Everything is back up
The server is back up DNS should be updated for most things. Send me email jeichorn at gmail.com and josh@bluga.net if your still having any problems.
News
Server Outage Today
There will be a server outage today starting around 6:30pm Arizona Time The servers will be getting new IPs during this time so assuming we don’t run into DNS problems everything should be back up in around 2 hours. I will twitter the status of the outage since this blog will be down too. Services affected include: Webthumb svn.pear.php.net phpdoc.org this blog My [...]
2 Million Webthumbs
Webthumb generated my 2 millionth web page thumbnail yesterday. My first million took 564 days This second million has taken 84 days
Giving into Web 2.0 or something like that
So i’ve finally given in and joined twitter and started mo-blogging with flickr. I’m also looking into Bemba, since it’s one of my WebThumb customers.
WebThumb integration with Drupal
A WebThumb drupal module has been added allowing you to easily use WebThumb in a drupal site. I haven’t had a chance to use the module but the code quality looks good.
WebThumb API addition: credit status
I’ve added an API call to get the credit status of your account. You can use this to track your usage and to see if you need more to purchase more credits. This feature was added due to a customer suggestion, if you have a suggestion let me know.
WebThumb API docs
The WebThumb API docs have been updated. Your feedback on the docs or the API itself would be appreciated. I would like to make a new version of the API at some point, the goal in that would be to handle errors cleanly as XML responses and too allow for other services to use the [...]
A WebThumb Merry Christmas
This Christmas Bluga.net WebThumb has 2 presents for your thumbnailing and web snapping needs. First is the holiday sale, you can get your credits at a reduced price, so use this opportunity to stock up for your 2008 projects. The other present is some exciting new features. Visual Effects Visual effects are currently in alpha and allow [...]
New WebThumb Website
The new WebThumb website has finally been launched. Gone are the days of the super plain website, now were Web 2.0ish.
PNG Support in WebThumb
WebThumb now has the ability to produce PNGs instead of JPEGs for snapshots. The PNGs are about twice the size of the JPEGs but they offer less artifacts and a much crisper thumbnail. Turning on PNG output makes a thumbnail cost 2 credits, to enable PNG output just add an output_type tag with [...]