I was at the Cape Town Facebook Developers Garage last night. I have the badge to prove it!
It was an interesting evening. Pizza was generously provided by Butler’s Pizza. If I’m not mistaken their delivery staff arrive wearing a tuxedo shirt (whatever it’s called) and a bow tie! Fantastic. Drinks were supplied by Joyent (I think I got the link right).
There were a few interesting presentations. Jacques Marneweck spoke about memcache. He looked pretty nervous, but had some interesting things to say. He talked about starling, a memcache based queue server developed by Twitter and some other highly techy stuff. His slides were missing due to a format issue. I think the slides would really have helped the presentation, maybe he’ll post them online.
I’m meeting a few of the same people at most of the tech events in Cape Town. There seems to be a few interesting businesses going on down here. It feels like a small tech community, with a few “big fish”. Reminds me of Edinburgh.
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I’ll be posting the slides online once I’ve written a blog entry in the next couple of days once my work stuff slows down.
Dear Callum
I am trying to develop a South African version of the ‘Like’ button. It is called ‘Jislike’.
Check out my website link to see it.
I do not know how to actually create a FB App and I am searching for a person who can assist me.
Do you know of any SA-based Facebook developers who might be able to assist me?
Regards
Willem vd Schyf
I’m not sure that one can build a replica of the “like” button, it’s pretty core to Facebook. Also, it’s been a long time since I was in Cape Town, I’m not sure who’s doing Facebook development these days. I could make an introduction or two if you like, please email me with something I can forward to people.
Hi there, thanks for the post.
Nice to get some idea of whats going on in SA from a FB developer POV. Didn’t even know there was a developer garage in SA!
Jeeten