{"id":635,"date":"2007-10-02T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos"},"modified":"2007-10-02T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2007-10-02T16:17:32","slug":"users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/10\/02\/users-conference-japan-2007-more-notes-and-photos","title":{"rendered":"Users Conference Japan 2007 &#8211; more notes and photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking photos is easy. Processing them is hard. By processing I mean, going through them, ditching ones that didn&#8217;t quite make the cut, and then uploading them. Note processing does not even mean editing them in The Gimp.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/1470844605\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1005\/1470844605_b7fd5be9fa_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"UC-J reception\" height=\"160\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>View from the Miraikan, looking towards Daiba, at the UC-J reception<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (view the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?w=17956027%40N00&amp;q=uc-j2007+AND+reception&amp;m=tags\">31 photos<\/a> from that night)<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The reception was amazing, heaps of people won gifts, and kudos again to the organisers. Drinking black vodka, aka Salmiakki that Monty brought, was definitely a treat for those who rocked up to the reception.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/1471766124\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1345\/1471766124_80daaca2e4_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"A dinner at Kyotatsu\" height=\"160\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Dinner at Kyotatsu (best viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=1471766124&amp;size=l\">large<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We went to Kyotatsu twice. Once with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?q=uc-j2007%20AND%20community&amp;w=17956027%40N00&amp;m=tags\">extended MySQL Japanese Community<\/a>. And once with just mostly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/tags\/lastuc-jdinner\">MySQLers<\/a>. We were introduced to <em>crab bowels<\/em>, something I really like (and might be Kaj&#8217;s new favourite dish too) &#8211; if only I find it easily in Melbourne. Note that the community dinner was amazing &#8211; I think spread amongst three folk, there were no less than ten MySQL books written in Japanese by them. The collective intelligence on that table, was just astounding. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/1469517952\/\">Hacking while there<\/a>, was not a big deal for Tomita-san, famous for the <a href=\"http:\/\/tmtm.org\/en\/mysql\/ruby\/\">MySQL\/Ruby<\/a> connector.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/1471807562\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1344\/1471807562_1fc643b236_m.jpg?resize=240%2C160\" alt=\"A dinner at Kyotatsu\" height=\"160\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Pouring sake (view it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=1471807562&amp;size=l\">large<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A truly different experience, as you pour more than required in the glass, and then drink from the square bottomed bit, like a coaster.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty much done with my Japanese photo-set, so look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/byte\/sets\/72157601965281233\/\">MySQL Users Conference Japan (UC-J) 2007<\/a> set. To see what you missed. To be there next year. To be at a similar event, in Santa Clara, notably the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.oreilly.com\/mysql2008\/public\/content\/home\">MySQL Conference &amp; Expo 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/mysql\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">mysql<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/tokyo\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">tokyo<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/japan\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/uc-j\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">uc-j<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/uc-j2007\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">uc-j2007<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/photos\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/miraikan\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">miraikan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/sake\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">sake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/community\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">community<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking photos is easy. Processing them is hard. By processing I mean, going through them, ditching ones that didn&#8217;t quite make the cut, and then uploading them. Note processing does not even mean editing them in The Gimp. &nbsp; View from the Miraikan, looking towards Daiba, at the UC-J reception (view the other 31 photos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}