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Stardust particle effect editor - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2014/07/21/stardust-editor
Stardust particle effect editor. TL;DR: We made an open source app to create and edit particle effects for Flash, try it here. Our games at Plumbee require top quality graphics, and this poses many artistic and technical challenges. The highest quality animations and effects can be made with professional software tailored to make these - e.g. After Effects or 3D Studio Max. While we can import these to our game as movie files, they have a big file size and cannot be changed at runtime. Ability to save an...
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Speakers 2013 - Sociality Rocks! Kiev 2013 - the first and unique International conference in Eastern Europe, focused on social games, that gathers the most numerous Russian-speaking developers, platforms and payment providers.
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If you want to make a speech at Sociality Rocks! Please, fill out the form below. New speaker form Kiev2013. Speakers of Sociality Rocks! 2013 - San Francisco. Director of Business Development - App Annie. Growth Opportunities in Social and Gaming Apps. Global Trends in Mobile and Social Apps. What are the global trends developing across iOS and Google Play? Where are the growth opportunities for publishers across different categories and regions? Which apps and publishers have been the most successful?
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Clojure, Beers and Pizza... and a bit of Elixir - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2014/08/29/clojure-beers-pizza-night
Clojure, Beers and Pizza. and a bit of Elixir. Here at Plumbee, we’re big believers in actively exposing ourselves to new ideas, and sharing what we’ve learnt. As engineers, we’re a diverse bunch with many interests, including new (and not-so-new) programming languages and paradigms. We’re excited to announce that we’ll shortly be hosting two guest talks at our offices in Shoreditch, with a bit of pizza, beer and mingling to follow:. Elixir - An Engineer’s Potion. Posted by Uros Rapajic.
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London Mobile Forum 3.0 - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2015/04/23/london-mobile-forum-3-dot-0
London Mobile Forum 3.0. In February a few Plumbee engineers had the chance to attend the London Mobile Forum organised by Facebook. This conference has been running for three years, and is one of our favourite events in the mobile community. This year the event took place in the Ace Hotel Shoreditch, in the heart of London’s Silicon Roundabout hub, where many tech companies are placed. This year the list of topics was the following:. Architecting apps: Can we write better code by planning ahead? Accessi...
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How we do Canary Deployments - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2013/11/15/how-we-do-canary-deployments
How we do Canary Deployments. To alert miners about toxic gases reaching dangerous levels. Our requirements for canary deployment are:. The upgrade to a new version must occur with no downtime. It must be possible to run both the old version and the new version of the software in parallel - also known as blue-green deployment. It must be possible to run tests against the new version in the production environment. It must be possible to control the percentage of the user base that sees each version. Creat...
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Facebook Mobile Forum 2.0 - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2014/05/20/facebook-mobile-forum
Facebook Mobile Forum 2.0. For the second year running we were invited to the London Mobile Forum organised by Facebook. With around 60 mobile development professionals from many different companies and 10 discussion topics to choose from, it was a great opportunity to get to know the London mobile dev community, share experiences and learn from each other. As with last year, Plumbee was given the opportunity to present and lead a discussion on topic of our choice. We chose to talk about Cross platfo...
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Analytics Event Collection and Storage with Apache Flume NG - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2015/02/25/event-collection-and-storage-with-apache-flume
Analytics Event Collection and Storage with Apache Flume NG. In a previous blog post. We discussed our approach to logging analytics events represented in JSON. Into Amazon’s Simple Queue Service ( SQS. A highly scalable, reliable and fast cloud based message queue. In this post we cover the consumer side of that story focusing on how we process and store those events in S3 using Apache Flume NG. What is Flume NG? To retrieve events from SQS we created a custom Flume SQS source plugin. With regards to ef...
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Event Logging for Analytics - Plumbee engineering
http://engineering.plumbee.com/blog/2014/06/18/event-logging-for-analytics
Event Logging for Analytics. Sometimes it’s easy to overlook the wealth of useful information generated as users interact with an application. At Plumbee, we have a highly scalable infrastructure, capable of logging many events. We use this abundance of data to detect patterns and trends which emerge as we apply analytic tools. Using analytics on event data, we are able to constantly refine and improve our games. Here are some examples of the approaches we have taken:. All database blob writes are logged...
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