Since I’m on a business trip to Portland, I participated in a meetup called PDXNode Presentation Night. Let me share how it went.

• PDXNode Presentation Night - PDXnode (Portland, OR) | Meetup

What is PDXNode?

PDXNode is the Portland version of the regional Node.js community. It was created on January 16, 2013, so it seems to be a community with a long history.

Here’s the agenda-style update article for today:

• Up to speed with ClojureScript (CLJS) & How to affordably build high volume, bandwidth heavy infrastructure! - PDXnode (Portland, OR) | Meetup

Vacasa

Today’s venue was provided by the Vacasa office.

• Vacasa - Vacation Rentals Made Easy

I learned for the first time today that they’re a company that provides services like a vacation rental version of Airbnb.

Pre-Event Chat with Craig Fisk

Craig Fisk, who was sitting next to me, struck up a conversation, which was super helpful.

• Craig Fisk - Portland, OR, USA, Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, Konstanz, Heidelberg | about.me
• picocosmos – Making the world a little smaller.

Neocities

There used to be a service called GeoCities, and this was a presentation by someone developing a service called Neocities, which is inspired by it.

• ジオシティーズ - Wikipedia
• Neocities: Create your own free website!

ClojureScript Talk

• ClojureScript

Apparently there’s an online ClojureScript execution environment called KLIPSE.

• KLIPSE: a simple and elegant online cljs compiler and evaluator

PDXNode Meetup Results

• I was somehow able to speak in English with a senior engineer sitting next to me (who was pro-Japan)
• Consumed a large amount of pizza
• Somewhat understood the presentation content
• ClojureScript

I think I’ll participate in some other meetups without being discouraged by English.

That’s all from the Gemba.