The first day of RubyKaigi

Ok, I'll write about RubyKaigi.

RubyKaigi 2011 Attendee

Aaron Peterson - Ruby Ruined My Life

Before his talk, Kakutani said on a dais:

Please sit more closely together! Aaron will feel alone if you sit separetly. Hey! don't sit here. Please come on.

People won't do this on any other tech conference. But here is RubyKaigi. People (especially staffs) are so kind even if you don't think it's hacker-esque.

Aaron talked about various topics:

  • His Movie
  • Boundaries
  • Gems - @miyagawa watched the keynote (on Ustream) and tweeted about Perl and CPAN
  • DTrace

And "Ruby Ruined My Life". He decided to join a small startup with a pay cut because he want to use Ruby. I rememberd Jacob Kaplan-Moss's Thank you, Rails.

After the keynote, I went to Shinjuku to take a lesson of English.

Andy Delcambre - Toggleable Mocks and Testing Strategies in a Service Oriented Architecture

"Service Oriented Architecture" sounds Enterprisey. But maybe it means "loosely-coupled, HTTP-based system". So I should use these technique for testing our (my company's) system.

Matsumoto Yukihiro - Lightweight Ruby

Matz talked about his new embeddable, Lua-like implementation of Ruby: Rite.

Technically, it's interesting. But I hope it won't become a new boundary on Ruby world.

Nakamura Narihiro - A Parallel World of CRuby GC

Before Nari's talk, I found Aaron Peterson on the seats. And my name tag contains "XML is like violence" and "What Would Freddie Mercury Do". I wanna show it for him! [Calm down, what are you a little girl?]

That's why I couldn't listen Nari's talk well... But I showed "What Would Freddie Mercury Do" to Aaron Peterson!

Sasada Koichi - Ruby Implementations on A Parallel World

Sasada talked about his students research. Multiple VM + Channel seems interesting.

Dinner

When I show my name tag to Aaron, Some people asked to me: "Oh, what is this?". They are @masuidrive's partner and @takachin. And I found Toshi (my ex-coworker) and his friends.

I had a dinner with them and some of speakers from foreign countries. So I couldn't see "Yami RubyKaigi" but the dinner is interesting. And it changed my mind.

I should talk more speakers and attendees even if my English is broken.