Posts Tagged "japanese"

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...

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...

Ticket vending machines at stations are really important for our life in Japan. A few days ago I found an interesting blog post called “If they made ticket vending machines at stations like…”  I’ve translated it below. If they made ticket vending machines like… Nintendo You can buy a ticket if you trace the path from departure to arrival Sony High end machines with their self made CPU (But tickets cost a bit) Microsoft Input a departure station, a destination station, departure time, arrival time, which route you prefer, and choose grade of a train then you can buy it Apple You can only choose your destination station but somehow it will be all right Google Input like “A to B” then you can get a list of tickets with a...

We finally launched Japanese version of our blog. You can see it here: messaliberty 日本語 We’re waiting for your access and comments!

If you have wondered what technologies or computer languages are popular in Japan (circa late 2008/early 2009) this video may interest you. I went down to the local bookstore and recorded some footage of (Japanese) IT/Computer books on offer. You’ll find out which language is the most popular, which books are translated from their original English form and there’s even a death-match fight between WordPress and Moveable Type. I even found out there is a VB 2008 out there...