RubyKaigi is Japan's "home" Ruby conference and the organizers have just put 27 videos from the RubyKaigi 2010 conference online. Unfortunately I can't link to them individually as they're embedded on a single page, so head over to rubykaigi.tdiary.net and check them out.
Presentation titles include: Ruby 2.0, Ruby API is Improved Unix API, Rocking The Enterprise With Ruby, Mapping the World with DataMapper, The Necessity …
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Automatic sliding doors in Japan trigger much latter than Americans would expect leading to a lot of stopping and hand waving
I'm not the only one who noticed this so I'm not crazy.
More awesome techno in the # rubykaigi main hall. I want, nay, need the playlist.
Please post it on the ' Goodies' section of the Ruby Kaigi site. Or tweet about it. Something.
Shay Friedman has spent the first five minutes of his talk apologizing for being associated with Microsoft…
…(less than half of all 280 attendees), at least 40 Germans, Rubyists from Japan, Austria, Spain, UK, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA, Cuba, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Croatia, Estonia, The Netherlands, Latvia, Italy, France, Belgium, Brasil and more.
For everyone who missed the event, the videos from the conference are on Vimeo. There is also a great summary of the talks for Day One and
Day Two. Here are the links to …
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Characters in Japanese anime favor iconic representations over realistic ones.
Compare:
That iconic approach extends to narrative. The lead character of Masamune Shirow's classic Ghost In The Shell franchise (three feature films, two TV series, and two video games) makes its lead character Major Motoko Kusanagi female for iconic purposes.
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Here I am in Japan at RubyKaigi 2010. Wow. Generally I tweet a lot about the conf live and then publish those tweets here (in italics) and provide slightly more commentary. So lets get it on.
So my flight leaves at noon for # rubykaigi, takes 13 hours, and arrives at 3pm tomorrow... Wait -- that can't be right. # looksitupagain
Before today's trip to Japan the furthest from the U.S.A. I've ever been is: Canada. #howisthatpossible
In cab. It has begun.
Someone …
…most use my software when I am asleep, and mail me with their urgent issues at 3 AM in the morning Japan time. I spend lots of effort decoupling their happiness from my personal availability. This does wonderful things for site uptime but it also means, perhaps regrettably, that there is generally no compulsion to work today .
My freelancers largely don't share my schedule either. I just got the front page for Appointment Reminder redone after several months with placeholder …
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My name is Patrick McKenzie. For the last six years I was working in Japan, primarily as a software engineer. In the interim, I started a small software company in my spare time, at about five hours a week , which recently allowed me to quit my day job. Roughly half my sales and three quarters of my profits come as a result of organic SEO, and the majority of the remainder come from AdWords. If you need to know about AdWords, talk to Dave Collins , who is also attending. …
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…conducted by Shoeser - ashbb ( Satoshi Asakawa) from Japan with 24×7 help from the assistant teachers, mentors and patrons at RubyLearning.
Early Bird Registration Discounts
For the first 10 registrations, Course Fee: US$ 3 per participant
For the next 30 registrations, Course Fee US$ 4 per participant
After the first 40 registrations, Course Fee US$ 5 per participant
The course fee goes towards maintaining RubyLearning and helps provide quality content …
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…work... commander.
conclusion
These were my two links. An old process and an even older (~1830) quote about knowledge work.
The tool of the commander is his staff. What is the tool of the knowledge worker ?
For those of you lucky enough to be in Japan this friday, Keith Swenson will be speaking about Mastering the Unpredictable in Yokohama. Feel free to register at http://atnd.org/events/5954 .
RubyKaigi 2010 —August 27th through 29th, 2010 @ Tsukuba International Congress Center , Tsukuba, Japan — is now open for registration .
RubyKaigi is the premiere Ruby Conference in Japan, held annually and hosting a mix of Japanese and English talks. In 2010, mini-conferences, workshops and other sub-events will be run in parallel, including JRubyKaigi, emacs/vim/origami workshops, and more.
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