Category: Tech & Web

  • Finally Polyglot Industry is Happening in Japan

    Finally Polyglot Industry is Happening in Japan

    There were many events about multilingual and translation in the end of the month and Tokyo. (I wanted to write this blog post because I wanted to try out YarakuZen service. This blog post may be hard to read. Sorry if you feel so in advanced 🙂 ) On 10/29 (Thu) I decided to re-schedule…

  • Multilingual WordPress and Very Important Message from WordCamp Kansai 2015

    Multilingual WordPress and Very Important Message from WordCamp Kansai 2015

    On July 25~26, 2015, I had an opportunity to speak at WordCamp Kansai 2015 to talk about the multilingualization of WordPress. Every year, the team of WordPress Nagoya community members car-pool and attend WordCamp Kansai event. This is our 4th time to do so since 2011. WordCamp Kansai 2015 was taking place at Osaka University,…

  • Cerevo LiveWedge First Impression

    Cerevo LiveWedge First Impression

    After a year long wait from the Cerevo, I was finally able to receive LiveWedge from Cerevo, which is 4 channel live HDMI video switcher. I’ve paid the money and waited for a half year! When I went to InterBEE (The Japan’s biggest video and broadcasting exhibition) last November, Cerevo told me that they would release LiveWedge…

  • concrete5 TinyMCE Office Config Sample for 5.6.x and earlier

    concrete5 TinyMCE Office Config Sample for 5.6.x and earlier

    This is the simple copy of concrete5.6.3.2 Office setting of TinyMCE. When you want to customize the buttons of concrete5 TinyMCE editor, you need to create your own config text file. If you feel you’re troublesome, you may want to subtract the options from Office Theme from concrete5. I’ve created this option for you. Git…

  • It’s not about concrete5 vs WordPress

    It’s not about concrete5 vs WordPress

    Too many ‪‎concrete5‬ events happening again in ‪Japan‬ in Oct. So many people are interested in concrete5 now. This is the shout-out from Japan. I wish I had more time to write about how Japanese people started to embrace concrete5 CMS. concrete5 is absolutely the best CMS over ‪WordPress‬ for the web site that requires…

  • concrete5: How to grow an open source community in Japan

    concrete5: How to grow an open source community in Japan

    I had an urge to think about the concrete5 community and looking back my past 5 years and next 5 years. Growing concrete5 from scratch in Japan When I started the concrete5 community in Japan. It was virtually the start from the scratch, learning PHP, how to translate the software, and organizing an open source community.…

  • How to run multiple concrete5 installs on a single core (Apache vhost config)

    First, you need VPS or dedicated Apache server that you have root access. Then create symbolic links to point to one core. Sometime, the shared server may let you do so if you have a SSH access. This information is as of May 21, 2014. 1. Create /concrete/ & /updates/ folder where you save your…

  • The best and simple way to establish SSH Tunnel on Mac OS X with Coda 2

    I’ve had an opportunity to work on a very tight security Internet server that was blocking the external SFTP access but only allowed us to access via the SSH Tunnel of the different server. In addition, the authentification required RSA key authorization for the project. Whereas Windows has WinSCP, the free and easy FTP client.…

  • How to sync Facebook profile pic to your iPhone (iOS) contacts

    How to sync Facebook profile pic to your iPhone (iOS) contacts

    Facebook App on iPhone has a very useful function to sync your Facebook friend pics to your iPhone contacts. When you receive a call from your Facebook friend, you will immediately find out who’s calling by seeing the exact same pictures of their Facebook profile pics as you see them everyday on the news feed.…

  • YouTube: How to start playing in the middle of the video via link, WordPress, or embedding code

    YouTube: How to start playing in the middle of the video via link, WordPress, or embedding code

    Sometime you want your friend to skip at the beginning of the YouTube video. This post shows you how to create a link or a embed code so that people can start watching a YouTube video from the specific point. Link Format #t=XXmXXs  Description Add #t parameter after URL and declare the minutes and seconds…