Kenji HIRANABE (whose signature reads "Japanese translator of 'XP Installed', 'Lean Software Development' and 'Agile Project Management'") just posted a video (with English subtitles) of himself, Matz (creator of Ruby), and Kakutani-san (who translated Bruce Tate's "From Java To Ruby" into Japanese) to his blog. According to Matz (if I heard correctly in the video), Kenji's a "language
otaku," so his blog may be worth checking out for all you other language otakus (though, from my brief look at it, it seems focused between his company's product development and more general programming issues).
In any case it's supposed to be a six part series where the "goal is to show that 'Business-Process-Framework-Language' can be
instanciated as 'Web2.0-Agile-Rails-Ruby' in a very synergetic manner, but each of the three may have other goals."
The
first part discusses the history of Java, Ruby, and Agile. I found it interesting and am looking forward to viewing the upcoming parts, so I thought I'd link it here.
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Very cool!!!
Posted by
Peter Bell
on May 31, 2007 at 11:34 AM UTC - 5 hrs
Thanks !
Language-otaku is mentioned on Matz, and the second video is coming soon.
Today, I attended RubyKaigi2007 in Japan and had a chance to Talk with PragDave.
Posted by
Kenji HIRANABE
on Jun 09, 2007 at 06:11 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Hey Sam, I never knew you were this widely read :-> Kenji, welcome to Sam's corner of the web!
Posted by
Peter Bell
on Jun 10, 2007 at 03:44 AM UTC - 5 hrs
Kenji - I can't wait for the rest of the series. I find the premise interesting, and the first video definitely has me interested for more.
I enjoyed watching the 5 minute presentation you gave in the lightning talks at RubyKaigi. Of course, I didn't understand any of it, but the way you presented with a camera on paper and pens doing live drawing was quite novel!
Peter - Like the Godfather, I've got my fingers in everything =). (sorry, I watched the whole series over the last couple of days, so its on my mind)
Posted by
Sam
on Jun 10, 2007 at 12:29 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Thanks Kenji, I had seen the InfoQ writeup and glad to see you've planned the 2nd and 3rd videos! (but where can I view them? =) )
As for RubyKaigi, no, I was not there, but I did view the video of your presentation you put up on your blog.
Posted by
Sam
on Jun 14, 2007 at 06:33 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Thanks again Kenji! I saw it in my RSS reader. I'll be watching it and commenting soon!
Posted by
Sam
on Jul 01, 2007 at 08:26 PM UTC - 5 hrs
Awesome. Thanks Kenji!
Posted by
Sam
on Aug 09, 2007 at 12:41 PM UTC - 5 hrs
