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Oh The Horror! And New Tickets
- fallentimes 18y agoConcert site structure and user dashboards are next.
- omakase 18y agoKudos for being so open and also for injecting a bit of humor into these posts. Tom is a badass developer and I know TicketStumbler is going to be even more awesome as you roll out more concerts and more.
- mcargian 18y agoWow, how bad was the code before you made it "too awesome" in your latest update? Sounds like you need some new programmers and three new DBAs.
- tdavis 18y agoSounds like you need some candy, Mister! Candy always cheers me up!
- fallentimes 18y agoHi, We admittedly cut a lot of corners in order to get launched in two months with only two people. So far, it's been worth the gamble.
- Herring 18y agoheh you sure were cutting it close, getting to the point where you couldn't select.
- fallentimes 18y agoYep.
- run4yourlives 18y agoSpeaking of, you could speed up queries in general by avoiding Select * . See here: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Don't_Use_ http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/Don't_Use_(select_*),_but_List_Columns
- sanj 18y agoI'm afraid I lost part of the thread. Was the final solution to move to a new machine? Is that what this means? By eliminating all the variables of the current machine, the question answered itself, without days of debugging.
- tdavis 18y agoYeah, sorry I didn't clarify better. The real problem likely had something to do with the disk drives as the we'd been having problems with a couple drives on that machine. It basically came down to "re-install software, replace hardware" or just "move to the new stuff now." The second option was going to be done in a way that didn't have any downtime, but with some many bad things happening at once it didn't make sense to wait.
- mixmax 18y agoI take great offense in your unwarranted picking on Danes :-)
- fallentimes 18y agoIf it makes you feel better I'm 25% Danish. :P
- mattmaroon 18y agoWWE, amazing. Do those sell out these days? I haven't been to a taping of Raw in many years, but I remember they used to backing during they heyday of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
- fallentimes 18y agoIt depends. If it's at a venue with over 80,000 seat it's very hard to sell out. As amazing as it seems, WWE is still popular. Yes, fake wrestling. UFC is super hot right now. NASCAR is already the second most popular "sport" (ugh) behind football, but UFC should be grabbing the third spot soon if they haven't already.
- mattmaroon 18y agoThird in terms of ticket sales? I know NFL is only third in terms of total attendance due to having so few games. I read a couple articles recently that said NASCAR attendance is dropping. Their audience is, umm, how to say this politely... the group most likely to be hurt by an economic downturn.
- fallentimes 18y agoTelevision ratings inside the US.