Client side sorting is 100% completed. Even found a bug today and fixed it too. However, caching properly is a problem and still struggling with the algorithm. There are several levels of caching involved to make matters more interesting...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 13:18:27
It's yet another speed modification for the chart. Sorting currently is done on the server side, and reloading the whole table, issuing query, processing data from 3 tables... Client side sort will eliminate all that and will only take fraction of a second. Sorting is done. I have to deal with the sort indicators and other minor issues and it'll be up. Hopefully tomorrow. May be that will allow for at least some caching too.
Monday, February 15, 2010 20:22:03
As promised, the review was overviewed, revised and the new data provided by Henckels Japan was added to the relevant parts of the review. For the details, read on. I've added information about Miyabi line history, steel information, a little about heat treatment and future plans for another review if the knife comes back to me, I suspect it will :) Everything dulls, even the ZDP-189 steel at 65-67HRC.
Sunday, February 14, 2010 18:29:39
This time, Japanese OU-31 PM tool steel. High carbon, particle metallurgy tool steel with addition of unspecified amount of Copper, made by Nippon Koshuha. As far as I know Spyderco tested it, but never used, and SOG did make few very expensive knives from it.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 14:53:03
After publishing the Henckels Miyabi 7000MC series Santoku knife review, I was contacted by Hekcnels Japan head of ops. Nice guy, and what's really nice of him, he provided quite a bitof the info I was intrested in. First hand :) Updated review will be up soon.
Saturday, February 13, 2010 09:50:25
Version 2.1 I guess. Removed all of the notes and help files(elements, quick help) from the initial load. That saves about 100K of data, well it's much less compressed, but still. Also, that reduces DOM element number form 10500 to about 7800. Speeds up javascript on the page considerably, especially for the slow browsers, like MSIE. Notes and help data are retrieved using AJAX async calls. Pretty much unnoticeable. Well, ejnoy faster chart and lemme know if there are any problems.
Thursday, February 11, 2010 14:50:00
I'm not sure how did I miss it when the chart went online, this is in Benchmade catalog. Chinese 8Cr14MoV stainless steel.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:47:35
This is pretty much first serious sharpening. Well, the only thing I have used was the Kitayama 8000-12000 grit Japanese synthetic whetstone. After that the usual stropping on 0.50mic and 0.25mic diamod crystal loaded strops and then the plain leather strop. I really like sharpening Aogami super steel. It is wicked sharp now. All in all, 15 minutes on the kitayama, and 30 minutes on the strops.
Monday, February 8, 2010 21:59:01
Another long overdue review is up. Even with all the compiled notes it still takes few days to get all that in order and write up a review. Anyway, as far as Shuns go, IMHO it is one of the best price/performance ratio knives in their lineups. Detailed review in the link...
Monday, February 8, 2010 20:31:00
I was wrong, and Silver 1, 2, 3 steels are nothing new, those are the Gin 1, Gin 2 and Gin 3 steels from Hitachi. So, in the end we have just 1 new alloy, KK from Hitachi and 3 new, alternate names for GIN series steels.
Monday, February 8, 2010 20:29:24