Friday, January 27, 2006

Baltimore
We've added a new city! Pass it on to your friends!

After a few days of working on finding bar specials, we decided that the city we would get next would be Baltimore. It was a decision largely made by the number of specials that I could find listed online. Baltimore had the best online resources, so it was the city added.

Patrick

Thursday, January 19, 2006

New Features!

Howdy everyone,
After several days of debugging the system we have added several new features. First, the obvious sidepanel, which allows you to see a list of the top ten bars. When you click on an item in that list, the name of the bar appears on the screen, and the marker turns green. Which leads me to the second new feature, that when you move your mouse over a marker, the marker gets lit up and the name shows up along-side. Third, the page now shows more specials at any one time, as there was a duplication bug in the old code. I also repaired the color of the Chicago-Orange Line, but thats more of a fix than a feature.

There are several new features that are going to be added in the next week or so, keep your eyes open. In addition, if there are any features you would like to see, please feel free to suggest them.

Patrick

Chicago 200

I am pleased to report that Chicago now features over 200 bars, and somewhere over 700 specials. Months of effort have given us an excellent list, which has been created through newspaper reading, in bar research, some submissions by our users, and a few submissions by bartenders and bar-owners. Keep it up, and thanks!

I suppose that his means I could spend more time on Milwaukee . . .