Are you a systems developer in the gaming industry?

[LIFESABET]

Hello,

Just wondering what other system developers in the gaming industry lurk and post in these forums.

Ive consulted in the industry for quite a while now. I enjoy some of the more technical discussions that occur here all too infrequently.

I enjoy sharing ideas with other developers, however since being offshore, Ive really become out of touch with other developers in the same industry. If you are in a technical position with a gaming operator, please chime in. Id like to know who you are.

Just looking to get a bit more out of the forums.

Best regards,
-lab

 

[newbie666]

im Unix Berkelyan Guru. BSD-Posix-System V.
I CVS BSD Kernel
Also Spanish Documentation Project. for BSD.
-Security Forensic.
-DBA - Ansi92.
-Coding Style Auditor (logistic and Algoritms).

geek, drunky, pothead, and expensive

+greddy

 

[AdamSelene]

Where offshore are you? Costa Rica?

I share your interest in discussion of gaming technical/programming issues. I had thought about creating a forum or mailing list for that purpose, but I've been too busy actually programming.

I do the software and systems administration for a sportsbook in Costa Rica.

Platform: SQL Server, ASP.NET (C#), XML Services, Windows Services (C#), Middle-Tier classes (C#), XML/XSLT, HTML/CSS, and DHTML/Behaviors (JavaScript).

I did a fair amount of ASP (VBScript) in the past; but it's sad to see so many still use such antiquated technology.

I recently wrote a Windows Service that parses/interprets the DonBest live line feed and pushes it into SQL Server.

The guy who wrote DirectTeller's site is also here in Costa Rica; does ASP.NET and XML Services (Visual Basic).

There's also a handful of sportsbook software companies here. The guys who do CRIS's software, managed by ex-IQL people.

I've thought about doing consulting for more books down here, especially given most the sites suck so badly (any one look at BetOnSports lately?). Posting here appears not to be good way to find such opportunities though.

One thing I'd be interested, is getting a quick technical overview of horse racing and european + asian sports line/data feeds; if anyone is well versed there.

I'm also curious how to establish/maintain processing networks that get around the 7995 coding problem, but that's not a good topic for such a public site.

 

[wolfie_cr]

I have been involved in the development of several gaming systems for the last 5 years

Some of them are actual game servers, lately also involved in payment systems

Being involved in payment systems let me tell you one fact, there is NO way to get around the 7995 at least in a 100% safe way , there is just NO way to do it

Adam do you care to join our next poker game tuesday night at 9 at the german club?

 

[AdamSelene]

Certainly no 100% solution, but a 50% solution is better than nothing. I know some books are doing better than others in this regard. I have a few ideas.

Sure, I'd be interested in the poker game, provided it's not too expensive. Email me the details & directions. therx1@lunacity.org

 

[waw]

An overview of racing and feeds?

Are you thinking of building these for your client?

I know of a couple of people that might help you - come to the poker and I can give you some names.

 

[LIFESABET]

Thank you all for chiming in. Ill enjoy contributing in any way I can.

Ive worked on a few systems in the industry, but its all been custom inhouse stuff. For the first 11 years of my career I was working on expensive proprietary languages and databases. 3 years ago I made a promise to myself that I would never work again in an environment that was not public domain tools. Since then, Ive become an avid lover of freebsd and the ports collection, particularly php and mysql. I got tired of trying to sell work where licensing high end servers exceeded 6 figures. Now Ive gone the other way, I want it free, for my costs, for the client's costs, and because Ill always be able to find thousands of other developers who are cheap like me and found a way to make things work in a production environment.

I dont write any C, but newbie, if you are a committer to the bsd kernel, I owe you a few years of thanks.

As for the 7995 code, I never even considered trying to get around that. It was never my concern, and my opinion has always been that credit cards were never intended for cardholder-not-present style transaction. Not a very realistic thought, but its so true.

Anyways, thanks again for chiming in.
-lab

 

[newbie666]

wow finally i found another
bsd lover in cr...

well life,
about giving it out free.hmmm
do not do that...
since gpl aren't at all rigth well protected in
CR, someone could get your algorithms,
translate into .NET and Microsoft will take care of any lawsuit!...

forget about using GPL or GNU...
i don't like to code at all,,,
i prefer to design all the programs
based on 100% sql ansi92 queries,,, then
just use a simple wizard for enduser purposes...

blah blah blah...

the only stuff do i like of freebsd, and your plan of giving the source code, is you'll allow the owners of the software to know what kind of software they're dealing with, not like 100% of Costa Rican Wagering software they close the Code, they use Virtual Directories Enclosing Activex applications, with 128bits of compresion, and with an small sql query injection from outside of the server, they can query your database and find out,,,

All the books clients.
All the weekly profit.
Everything...

What u Think...

 

[Phaedrus]

ADAM???

Suprising to see you here, if you are who I think you are. Hope you are well -- only seen you sporadically at our other mutual haunts.


Phaedrus

 

[jimbutorac]

To quote Dan Harman's impression of Frank Sinatra on Saturday Night Live,

"Didn't understand a word. All snaps and buzzes.""

Rock on techies, I'm just too old to understand, is all.

 

[sometech]

ADAM YOU TOOK ALL MY MONEY LAST NIGHT!!!!


Good game bro!

 

[AdamSelene]

Don't worry sometech, I'll be there next week or the following to give it all back to you.

Phaedrus, stranger things have happened. Send me an email. therx1@lunacity.org

 

[AdamSelene]

Any good Flash programmers around? Specifically *programming* -- ActionScript -- not graphic design.

I used FutureSplash Animator (pre-Flash) back in 1995 but I haven't really used Flash since. The development environment always put me off, it's really not oriented to pure programmers.

Do you use a third-party IDE, and if so which one? I just downloaded a trial version of PrimalScript 3.1 by Sapien.
(http://www.sapien.com/primalscript31.aspx)

I'm specifically interested in implementing XMPP in ActionScript, or using one of the XMPP GPL ActionScript libraries -- such as XIFF (http://xifflabs.com/) -- to communicate live line updates and scores to a DHTML wagering interface.

Any sportsbooks using Flash for anything but banner ads?

 

"I recently wrote a Windows Service that parses/interprets the DonBest live line feed and pushes it into SQL Server."


Hey Adam, I am very interested in this. Please drop me a line at: mike@bendafamily.com when you get time.

Thanks,

Mike