Dylan Schiemann

The weekend of April 11th was my final two days in Tokyo, so I packed them full with things to see and do. Bill Keese and I met up with Floyd and Werner from QCon and we set out to find the cherry blossoms. We started out in a pair of parks with temples and […]

April 10th was the final day of QCon Tokyo and the first ever dojo.sake event as well. I began the day with a meeting at a large Japanese company that has an interest in Ajax. After that, I took Henrik up on his advice to walk around and pick a place somewhat at random and […]

So far, I’ve yet to have nearly enough time in each city, but I’ve made the most of it while still keeping up with work. On Wednesday morning, I spent a short amount of time networking and more time repacking my luggage more efficiently. Henrik, Floyd, and I shared a taxi to Beijing Capital International […]

On Monday, April 6th, our local QCon Beijing hosts gave us a tour of Beijing. We began early with a trip to Tiananmen Square, which can hold approximately 1 million people, dwarfing any of the squares or piazzas that I’ve ever seen, and is an amazingly powerful and symbolic place and includes Mao’s Tomb and […]

On Sunday, I again took the Beijing Subway to meet up with Eric and Michael, who took me to see the Great Wall. Nothing that I have seen really comes close to the Great Wall except for some of the architecture in Rome, but the size and scope of the Wall is astounding. We visited […]

I don’t think anything could have prepared me for Beijing. In the US, we’re led to believe that China is a communist state, a.l.a. the former Soviet Union, but the people of China are capitalists to the extreme! Kevin and Shinling, our local hosts, were a lot of fun to hang out with, but I […]

After a couple of late night and early morning conference calls, and breakfast where I actually wrote and sent a first batch of postcards, on Saturday it was time to head to Incheon airport to depart for Beijing. Incheon is approximately an hour from Seoul by car (with train service still under construction). I took […]

My first impression of Seoul: What an amazingly modern, clean city. Incheon airport is shockingly clean and modern, customs was a breeze, luggage retrieval fast, and my ride was waiting and drove me to the Shilla on the most modern highway I’ve ever been on. After flying in daylight, I arrived at my room in […]

Is it cruel to send friends and co-workers living in colder climates pictures like this? It’s been a ridiculously warm winter this year, and unusually cold for the rest of the nation, and I find myself compelled to let our friends in Minnesota and Wisconsin know what they’re missing, such as a March 1st high […]

On this day of thanks, on a professional level, I’m really thankful that Dojo is such a thriving community, and SitePen is able to work with such amazing and great companies. A few people have asked me privately if I am upset that Alex is joining Google. The short answer is, absolutely not. Alex has […]