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Creating a -less tournament tree (Part #1)
Everyone knows tournament trees. They are used in nearly every competitive event. For example in the finals of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Or this little example: Rendering such a tree in a webbrowser can...
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Evolution of Post-Its: Layout for work unit tickets in Scrum
Since the beginning of 2010, we’re using Scrum to manage our development projects. Last month we were able to welcome members of other departments to the team – including IT Operations, Community...
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When did mouse inversion die?
Ever had the discussion whether it is “correct” to invert your mouse axis in first person shooters or not? So did we, and we wanted to get a little more science out of it. So we made a little poll to...
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World Cup 2010 Half Time: Toilet or ESL?
Graph shows “Users Online” on June 23rd, 2010.
View ArticleOwn a MacBook Pro? Don’t use Google Chrome!
It’s not really work related, but looking around in the office I see a lot of co-workers using a MacBook. And since we are doing webdevelopment I guess these same co-workers could/should be interested...
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Improving the quality of user stories in a multi-team scrum process
At Turtle Entertainment we are employing scrum for over a year. We have three teams each having one dedicated product owner. By a lot of very valuable help from bor!sgloger the teams are working...
View ArticleWow, a Devblog!
It’s a long time ago we posted something here (actually, it’s the first post for me)! This should have an end! We will continue what our Director IT (Thomas Pöhler) has started: give you more...
View ArticleBeginnings of a Software Developer
Greetings Fellow Icicles: The hyper cool caster is here to do some commentary on the ESL Dev team! Maybe they don’t want me doing this, but let’s give it a try anyhow. Life at the ESL is pretty fun...
View ArticlePlaying around with the s2protocol
Finally, last week Blizzard has released something official to parse replays properly: s2protocol. Before that, there were a bunch of scripts parsing StarCraft 2 replays more or less successfully. But...
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Couchbase as memcached replacement – find out expiration time of your keys
www.esl.eu is making heavy us of the memcache daemon as an indispensable caching layer. It is very simple and rockstable. Our servers have an uptime of currently 412 days. And thats only because we had...
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