I had the pleasure of working with Jerry Cheung and Peter Bogatsky, two computer science students at Berkeley one semester to spec out and pilot “Yumify!,” a Ruby on Rails Web 2.0 application that serves as a social tool for groups of friends. The application aims to answer the every day, age old question: “where should we eat today?”

Yumify! hooks in with data from Yelp! to provide restaurant recommendations based on each group member’s individual likes and dislikes. It sports features like AJAX page updating and autocompletion. I designed the HTML to use as little markup as possible.

Other interesting items we tackled with Yumify! included Google Maps integration, secure user authentication using MD5 hashes, and the age-old fun times of adhering to the usage agreements associated with the Yelp API.