Den Den Town Street Festival (Photos)
As mentioned in episode 3 of messa.tv, we went down to Den Den Town for the Street Festival. Things didn’t go quite according to plan so although we have some video clips, we didn’t do a tour of Den Den Town itself. It was the 5th time the festival has been held...
100 Yen Macro Lens for iPhone
Do you know how I took photos like above by my iPhone? I don’t use any expensive macro lens or iPhone accessories. Here is my tool. It was 100 yen, almost $1. Easy to carry, easy to use. Need both hands to take photos is a negative point but I love quality. How do you turn your iPhone into a macro camera?
Changes happened among Japanese kids by Nintendo DSi
When I heard about spec of Nintendo DSi and a built-in camera, I thought it’s a crap. Too low resolution to play with in this HD era. But my view was wrong. I almost forgot that the main target users of Nintendo DSi are kids, not gadgets geeks like me. For kids, quality of the built-in camera is good enough or more like it’s not matter. Experience to take photos by their own device is the most important point. And that made a huge change among kids right now in Japan. I saw an impressive scene that kids taking photos by DSi like young people taking photos by their mobile phones. Taking photos by gaming devices like DSi mean they use the photos to play with or share. I was born in NES generation but couldn’t imagine these kind of way to play with...
[Ruby] How to use RSpec – 01 QuickStart
RSpec is one of ruby’s testing frameworks for BDD(Behavior Driven Development). Install RSpec % sudo gem install rspec Quickstart Directory Structure for sample program below. put libraries into lib/ directory. put spec(test) programs into spec/directory. sample_project/ lib/sample.rb sample library to test spec/ sample_spec.rb test program for sample.rb spec_helper.rb common settings and functions for all tests. Create directories Create a project directory, create lib and spec directory in the project directory. % mkdir sample_project % cd sample_project % mkdir lib % mkdir spec Create spec_helper.rb sample_project/spec/spec_helper.rb : # encoding: utf-8 require "rubygems" require 'test/unit' require "spec" $LOAD_PATH <<...