tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post8726257571521748650..comments2022-03-05T12:50:20.613+05:30Comments on Rohit Agarwal's Blog: The State Of Railway e-Ticketing In IndiaRohit Agarwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-67012580189687130522012-12-11T17:00:17.700+05:302012-12-11T17:00:17.700+05:30Are you sure about the whole OpenVMS.. mainframe t...Are you sure about the whole OpenVMS.. mainframe thing?<br />because according to RedHat IRCTC is using their solution.<br />more info at http://www.redhat.com/resourcelibrary/case-studies/irctc-relies-on-red-hat<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-2303396579089793222011-11-01T17:32:32.690+05:302011-11-01T17:32:32.690+05:30@Rohit
Convenience charge: IRCTC is not a part of ...@Rohit<br />Convenience charge: IRCTC is not a part of Indian Railways per se. CRIS is. IRCTC is a separate entity. They need to levy service charges to survive.<br /><br />Technology: CRIS core network was designed in late 1980's. On OpenVMS using C/Fortran etc. It has been largely untouched ever since. The midnight downtime you complain about, is I guess because of its pre-internet era nature and the design decisions and best practices of that time. The CRIS network consists of separate zones, which probably need maintenance, syncing and backups every night.<br /><br />Website performance, outages are irritating though. I'm sure they need people to work for them. I trust you would interview with IRCTC and solve these problems for the rest of us.<br /><br />@Kumar They have no choice. IRCTC is the sole provider of train booking APIs. So its kind of take it or leave it.<br /><br />Disclaimer: I worked on cleartrip trains product.Anuraghttp://web.gnuer.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-38993032249720817922011-11-01T12:44:29.883+05:302011-11-01T12:44:29.883+05:30I think Some1 did mention erail.in ... you use tha...I think Some1 did mention erail.in ... you use that :)dphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07720963746370857381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-31649815846204826592011-11-01T11:43:25.019+05:302011-11-01T11:43:25.019+05:30Scraping their site is against their TOS and illeg...Scraping their site is against their TOS and illegal.Rohit Agarwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-70445904903087558262011-11-01T11:31:01.574+05:302011-11-01T11:31:01.574+05:30Of course there is something you can do. Create a ...Of course there is something you can do. Create a web site that works how you expect it to, it would behind the scenes scrape the crappy official site (i.e diving into each train/class) and aggregating the results..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-12417096158250117232011-11-01T11:12:40.544+05:302011-11-01T11:12:40.544+05:30@Comment10 IRCTC is not just a catering company, i...@Comment10 IRCTC is not just a catering company, it is the official e-ticket provider of the Indian Railways.<br /><br />@Comment14 You don't need to be a cook to tell that the food is bad.Rohit Agarwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-69707322521783021182011-11-01T11:03:24.078+05:302011-11-01T11:03:24.078+05:30+1 for clear trip. They have a rad mobile website!...+1 for clear trip. They have a rad mobile website!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-38666760447584600592011-11-01T09:36:38.838+05:302011-11-01T09:36:38.838+05:30I think before writing a rant about anything, you ...I think before writing a rant about anything, you should ask yourself whether you are fit enough to write it. Let me get this straight. Steve Yegge or Zed Shaw can a big fucking rant. You know why? 'Cause people actually do give a shit about what they think or write. Your github profile shows 0 repos and 0 followers. You complain about the Indian Railways system. But given the chance would you able to fix it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-29272958046794056212011-11-01T09:36:16.129+05:302011-11-01T09:36:16.129+05:30You should really check out http://indiarailinfo.c...You should really check out http://indiarailinfo.com/ which is a community maintained site its got a great interface is pretty fastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-19187923474993812552011-11-01T09:30:35.371+05:302011-11-01T09:30:35.371+05:30Try http://erail.in/ , It addresses some of the pr...Try http://erail.in/ , It addresses some of the problems. If there is no direct trains it breaks the journey with an intermediate station. I find it's faster than irctc.in.Suresh Manchihttp://erail.innoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-82632392375466619882011-11-01T09:17:56.096+05:302011-11-01T09:17:56.096+05:30Heading to India tonight on a holiday. Looking for...Heading to India tonight on a holiday. Looking forward to this and more Indian bureaucracy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-85052695806864000782011-11-01T09:08:16.628+05:302011-11-01T09:08:16.628+05:30What else did you expect from a catering company? ...What else did you expect from a catering company? BTW the convenience charge is actually a luxury charge (a Poor man stands in a queue for hours to book a ticket, remember)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-75762975485586135092011-11-01T08:45:38.935+05:302011-11-01T08:45:38.935+05:30Inconceivable. I read that Lalu had completely fix...Inconceivable. I read that Lalu had completely fixed Indian Railways!Ashishhttp://runbarefootrunhealthy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-45665579782742810412011-11-01T07:54:22.824+05:302011-11-01T07:54:22.824+05:30Try cleartrip (disclaimer: I just like them. I don...Try cleartrip (disclaimer: I just like them. I don't work for them.)<br />It is a shame they still have to use the railways' dated backend, but what they've managed to do on top of that I very much appreciate.Kumarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-64701240976550230882011-10-24T21:29:47.753+05:302011-10-24T21:29:47.753+05:30@Umesh Jiju I will try those next time... thanks :...@Umesh Jiju I will try those next time... thanks :-)Rohit Agarwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-58376220838166035032011-10-24T16:07:51.144+05:302011-10-24T16:07:51.144+05:30Haven't used IRCTC much but would suggest to t...Haven't used IRCTC much but would suggest to try out cleartrip or make my trip. They have convenient interface and present multiple optios....<br /><br />Happy Ticketing...<br />Umesh mishraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-5992266258008497642011-10-24T16:05:08.631+05:302011-10-24T16:05:08.631+05:30@Aayush thanks!
@Anonymous It's not a waste o...@Aayush thanks!<br /><br />@Anonymous It's not a waste of time for many reason, I was on a train while writing most of the post (I consider this time well utilized), also as part of a course I am doing we are supposed to write use cases and user stories for different real world systems - so this is course work in some sense. ;-) (Hey sir, extra credit?)Rohit Agarwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-69116584015303823062011-10-24T15:41:59.367+05:302011-10-24T15:41:59.367+05:30u looked deep into the system...bt i still feel..i...u looked deep into the system...bt i still feel..its just a waste of tym...therz nthng we cn do to improve this....and this post of urs jst showed ur sheer joblessness!!! bro,indian railwaz unlike indian roadwaz/cab services has got a site is far mor satisfyng!! aint it??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-53595281145248995282011-10-24T15:37:46.647+05:302011-10-24T15:37:46.647+05:30Man that's some serious rant to do...
Try erai...Man that's some serious rant to do...<br />Try erail its much better.<br />and seriously 'every fucking day' was just awesome...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434720908944394041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-70689732472505761212011-10-24T14:46:13.930+05:302011-10-24T14:46:13.930+05:30@Anonymous corrected... thanks!@Anonymous corrected... thanks!Rohit Agarwalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802518594585264202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776387923590054512.post-44686908910752174422011-10-24T14:41:54.649+05:302011-10-24T14:41:54.649+05:30boy did I got a long list? .....seriously???? impr...boy did I got a long list? .....seriously???? improve your grammarAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com