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Are you an entrepeneur working from home? Feel the need to be in an environment where you can be productive and meet interesting people? Then come to messa OpenSpace! messaliberty opens its office every week on friday from 13:00. Come and have the opportunity to meet, have a a talk, and ask questions to developers, marketeers, and other skilled business people. No entrance fee, no obligations: only a simple policy. We hope to see you at the next messa OpenSpace. Have you already visited messa OpenSpace? Please give us your comments and suggestions to make this event even better. Social links Twitter: @messaliberty 日本語のTwitter: @messalibertyjp Twitter hashtag= #messaOS Facebook Group Flickr Group Cost Free! Policy of the events Do NOT exchange...

Friday June 10 messaliberty organizes its first messa Open Space. Open Space is a weekly returning event to provide you with a comfortable working place, the opportunity to meet some interesting people, get feedback on whatever you’re working on, and to have a good time! Walk into our Open Space any time between 13:00 and 18:00. Open Coffee Osaka Starting from 18:00, directly after messa Open Space, Open Coffee Osaka is being held. This event will start off with a short presentation about the upcoming phenomenon of co-working. After the presentation we have some drinks, so please come and stick around. Cost Free! Policy of the events Do NOT exchange business cards or offer your business card until you have gotten to know the other person.* DO talk about...

I have a small linode VPS. linode is excellent btw, especially when it comes to upgrading the plan over time. I am not sure if other VPS providers like slicehost do, but when I first checked out linode the plan was 12GB space and 368MB RAM. Now I have a 16GB and 512MB VPS for the same $19.95 price. The yen – dollar exchange rate also helps ;) The common wisdom is that for small VPSes you should run nginx since it is just more efficient than Apache. I also liked trying out new things so that’s what I did. There is a guide out there which was very helpful but I have a lot more experience with apache and its configuration. The guide didn’t help with the below problem. When I researched about automatic virtual subdomains with subfolders I...

If you’re expecting some kind of long winded tutorial about optmising, caching and super-charging your site, sorry to disappoint. The advice is: Don’t use flickr Ok, if you’re not a flickr user you’ve probably stopped reading already, but if not you might be rewarded by one or two nuggets of useful information. The story starts with Hiro’s personal blog being at the top of hatena’s bookmarks page (think Japanese delicious). Unfortunately, it was hosted in-house about 2 metres away from where I am sitting. I think I can still smell the smoke :p It was swamped, no-one could get through to it but we kept it up in some vain attempt to let whoever access the Evangelion related story. The server wasn’t tuned or optimised...

AR (Augmented Reality), thanks to the iPhone Application called “Sekai Kamera” which allows you to see virtual tags users attach to real world views through iPhone camera, is attracting a lot of attention in Japan. It is starting to be used for sales promotions and marketing purposes all over the world. If we imagine the “Scouter” in DragonBall or “AR glasses” in Dennō Coil, it seems like a technology set in the future, but how is it like in the real world? Here I examine 5 cases of AR as used in business in the present moment. 1. Zugara – a service which allows you to have your virtual fitting room This is one of the most famous AR examples and has caught the imagination of many bloggers. You print out what they call...

If you’ve ever had problems with WordPress automatic updates on a local install of XAMPP this should fix it (note that I’ve tested it on OSX but it should work for Windows/Linux but the details will be different).  For a long time I just did the updates/installs by manually installing because the automatic upgrades never worked or it would ask for my ftp details.  And no matter what ftp details I entered it would never connect.  Same for plugin installs or updates. Turns out that it has nothing to do with ftp settings, it was a simple file permissions conflict.  XAMPP was running its local Apache as user ‘nobody’ while the files on my hard disk were owned by my local user ‘ian’.  When WordPress came across this conflict it...