+1 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 >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
