Macworld Expo Sessions Available for Download

>I only send this to alert other potentially interested persons in
>purchasing sessions from MacWorldEncore. I have now been attempting
>to purchase 4 sessions for the last two days. <snip> This is the
>worst experience I have had with a shopping cart since the inception
>of the web shopping cart! Blech.

As a speaker, I received an email and some "credit" to use towards
session downloads, but to be honest I hadn't even looked at the site
yet. After I read this, I tried it and the "shopping cart" part of it
was seamless and error-free. I was able to preuse all the sessions,
load up my cart, then check out and apply my coupon code. The
back-end was obviously run by Google, and I never saw any other the
errors you talk about.

I'm downloading sessions now.

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Chuck Goolsbee

On 3/9/07 10:18, "Clint Potts" <cpottsc-3tech.com> wrote:

> I only send this to alert other potentially interested persons in purchasing
> sessions from MacWorldEncore. I have now been attempting to purchase 4
> sessions for the last two days. I have been encountering error after error in
> trying to access the site, actually selecting a session, actually logging in,
> actually staying logged in long enough to attempt to select my four sessions,
> then getting a Microsoft Jet Engine error (COME ON THIS IS MAC WORLD
> EXPO!!!!!!!) What the hell are we doing running this crappy site on an IIS
> server!!!???? The site feels like it is being hosted on a 386 box that was
> resurrected to host this site. This is the worst experience I have had with a
> shopping cart since the inception of the web shopping cart! Blech.

Real world intrusion. IDG is not a Mac-only company, and as such, is not
beholden to the Mac orthodoxy. Macworld Expo is in fact, an IDG property.
The fact that it is not working is of more importance than personal opinion
of the technology used.

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John C. Welch Writer/Analyst
Bynkii.com Mac and other opinions
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>I only send this to alert other potentially interested persons in
>purchasing sessions from MacWorldEncore. I have now been attempting
>to purchase 4 sessions for the last two days. <snip> This is the
>worst experience I have had with a shopping cart since the inception
>of the web shopping cart! Blech.

Macworld.com posted a free download of the Mac OS X Hints session,
which apparently overwhelmed the IDG servers (the session is now at
macworld.com). I'm guessing you hit the site while it was being
attacked by popularity.
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