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Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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There's a very strong hint on the site. If you're a developer you should be able to figure it out easily, if you're not a developer you probably won't know how to "remove the disabled attribute" anyway ;)

It is easy enough to write a small bookmarklet that anyone can paste into the window to flip off the disabled field. Once that gets into the wild, I can't imagine this offer will last.

Fortunately, it sold out before that became a problem.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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The frustrating experience of trying to order this is why nobody wants to deal with your platform... sigh

To be fair, the headaches today were our (Swish's) fault, not Microsoft's. If MS decides to run another set of these, we'll make sure we are better prepared.

Unless you mean the disabled "I'm a developer" button -- that was intentional and supposed to be fun.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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We upped the number available by 10% after it sold out, but then it sold out again in a few minutes. It's sold out for good now, I promise.

Will these kits be sold anywhere else? It's a bit of a shame for those of us that just got a bunch of timeouts before it was sold out completely.

MS may do another run of these, but we don't know. The other tools on modern.ie are genuinely useful too. We tested Swish using browserstack to resolve a thorny IE8 problem.

Re: Microsoft Launches Windows QuickStart Kit For Mac Developers

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My checkout experience: Enabled the button, clicked it, nothing happened. Looked in Firebug at the Network console, saw a failure come back from the 'Pay' step. Triple-checked my payment info, clicked the button once more. 25-30 seconds later, I got two consecutive "Something went wrong" javascript alerts. A minute or so later, I got two confirmation emails, lacking any useful details. I'm guessing I was charged twic…

Just did something similar, saw that I was getting an SSL Error in Safari from their JSONP Callback on https://swish.com/swish-backend/... , opened that link in another Safari window and it appeared to go through. I have one pending charge on my credit card, not sure if anything else will go through, but I did end up getting an order confirmation. Maybe whatever they're using to route SSL traffic through is falling o…

Mostly what failed was outbound bandwidth. Users weren't getting the JSON response from the payment page, though sometimes the payments went through. Confirmation emails were very reliable, though, (thanks Amazon SES!).
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