The more observant of you may have noticed that the site is now running version 1.0.1 which means we have pushed out a minor release. This new version fixes a few bugs and adds a number of minor improvements to various features on the site. There’s nothing overly new or exciting as it’s only a small release but you may now notice things working better!

These changes include:

• The greeting top right by your username randomly changes to make your visit even more exciting.
• We fixed an annoying bug when you could be logged out after a certain period of time. We have changed the way sessions are handled so you’ll only be logged out if you stay continually browsing for a year. Let us know if this happens to you.
• Paging has been added to your Blackbook for the activity monitor so you don’t end up scrolling down miles.
• We now automatically discover the area your postcode is related to and use that for the location field e.g. Angel or Soho. You can opt out of this to have it display “I’m not telling!” instead from the Account page in your Blackbook.
• Search is now a bit faster when we’re doing a partial match for a business name. For this we have to use a MySQL LIKE wildcard query and they are notoriously difficult to optimise. Other searches (e.g. for a type, or an exact business name) will still be really fast because MySQL can use indexes for those!
• Plus a load of back end tweaks to make our life easier for managing all the data we have on record.

So now we have our first maintenance release out in the open, the next release will be to add some new features which we’re currently hard at work planning out.