Dev Support on the water

Nokia Games developer support members are visiting San Francsico office for Java platform training. We went through all the key docs, processes and SRs together. They even started coding using our new SDK. One month training started in the beginning of June is almost over and one more week to go before they fly back to their original offices.

Well, before they fly back, one thing they have to do. Get their feet wet! Actually, this is written in the original developer support training agenda I wrote ;-).

Friday, I came in office around 7 am to get my work done earlier. At noon, Sun is high and air is hot! Our developer support members are ready to jump into the water!

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We hopped on my outback and hit highway 280 to Lindamar. No wind and looks good!

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This surf shop "Norcal" is local known shop next to Pacifica beach. When you come to San Francisco, you will often see "Norcal" or "WISE" (two big surf shops in SF) mark on those surfers cars. At Norcal, Jesus bought a nice pair of booties. He seems determined...

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After renting boards and wet suits at Norcal, we are ready to hit beach. N-95 timer shot is not bad, right? I got new SNAP Mobile Mavericks Fish with me.

By the way, both Jesus and Leslie are first time in surfing. I wonder how this session will go...

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After 1 hour session. both of them caught many waves! Jesus even stood a split second(amazing...). I hope they enjoyed this lunch break session!. Of course, after this, we went back to office and worked again...

Yes, we work hard and play hard!

If you are visiting San Francisco, please let us know. We will hit beach together!

Mavericks Surf Boards!

Thanks to Jennifer, long wanted Mavericks surf boards arrived to SF office. Right on time before summer gets heated! Some N-Gage and some SNAP Mobile boards. They are custom boards and hand-shaped by Jeff Clark, the man of Mavericks Big Wave Competetion.

The boards are all Fish with quad fins. The length ranges from 5'10 to 6'2. The width and thickness varies a bit.
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On front and back, we have cool Mavericks logo and SGR compliant SNAP Mobile logo ;-).

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Yes, I could not wait...I picked up 5'10 Fish and took a quick 20 min drive to Linda Mar for "acceptance test". Weather is great, air is hot, and water is blue!

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Acceptance test -> Passed! It floats well and easy to take off. Since the one I took was a bit bulky, run and turn was ok. I say this is really good for mid level surfers. I want to use this board in much bigger waves. We will try other ones as we go.

We plan to have Friday afternoon surf trips/sessions for office members starting July. If you are interested joining, leave your comments!

Antoine's Farewell

Former head of SNAP Mobile, Antoine, is going back to Paris. Let's see how he is going to adjust to his origin after living abroad for more than 10 years...
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For him, we had little farewell lunch. As always, he made us laugh in his speech. All of us miss him going! Stay with us!

SDK2.0 launch party!

Yes, we have delivered one of most important deliverables, SDK2.0 on time! Actually, it was published 1 week ealier than plan. Great job to the team!

Our initial scope of "cruise and BBQ" tunrned into 3 bottles of Dom Pérignon toast... Well, as long as we have some buz, we are cool!

You see how easy you can make people forget about cruise and BBQ by pouring nice Champaign ;-)

Tokyo Publisher Session

Nokia Games 3rd party publishing team held a publisher session in Tokyo. George and Shinya managed very good sessions.

While schedule is packed, we managed to find lunch time and visited Kanda for fresh Sushi. Ya, they are happy...
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This is real Sushi place. You order over the counter. You do not come here after 5pm since all good fish bought from Tsukiji Fish Market that morning will be gone by then. Cannot wait!

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