Tuesday, February 03, 2004

Search Engine Relationship Chart via Gen Kanai's blog post. Very nice Flash piece that maps out the U.S. Search Engine space. Here's a chart that maps out the Japanese Search Engine space. 12:34:46 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Tuesday, November 18, 2003

FeedDemon, TopStyle, and Homesite After playing w/ a couple of RSS readers I've come to love FeedDemon. This bad boy is developed by Bradsoft, the same company that originally created Homesite. FeedDemon's fast, easy to use, and includes tabbed browsing. It'll eventually be an app that you can purchase, but it's currently available free as a pre-release. The other readers I've played with include the built in reader in Radio Userland, Feedreader, and AmphetaDesk. Didn't like Radio and Ampheta. Both use your browser to hit against a mini web server app. Feedreader was alright, but craped out alot. Bradsoft also created TopStyle, which is a CSS editor. I use TopStyle Lite that comes bundled w/ Homesite + or I should say Dreamweaver. Haven't really played with TopStyle too much until this past week. Using CSS-P to layout an Intranet app. NO TABLES. Positioning w/ DIV's is a pain, but NO PAIN NO GAIN. ;) Homesite is under Macromedia's control now and is packaged together w/ Dreamweaver MX 2004. Dreamweaver seems like Word. Too many features. Slow to start. Feels like it's eating away at my RAM and polluting my hard drive when it starts. I just need a fast text editor that colors my code and helps me reduce typing. I hope Macromedia doesn't kill Homesite. Or hopefully it axes it and the tool gets back into BradSoft's hands. Another coding tool I recently tried is UltraEdit. Used it for an .asp based project, but haven't touched it since. It seemed very felxible and was a solid app. I missed my code completion ... It's all Homesite +, TopStyle Lite, and FeedDemon now. All Bradbury originated tools. My tool god! ALL HAIL BradSoft!! What's in your tool kit? 2:10:06 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Saturday, November 01, 2003

Tabbed Browsing Yesterday I noticed how much tabbed-browsing has changed the way I use the web. Before discovering tabs I used to popup windows. Alot of windows. Now tabs have organized my life :-) This reminds me of how Window$ 95 pops up new windows for double clicking on folders. It gets pretty messy if you need to get 4 folders deep. The default in XP is opening subfolders in the same window.  They probably conducted some usability tests and figured this out. Watch for tabs in the next version of IE. My flavor of the month is Mozilla 1.5. 12:28:18 PM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Saturday, October 25, 2003

Adjusting to Smaller Screen Real Estate Changed laptops from the desktop replacement monster Dell Latitude C840 to a smaller IBM X31. I was tired of lugging around the DELL. Especially since I gotta fight the crowd on the Chuo, Marunouchi, and Ginza lines. It's main purpose was to plow through people, but since I lost so much weight I go between people now. The things I miss about the C840 are the SPACE and the awesome NVidia graphics card. 1280x960 is perfect. Was perfect. The IBM's a solid machine, but it's gonna take some time to get used to 1024x768. I haven't coded nor played games on it yet. Ugh, fearing the claustrophobia already. 1:54:50 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Monday, September 29, 2003

Japan's Tech World Wiki Thinking about starting a Wiki to map out the Japanese Internet/Tech space. I figure this will be a good way for me to study and allow other people w/ similar interests to add on. The areas of interest are: Japanese Internet companies (ie. portals, development houses) and how they are related, investors, software companies, Mobile space, gotta include gaming, blogging/moblog, other Japan specific topics. We actually started to use a Wiki clone, TWiki, @ the 'Tank a couple of years ago for a short lived game project. We installed it on Windows 2000 Server w/ Apache + Cygwin. It's a wierd combo, but works. I'm currently using Media Temple's shared Linux ColdFusion MX hosting plan, which allows me to use ColdFusion MX (duh), PHP4, Perl, Flash Remoting, Miva Script, and MySQL to play with. Now my options are to use one of the various engines or build one from scratch ... 10:00:06 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Saturday, September 27, 2003

WPC Expo 2003 Another expo ... this time the WPC Expo 2003. It's a huge event, but it didn't seem to have any buzz. No goto booth. I did want to see the light keyboard that's on the KoKoRo blog, but it was nowhere to be found. Micro$oft had a HUGE area for Office. Mini-seminar brain-washing techniques in full swing. How much more crap can they put into this monster bloatware. XML this, XML that ... the crowd doesn't even know WTF XML IS!!! I had to include my little anti-M$ rant. Sony has a kewl little video player hard drive. Kinda like an iPod. KoKoRo blogged about already ... again. Damn, this boy's on it. Well, I guess since I'm like a couple of weeks delayed on some of these postings. Gotta get myself in tuned. Too bad Apple wasn't here, but this is a Pee Cee expo. 2bad. (> <) 1:41:04 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []

	Thursday, September 18, 2003

Ben Forta @ JCFUG Got to meet 'The' ColdFusion evangelist. Ben Forta. The man, the myth, the legend. He's the guy on the right. Not the person in the middle. That's Kentaro of PowerPlant Partners, senpai, great leader, master of my universe ;) Just noticed an interesting connection ... Ken introduced me to ColdFusion for the aloha-street.com project in 1999 and was an evangelist in Japan for 3.0. In fact the book that he got signed was what he brought with him and our bible during that 1 week of development. It's funny how things connect. Ben's presentation was Undocumented ColdFusion 6.1 Stuff ... or something like that. Here are my notes. 2:16:13 AM      Google It!   trackback []   comment []