Update on Site Outage 1/29/07

The new data center team has made limited progress and we're seeing 10's of thousands of pages views again - which unfortunately is just shy of the 100's we usually see. We've escalated all issues with the people who do this sort of thing for us -- and they assure us that we're closer than we were yesterday, which is the best we can get right now.

We've had everyone and their dog looking at the issues for us from the top technical minds we can find to the lowliest of sales guys, who once today, while looking over the shoulder of one of the frazzled tech gurus enquired, "So... 'green' is good, right?"

The tech's dry response... "No. 'Green' is green, dude..."

Slow progress.

Surfline Outage 1/27/07

You'd think after so many years of doing this tech thing that it'd get easier... but alas. It sometimes happens every time we've ever moved our data center operation that we have issues with connectivity, and we are hit hard by our move over the weekend. It appears that the site is now coming back, but we're still working to iron out the final kinks. We've had everything from load balancer issues to routing issues, to upstream packet loss on multiple providers, etc. Not out of the woods, but looking better right now. More as we know it...

Premium Video Forecasts Launched

Blood, sweat, and tears.... we've birthed another product, and a new reason to subscribe:
Video Forecasts

Surfline looking for Flash Pros

Do you program in Flash? We have a designer kicking a-- and need programmers to pair up with him and help us build the next rev of our forecasting dash, camera and video players, etc.

Apply to nerdery at surfline.com. My 'unbiased' opinion is that this is the coolest job and best work environment you'll ever find.

See also: Surfline Job Postings

Improved Regional Forecasts

The forecast dashboard has been causing a great deal of confusion recently. The reason was that the forecaster comments "2-4ft occasionally 5ft and fair" were for an entire region (e.g. Southern California or Florida) but the graphs were for a specific location (e.g. South Orange County or North Florida) - We finally managed to correct this. So now the comments and the graph should match up. If they don't - read the comments, the forecasters are normally far more accurate than the machines.

Welcome!

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New Blog... Old Blog

We've had issues with Blogger as they've migrated to Google accounts, so we restarted our blog here. The old blog is still available and may have some useful tidbits.

FYI