Client: Big Prizes
Industry: Multi-User Web Entertainment
Year: 2000
Multiplayer internet bingo game written in Java using a middleware package called POPX. Called in
as a firefighter to fix bingo. The existing programmer wanted out, and no one else in the company
wanted to do any more POPX back-end work. And no wonder, it turned out that there was a POPX bug
where heartbeats were getting interrupted causing the server to bog horribly. Went on to finish a
Keno game for Big Prizes that also used POPX.
Tools: Java, RMI, MOM, multithreading, Proxy Design Pattern