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I won the White Camel Award at OSCON 2008

Jul 23, 2008
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As reported on my Twitter and use.perl, I received the Perl White Camel Award at OSCON 2008.

The TPF guys were probably surprised that I'm here, like I myself was surprised to receive the award (I wasn't notified about that at all), because they think I actually live in Japan for organizing such a wonderful conference YAPC::Asia 2008. I didn't have a chance to speak using the microphone so instead I'm gonna blog this:

I really want to say thanks to the YAPC::Asia core organizers team, especially Takesako-san, Daiba-san, Taichi and Oyama-san as well as all the staff at volunteering team (I'm really sorry I don't have a space for all names). And also to Dan-san and Pauley's for providing their house as a guest house for the great speakers like Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Audrey Tang, Jesse Vincent, clkao, Ingy dot net, Michael Schwern, Casey West, to name a few. Huge thanks to Eric Cholet for writing a great conference software Act, and also hosting me in his nice Paris apartment for a weekend for the great productive Hackathon.

I would also like to thank Simon Wistow, Dave Cross, Leon Brocard and other early London.pm-ers for starting up London.pm, doing very interesting tech talks series and also London Perl Workshop because that, not sure if he knows or not, inspired me to start up Shibuya.pm and YAPC::Asia, ripping off a lot of practices to organize technical talks and all that.

Finally I want to say thanks to my employer Six Apart and Six Apart KK for giving me such a wonderful work environment and the opportunity to get back to Tokyo this often so remotely organizing the conference in Tokyo from San Francisco is made actually possible.

We (Six Apart) have a booth in the Exhibitor hall in OSCON so please come by and say hi!

P.S. Jos pointed out in the drinking tonight that the Award trophy has such a sharp edge that it could be treated as a weapon on the airplane and maybe I should check in. I might need to figure it out :)

YAPC::Asia ending roll

May 27, 2008
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The official, but unpublished YAPC::Asia ending movie is here. We planned to play this at the closing ceremony but we couldn't because of Takesako-san's hard drive trouble.

創聖のアクエリオン ver高音質

YAPC::Asia 2008 Tokyo - Photos slideshow 【高画質】

Click play these two at the same time synced, and mute the second one, to get the original intention of the video. JASRAC-- (no fair use)

Going to Vienna

Aug 25, 2007
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I'm going to Vienna to attend to and speak at YAPC::Europe 2007. Arriving at Sunday morning after 16 hours of flight via Washington DC, and leaving Friday morning, coming back to San Francisco in the evening the same day.

See you soon if you're there too!

HD trailers on your HTPC

Jun 10, 2007
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I installed Democracy, the decent Videocast client program on Mac mini and am enjoying the High-Def content from the Web, like Rocketboom, Ask a Ninja and Diggnation. (Some of them might not be technically HD but the quality is good enough).

Mpaa

One of my fave sites to find trailers is Dave's Trailers Page, which collects links to mostly HD movie trailers on Yahoo! movies or Apple trailers page every week. But the site doesn't have an RSS feed and there's no way to track or automatically download the new trailers, etc.

So I made the feed. You can subscribe to the feed using Democracy or just default iTunes, and hook the computer to the TV. Every day you can get the High-Def (the feed is linking to 720p quality one) trailers automatically, which is very nice.

For those who are interested, It's done by 20 lines of Web::Scraper script and the latest plagger on SVN. You can change to 1080p if you want, and run it yourself to host the rss feed file. I guess you might be able to do this with Y! Pipes but scraping data is dead easy if you use Web::Scraper module, which I'll talk about in YAPC::Europe in Vienna.

Slideshare

Apr 8, 2007
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Slideshare is a great 2.0 site to share Powerpoint/keynote slides online. You can even embed the flash "Slideshow" to your blog as well. Ben and my slides at YAPC::Asia are now online:

Heh, and the vox slide is now featured on slideshare top page.

YAPC::Asia 2007 is over

Apr 5, 2007
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I was a bit scared of too many English talks in the conference. But apparently it was ok. Or maybe the people not ok with that are just silent...
nipotan, Yappo and MJD's Lightning Talks were awesome.
Live interpretation for Ben's talk was fun.
I just started writing my slides this morning 4am and finished it 2pm, which is one hour before my actual session. It was probably too much details but it was fun.
Lots of funny talks in the dinner tonight with Jesse and Ingy.
Hackathon this weekend!
Tons of thanks to staff and voluntary people of YAPC::Asia. It feels like magic that when I came to the venue yesterday morning and everything was almost setup and the volunteer people worked as receptionists and everything else so flawlessly. Awesome.