Changes in the past year

Some of the latest modifications and additions are listed below.

• May 23, 2013 Some issues with exporting a user's coin collection in Excel file have been fixed and the ability to complete delete a coin collections has also been added.
• May 22, 2013 We are currently working on the Coin Vault application. A few hundred coins have been added and many duplicate entries have been eliminated. We will be updating the content and the features of this application in the weeks ahead.
• April 27, 2013 It may look as if the site was not updated for a month, but this is hardly the case. We are shorting our quite a few bugs and implementing some really amazing user suggestions. The last one, was a new filter for registered users. If you upload your collection to the Coin Vault, a new filter is displayed in the Coin Shop that allows you to hide the coins you already have!
• March 22, 2013 The Swap Area was updated in order to allow collector to upload their doubles from .XLS files too. Previously, it only accepted .XLSX files.
• March 5, 2013 3 weeks into the project and things are settling down. All major bugs have been reviealed and now there is time to introduce some new features.
• February 25, 2013 Two weeks of life for the new site and a recap is required. We have been monitoring the log files and fighting with all the discovered bugs. From around 200K of logs (with bugs) per day, we are now down to 30K. There is still room for much improvement.
• February 18, 2013 Monitoring the new site revealed a few bugs which have been taken care of. Preliminary performance data show a significant improvement, but at least one week must pass before we can safely assess the inforamtion at hand.
• February 16, 2013 After 13 months, development is done. The new site is finally online. Enjoy!
• January 17, 2013 The entire World Collectors Database section is finished.
• January 1, 2013 The entire Coin Shop section is finished and offers a variety of new functionalities. The remaining 2 sections are the Swap Area and the Coin Vault.
• November 29, 2012 I am finishing up the checkout process, which offers better security, improved user interface and the option to checkout without creating an account (Express or Guest checkout).
• November 9, 2012 A new article about the new European banknotes, the Europa series.
• September 15, 2012 The new Shopping Cart is ready to go!
• June 5, 2012 The links sections is finished and some functionality was AJAXified