Open Web Asia ’08 is just two week ahead. Don’t forget to register and attend! Now, our registration form is much improved. If you had any problem to register before, please try again with our new form by Amiando. Open Web Asia is a rare occassion for Asian Web industry people to gather in one… Continue reading Register for Open Web Asia ’08!
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The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008
We Asiajin weblog is built on WordPress, open source blog system on PHP/MySQL. Today I attended the WordPress event WordCamp Tokyo 2008, the first ever WordCamp held in Japan. On a half day conference at Digital Hollywood Shibuya, to over 60 attendees 10 speakers made development/customization presentations, WordPress history case study in high school useful… Continue reading The First WordCamp in Japan: WordCamp Tokyo 2008
A report of ESPer2008 conference
ESPer2008 conference has been held with 100+ attendees in Shinagawa, Tokyo at 14th September 2008. ESPer is a conference held by alumni of the Mitoh software grant (Exploratory Software Project) (in English). The Mitoh is a grant by Japanese government which is given to individual software developers. There are around thousand Mitoh alumni in Japan… Continue reading A report of ESPer2008 conference
Open Web Asia ’08 conference announced
Open Web Asia ’08 conference has been announced to be held on 14th October 2008 in Seoul, Korea. 後ろに日本語の案内があります。 — “The first pan-Asia web technology event bringing together executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from throughout Asia” October 14 2008, Sheraton Grande Walkerhill, Seoul, Korea in association with the 9th World Knowledge Forum Open Web Asia… Continue reading Open Web Asia ’08 conference announced
E27 Unconference Singapore 2008
E27 Singapore, An entrepreneur group, will be organizing the 5th Unconference on the 12th of July 2008. The event has a startup demo session and a break out (unconference style discussion) session. Also there are demo booths of startup companies too. It seems that startups like yum.sg (gourmet guide), eteract (online dating side) are going… Continue reading E27 Unconference Singapore 2008
RubyKaigi will be held this week
The Japan’s biggest conference on Ruby, RubyKaigi 2008, is going to be held on 20th(fri)-22nd(sun) June. Tickets for main sessions are already sold out. However you can attend to sub-sessions, poster sessions without ticket. I will give a talk as a part of sub-session on 21st (in Japanese).
OpenWeb.Asia
Gang Lu, a director of Netvibes Asia, launched a blog aggregation site called OpenWeb.Asia. And we are a proud member of the network. “The OpenWeb.Asia Workgroup is a network of premium blogs focus on Asian Web industry.” OpenWeb.Asia provides an OPML file which can be easily imported to feed readers to subscribe the feeds of… Continue reading OpenWeb.Asia
YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 2
I’m impressed by a session called ‘memcached in mixi’ by Masahiro Nagano. He detailedly explained their effort to scale the Japan’s biggest SNS with memcached. They are using more than 100 dedicated memcached servers for caching. All of machines has 4GB of memory with Pentium 4 or D, which are too weak for database servers… Continue reading YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 2
YAPC::Asia financial report
Hiroyuki Oyama gave a talk on YAPC::Asia financial report (in JP). I’d like to show the numbers and key factors in this article to help who try to organise a big event. YAPC::Asia handles 500+ attendees with all volunteer organising committee. In 2006 and 2007, they used Lawson (convenience store chain) ticket system to sell… Continue reading YAPC::Asia financial report
YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 1
Today, YAPC::Asia 2008, one of the biggest Perl conference, had been held at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Serkan, Akky, and I attended the conference. This time, YAPC has three parallel sessions during two days, and number of registered attendees reached 500. With a help of abundant sponsorship from Perl user companies such as Recruit,… Continue reading YAPC::Asia 2008 report: day 1