For the second year in a row I could enjoy this event with my co-workers from Samurai Factory. First I enjoy it because it takes place only 12mn from home by bicycle ^_^ and then of course because of the information we can gather during the day. You may say that looking at the video from the IO event you can get quite the same info, that's partly true. But attending the event you got also information specifically related to the Japanese market and you got goodies! *_* and this year... Read more

I played a little bit with the YouTube API today, using the classes provided by Zend Framework. The result is a Fixed Gear Videos Gallery. It is quite basic for now, it just retrieves the latest fixed gear videos published on YouTube. Plus, I made 3 categories : videos from Japan, France and the Anglophone world. The way I do the search for each category is far from perfect but it works not too bad for now. Then you just have to click on the icon and the video will be displayed in a ni... Read more

Just added more albums in the gallery section. Photos are hosted on zooomr, I will explain this week in a post how to get them on your homepage using the API, it's pretty much the same as for Flickr... Read more

Yesterday I changed a little bit the top page of the blog. I added a new category of post called "Short News" (from Japan). Each post will be mainly composed of few pictures and just a short comment. I will send some stuff unusual or/and funny/interesting (at least for me ) that I'll notice in my everyday life here in Japan. To separate this "Short News" from the "longer" posts that I've already published on the blog, I added a tab system on the top page : So, with the tabs you can... Read more

Yesterday, I upgraded this homepage with a photos gallery so from now I'll be able to share with you my photos, I am sure you were waiting for this..hum...:) Actually, I also did it because I wanted to try some stuff with the flickr API. I already tried it for my gallery of Fixed Gear in Japan, but I wanted to go a little bit further to build a full gallery of albums feeded directly by Flickr. The advantage is first that the photos are hosted by them and then there are many tools to up... Read more