Live Resize Arrives!

You can now re-crop and scale any image you've uploaded to Gridlove. Make sure you're logged in and click on one of your images. You'll see an option "re-crop image". Clicking this will allow you to live-edit your image. You really need to try it out to see how simple it is.

Server Down!

OK - our hosting provider is an asshat. It's a long story but the result is our server has been down for the last 3 days or so with no guarantee of when it's coming back. Apparently it should be in the next 24 hours or so. Keep an eye on this blog and I'll let you know as soon as I do!

And yes, I'm looking for a new hosting provider.

Update May 29: We're back live with a new provider!

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Gridlove launches! (shhhhhh)

I've dropped the beta crap from the site and sent out a note to a few of my favourite blogs. Hopefully I'll get a manageable stream of intrepid users slowly dropping by to see what Gridlove is all about.

Code seems to be stablish, so fingers are crossed the server stays up for a change. Honestly, I've had to learn far far more than I ever wanted to know about database connection pooling, virtual machines and object relationship mapping during this project. If I hadn't seen that weak flickering (Flickring?) light at the end of the tunnel I would almost certainly have jumped ship and switched the project from Java to something far more bandwagon-compliant (Ruby on Rails) by now.