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I arrived in Taiwan a few hours ago and am settling into my hotel room in Taipei trying to figure out what time my body thinks it is. But regardless of my body’s ability to keep up with me I have a busy few days ahead.
Tomorrow afternoon I’m presenting an internal Tech Talk to designers and engineers at the Yahoo! Taiwan office, hosted by my friend and colleague Aaron Wu. I love the chance to talk to designers and engineers in the same room, and so I’m very much looking forward to the opportunity.
On Saturday I’m offering the keynote at the Open Source Developers’ Conference here in Taipei. My talk is titled “An Insider’s Tour of the YUI Library.” I’ve been experimenting with video clips in my talks lately, and so even though I’m the only member of the YUI team on this trip, I’ll have the video and voices of many from the team with me on stage. I’ve done something similar once before, and it went well then so I’m hoping it goes well again.
Here is some local press coverage of the conference. It’s a trip to see my face surrounded by words I can’t read. If anybody can translate for me, please send me a note or leave a comment (click the images for higher-res copies).
The third event is an interview for that same publication scheduled by Yahoo!’s local “tech PR” team. I’m not used to giving in-person interviews, let alone via translator, so it should be a fun and unique (and flattering) experience. They sent over a few of the questions in advance to set expectations and I gotta say the questions are thought provoking and interesting. (Though I am a little worried about how to translate some of the more fuzzy terminology.)
The fun continues on Monday and Tuesday with my fourth and fifth even is as many days: I have the distinct privilege of address engineering and CS students from both National Taiwan University and the National Chiao Tung University. Each two hour session is part presentation, part on-stage interview with professors, and part question-and-answer. My message is that Frontend Engineering is a first-rate engineering discipline, that industry is hungry for more skills practitioners in the field, and that it’s quite likely the most interesting and stimulating role to play in web and internet development.
I’m exceptionally humbled to be able to speak at such esteemed institutions. I will do my best to live up to the honor. Taiwan: Thank you!
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Ed Eliot April 10th, 2008 - 1:42 pm
Congratulations Nate - you’re getting seriously impressive coverage by the looks of it. I hope it all goes well!
plasma April 10th, 2008 - 6:49 pm
Some translations of the local express:
Title: The Godfather Of Yahoo! Frontend Development Shares AJAX Developement In Taiwan
Subtitle: Nate Koechley, the founder of role of Yahoo! Frontend Engineering, will speak about Ajax in OSDC. Takahashi, the famous author of Ruby books in Japan, will speak about Ruby’s new features.
The grey box in upper left:
* The Yahoo! senior engineer will introduce how YUI think about usabilities.
* ….
para 1: …
para 2: …
para 3:
Two engineers from Yahoo! headquarter will join OSDC. Nate Koechley is the first generation of Yahoo! Frontend Developement Engineer. He created the role of frontend engineer, and defined their missions.
para 4:
Nate Koechley is a member of YUI, which is a famous AJAX framework, team, and responsible for CSS components. Joseph Jiang, a Yahoo! Frontend Engineer, describes him as “The godfather of frontend engineer, and the expert of web usability.” In OSDC, he will share the experience of how Yahoo! thinks about web usability while YUI was developed. Hsin-chan Chien says Nate is willing to share his develop experience, like the compatibility of Microsoft’s new IE 8.
the rest para: …
plasma April 10th, 2008 - 7:13 pm
Oops, I found some typo in previous comment:
“local express” => “local press”
“AJAX Developement” => “AJAX Development”
“how YUI think about” => “how YUI thinks about”
Sorry about the incorrectness.
Swayze April 17th, 2008 - 6:07 am
Go get ‘em Nate! Great to hear of your trip. Not surprised you have been labeled “The Godfather!” (thanks to plasma for the translation.)
Someday please send me an idiot-proof explantation of exactly what it is you do, as i believe i understand only the surface of it. i watch too much mtv. cheers!
Sender April 18th, 2008 - 6:01 am
Not a bad trip there Nate…rather impressive. We’ll catch up when you get back to the states and you can fill me in with all the details. Safe travels home!!