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The Code Style site log subsection is a summary of technical changes to the Code Style Web site, with details of when, why and how specific features were added.

Code Style site log January to March 2011
Final technical changes for January to March 2011.
The site log is discontinued.
Site log, December 2010
Fixed a compatibility issue with the font survey applet to provide support for the Google Chrome browser, with routine survey results update. Produced new Servlet threads FAQ ebook and Java threads FAQ ebook.
Site log, November 2010
Expanded the range of fonts included in the Mac font survey and Linux font survey, including many non-Latin fonts. Produced Amazon Kindle ebooks editions of the Code Style FAQ ebooks series to date.
Site log, October 2010
Published the Java interface design FAQ ebook and caught-up with a large backlog of new FAQ answers. Ended the month with the publication of the Java API FAQ ebook.
Site log, September 2010
A quiet month focused on the publication of the Cascading Style Sheets FAQ ebook.
Site log, August 2010
Minor post-launch changes to the One Percent Better website and publication of the Java inheritance FAQ ebook. Retrospectively applied ebook content enhancements to the Code Style FAQs.
Site log, July 2010
Many final amends towards the publication of the Java strings FAQ ebook and soft launch of the One Percent Better website, including paged media style sheet additions.
Site log, June 2010
Added a percentage preview to font stack builder font selections and more non-Latin fonts to the CSS font survey. Refactored the font sampler to support cross-links to the font stack builder with generic font families. Further production and web server configuration changes for ebooks.
Site log, May 2010
New styles for call to action links, new CSS font survey fonts, and ebook production set-up. Updated the font stack builder to enable font stacks to be pasted in. Also created a Lighttpd and Lua redirection script for FAQs by ID with Quartz scheduled task to post to Twitter. Minified site Javascript with YUI Compressor.
Site log, April 2010
Created promotional banners for several articles and started work on a new questionnaire format for FAQs.
Site log, March 2010
Switched to a mail merge format for email newsletter subscribers, with convenience Javascriptscript to “Join” or “Leave” all newsletters.
Site log, February 2010
New Java modifiers FAQ and W3C CSS validator installation article.
Site log, January 2010
Annual site statistics update, plus standard font survey results and FAQ updates.
What if you were One Percent Better? Ebooks for Web developers on iPad, Kindle, Nook and Sony Reader
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