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The 5 iPad apps I am looking forward to
March 31st, 2010 post by iancSo the iPad will be delivered to lucky Americans in a few days. Cue the mass of unboxing videos and delirious first reviews.
We in Japan are not so lucky, we’ll be lucky to get them in late April but early May is also likely. This is opposite to what you know who claimed in his announcement in January. Oh well…
Anyway when it does arrive, these are the 5 apps I am most looking forward to using with the iPad and why. *Click on the images to go to the iTunes Preview page
Dropbox
Dropbox
If you’ve ever used Dropbox, I probably don’t need to explain but for some of you who haven’t it provides effortless and free syncing between computers and computers or computers and iPhones/iPod touches/iPads (paid plans are also available). As someone who doesn’t do the full USB sync often it is a lifesaver. Just drop a PDF or some pictures in the dropbox on your computer and seconds later you can access it on your iPad. If you mark files as favourites, it will store them locally. But talking of pdfs… (more…)
Google Japan’s marketing campaign at Tully’s Coffee But Wait!
January 20th, 2010 post by hiro
Google at Tully's
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 limit gives me a negative impression. I’m always thinking that Google can give us deep impressions all the time.
[JRuby on Rails on GAE/J] how-to put rubygems into a jar file to get around file limitations
December 2nd, 2009 post by iceGAE (Google App Engine) has a limit number to the number files you can upload.
To get around this limit, we need to compress rubygems into jar files.
There may not be easy way to load rubygems in jar files with JRuby.
But with JRuby on GAE/J, it’s easy to load.
- JRuby on Rails on GAE/J, can load rubygems in RAILS_ROOT/vendor/gems, just do require “gem-name”.
- But rubygems often contain a lot of files and that can eat into the quota pretty quickly.
- JRuby on GAE/J, can load rubygems from jar files.
- Therefore it makes sense to put rubygems into jar files, and I am going to show you how step by step.
Steps:
- install rubygems into a specific temporary directory (not into the system dir)
- use -i option to install rugygems into a temporary directory.
- use –no-rdoc and –no-ri options, to skip to install rdoc and ri, to reduce jar file size.
- compress rubygems by jar command in the temporary directory.
- add require “installed-gem.jar” line in RAILS_ROOT/config/environment.rb
Lucky Star on Rails
November 26th, 2009 post by hiroA few months ago, suddenly I got a message with the link below on our internal IRC channel.
Module: ActiveRecord::Serialization
Here is a screenshot.
Lucky Star on Rails
You know what? Those are famous characters from the Japanese anime Lucky Star in the sample code! Wow! Hi guys in Rails core team, we can be good friends :P
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