Frontend

• Improved RSS Feeds. They now embed thumbnails
• Added RSS links to the user pages
• Added a public images page
• Logo now links to the upload page
• Displaying the “upload client” (web, api) in the image sidebar

Backend / API

• Added API Clients. It will be possible to register API Clients soon.
• The upload API now exposes the direct link as public_url

You are using Linux or OS X? You like the CLI? If so, our CLI client is for you!

It's a small Ruby tool to upload files directly from the CLI.

Usage is as simple as:
hoodow@abaddon ~ % pickhost pics/desktop_kde4.4_4.png
This returns the URL and copies it to your clipboard (requires xclip on Linux).

To install it just run
sudo gem install Hoodow-pickhost-cli --source http://gems.github.com

For authenticated uploads just create a ~/.pickhost-cli.yml file with the following content:
user: <your username>
token: <your token>
Your API token can be found in your account settings.

The client uses our simple Upload-API which is currently limited to 50 uploads per hour. We will post more about the API when it's complete.

If you are interested in the code, it's hosted at GitHub.

Frontend

• Fixed an error occuring when adding a comment
• Redesigned the comment area
• Displaying a notification in the sidebar when metadata is being processed
• Updating the sidebar automagically with smart polling when metadata is completely processed
• Now paginating with AJAX
• Various small UI updates

Backend

• Using Memcached to store the state of the metadata processing
• Merged metadata and geocoding worker

This is the first development digest. Our development digests will inform you about our development progress.

Frontend

• Added a live search for your images in manager
• Modified the image boxes to be more awesome
• Added links for sharing to the sidebar
• Round corners are now realized in CSS rather than using images
• Updated notification to play better with the design
• Some small design and localization fixes/improvements

Backend

• Many changes to run on Ruby 1.9
• Split up UploadController and ImagesController
• Created a general collection Model
• Created a simple API (currently
• Location data is no stored in an extra Model
• Various code improvements

We, the Pic(k)host team, want to thank all folks who use and appraise our service! We really hope that you are and will be satisfied with our service in the future too. As we said we are always open for critique or comments on our service and would love to hear your opinion, ideas and thoughts about Pic(k)host! You can find our contact information in the last blogpost.

If you read our blog regularly you’ll have recognized that we announced several features to come. A part of this featurelist will appear on the livepage the next days.

Cheers!

As you can see our design has slightly changed today. It’s not the final version of the site appearence yet, so be prepared for more optical changes to come the following days.

We are also going to implement multi upload and again loads of performance optimization the next days.

Would be cool to read some comments about users opinion. If you want to contact us more personal, feel free to write an email to team@pickhost.eu, nk@pickhost.eu (responsible for design) or or@pickhost.eu (responsible for code)

We had a unplanned downtime between 16:45 CET and 18:15 CET today.

The Power Supply of our server died and was replaced.

We decided to drop our current beta and are going to roll out small sets of new features to the live page.

In the first steps we will roll out the new design, photosets, folksonomy, and a search.

Stay tuned!

We had an unexpected downtime today due to some network issues on the server.

No data has been lost.

We are sorry for the inconveniences.

The features I announced in the last post are delayed for uncertain time.

This is cause a bigger project I’m currently working in contract at.

I’ll try to release small updates in the next weeks. Stay tuned!

In the next days Pic(k)host will get some cool updates. We will implement more social features, what exactly you will see when it’s done.

As well we will move our backups to the european Servers of Amazon S3 which allows us to create nearly real-time backups of your images. The current setup just backs up once a day.

If you have specific wishes regarding new features don’t hesitate to drop us a mail at team@pickhost.eu.

After a long time I deployed some updates today.

It is now possible to choose whether your uploads are publicly available or private. Public images currently appear in your RSS-Feed (read below), private ones are only accessable with the correct link and only listed in your account. Some more features using your public images will come in future.

With the new RSS-Feeds you can share your public images with everyone. They are accessable by the RSS-icon on the bottom of your account page.

The pagination finally got a better look and a small bug were fixed, which throws an error when the upload button were hitted without specifying an image.

We fixed a critical bug which allowed everyone to browse through all images. We are really sorry for this possible infringement of your privacy.

If you find a bug or just think there can be any improvement drop us a mail to team@pickhost.eu.

In the next few days Pic(k)host will be improved with two small features:

• Thumbnails in your image listing ( well, not really a new feature )
• Possibility to delete your uploaded images completely

Stay tuned!

Update:

All done now. The image listings will be more beautiful sometime.

I’m open for all suggestions..