We’ve already lined up a tremendous group of speakers and trainings for #ChefConf 2014 in San Francisco, April 15-17, and we’re looking forward to seeing the whole Chef Community out in force. Of course, keynotes, sessions, trainings, and such are all gravy, but what’s happening once the sun goes down?

Ohai Chefs, We have a number of OSX users in the community (myself included) and some of you may have recently noticed issues extending Chef functionality by installing ruby gems like berkshelf, chefspec, and foodcritic which require building native extensions.

The countdown to #ChefConf continues as we spotlight the many Awesome Chefs presenting at the show, which takes place April 15-17 in San Francisco. Today we’re highlighting a presentation that focuses on something we hear a lot in association with Chef – scale.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.