updated Cache administration views.
  • Added SmartCache statistics to admin view.
  • SmartCache statistics persists adjudication information on rebuild.
  • SmartCache potential deadlock fixed.
• Tuesday, January 17, 2017:
  • Added the SmartCache!
    • Learning AI: When a person selects an alternative choice from an analyzer search, it can be remembered.
    • Knowledge persistence is predicated on recipe saves.
    • This was previously implemented and removed, because that version was crap.
    • Frequency of use for such a search is remembered.
    • Different choices for the same search are remembered.
    • These alternate choices and frequencies are used to make subsequent analysis smarter.
    • These smart entries are human adjudicated for global use, though still TBD.
  • Broke out admin functions to partial views.
  • SmartChoice Adjudication is still TBD.
• Tuesday, January 10, 2017:
  • Streamlined the food browser.
  • Added creation date for user registrations.
  • Added some admin information on user registrations.
• Wednesday, January 4, 2017:
  • Fixed a rounding issue caused by inconsistent food labels affecting Progress Reports.
• Tuesday, January 3, 2017:
  • Hello from Denver, Colorado!
  • Happy Birthday, Matt!
  • Fixed a null reference in Progress Reports.
• Sunday, January 1, 2017:
  • Updated to jQuery 3.1.1.
  • Worked with Telerik to resolve jQuery 3.x.x issue(s).
    • Updates to the DOM are now asynchronous, and execution order is guaranteed.
    • See: Breaking change: document-ready handlers are now asynchronous
    • On an ajax update, javascript executed after an html update needs to execute on document ready to allow full DOM update.
    • This required a closure on the json array returned, and passing an eval() function to document ready, e.g.:
      • var scriptFunc = function (text) { return function () {eval(text);}; };
      • $(scriptFunc(views[v].script));
    • Interestingly, the previous code was NOT correct, since execution order was not guaranteed. We and everyone else lucked out.
    • Fixed a scrolling/positioning annoyance on mobile devices when a soft keyboard opens.
    • Fixed email repository async error when called as part of asp.net page life cycle.
    • Fixed mis-nested recipe update using(context) code.
    • Fixed mis-nested label update using(context) code.
    • Fixed save/update recipe to already deprecated owner/name; we now un-deprecate!.
    • Happy New Year!
• Thursday, December 22, 2016:
  • Fixed minor update issue with weight report.
  • Attempted to create a test web site for Telerik over on GoDaddy.
    • Myriad bogus security failures.
    • GoDaddy Windows hosting not up to running a complex MVC site.
    • That was a day I will never get back.
    • The decision made previously to migrate all my hosting off GoDaddy was correct.
    • That said, GoDaddy is good for simple sites and blogs, and cost effective for that.
• Monday, December 19, 2016:
  • Telerik is still incompatible with jQuery 3.x.x. This is getting old. Reverted to 2.2.4.
  • Progress Reports data loading has been re-factored/optimized.
  • Added "Nested Files" to solution to clean up Visual Studio solution view.
  • Updated multiple libraries via nuget.
  • jQuery is now current (3.1.1). It had been held back by Telerik compatibility, but the latest release fixes this.
  • Note: "Santa Claus" is and was the first White Walker, the "Night King". Close your flue.
• Friday, December 16, 2016:
  • Re-factored some strong name conflicts and issues.
• Thursday, December 8, 2016:
  • Added food database source table.
  • Added source field to all USDA food sources. This enables audit trailed recipe analysis.
  • Updated to SR28rev, FNDDS 2013-2014, and CN20.
  • Wrote a wee triple left joined stored proc to delete all unused deprecated food items across all tables.
  • Re-factored the Admin update database functions to handle all the above.
• Saturday, December 3, 2016:
  • Updated some nuget packages.
  • Refactored the build number to a global static.
  • Improved initialization thread for progress reports, including LocalBootDateTimeOffset(), login, and logoff.
• Friday, December 2, 2016:
  • Oops. Had [Authorize] decorating "Contact". My bad.
• Thursday, December 1, 2016:
  • Progress reports had a mis-named cached object, fixed.
  • Added a thread upon login to pre-load initial progress report series.
  • Added sample data to the progress reports when not logged in.
• Wednesday, November 30, 2016:
  • Spelling and admin screen edits.
  • Removed volume after cooking from recipe analyzer. It is never used.
• Tuesday, November 29, 2016:
  • ProcessDegenerateSingle: startswith for cases like "egg" vs "eggs".
  • Added enable/disable AI search cache to superuser administration.
  • Added regenerate AI SQL-server cache to superuser administration.
• Monday, November 28, 2016:
  • Regenerate guest user cleaned up.
  • Guest preferences now reset for a better view.
  • Login now properly clears cached preferences.
  • NormalizeRawRecipe: Fixed bug that improperly split a line when adding line breaks to raw recipe pasted from allrecipes.com.
  • Fixes to caching and cache regeneration.
  • Slight improvement to raw ingredients in targets of heuristic compare.
  • Edge case in elimination of measures from existing analyzer recipe lines.
• Sunday, November 27, 2016:
  • De-coupled reports from meal diary.
• Saturday, November 26, 2016:
  • Simplified menus in the food diary.
  • Fixed update issues associated with menus in the food diary.
• Tuesday, November 22, 2016:
  • Fixed personal preference persistence. This broke when I robustified contexts for thread safety.
  • Added personal preferences to display fructose and/or alcohol on nutrition labels.
  • Fixed edge case indexof bug in recipe analyzer.
  • Fixed "crumbs" ==> "crumb" in AnalyzerHeuristicItem.ScoreDietItem.
  • Fixed false promotion of "raw" in AnalyzerHeuristicItem.ScoreDietItem.
  • Advanced menu exclusions moved to a pref and reflected in UI. Default is hidden.
• Monday, November 21, 2016:
  • Since January 9, 2016:
    • There have been 643 commits.
    • Hundreds of bugs have been fixed.
    • Myriad improvements to the algrothms and heuristics have been added.
    • Countless deploys to Azure have been pushed.
  • The landing page has been updated.
• Saturday, January 9, 2016:
  • I got tired of waiting for view compiles on the app server. All views now deploy compiled.
  • Tonight continues Elvis Fest in Chapel Hill, NC. Team Chef drop-shipped yesterday.
  • See you all again tonight!

• Friday, January 8, 2016:
  • There have been daily builds and deploys since my last entry here.
  • Many bugs fixed, many bottlenecks opened up.
  • Recipes and labels can be entered and saved, but please use the old site if you wish the data preserved.
  • Programming Team Chef is currently re-establishing the Meal Diary function.

• Thursday, December 17, 2015:
  • Well, here we are on Azure...
  • USDA databases are all current.

Comments from the original site...

• Monday, March 23, 2015:
  • Fixed a bug in the recipe analyze page for LEROY9804. I cannot email back as his account blocks me.
  • Fixed a number of bugs in the Food Log. Editing favorites now works as it should.
  • In Food Log, I now default to a custom portion in a recipe, if it exists.
• Sunday, November 2, 2014:
  • Myriad bugs and adjustments.
  • Updated with SR27, CN18, and FNFDDS 2011-2012; this adds 4900+ items from the USDA databases.
• Sunday, April 6, 2014:
  • Added a report tab for logged food. One must log in for this to enable.
  • Pie chart displays percentage energy from each energy source, plus calories.
  • Stacked bar chart displays daily consumption over time.
  • Options for today only, end time series on today, skip days under a threshold, and start and end dates.
  • Options auto-save to preferances and are in effect on subsequent visits.
  • Added an admin tab, just for me.
• Sunday, March 29, 2014:
  • Fixed some annoying bugs in the diet logger (I am using it to lose weight).
• Sunday, January 12, 2014:
  • I have decided to keep this sandbox active for a few more months in order to:
    • Implement an HTTP web service using ASP.NET Web API and Json
    • Start re-implementing functionality for GeeksWhoCook using MVC
    • Implement reasonable authentication/authorization
    • Open the API to those who might find it useful, especially cooking apps on mobile devices
  • Bottom line, this looks like fun.
  • Stay tuned!
• Sunday, January 5, 2014:
  • Added some location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false" tags to accommodate downstream sites.
  • Implemented an instance of blogengine.net to experiment with. It may still be running at geekshocook.net.
  • Redid the table SQL scripts for all the data bases to preserve structure, keys, constraints and indexes.
  • If a fog person reads this, ping me. It would be interesting.
• Sunday, December 29, 2013:
  • We celebrate the birth of Kahless, on this most Klingon Khristmas! Qapla'!
  • The nutrition label now has information decoupled from flow on extended nutrition information.
  • I added Vitamin D. About time!
  • The extended nutrition label can optionally skip any N/A values, and auto size.
  • Duplicates from USDA databases are removed. Specifically, CN has many duplicated from SR.
  • All things being equal, food searches sort with most complete data nutrition information first.
  • Created admin routines to regenerate the search cache. Useful for deprecations and updates.
  • Worked on admin routines used to update databases and references to databases as updates from outside occur.
  • Julia's associative memory is more specific. Duplicates with base references eliminated.
  • Search results are now cached. The second time a phrase is analyzed, the results can be retrieved directly.
  • The food logger now saves alias strings, to aid in admin functions and recovery.
  • Fixed a LINQ to SQL Optimistic Concurrency problem when deleting recipes in production.
• Wednesday, November 27, 2013:
  • This site will NOT move to Azure after all!
  • I implemented a full copy of this site and its data in Azure.
  • I tested across free, shared, standard, and even 2-processor sized sites.
  • Azure was always slower by at least a factor of three, and often much, much more.
  • Often, identical back to back runs had significantly different times (all slower) for no reason.
  • Holy moly! Who would have thunk!
• Sunday, November 24, 2013:
  • Many changes are coming!
  • This site will migrate by late January.
  • The new sites, GeeksWhoCook and GeeksWhoEat, will replace this development site.
  • These sites will emphasize cooking skills, weight loss and maintenance, and meeting others.
  • Hosting will migrate to Azure, with a test site extant later today.
  • All USDA databases (SR, CN, FNDDS) are now consolidated.
  • Various admin tools have been implemented to allow me to update USDA and other databases as regular updates of them are released.
• Sunday, October 27, 2013:
  • Julia has undergone some surgery.
  • Julia associative memory wipe/regenration implemented.
  • Administrator can now edit and resave any recipe.
  • Loaded recipes can be re-analyzed.
  • If they send back a Terminator from the future to shut down SkeyChef and Julia...
  • ... it will look like Chef Ramsay.
• Sunday, October 13, 2013:
  • Today is the day the artificial intelligence Julia has gone live.
  • This was the last major brain section for the food analysis AI.
  • This is the part that learns patterns from users who save and edit recipes.
  • The more people analyze and refine food choices, the smarter Julia gets at choosing her matches.
  • Queue the SkeyChef Terminator jokes...
• Saturday, September 28, 2013:
  • Many new heuristic additions.
  • Nut Butter Dude, ping me if you see this....
• Sunday, September 22, 2013:
  • Converted all varchar to nvarchar in databases.
  • Duh.
• Friday, September 13, 2013:
  • Spooky day...
  • Recipe measurements now round to nearest 1/8, 1/4, or 1/3, in keeping with common kitchen measurements.
  • Number rounding and string conversion is now more regular.
  • Updated help info on analyzer tab.
  • Added item to "No Matches" message.
  • Fixed "Do NOT Copy Food Name" issues.
• Wednesday, September 11, 2013:
  • Bug! Edge case!
  • When a database supplies a measure in grams with Amount greater than 1, the converter got crazy.
  • Amount and weight are now normalized around one in ParsePortionLoadedFromDatabase().
  • One pound of basmati rice no longer weighs 22680 grams!
• Monday, August 12, 2013:
  • Noticed that micro-nutrient percentages were displaying incorrectly on the long label. Fixed.
  • Holy crap! I forgot to re-initilaize HA objects on some search list regeneration! Fixed!
• Sunday, July 21, 2013:
  • Working on better structured exception handling.
  • Errors email directly to me.
• Wednesday, July 17, 2013:
  • A bunch of clean-up entering food items from their nutrition labels.
• Saturday, July 13, 2013:
  • Recipes and foods entered from labels can be deleted by their owners. (or me!)
  • Recipes or foods entered from labels are deleted smart: if referenced by a log or another recipe, they are deprecated, else they are removed.
  • Recipe analyzer matching lists are now ajaxified with search. Hoo ya!
  • Recipes can now "lock" user text. A food typed by a user can prevent the description from the backing database item from replacing that text.
  • As always, numerous bug and display fixes.
• Sunday, June 30, 2013:
  • Food logger fixes. I had become too clever by half. Better now.
  • Food, recipe, label, and food logger databases tuned for performance (indexes added or fixed).
  • Various layout and bug fixes.
• Sunday, June 16, 2013:
  • A lot of work on the recipe analyzer has been done.
  • Many errors corrected, two factor analyzer moved into the object, portions works as it should, etc.
  • A user brought to light problems, so I dove in all the way on the recipe analyzer.
• Sunday, June 2, 2013:
  • Added favorites to food logger.
  • Still needs deletes and some debugging, but still kind of cool.
• Tuesday, May 28, 2013:
  • Whoa! Food Label addition was screwed up.
  • Hopefully fixed now...
• Sunday, May 26, 2013:
  • Lots of work cleaning up and robustifying Food Log.
  • Food Log may be ready for prime time!
  • Have begun cleaning up the overall de-modeling creep: Moving inappropriate functionality to model from controller and view.
• Sunday, May 19, 2013:
  • Un-oops, sigh of relief. Primary keys were set incorrectly in the production database. Silly me.
  • OOOPS... Cannot add a new foodItem. Well, I'll be fixing... Odd, it works in the local test environment.
  • You may now log your food habits.
  • There may be bugs, but a LOT of work is finished!
  • WOO DAMN HOO!
• Saturday, May 18, 2013:
  • More work on the food logger...
  • If the hot dog guy from the Farmers Market reads this, please email me.
  • I will be cooking some duck breasts tonight.
• Sunday, May 12, 2013:
  • Login required for food logger.
  • Food logger persists selection across tab changes.
  • Other food logger controls persist states.
  • Login pops back to page you logged in from.
  • I will next finish entry of food log foodItems and their persistence.
• Saturday, May 11, 2013:
  • Telerik update.
  • More food logger work...
  • I have been to Yosemite. It was grand.
• Monday, Thursday 28, 2013:
  • Fixed nasty little exception in recipe analyzer.
  • Playing with on demand combo box in food logger.
• Monday, March 25, 2013:
  • Monkeyed around with food logger...
• Sunday, March 3, 2013:
  • Improved drag and drop on the food logger.
  • Drag and drop on the food logger should now work as advertised.
  • Slow cooking two kinds of pork ribs this afternoon.
• Saturday, February 23, 2013:
  • Resumed work on logging one's food consumption. See the "Food Log" tab.
  • AJAX-ified the nutrition label and data grid.
  • Wired up the nutrition label to the current meal in context.
  • Making a goat cheese, chard, and herb pie in a phyllo crust tonight.
• Monday, February 18, 2013:
  • Added synonyms. This came as a result of "oe" plurals, like tomatoes and potatoes. Very gnarly.
  • BTW, Dan Quayle was treated unfairly over this.
  • Recipe analyzer now handles duplicates much better.
  • Recipe analyzer algorithm optimized. Only new foodItems are re-analyzed.
  • Better handling of updated recipe via the text box.
  • Better handling of updated recipe via the controls after an initial analysis.
  • Better resolutuion of contention when changes occur in both text and controls.
  • Better handling of wordy measures supplied by the databases.
  • Addition of a new RawRecipeCompare object, allowing fast and intelligent detection of differences between two text recipes.
• Friday, January 25, 2013:
  • Added a ReaderWriterLock() to manage access to the treeview node map in BrowseFoods. This was needed because when a session adds a recipe or label, the first session to hit BrowseFoods performs an application wide update of the TreeNodes.
• Thursday, January 24, 2013:
  • Happy Birthday to me! (Unlike Gandalf, I have not been on (middle) Earth for ~18,000 years.)
  • Fixed insidious timing/lock bug involving static initialization during the application start thread.
  • Fixed a number of little irregularities from my "C" level to do list:
    • Fixed RadTreeView to restore selection on return to browse food tab.
    • Made recipe and label treeview updates application global.
    • Moved buffered treeview structure creation to application start thread.
    • Sorted the recipe list.
    • Etc.
• Wednesday, January 16, 2013:
  • Adding new databases is now completely independedent of the NutritionDataCollection dll. A custom configuration section in web.config now registers a database and allows deprecation and visiblity.
  • This had been bugging me for a while, so kudos to me for finally fixing this once and for all!
• Monday, January 14, 2013:
  • Added FNDDS5.
  • Excluded old databases from recipe analysis.
  • Turned search threading back on.
• Saturday, January 12, 2013:
  • Added SR25 and CN16 updated USDA databases.
  • Updated FNDDS5 tomorrow...
• Wednesday, January 9, 2013:
  • The managed environment launches multiple instances of the application. Modified rolling log file to be on a per instance basis to ease debugging.
  • Fixed centering issue on nutritition label (only appeared on mobile devices).
  • Cooking a goat cheese/bacon omelette from local ingredients tonight.
• Sunday, January 6, 2013:
  • Leptonica and Tesseract successfully compiled and run. I need to scan nutrition labels from products on store shelves for use in lookups.
  • Work on an Apple iOS app to facilitate this site has begun.
  • Food Log begun.
  • Cooked a very nice pork loin roast with a pomegranate and balsamic glaze last night.
• Sunday, October 7, 2012:
  • Fixed issues around duplicate derived measures for food foodItems.
  • Fixed issues around deleting measure from raw recipe box on Analyze Recipes screen.
• Saturday, October 6, 2012:
  • I spent the past week in the mountains kayaking, hiking and programming.
  • The AI has been completely refactored into a HeuristicAnalyzer object.
  • The new AI object is 750% faster at analyzing a recipe than previous to today.
  • Very much work was done on the heuristics used to select recipe ingredient matches. Hit rate is HUGELY improved.
    • The way saved recipes are used as ingredients is fixed. Searches only against title.
    • T and t common measurement usage fixed.
    • Many, many proprietary additions to the heuristic analyzer.
• Saturday, August 11, 2012:
  • I am writing this from the outer banks of North Carolina. Sweet!
  • There have been many, many deploys since my last notes here.
  • Yes, I know I broke the recipe analyzer and label entry. FIXED!
  • Newest Telerik controls deployed, licensed version.
  • Label entry may be complete. Testers still testing.
  • Next foodItems to implement:
    • Personal Food Log.
    • Look and Feel: Working with designer to move from a developer sandbox to a functioning public site.
    • Look and Feel: Enable site wide skinning with control overrides as needed.
• Monday, June 25, 2012:
  • Happy Birthday, Pam!
  • Input label on Add Items From Label tab way smarter!
  • Myriad refactors refactored and bugs de-bugged.
• Sunday, June 10, 2012:
  • Much more done!
  • See the new label on the add foodItems from label tab.
  • Wow! Still almost there!
• Sunday, April 22, 2012:
  • Lot's more done!
  • Save and load recipes complete.
  • Label ready for extended micro-nutrient values.
  • Various bug fixes and optimizations, of course.
  • Next foodItems to implement:
    • Add foodItems to database from the nutrition label on a purchased foodItem.
    • Enable use of recipes and purchased foodItems in a recipe.
    • Add "Format Recipe" with directions, picture, cooking time, etc. and a "Print" function.
    • Add personal food log with reports.
  • Wow! Almost there!
• Sunday, April 1, 2012:
  • Much has been done, though I have not been consistent updating these comments. Apologies for that.
  • Recipe save database is in place.
  • "Load Saved Recipes" tab is almost complete, but controls are not yet "wired" up. Take a look.
  • Telerik controls updated and re-integrated with the development environment.
  • Various bug fixes and optimizations.
• Tuesday, January 24, 2012:
  • Today is my birthday.
  • So many fixes, refactors, and AI tuning, I will not describe today.
• Saturday, January 7, 2012:
  • Added heuristics to sort and search algorithms. Food matching greatly improved.
  • Bug fix when switching between browse and analyze tab.
  • Database and tables for recipe "Save" implemented.
• Thursday, December 29, 2011:
  • ALL implementation specific dependencies removed from NutritionDataCollection dll in preparation for move to MVC3.
  • TreeView data intializer refactored (Browse food tab). LINQ queries optimized. 400% increase in performance!
• Sunday, December 18, 2011:
  • LINQ optimizations on nutrition info query, as suggested by S.R. Nice catch!
  • Bug fixes to nutrition label adder. Fixes values in recipe analyzer tab.
  • Better maintenence of common measure on browse tab when changing foods.
• Tuesday, December 13, 2011:
  • Build Recipes tab activated:
    • This will link with the anlayzer on the next tab.
    • Nutrition label to be included.
    • Formatted print to be implemented.
    • Keep checking, I am working....
• Saturday, December 10, 2011:
  • Analyze Recipes portioning (slice, cookie, serving, etc.) and number of servings per recipe now works.
• Wednesday, December 7, 2011:
  • Fixed default portion size to first non-derived portion.
  • Working on portioning in recipe analyzer...
• Wednesday, December 7, 2011:
  • Working on portioning in recipe analyzer...
• Sunday, November 27, 2011:
  • The recipe analyzer has been debugged and appears robust. Of course, testing will tell.
  • Analyzer threads off each line to a task.
  • Dynamic controls created and maintained against the "raw" recipe.
  • Scoring algorithm/AI continues to add heuristics.
• Saturday, October 8, 2011:
  • I am back. A trip to France and a new contracting opportunity consumed time.
  • The full cut and paste recipe analyzer with AI ingredient analyzer is done in a thick client prototype. I will add this over the next several weeks.
  • The look and feel is being revised by a web designer here in NC. Stay tuned.
  • Conversion to WCF to expose service, operation and data contracts under way.
  • It's good to be back!
• Sunday, July 17, 2011:
  • Paging now makes sure the top row is selected via PreRender and PageIndexChanged events, eliminating an exception.
  • The measure (oz, egg, piece, etc.) now resets properly when the selected food changes, eliminating an exception.
  • The measure (oz, egg, piece, etc.) now persists intelligently as food selections change.
• Saturday, July 16, 2011:
  • Search Foods is now much, much clearer and cleaner
• Wednesday, June 29, 2011:
  • Viewstate now persisted on server, increasing performance.
  • Application and Session timeouts now handled with a re-direct to Home
  • Some Ajax update problems fixed