Standards: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A Vim Workshop in Tokyo, Japan in May

I organized a Vim workshop in Tokyo, Japan. The name of the workshop was ujihisa.vim. More than 40 people tried to come but 20+ people attended at this workshop due to the capacity of the room.

The venue

I went to Tokyo for this workshop.

a photo by guyon

Thanks TMI and kana1!

Talks

shadow.vim with me
- shadow.vim https://github.com/ujihisa/shadow.vim
- arbitrary macros for arbitrary programming languages
- e.g. compiling CoffeeScript into JavaScript secretly
- it's not a framework but just a tool; you can combine it with others easily
- shadow.el is also available https://github.com/mooz/shadow.el
all your vimrc is belong to us with kana1
- picks a victim, points a lot of bad smells in the vimrc of the victim, and fix them!
- if the length of your vimrc is less than 1000, you aren't a Vimmer yet.
- syntax on is evil. use syntax enable.
i18n with niw
- strchars() doesn't treat multi-byte character correctly.
tiny-vim with guyon
- about Debian package "tiny-vim"
- no built-in documentation!
Vim in 5 minutes with Shougo
- neocomplcache, unite, vimshell and vimfiler author
- explained everything about Vim exactly within 5 minutes and extra minutes for further details
vital.vim with me
- it's amazing. use it if you are a Vim plugin author.
- something like jQuery (from JavaScript) + Bundler (from Ruby)
- there's an issue in vital.vim about debugging with quickrun. (*)
metarw-yakiudon with sora_h
- a metarw plugin yakiudon
- works almost exactly same as blogger.vim but the backend Ruby library is different
- after this presentation he talked about Ruby core development

(*) thinca, the quickrun author, fixed this issue with the following change in vital during the workshop!

Misc

Before and after the workshop some of the attendees had lunch and dinner with good Vim conversation. The topics were a lot.. vimshell, CoffeeScript, Titanium, HootSuite, Twitter, Ruby core, the ultimate programming language Zimbu, PHP vs Vim script, Emacs lisp and etc...

Quotes

"It's... it's not the Vim I knew..."
"I came to Japan from San Francisco only for attending at this workshop"
"Wow! HootSuite for iPad works amazingly!!!"

Monday, May 9, 2011

Workshops in Amagasaki, Japan by Me

I organized the 7th Vim workshop and a CoffeeScript workshop in Amagasaki, Japan on the last Saturday.

About 20 to 30 people attended the workshops. Even though the room had an air conditioner, the room was so hot and humid like sauna by them (and their MacBooks.)

I was supposed to make presentations with demonstrations, but unfortunately I forgot bringing my mini-DVI port for my initial version of MacBook Air. There were many MacBook Air attendees but nobody had the same version to me. I eventually gave up using my computer and just made presentation by friends' computers. Sorry for missing demonstrations.

Vim Workshop#7

There were five talks

Recommended Vim plugins (by me)
The implementation of lingr.vim (by tsukkee)
Bundle with Vundle (by kozo2)
Unite is useful, and rails.vim as well (by Sixeight)
All about vital.vim (by me)

I broadcasted them and recorded some of them (I just forgot recording the others.) http://ustream.tv/channel/uji

CoffeeScript Workshop

There were five talks.

Introduction to CoffeeScript -- syntax and usage (by me)
Node.js on Windows, and introduction to no.de (by cuzic)
iPhone app development with CoffeeScript and Titanium (by deguchi)
TDD with Jasmine and CoffeeScript (by http://twitter.com/nanki)
Details of CoffeeScript syntax (by yhara and me)

by fukui

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