World Series Tickets Time line

As many, I tried to buy a couple of tickets to the World Series. Hey, it’s coming to Denver. Go Rockies! Well, yesterday the online ticket sales was quite a debacle. ‘They’ blame it on a vicious attack…hmmm…well…EC2 could have helped, I guess they just didn’t think that nearly everyone in the US would go on their website at 10am MDT, yesterday. Well, today things went well for them, and all the tickets sold in less than 3 hours. So what does this have to do with Rails? We are working on MySpyder.net, which allows to track changes on websites. So I create a watch on the “”http://colorado.rockies.mlb.com/col/ticketing/postseason_2007.jsp">The Official Site of The Colorado Rockies". I was hoping getting an advantage, find out before others that sell are back..Didn’t work out that way. I didn’t get tickets, but find here after how Myspyder.net saw the World Series Tickets online sales.MySpyder.net is not public yet as we need to ensure that we can handle the load :-)

All times are in UTC. Ok, on to the events..as seen by Myspyder.net

  • 2007-10-23 03:30:17 Tickets go on sales tomorrow at 12pm
  • 2007-10-23 16:30:31 Oops, official press release announced regarding sales of Tickets.
  • 2007-10-23 18:00:17 Sales is back on!
  • 2007-10-23 20:30:22 27th Sold out, 26 Sold out.
  • 2007-10-23 21:01:07 Sold out :-(
  • 2007-10-23 21:30:46 Good news! Parking passes still available.

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Posted by Daniel Wanja Wed, 24 Oct 2007 05:36:46 GMT

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  1. Kevin about 17 hours later:

    Cool, another Rockies & Rails fan! I think we need to have a beer. Seriously, I’m in town for the games this weekend if you want to meet up in lodo.

    Also I’m giving away a couple Rockies tickets on Friday to promote Dibs.net, which was a personal project I took on over the summer. I designed and built it myself, using Rails and running on EC2. It’s one last chance at tickets (and try out Dibs :)

    http://blog.dibs.net/2007/10/24/coors-field-world-series-ticket-giveaway-update/

  2. Daniel Wanja about 20 hours later:

    Go Rockies and Rails. You should mention your site and the giveaway to Derailed, the Denver Ruby On Rails user Group. See http://groups.google.com/group/derailed. They also have their meeting tomorrow (10/25) night at the Hive. I’ll be there and have a beer. But friday won’t work for me. Thanks.

  3. Kevin 3 days later:

    I just checked back here and noticed your comment, looks like you’ve got a good group there in Denver. I’m still looking for a regular Ruby/Rails group here where I live in California (flying to Denver tomorrow!).

    If you would like to join me on Sunday, I’ll be enjoying the festivities somewhere between Coors Field and where I’m staying on 16th St Mall near the Convention Center.