A description of my trip to Japan for Sapporo RubyKaigi 2012. Along the way, I met up with Tokyo Rubyist Meetup, Asakusa.rb, Minami.rb, and I also visited Iwaki, Fukushima, and Kyoto, where I had the best excuse ever for almost missing out on Railcamp tickets. 日本語のタイトル：プログラマーHaaaan!!!

1. Memoirs of a programmer
(プログラマーHaaaan!!!)
Andrew Grimm
ROROSyd

2. Itinerary
Iwaki, Fukushima province – Mutation testing
Tokyo – Tokyo Rubyist Meetup
Sapporo – SRPK2012
Tokyo – Asakusa.rb
Osaka – Cake Driven Development
Kyoto – Why I almost missed out on Railscamp
tickets

3. Iwaki, Fukushima

4. Iwaki, Fukushima

5. Iwaki, Fukushima
Where else to do mutation testing with the new
version of heckle?

6. Tokyo Rubyist Meetup
#trbmeetup

7. Qlive
Reviewing system used at Tokyo Rubyist
Meetup
Live posting about talks
Posts can be commented on and upvoted

9. Talks
Sqale – A lightweight alternative to Heroku
Daniel Bovensiepen – Working in China &
Germany
Michał Taszycki – Polish Ruby community
Me – Ruby community in Oz
Francesco Canessa – Italian Ruby community

10. Sapporo
Shared hostel room with @cuzic, who I toured
Tokyo with after RubyKaigi 2011, and others
from Kansai region

11. Sapporo – lunches
Friday: Bento box lunch, sponsored by Heroku
Saturday: dRuby workshop
Sunday: try(:english)

12. Sapporo – unconferences
Rails Girls
Object Oriented programming
Many others
(Photo: Imazu
Asami)

13. Distributed venue
Two streams
Rooms in which the talks happened
Other rooms where you could hack, talk, but
still watch the talks

14. Lightning talks
After your five minutes, you get gonged by a
dora girl

15. Parties
Parties on both Friday and Saturday night

16. Asakusa.rb
Held at Cookpad
Food cooked by Cookpad staff itself – talk
about dogfooding!
(Japanese people don't eat actually dog)

17. Osaka
Cake Driven Development
Found about Wisp gem at that session
Dinner at an izakaya

18. Kyoto
● Why I almost missed out on Railscamp tickets
● Best
● Excuse
● Ever

19. Photos of me with maikos (apprentice geishas)
available by email.
Contact me via twitter @andrewjgrimm

20. Upcoming conferences
Tokyo RubyKaigi 10: Tokyo, 13-14 January
Regional RubyKaigi – limited English support
400 people
RubyKaigi 2013: Tokyo, 30 May – 1 June
International RubyKaigi
500 people