Still Active?

Holy cow, is this thing still active? Maybe we can put this back into use.

A Widget in the blog

More Florida Cams Launching

More love for the East Coast crew: New Smyrna Inlet and Flagler Ave in New Smyrna, FL have been added to the growing list of North/Central Florida surf cameras on Surfline.com.

New Smyrna Inlet Surf Camera:

http://www.surfline.com/reports/report.cfm?id=4420

Flagler Ave, New Smyrna Surf Camera:

http://www.surfline.com/reports/report.cfm?id=5327

The Flagler camera is fixed on the main break at Flagler. The Inlet Camera pans from the North Jetty down through NSInlet and south.

Thanks mucho to the local crew for the hook-ups and hospitality during the installations. You know who you are... ;-)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

well our friends over at wavewatch once again prove that they are followers not leaders. Their shiny new forecast tool is a reasonable attempt to copy the surfline dashboard (now on version 3). However, what they always fail to mention is that the display is only as good as the data behind it.
Wavewatch.com (using NOAA wavewatch3 data - confused? I'm sure NOAA are) has a resolution of 1 degree (60 miles)
Surfline.com (using LOLA, a stand-alone and surf tuned forecast model) has a resolution of 60 miles in open ocean, 15 miles in the Npac and Natl hurricane basins and down to 100meters in nearshore areas - most of the US, hawaii, Baja, South Africa, Fiji.

why do I sometimes feel like the Mac/PC ads.. "Hi I'm surfline...."

You are The One

We often hear comments from people that run like this: "Man, I'll go service the cameras! Can I surf while I'm there?"

The answer is "yes" - and we have two open positions to prove it. Work from home, travel to the various breaks to fix a cam, surf while you're there... repeat. And, oh yeah, we'll send you a paycheck.

Interested parties go here:
http://www.boardsportjobs.com/jobdetails.cfm?jid=526

PS. See that picture? It's an image captured from the cam at our last install, in El Salvador. I surfed it while there... in 85 degree water.

PSS. Help me bring back the blink tag and we'll really piss this guy off: The Blink Free Homepage

The quadcam

The trusty old quad cam, bane of all things surfline. Originally created to allow us to quickly check our camera status, it was released in an unfinished state to the world. It has a number of problems (notably a huge memory leak in the flash code - we think) that causes it to freeze or crash browsers. A new version is slated to be released sometime in the next few months.

Can we come out to play now?

After what seems like days (because it was days) in a freezing, noisy data center we finally think the issues with the site have been resolved, a combination of hardware re-wiring, some software changes and tuning of our application servers seems to show a website thats more responsive, more stable, and, if i dare say it, considerably faster than pre-move. Now what we need is some surf. (HB this morning - 1-2 glassy and fair)