The What's New Archive
October 1999
1999
31 October
17:27 - Today I switched all book purchase links from Barnes & Noble to Amazon.com. This is mainly done for two reasons;-
a) People have told me from time to time that they find books here and then buy them at Amazon
b) Now we can link 50-100 German language books and many movies as well.
This is done to improve services to you and coincides with the totally overhauled Books section.
19:47 - Database project
Opened the User comments page from the database. A total rewrite now containing over 150 comments printed 5 at a time at random.
19:47 - Database project
I linked all U-boat Commander profiles to a function that automatically gathers information on the sunken and damaged ships credited to them. This makes the data on their profiles more accurate.
19:47 - Fixed a small glitch in code for the U-boat profile database engine, only appeared rarely in Netscape.
19:46 - Database project
Opened a rewrite of the interesting Successes against Aircraft page. The aircraft successes against U-boats in 1943-1945 were not without their sacrifices.
01:26 - The entire U-boat Profiles are now being read from the database! This means another 1153 pages of information from the system. This is the biggest impact so far on the site since these are all U-boat pages linked to and from all over the site.
In addition to the items shown here above we made some 5 additions or changes in our databases during October 1999.