Yesterday, on Jan. 23 it's been 3 month since the interactive knife steel charts went live. Since then alloy count went form ~150 to 363 currently, got second version already and growing. ~24K hits in those 3 months. over 200K php and JS code.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:08:55
Benchmade is planning to make a new knives out of Bohler-Uddeholm N680 steel. As such, it had to be added to the knife steel charts obviously :) Full name is Antinit N680. Interesting part is the presence of the Nitrogen, but for whatever reason Bohler doesn't specify the exact amount of it.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 11:03:41
Using cookies obviously. Currently 4 settings from the search forms View Options group are saved when the Save button is clicked. Next time the chart is loaded it will restore the settings and use them, unless they were overridden by form or query parameters.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 23:44:05
Fixed the bug with incorrect links in the Name column when using standard names. Instead of the alloy name it was linked to standard name, preventing graph from building when the link was clicked. However, the checkbox selected alloys were properly handled.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 21:07:33
KF guys noted Carpenter CTS-XPH was missing, which made me review the charts. Incorrectly placed 440XH into D2 group, in fact it is a proprietary steel and 440XH is the same CTS=XPH. Added notes and created approprite name group for this alloy.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 15:19:36
Thanks to DrNaka of FF for this one, YSS Shirogamis all had wrong Mn content. Fixed.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 01:25:25
Added CSN standard name and Bohler-Uddeholm name for the AISI 410 steel.
Monday, January 11, 2010 11:51:30
After few months of hard and hot so hard work, it's alive. 357 alloys, 1005 names for them, including standard and proprietary names. This is the base for the more flexible chart. No more loss of data and new alloys and new standard names can be added very easily. After all the SQL optimizations I hope knife chart will work faster as well. Despite of much larger amount of data.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 23:58:53
Arrived yesterday. It too a lot longer and couple handle replacements till the whole thing worked out right. Looks very good now :) First test use is today. Obviously I forgot what's the wood in it. Pix and updated review next week.
Sunday, January 10, 2010 17:28:32