Comments on: Hey Kids, Let’s Put On A Show! https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/ My little corner of the web Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:20:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: woofwoofarf https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2141 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:20:20 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2141 In reply to altivo.

Thank you! I wish I could take all the credit, but I’ve got a great group of people working with me to make Registration at MFF as simple as painless as possible. I’m glad you enjoyed it, and I’m really glad to hear you’re considering sponsoring next year. It’s stuff like that that really tells us we’re doing something right 🙂

]]> By: altivo https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2140 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:47:10 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2140 Yes, I was amazed. As a country driver, it took me several attempts to find the hotel. Consequently, I arrived at registration just a few minutes before the opening session on Friday and was amazed to find no lines. I had my packet and my badge in plenty of time to get to the openers.
Well done!

]]> By: animist https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2139 Wed, 24 Nov 2004 05:56:31 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2139 The fact that you and your crew managed to keep the flow of people moving without lines backing up is remarkable! Well done! I’m curious to see the analysis. You all must be doing something right – even my con room mate Ricochet (a.k.a. “Denny Crane”) had a good registration experience, and he’s not an easy customer in that regard!

]]> By: ramalion https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2138 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:08:47 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2138 “WTF? I still need to do a traffic analysis, but it would appear that the system I designed was grossly overprepared for the flow of people that were arriving.”
There is absolutely no such thing as that. Consider it room to grow. 🙂

]]> By: crim_ferret https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2137 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:57:39 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2137 I suspect part of the lack of a line at registration is that you never allowed one to form in the first place. That system is pretty slick from what I saw of it. You are probably right about it having a lot more capacity than we need right now. It would be interesting to see how it would handle a significantly larger crowd (not at MFF). It might be worth offering the software to other cons. If it scales as well as you said it would and could handle various printers and layouts, it might well meet the needs of some other conventions out there and would save them from having to re-invent the wheel. Gencon comes to mind actually. That would give it a good stress test.

]]> By: yotogi https://wolfhusky.net/duncan/wp/2004/11/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2136 Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:58:20 +0000 http://woofwoofarf.wordpress.com/2004/11/23/hey-kids-lets-put-on-a-show/#comment-2136 You better not forget slapping that idiot down at QA. Talk about a mushroom print.

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