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By | Monday, June 28, 2010 | 10:40 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

Hooboy! Everything is finally fixed, after a few hour push there. Those last few pages of posts were the worst, my eyes are pretty much shutting on their own on this point.

So I’m gonna go take a nap, but let me know if you see any blank pages or weird double displaying pages (loading once, and then right again on top of each other). These should all be fixed, but it’s possible that some thing like that would come up if a book or post is accidentally in the blog AND comics category or if it’s not in either category.

Pretty sure they’re all set, though. I also made sure each blog post is only in one sub-category, like “Updates” or “Essays.”

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By | Monday, June 28, 2010 | 8:49 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

In order to add in more custom layouts (instead of just two) I had to switch the comic book collected edition layout to display for items in the category “Comics” – meaning that any book which are not yet categorized into that major category instead of just their sub categories are not displaying – in fact, the whole page for those books is not displaying!

I’m going as fast as I can through all of them, but I can only do 20 at a time, and the poor shared server has a tendency to crash/run out of memory when doing that.. so it takes a bit to get through. I’ve got everything but DC done so far, and about 1600 books to go.

Stay tuned for update!

(random note – I was getting myself through this tedium by telling myself that I was biding the time while an ebay auction counted down, and then while writing this little update post I missed it, after waiting 4 hours. I was outbid, but could have bid myself up 50 cents more and gotten in. rargh! Frustrating night/morning.)

Update: 900 fixed so far (9:30 am)

FIXED 10:29 AM

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By | Monday, June 28, 2010 | 7:56 am | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

So I decided to tweak the essay category layout a bit, since they seem like they’ll be getting more long term traffic and they should look nice and pretty and less like blog posts. Basically, I minimized the text header since each one will have a graphic title.

Then I added this little graphic title for the little Why I Love The DC Universe essay (Just realized that was a funny little acronym.)

I’m not totally sure about the sub/pre title, but it felt like it needed something up there (and that’s what I was calling it when I posted it over at my personal blog.)

I’m only half awake, so I’m not gonna do it right now, but my plan is to rework a couple of the paragraphs in the Crisis for Infinite Nerds piece, cause they’re a little misleading or awkward when it comes to bronze age chronology and the influence/order of miniseries development.

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By | Sunday, June 27, 2010 | 7:36 pm | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

And here are the last of the Archives!

Bronze Age Stuff:

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 9

The Black Canary Archives Vol. 1 (this one spans the Golden Age to Bronze Age, but based on our policy of placing stuff by it’s latest collected content, it goes here)

Kamandi Archives Vol. 1

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 10

Kamandi Archives Vol. 2

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 11

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 12

The Action Heroes Archives Vol. 2

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 1

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 2

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 3

The New Teen Titans Archives Vol. 4

And these War Stories are mostly placed around WWII where the bulk of the content happens – at the start or the end of the war depends on the events in the book:

The Blackhawk Archives Vol. 1

The Enemy Ace Archives Vol. 1

The Enemy Ace Archives Vol. 2

The Sgt. Rock Archives Vol. 1

The Sgt. Rock Archives Vol. 2

The Sgt. Rock Archives Vol. 3

I think that’s it for the Archives! Let me know if you think I missed any, though.

Up next we’ve got all the DC Animated books. I’m gonna take a break for dinner and to leave my cave to say hi to my housemates for a minute.

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By | Sunday, June 27, 2010 | 6:36 pm | 0 Comments | Blog > Database Updates

This rounds out the Silver Age Archive placements:

The Silver Age Teen Titans Archive Vol. 1

Justice League Of America Archives Vol. 6

The Adam Strange Archives Vol. 3

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 6

The Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 4

Justice League Of America Archives Vol. 7

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 7

The Doom Patrol Archives Vol. 5

Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Vol. 8

Justice League Of America Archives Vol. 8

Justice League Of America Archives Vol. 9

Next should be some Bronze Age stuff, and the War Stories which I uploaded separately to the database because I wasn’t as sure about their placement. Got it mostly figured out now, though.

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