Anyone tried a money transfer with these today? The site loads up ok but when I click the "remit now" button I get a runtime screen come up. Just wondering if its a problem at my end with the work comuter access or with the site itself?
Saying that its bank holiday weekend but surely that should affect the ability to carry out an online transfer
Yeah it is running on IIS (Internet Information Services), Microsoft's Web server, I thought you would be seeing that page, it is indicative of poor programming on a site, an end user should never see that page, normally you should be redirected to a custom error page but they have not implemented one. Usually these are failures reported in the logs which get picked up when someone gets back to work on the Monday, on a site like this they should have a contract in place to get the developers or system managers to fix it almost immediately but clearly not in this case.
Ok thanks for that. i think its bank holiday in the UK this weekend so hopefully it'll be up and running on tuesday morning at the latest. Bit of a bugger really because I need to registar a new card and transfer our money for the coming month.
http://www.pnbeurope.com/ <== That is an interesting website, quite unbelievable for a bank... And yes, I get exactly the same error when I click on the big button: .
Cebu Pacific air is developed in .net and I tried booking a flight once, incidentally on IE, I couldn't proceed on the payment page. I went on Chrome and it worked. Figure that one out!
Same thing happened on the Microsoft Partner site a while back, features worked in Chrome but not in IE Nothing wrong with .Net, client side i.e. browser side it makes no difference .Net has nothing to do with the client side, that's usually javascript compatibility problems. Yes .Net code serves up the client side and if the programmers screw that up then the client side experience will be poor but .Net is actually a very elegant class library and platform, particularly with the recent drive in the last few years towards the MVC pattern.
Tried in all the other browers as well but no joy. I'm hoping i'tll get fixed tomorrow otherwise i'm not sure how I'll transfer money for the next month
The browser will not make a blind bit of difference Stu, this is a server error, their site is broken, probably not even the site but just the database.
The browser will not make a blind bit of difference Stu, this is a server error, their site is broken, probably not even the site but just the database.
Hopefully it'll be sorted tomorrow. Just tried world remit and got right ot the point where I have to transfer the money from my bank to theirs. Problem is santander ask for a OTG code which is sent to your mobile when setting up a new payment. Of course I don't get that becasue I'm offshore and its my UK number that registared to my account! bugger. Then tried just a card transaction and for the first time ever verified by visa has knocked it back! not having much luck this weekend.
I've worked with all the current Microsoft client UI technologies, Winforms, WPF, Webforms, Silverlight and MVC, I still see nothing wrong with Winforms for desktop, WPF is over complex for little reward, Webforms is clumsy, MVC is very clean not perfect but a lot more fun to work with than anything else on the web side of things. I enjoy server side development more, developing data services and the likes but currently I am immersed in fixing a WPF UI that we had subcontracted oversea's, it had a lot of subtle logic problems that have been very hard to get to the bottom of.
