Posts made in December, 2009

I like to use keyboard shortcuts as I am usually using a laptop. So it’s convenient to set  up a mouse-less environment. I know many people use [Ctrl+P][Ctrl+C][Ctrl+V] and so on. Some people uses 「Alt＋Tab」「Ctrl＋Tab」「Windows button＋D」as well. Today I want to show you 5 ways to set-up a mouse-less environment that aren’t as well known. Go to top-right search box(when browsing like Firefox, IE) Go to address area (when browsing like Firefox, IE) Call up the right mouse menu without mouse Make scrolling smoother Enable clicking links with keyboard 1. Have a look at the screenshot below You can move to search box with the shortcut [Ctrl+E]. And in addition, you can choose the object for search with [Ctrl+↓] You can use this with...

We’ll launch a Japanese version of the tech podcast messa.tv soon. messa.tv has been published since April 2006, and then became an English program since beginning of 2009. But finally we’ll re-start the Japanese show! The Japanese version of messa.tv might help you if you’re interested in Japanese tech trends, culture and business. Or if you’re studying Japanese, you can watch and learn real live Japanese! Now our English show have lots of visitors from all around the world and a few days ago we got a guest from Greece. He said he is a fan of our show! Chris came from Greece to Osaka Japan to see us. Thank you so much Chris! Anyway, we’re always welcome to your feedbacks or comments on our blogs, Twitter. See you at the show...

We use a JavaScript library called “curvyCorners” for our own sites. This one can show beautiful rounded corners but can be a bit heavy to load each time. I’m planning to replace it with a lighter and faster one but let me describe how to use “curvyCorners”. 1. Download it form here and load it at a header area of HTML files like this: <script type="text/javascript" src="curvycorners.js"></script> 2. Next, create blocks with these class attributes: Round top corners <div class="myboxtop"> Round top corners. <br /> Round top corners. <br /> Round top corners. <br /> </div> Round bottom corners <div class="myboxbottom"> Round bottom corners. <br /> Round bottom corners. <br...

WordPress studying session WordBench will be held at messaliberty. Please join if you’re in Kansai area! See more detail here: WordBench 大阪 » Blog Archive » 2010年新年会を1月31日(日)開催

Our theme on the English side and the Japanese side are the same.  And by that I mean, we only have one copy of the theme files that is used for both sides.  For this to work, it has to be  fully localised and independant. One thing that is quite different in the two languages is the formatting of dates.  A date like Dec 13th 2009 might be formatted as 2009年12月13日 Chapp worked from a theme that had the date formats hard coded into the theme.  As in: <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?> If we left that in, the Japanese side’s dates wouldn’t be right, but if we took out the ‘F jS, Y’ part, it defaulted to outputting the time.  As a workaround, we used: <?php the_date(); ?> which does fetch and use the right formatted date...