Thursday, 24. December 2009, 02:29:02
google, ideas
I was lucky enough to attend the first
Information Science and Technology Christmas lecture at Tokyo University the other day and, although all the talks were interesting, I particularly enjoyed Kentaro Tokusei sharing Google's ideas about innovation.
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Monday, 7. December 2009, 12:34:15
security, linux
I've tried on several versions of
Fedora but never really been able to install
Truecrypt. Either it's resulted in lots of errors or I've given up after getting tired of fruitless searching and reading.
At last I've found a guide that's not too long and works!
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Tuesday, 15. September 2009, 05:38:49
linux, mobile, video
My new
Nokia N96 (yes, and then they immediately released the N97!) may not be as intuitive as the iPhone but is packed with far more features and is so much more open to exploration that it's a keeper. Not only that but clever
@LonelyBob gave me some help last night to fix a problem I'd been battling with - video conversion.
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Wednesday, 9. September 2009, 12:40:41
Currently enjoying a wonderful evening with fellow Tokyo tech-heads.
Two things of note:
1. There isn't a Japanese equivalent to CES or other big conference. Is this because there's no interest, no-one has tried it or simply because it would be so popular there's nowhere big enough to hold it?
2. Personal servers are the future. Opera Unite is not the only player in town - say hello to ServersMan for the iPhone...
Ah, good times.
Thursday, 2. July 2009, 06:11:39
web development, php
Hardly worth a whole blog post but it may help somebody...
is_numeric() is the function to use for validating numeric-only user input with PHP but unfortunately there is no is_alphanumeric(). Or so I thought.
Meet ctype_alnum().
I've seen lots of people using regular expressions to get round this, myself included, and it's not complicated but it's still nice to simplify where possible.
Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 14:20:16
japan, linux
One of the things I love about living in Japan is the surprises it throws your way.
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Wednesday, 3. June 2009, 01:13:01
web development, reference
Inspired by a
forum post I came across the other day I've compiled a list of free online checkers/validators for web developers. Please let me know if you're aware of others. (Updated 9th December 2009)
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Monday, 18. May 2009, 13:12:16
linux, opera, japanese
Like many Linux users I've never really had much luck with SCIM and Opera but I'm pleased to say I've finally found a solution: use UIM.
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Tuesday, 17. March 2009, 12:25:00
video, wii
Continuing with the Wii theme, I found out how to convert videos so they can be viewed on the Nintendo Wii.
The Wii can show videos in two ways:
- Flash videos viewed online in the Opera browser.
- AVI files viewed from a memory card in the photo channel.
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Sunday, 11. January 2009, 00:12:47
opera, wii, widgets
Just a quick note that may help widget developers.
The problem:Your widget may work well on mobile and desktop and in the widget emulator, but the version of Opera used on the Wii is a very different beast and the emulator does not reflect its quirks. Not only that, you can't download or transferyour widget directly to the Wii to see what needs fixing (or at least I couldn't find a way).
The solution:The version of Opera used on the Wii is 9.3 so to test compatibility, install Opera 9.27 on your PC and you should be OK to then fix and re-submit successfully.
The Wii user agent as reported by
BBClone.
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