One year ago today, Chef saw its first public release .

Welcome to Chef 0.7.16, the “Bryan McLellan is looking out for you” release! 0.7.16 contains only two bug fixes, and both involve chef inappropriately setting file permissions in some cases. Bryan is this releases MVP, for making sure that we got the bug-fix release out the door.

The Amazon AWS team just posted a great interview with Olivier Gutknecht of Fotopedia about the infrastructure they use to process the huge amount of information that makes up their (beautiful!) site. Fotopedia is the first collaborative photo encyclopedia.

It’s time for the first annual Opscode Holiday Open House! We are opening up our Seattle headquarters to gather with friends, share some food and drink and, if you’re lucky, play a game or two of DJ Hero.

There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve. One way is by helping you to get Crunchie nominations.

We’ve got 3 new developer positions posted. Check out our updated Careers page to see the available positions.

There are a lot of Chefs out there working on awesome startups big & small. We want to do everything we can to help get you the recognition you deserve… and the Crunchies are coming up fast!. We’re building a list of Chef-powered Startups with links to the Crunchie nomination form.

Fabio Akita (aka AkitaOnRails) just posted his interview with Adam and Jesse, Opscode’s CTO and CEO. Fabio is a long-time member of the Brazilian Rails community and is the author of the first Rails book in the Portuguese language. He is also the organizer of the Rails Summit Latin America.

Last night one of our favorite Chefs Kamal Fariz Mahyuddin (@kamal on twitter) achieved another first, an entire app server configured in a single tweet. This awesomeness was worth memorializing here. Nice work Kamal!