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此次HTML5 Game Jam面向所有对HTML5技术感兴趣的朋友，让大家可以有机会在48小时内，创造一款自己的游戏。但是整个策划——开发——合作的过程，带给参加者非同一般的体验。希望通过这个活动，展示出HTML5更多新奇好玩的特性。
此次HTML5 Game Jam最后完成了八款作品，并参与了最后的评比。

The HTML5 game jam was for those who interested in HTML5 technology, giving them the opportunity to develop their own special games in 48 hours. This event brought every participate an amazing experience, not matter during the planning meeting or development phase, excellent cooperations. It showed more special and fancy html5 features through this event. There were eight games took part in the final competition in the end.

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On October 22nd & 23rd, the Chinese HTML5 technology group will hold a “HTML5 Code Jam” here at our TheNetcircle office. Technology directors from SpilgamesAsia and SNDA will guide through the evening and share their knowledge. Designers, developers, managers, gamers… everyone is more then welcome to join the event. Entry is free! Continue reading →

September the 27th was the first Shanghai Scrum Forum in our office. It was the opportunity for the company to share knowledge about Scrum in order to continuously improve our practices.

There were in total 9 presentations covering different topics (Scrum in general, Scrum masters and product owners roles, different aspect linked to the products business, Scrum and management, …). The event finished with an open space session. About the presentations I can mention “How little can we do and still call it Scrum” from Alan Atlas, “Getting to Done” from Vermon Stinebaker or “From Development Agility to business Agility with Scrum and Opportunity Engineering” from Julien Mazloum.

You can find here The NetCircle presentations slides and some pictures of the event. Blaise Iranyumviye and Mik Pathikirikorale presented Three years of Scrum at The NetCircle and Nils Weisensee presented Product Owners: Five mistakes that make your project #fail.

Just a small post to wish a good time to all the participants of Zendcon 2010 which starts today. Zendcon is THE PHP conference with 4 days of sessions and the presence of all the PHP scene.

And we are present there as well! Our ambassador, Alvaro Videla, will be giving a presentation on “Integrating PHP with RabbitMQ” tomorrow from 10 to 11am. He will talk about his experiences in deploying and running a messaging queue system on a high traffic website for one of our client. Don’t miss it!!

On October 16th and 17th three members of The NetCircle team hitchhiked their way to Beijing to attend the 2010 Effective Cloud User Group (formerly known as Erlang China User Group) conference. The conference brought in some heavy hitters in the Chinese software community to give talks that touched on a range of topics related to effectively scaling software applications and services for large numbers of users. There were several presentations from speakers working at well-known companies like Taobao, Shanda and MochiMedia, as well as our own software wizard, Alvaro Videla.

The range of topics included technical issues with deploying WebOSs, concurrency problems, Erlang game development, distributed storage and solving the C1000K problem (the C10K problem is so yesterday) from a hardware perspective. Bob Ippolito discussed how Erlang services are deployed at MochiWeb and some of the tools they use to develop, test and deploy those services.

Here is a quick recap of all the talks that went down.

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