Back to the articleI'm struggling #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 16:19 GMT
to find the link between this story and one first listed underneath - that one about the dwarf, the superglue and the hoover.
Edinburgh Fringe box office system goes titsup
It canny be the project managers fault... #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 16:01 GMT
...so it must be the contractors!
Tickets are on sale .... #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 16:19 GMT
Most of tickets have been on sale since the 7th using the other ticketing system in use at the fringe, VIA provided by Red61. This system is used by Assembly, Gilded Balloon, Pleasance and Underbelly
They were advertising the job... #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:16 GMT
They had a vacancy for a general DBA/Sys admin type role when I looked on Sunday.
It looks like they didn't find one in time...
A voice was heard to say... #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:16 GMT
The servers canna take it, Captain!
@Ivan re. struggling with dwarf's todger #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:16 GMT
It happened in Edinburgh, hence the link between the two stories.
"Comedy lovers hoping to get their hands on tickets" #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:16 GMT
Why, did the problem not affect the hundreds of non-comedy shows on the Fringe?
The link to the dwarf story? #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:16 GMT
He's re-enacting his misfortunes at this year's Fringe. Tickets on sale tomorrow.
Pivotal Integration Ltd? #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 20:33 GMT
That's a damn good line, if ever I heard one.
Our department once formed an informal (but we pretty much stuck to it) policy never to buy from any company with the word 'solutions' in its name.
If anyone had called me saying that they represented Pivotal Integration --- I'd have just laughed.
The sad thing is that people don't have a clue how ridiculous they sound.
Festival Dirty Tricks? #
Posted Tuesday 10th June 2008 22:07 GMT
"Glasgow-based Pivotal Integration Limited supplies box office software to the company"
Pretty obvious what the problem is right there... Pivotal must support Glasgow's Comedy Festival rather than those dour east-coasters. :D
system platform? #
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 11:58 GMT
linux? windows?
please provide details so i may scoff appropriately.
More fundamental problems... #
Posted Wednesday 11th June 2008 11:58 GMT
Yup, there are some serious flaws in their IT strategy.
Take the Microsoft ticket tent they put up on the top of the Prince's Mall each year. You can't buy a ticket from the staff there -- you get to go on one of their computers and book one on the Fringe website.
All well and good -- but you need to confirm your email address, and there's no way to check your email from these computers. I signed up on their site in 2006 and last year tried to use the Ticket Tent, but I'd forgotten my password, which they dutifully sent to my hotmail account which I couldn't see!
Ridiculous!
Gilded Balloon's Website taking bookings. #
Posted Thursday 12th June 2008 12:11 GMT
I was able to book tickets on the Gilded Balloon's website. Worked a treat.
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