Bonjour, Hello and ようこそ。

Welcome to my little space on the web. Here you can view some projects I have worked on, read my personal blog, and check out some of my ExpressionEngine addons.

Although I'm comfortable with blogging/content management systems (CMS) such as Drupal and Wordpress blogging/content management systems (CMS), my weapon of choice is ExpressionEngine.

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2010.01.08
Got a copy of Mojomotor! #mojomotor 30 minutes from downloading, installing to having visited all non-developer features
2010.30.07
#eecms question: Does passing a lot of variables (20+) through an embed have a performance hit compared to no variables?
2010.30.07
University Websites: damn right! http://bit.ly/afJiOL
2010.29.07
Gotta love filling out those Japanese visa applications with incorrect English instructions.
2010.28.07
What? There are over 50% of Yahoo users, but only 30% of Google users in Japan? People really don't get it over here...
2010.24.07
Wordpress' e-Commerce plugin code is a mess! Makes you appreciate the quality of addons made by #eecms devs. You guys rock!
2010.22.07
@m2iwjmw Default setup, but inspired from LG htaccess back in 1.6.x. For 404, I have ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?/, that's all.
2010.22.07
@m2iwjmw The include method+playing around with the settings has worked for me. Haven't upgraded to EE 2.1 yet, though #eecms
2010.22.07
@bookscan_jp 外国語の書類・本などのスキャンも対応できますか？OCRも可能でしょうか？
2010.21.07
Chicken burger Aurora, Chicken burger Salt&Lemon, Chicken fingers... Looks like McDonald's turning into KFC in #japan

How to fix some Wordpress e-commerce plugin annoyances       

2010/07/27

Here are some small fixes I found during Wordpress site development using the WP e-commerce plugin. Although the plugin is a quick (and free!) way to quickly put up a small e-commerce section on a website, it still requires a handful of improvement to make setup more simple to use.

Removing decimals to prices

This should be an option in the control panel, but unfortunately isn't. Not every currency has decimals (eg. Japanese yen), so the extra ".00" needs to be dropped. This can be done by first setting the plugin not to display decimals in the control panel.…

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How to change the collation of a table and its columns       

2010/07/14

One of my ExpressionEngine 2 installations wouldn't accept multibyte characters (Japanese, to be exact) in the Discussion Forum module. Those characters would be displayed as question marks in thread posts. I thought that the default EE2 install created tables in Unicode (UTF-8) automatically, and that I shouldn't have any problems with multibyte characters. After a closer look at my database, I realised that the exp_forum tables were in latin_1! I had two options to fix the problem:

  • Turn on the "Convert to high ASCII" option in ExpressionEngine's control panel (under Admin / Channel Administration / Global preferences). Multibyte characters…

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Cup noodle ads: funny lyrics of known music videos       

2010/06/21

I'm really digging the recent Cup Noodle commercial series in Japan. The commercial looks like a regular music video, but the lyrics are completely different and sung in Japanese. Check out this Jamiroquai gem:

Looks like the famous "Virtual Insanity" video, until Jamiroquai starts singing "I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry, I'm hungry... Oh Cup Noodle, I could eat about five!"

I only know of another music video from a Japanese song, but looking forward to more of…

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Addon updates for EE2, part 1       

2010/06/14

I have updated some my addons over the weekend for ExpressionEngine 2. Each addon will now have two download links for the 1.6.x and 2.x versions of the addon.

The updated addons are:

I have tested these addons myself and they seem to be running fine. If you encounter any problems, please let me know.

Since ExpressionEngine 2 stores text in the database in UTF-8 format, I thought Ellis…

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Using twitter from a Japanese mobile phone       

2010/06/10

I remember a few months ago when I tried in vain to login on Twitter from my Japanese ketai, which most have only a simple WAP browser (meaning no Javascript or complex CSS, old school webpages only). I couldn't get past the login form, which wouldn't clear for some reason.

Looks like this has been solved now, with the whole Twitter interface translated in Japanese, little Japanese keitai-only emoji and all. Some mobile-specific functionality has also been added, including emailing a tweet from your mobile (like mobile blogging found in some CMSs) and keypad menu selection.

That…

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