March 3, 2011 at 10:23 am
I clicked the link and got nowhere. It seems to be pointing to a subpage of SSC.
March 3, 2011 at 10:25 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/3/2011)
I clicked the link and got nowhere. It seems to be pointing to a subpage of SSC.
Interesting. The forum must be adding that in, since the link is exactly the text shown.
Try copy-and-pasting VisitOrlando.com into your browser, see if that gets you there.
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March 3, 2011 at 10:31 am
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
I believe if you want to put the URL in, you need to use (substitute the square brackets) {url=http:\\VisitOrlando.com}VisitOrlando.com{/url}
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March 3, 2011 at 10:47 am
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Clicked on the link in your posting and received:
The website declined to show this webpage error HTTP 403 Forbidden
March 3, 2011 at 10:49 am
bitbucket-25253 (3/3/2011)
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Clicked on the link in your posting and received:
The website declined to show this webpage error HTTP 403 Forbidden
Yeah, that's the subsite thing we're just talking about. It's trying to get to a sub-page of SSC right now.
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March 3, 2011 at 10:52 am
I just edited the original post to make the link fully explicit.
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March 3, 2011 at 11:05 am
GSquared (3/3/2011)
I just edited the original post to make the link fully explicit.
Returned to your "edited" original post .. now the link is WORKING like a charm.
Nice visual display, quick response when clicking on the sites menu,
all in all visually appealing, quick reacting ... a good job.
March 3, 2011 at 11:45 am
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.
Nice website, but in my opinion, it is a little weird that the changing pics are much wider than the actual content of the site (at least in my browser, IE9).
Just a small sidenote, the site is really beautiful.
What did you do for the ETL? Gather clickstream data?
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March 3, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Koen Verbeeck (3/3/2011)
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.
Nice website, but in my opinion, it is a little weird that the changing pics are much wider than the actual content of the site (at least in my browser, IE9).
Just a small sidenote, the site is really beautiful.
What did you do for the ETL? Gather clickstream data?
I noticed that too, although I think the photo resized once the page fully loaded. At first I wondered what the mom did to get cut out of the photo so badly.
Also, in all that great content and advertisement, not one single place to locate actual beaches? Really? http://www.visitorlando.com/search/?searchString=beach gives me things with beaches referenced, but there should be a handy reference to closest beaches.
I know they're not necessarily IN Orlando, but you've got to be kidding yourself if you think people from the frigid northern wastelands we call home aren't going to be heading to the beach at some point when we get there. Hell, we drove over to Cocoa Beach from Orlando on our honeymoon in early December, just to be on a beach, even if we were wearing our coats because of the blowing sand and chilly water.
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March 3, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Brandie Tarvin (3/2/2011)
LutzM (3/2/2011)
Craig Farrell (3/2/2011)
...By Jove! You've forgotten about taking care of your SOX while you're at it! In dealing with a rainforest, you'll catch some nasty things if you don't keep your SOX clean and dry.
Actually, that's part of testing the desaster recovery scenario: run through the rainforest not SOX-compliant and try to recover. 😀
However, it needs to be documented in an ISO compliant format where the SOX actually have to be. Otherwise you'd end up with a situation Jeff described earlier (a mouth full of SOX 😀 ).
But this might actually be a good version of an intrusion prevention system. At least for this specific point of entry. 😉
And now we know why you have to have SOX everywhere: it's just there to protect you!
And HIPAAs are previously undiscovered rainforest predators that leap out of the shadows when you least expect it, deliberately hampering all attempts to keep your SOX clean and dry. They're also very talented when it comes to tying ISO formats into complicated Gordian Knots.
I'm confused, and will now have to revise my views on the impact of SQLServerCentral on the ecology of the Amazon basin. I hadn't realised that avatars of Jason were rainforest predators until I saw Brandie's message.
Tom
March 3, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Tom.Thomson (3/3/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (3/2/2011)
LutzM (3/2/2011)
Craig Farrell (3/2/2011)
...By Jove! You've forgotten about taking care of your SOX while you're at it! In dealing with a rainforest, you'll catch some nasty things if you don't keep your SOX clean and dry.
Actually, that's part of testing the desaster recovery scenario: run through the rainforest not SOX-compliant and try to recover. 😀
However, it needs to be documented in an ISO compliant format where the SOX actually have to be. Otherwise you'd end up with a situation Jeff described earlier (a mouth full of SOX 😀 ).
But this might actually be a good version of an intrusion prevention system. At least for this specific point of entry. 😉
And now we know why you have to have SOX everywhere: it's just there to protect you!
And HIPAAs are previously undiscovered rainforest predators that leap out of the shadows when you least expect it, deliberately hampering all attempts to keep your SOX clean and dry. They're also very talented when it comes to tying ISO formats into complicated Gordian Knots.
I'm confused, and will now have to revise my views on the impact of SQLServerCentral on the ecology of the Amazon basin. I hadn't realised that avatars of Jason were rainforest predators until I saw Brandie's message.
I knew Jason was predatory long ago...
Also, kudos to Brandie for spelling it right, pet (ha) peeve of mine when people talk about their "HIPPA" issues.
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Tally Table:What it is and how it replaces a loop[/url]
"stewsterl 80804 (10/16/2009)I guess when you stop and try to understand the solution provided you not only learn, but save yourself some headaches when you need to make any slight changes."
March 3, 2011 at 12:28 pm
Koen Verbeeck (3/3/2011)
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.
Nice website, but in my opinion, it is a little weird that the changing pics are much wider than the actual content of the site (at least in my browser, IE9).
Just a small sidenote, the site is really beautiful.
What did you do for the ETL? Gather clickstream data?
I'll pass along the comment to the design people. The picture layout at the top is by design, but feedback on it will be appreciated.
There are five databases worth of information being fed into the site, including two different CRMs, one CMS, and some custom data specific to the business. Two of the databases are in Florida, three are in a different state. And that doesn't include the data stream for the images showing on the site, which is also managed as part of the ETL process, even though they're not stored in a database at all, and which also has to move them between multiple servers, rename all the files based on an algorithm (simple one, thankfully), and keep them synchronized with metadata in three databases.
The tricky part was completely reloading the database the site feeds from, including clearing and reloading multiple tables, without losing content during the load. Snapshots would have made that easy, and Merge would have made it unnecessary, but we're still in 2005, and in Standard Edition at that.
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March 3, 2011 at 12:35 pm
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.
Looks as if it's currently down - browsing to http://www.VisitOrlando.com ends up with some sort of 500 error from the Bluefrog Interactive site (so I guess VisitOrlando.com is intended to fit onto a very small screen - eg a mobile phone - as that's what Bluefrog was set up to do). But using DNS and ARIN Whois suggests that http://www.VisitOrlando.com belongs to an outfit called Por Motivos de Viaje in Caracas, Venezuela (which sounds like a second hands sales advertising company) but that seems improbable.
Edit: it's back up now. It's very odd - I get two different websites depending which browser i use.
Mozilla gives me a site designed for very small screen; it looks pretty nice, and has no picture size issues. However there are some 404s, and some bits that look like multiple entries for the same thing, (go through cultural for March to either of the Bach Festival entries and you'll find (i) that the "website" links are all broken and (ii) that there are more entries on each day that there are performances that day).
IE8 gives me a site which looks as if most of it was designed to be 990 px wide but with some weird image sizing that means you need something well over 1200 px width to display it cleanly, and also a lot of depth to avoid excessive scrolling. I don't like this version of the site at all, it's too loud and busy and I certainly wouldn't want to use it on a laptop or on a 1280 X 720 HDTV screen (or anything smaller), maybe it would look better on a 1920 X 1080 HDTV screen (I don't have one here so haven't tried it). This version of the site has unbroken links down at the bottom of the events-cultural chain (they point direct to the external website instead of trying to pull it through Bluefrog) and only one entry for for each performance.
Tom
March 3, 2011 at 12:38 pm
GSquared (3/3/2011)
... but we're still in 2005, and in Standard Edition at that.
Ouch... 🙂
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March 3, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Tom.Thomson (3/3/2011)
GSquared (3/3/2011)
If anyone's interested in what I've been working on the last six months or so, last night (late) we launched http://www.VisitOrlando.com.While you won't see my ETL and database work on the site directly, I am curious about reactions to it.
Edit: Link changed to bypass odd link handling by forum.
Looks as if it's currently down - browsing to http://www.VisitOrlando.com ends up with some sort of 500 error from the Bluefrog Interactive site (so I guess VisitOrlando.com is intended to fit onto a very small screen - eg a mobile phone - as that's what Bluefrog was set up to do). But using DNS and ARIN Whois suggests that http://www.VisitOrlando.com belongs to an outfit called Por Motivos de Viaje in Caracas, Venezuela (which sounds like a second hands sales advertising company) but that seems improbable.
Interesting.
There is a mobile version of it, but the main site isn't designed for a small screen. Nor is it owned by a company in Venezuela. I guess it's possible some DNS propagation issue is in the way of you getting to it currently, since the site didn't exist till late last night. But that's outside my field of expertise, and I'm more than slightly just guessing.
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