That sounds pretty awesome. On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 3:19 PM, Ben Taylor wrote:
> I could talk about the backend for a real-world GPS game called Gotcha. We've > run competitions in Australia and South Africa. The South African game has > over 40,000 players and during peak times sees 1.5K players hitting the > server every few seconds. It runs Rails 3.2 on Heroku with Postgres, Memcache > and a few other thingies. There's some fun things we've needed to do with > optimisation and automatic cheat detection. > > There's a promotional website here: http://www.snepo.com/gotcha.html > > and the current game live in south africa can be seen here > http://www.gotcha.highveld.co.za/Home/LiveGame > > - Ben > > > On Wednesday, 5 September 2012 at 2:47 PM, Mikel Lindsaar wrote: > > > So good news Steve (stevelikesyou fame from LookAhead) will be sponsoring > > the RoRo Sydney meetup next Tuesday! Thanks Steve! :) > > > > Still looking for some more speakers, don't be shy now, some of you must > > have been doing something interesting recently :) > > > > Mikel > > > > > > On 04/09/2012, at 11:36 AM, Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > Hi there all, > > > > > > It's that time of the month again, Sydney will have their most awesomest > > > monthly meetup next week at the now infamous Trinity Bar. > > > > > > If you haven't been for a while, next week is the perfect opportunity to > > > spread your wings a little and come along! Why is it perfect? Why next > > > week? Why not? Why are you asking me why? It's in a pub full of like > > > minded individuals, what is not perfect about that? > > > > > > Also, please get in contact with me via email, the list, twitter or > > > carrier pigeon to register your interest to speak. We have places for 2 > > > full talks and 2 lightning talks. Last month was a good size and length > > > I think and I'd like to keep the talks sharp and sweet :) > > > > > > Looking forward to seeing you all there! > > > > > > Mikel > > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]). > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > (mailto:[email protected]). > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
