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On 05/09/2012, at 3:22 PM, Chris Herring wrote:

> 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]> 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
>>>> 
>>> 
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