I agree, they need to sort out their support. I am happy to pay for it as I think the platform is excellent.
I generate the screen shots through a from job both by automating ie and using webkit on the mac. The webkit tool automatically resized the images to be thumbnails. Checkout webkit2png it is brilliant. Paul. On 3 Sep 2008, at 18:05, Thomas Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Once they get out of preview, it'll all be automated I'm sure. Going > over the free quota will simply incur costs. Hopefully they will have > measures in place so you can set a roof for how much you want to spend > and so on. They have such for adwords though, so they should have that > here as well. > > With that said, the support has been awfully unresponsive during this > preview period, quota issues aside. It certainly doesn't leave a good > impression of how they will handle support at launch. > > Somewhat off-topic: Out of curiosity, how are you actually > thumbnailing the sites? I assume you run a seperate box with a cron or > something to that effect? And do you happen to know a way to get the > image dimensions / metadata using the google images api? > > - Thomas > > On Sep 3, 6:37 pm, "Paul Kinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I hope they will help me out. It is not a good avertisment for the >> app >> engine when the app that is on the "Editor Pick" list is no longer >> working. >> >> I am willing to pay for the usage, I just wish google were more >> responsive, >> if they can't manage the process at this stage then how will they >> manage >> when the app engine is no longer in Preview stage. I know that we as >> developers have to accept that this is Preview Release and as such >> are >> restricted to free usage quotas, but we don't seem to hear anything >> from the >> guys about anything, especially quota increase requests. >> >> Paul. >> >> 2008/9/3 vorun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> >>> don't hold your breathe for google to help you, i have the same >>> issue >>> and its been months and never heard from from them on this >> >>> On Sep 3, 1:15 am, "Paul Kinlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >> >>>> My app is right on the quota (websnapper -www.thethumbthing.com). >> >>>> I requested a quota increase and received a request for more >>>> information >>>> which I have supplied. Unfortunately, no one at appengine >>>> support has >>> got >>>> back to me about the quota increase that I have requested. >> >>>> I am sorry to be posting this publicly on the forum, but as there >>>> isn't >>>> anyway of tracking support requests I have no idea what is going >>>> on. I >>> have >>>> had to stop uploading thumbnail images. >> >>>> I am willing to pay for the space that my app is using. >> >>>> Please Google, can you implement a sufficient support process and >>>> can you >>>> let us know when the pricing policy will come in to effect. >> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> Paul Kinlan > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
