mRuby

Sadly, this is not actually about mruby, but about an event for hearing about mruby.

Hosted at PubNub

Started a little late. The room was almost half empty! I think they capped the free tickets available number too low.

• Intro about how awesome the city of Fukuoka is for ruby developers.
• PubNub what-is pitch
• mRuby pitch, embedded software development
  • mentions rubyforum (japanese)
• Arduino-compatible board, programmable in mruby: Enzi With online simulator for how given ruby code will run on hardware!
• water-plant and turn-on-fan-with-tweet projects by masudrive
• Airy presentation by goking. Long comparison with wordpress. Closed beta. not yet il8n (internationalized)
• [Guy from Fusic github pitching tool 360 multi survey solutions
• student presentation of app Gakufes (Brian and M) from Kyushi inst. Tech - a better app for all university festivals.
• Matz:
  • brief history of ruby (mri, yarv, cruby, mruby…)
  • Slides created with Rabbit
  • Lua influenced the mruby VM (Lua was implemented in Brasil)
  • gem intall mgem; mgem update; mgem size
  • fastest ruby web server
  • QPS labs: micro satellites uses mruby
  • IIJ router uses mruby
  • CloudWalk payment devices uses mruby in their payment devices. Cool!
  • mentions RubyMotion
  • has eval? yes! eval mruby gem.

People:

• Coshx Labs
• Reinteractive
• cool lesswrong dude JK

Overall review:

Poorly attended for a tech meetup, awkward presentations, very pitch-y. No new material, although some cool product mentions.