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Goodbye 2009, Happy 2010!
I’m summarizing my 2009.
The first quoter is for developing the new iPhone application and waiting the “Pending Contract.” Except the iPhone application, I had a “First Contact” meeting which will be connected to the exciting project I’m involved in later. The end of March, I was traveling to Bayarea to meet up with some companies and friends in Silicon Valley.
Next quoter from April to June, I had an important interview for the exciting project I mentioned. I was moving my office to Toranomon area then starting that project. At this time I renew and resize my MacBook Pro from 17 inches to 15 inches.
In this summer, I was getting San Francisco for the meeting of the project, and working harder than before. As you know, there was cold even in summer.
In the end of this summer, I met a giant lubber duck. He or she is coming back to Osaka again this winter.
The last quoter from October to the end of this year is the most exciting but really busy months. The project released the product, had a big event. Working to fix the bugs, optimizing the parameters. Then getting San Francisco again for the next things.
In this year, I was getting to Bayarea three times. I can say this year is the year of changes while I was saying this year must be changing something at the new year party.
That project is for Twitter. And then next year, I’m going to move to San Francisco then join them.
Goodbye TWENTY NINE, Happy TWITTY TEN!
Giant Rubber Duck
This is an story about one month ago.
I googled and found an interesting something giant was in Osaka, the giant rubber duck. In this summer, you could see the giant robot in Tokyo bay, the actual size of Gundam though, I had no chance to get there. Yeah, I agree the Tokyo bay area is not far from my home located in Tokyo city, this is that no one travels where they are living. In this case, this giant is far from here, and I have a chance to getting west: Twitter Meetup in Kyoto.
How Giant is it? His/her height is about 3rd floor of the buildings. Unfortunately he/she is tied to the pier, if not, It must be really sur.
A study meeting for reading source codes of PureData
I’ve joined a study meeting for reading source codes of Pure Data today.
Pure Data is a kind of graphic programming environment to generate computer musics. It is not only for that but also we can use it as generic programming environment to make a kind of graphics, physical gadgets and so on.
One guy who’ve joined this meeting presented a demo project which uses Pure Data, Arduino, electromagnetic and magnetic fluid to show the level meters with magnetic fluid.
Unfortunately My iPhone is not 3GS, I couldn’t take a movie though, it’s really interesting and I remind my projects I’ve done in the university.
The study meeting is self was just beginning and we’re trying to read a part of source codes of Pure Data(Yes, Pure Data is an open source project). Nagano-san who started this meeting successfully ported Pure Data to iPhone so that we’ll see some good Apps like RjDj which is an iPhone application uses Pure Data.
Recently I set up my Snow Leopard environment then updated TerminalColoeropard for it. Snow Leopard prevented us to use some techniques and I then tweeted it already though, I’ll write another article later.
Heading to Western Japan
This is summer vacation season, I was then heading to my family home and continued to Kyoto city for the meetings. We’re usually using Shinkansen to get to western Japan instead of airplane, If we can select the travel scheduled to be operated with N700 series, we can use WiFi, AC power on the window seat. It is really useful.
When we’re getting to Osaka city, we can select airplane instead of Shinkansen because of the milage services, time and/or money though, just for getting to Kyoto, it is better to use Shinkansen.
The last train to back to Tokyo which depurates at 9.30pm, arrives at 12am from Kyoto station is operated with N700. Many guys are tired, sleeping on that travel and it’s everyday things in Japan business scene.
Good night, Japan.
Huuumid Tokyo, iPhone OS 3.0.1
How humid is it here Tokyo…?! My friends said that this summer is not so hotter than last year though, I think, the issue is not temperature but humidity. The hygrometer in my room shows 60%.
After getting to Tokyo, I’m wearing T-shirt and half pants against I was using winter jacket in San Francisco. I’m almost screwed up this differences.
Anyway, after updating my iPhone to OS 3.0.1, sometimes its battery seems to be getting dead more faster than OS 3.0. It seems to be happen once we use SMS/MMS after switching off iPhone, I think, not sure though, it may be an issue of the software of SMS/MMS.
I hope Apple fixes this issue on new iPhone OS 3.1.