November 15, 2011
I was originally thinking of skipping Kindle Fire because I’m happy with the original iPad, but when I visited my parents back in October, Dad said he was considering of buying an Android tablet. I thought it was a terrible idea, given the lineup of available options of shitty Android tablets in the market. I offered to give him my original iPad, but he wanted something lighter, like 7 inch. That made me buy this Kindle Fire, hoping this could be an actually “usable” Android tablet for him.
November 07, 2011
Google AppEngine went out of beta and changed its pricing model today.
October 19, 2011
My Carton talk’s video is up. Slides are in English and the speech is in Japanese. I was doing the demo abou 8:00 and it went really well. When I ship 1.0 i will most definitely do a screencast.
October 17, 2011
The conference got 672 attendees and I think this is the record breaking biggest YAPC ever.
October 14, 2011
via speakerdeck.com
September 29, 2011
Lots of friends have been asking me of options to get mobile internet in Japan, especially for a short visit (1-2 weeks). Here’s the updated version of such options.
September 28, 2011
Much of my thinking about the future of Perl 5 stems from the following principles:
September 22, 2011
Go to SFPL overdrive library, look for books you want to read. The catalog is not as quite nice - you might need to request a hold for popular books, which I did yesterday and received updates this morning that it is available now.
September 09, 2011
Dotcloud sponsors my flight to London and LPW guys let me do the 2 hour tutorial for “Deploying Perl/Plack web apps to the cloud”.
September 09, 2011
August 22, 2011
Note that it isn’t officially confirmed that iOS 5 would have the access to Japanese Earthquake warnings/alerts. The linked post discusses about it based on the rumors and speculations. Yet, this blog post could be useful to explain how this alert system works, even if the rumor turns out to be false.
April 29, 2011
So, here’s the update I promised last week: I’m thrilled to join DotCloud as a software engineer, starting May.
April 22, 2011
OK, so I have some news to share with you. Today, April 22nd, is my last day at SAY Media.
March 08, 2011
cpanm 1.4 is out last night. This is a major update and includes bunch of good things, and let me introduce two of them.
February 28, 2011
This is more of a note to self than an announcement.
February 24, 2011
tl;dr: Do not use if (__FILE__ eq $0) in your .psgi code, that’s not supposed to work since Plack 0.9971.
December 22, 2010
Following up my Japanese mobile plan hackery post, e-mobile just announced that they will release the new Android device dubbed “Pocket WiFi S”.
December 21, 2010
December 17, 2010
utf8::encode $[0] if utf8::is_utf8 $[0];
December 14, 2010
Dubbed “S” for Simple and Smart, the new Pocket Wifi is not just a portable wireless router, but is also a fully functional smartphone running Android 2.2.