How to create a single wp-config file for local and remote WordPress development
If you are developing WordPress sites, themes or plugins, you probably know that setting up a local development environment can speed things up immensely. The easiest way is to use XAMPP or MAMP. I prefer XAMPP by the way as it is available on Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Installing XAMPP gets you most of the way to headache free WordPress development, the rest is setting up your local server/virtual servers so that it as closely mirrors your remote set-up as possible. However, some settings like blog address are held in the database which makes mirroring local development and remote production servers a little tricky. If you just backed up the database on the remote set-up and imported it to your local XAMPP server through phpMyAdmin then WordPress will still...
Google Japan’s marketing campaign at Tully’s Coffee But Wait!
Like we discussed at recent episodes of messa.tv, Google is trying to become #1 player of Japanese search engine market. To achieve the aim, Google is spending huge amount of money for marketing campaigns on TV and anywhere around us. Even here at Tully’s Coffee which is one of Starbucks clones in Japan, I found a small card by Google. It says “Connect to Free Wi-Fi here to see Google’s Search Story”. Sounds nice because it’s quite hard to find free Wi-Fi spots in Japan but don’t have excessive expectations for this campaign. ONLY 30min a day you can use it! Partner companies of this campaign are Wi-Fi provider NTT and cafes like Tully’s. I know they don’t want to open the Wi-Fi for a long time but the only 30min...