Category Archives: Technology

The time came for it to be used for something important

I’ve been in charge for an emergency messaging service for Chikuyo Gakuen, a private school in Fukuoka Prefecture. Everything is made so that it’s easy to subscribe and unsubscribe, and easy to use with Japanese mobile phones. There were students from Chikuyo Gakuen learning English in New Zealand when the terrible earthquake took place, but [...]

My lecture at WordCamp Fukuoka 2011

Last Saturday I did my lecture at WordCamp Fukuoka 2011 and attended as many other lectures as I could. It’s thought that about 400 people came, and the organization did something that was new to me – there were many short lectures, so many that there were two at a time despite them being short. [...]

Presenting Japoneschan

This week I made public a new service I called Japoneschan. It lets you convert Spanish words into Japanese characters (keeping the Spanish pronunciation), get translations through the Google Translate API, and many other things. I made this service in order to connect the Japanese and Spanish languages in both directions. For more information on [...]

Announcement: WordCamp Fukuoka 2011

Next February 19th WordCamp Fukuoka 2011 will be held. It’s an event about blog software WordPress, but this year it will be more focused on content than on technology. They called to speak about how to make a podcast, and how to distribute it without pain using WordPress. Here’s a translation of an abstract to [...]

Talking about podcasting @ WordPress 3.0 Kaigi

Last Saturday I joined an event called WordPress 3.0 Kaigi. I met a bunch of people (there were more than 60) and it was very interesting. About the end, I explained in Japanese how to distribute a podcast easily using WordPress and no plugins. Below is my presentation. And this is a summary of my [...]