makegumi

15Oct08

yesterday, me and some of my japanese colleagues were talking about relationships and settling down. one of them told me about makegumi (負け組). The real meaning of the word is “loser” like losing in Olympics or tournaments. But aside from this kind of meaning, he told me that if a person reaches the age above 30 years old, he/she is already considered makegumi.

I’m already 26 years old and sometimes I feel the pressure to get hitched soon. But I know, this kind of decision should not be done hastily. But hopefully, I wouldn’t be makegumi.

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Setting IME For Your Page in IE

23May08

When I was doing some work for a client, I came across a requirement to set the textbox’s default IME settings into Japanese Hiragana. I know how to do that in a Windows Application using Visual Studio (since it’s integrated in the IDE), but in a Web Application.. I really didn’t have any idea how to do it. I searched the net and found how:

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Tags: html, ime

Connection Strings

07May08

It’s a bit hard developing in different languages using different databases. And most of the times, I forget the connection string that I should use.

The following three connection strings would probably be the strings that I’d use often:

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japanese date format

06May08

Currently at work, I’m doing an upgraded version of an in-house system. It was developed using MS Access, and now, they want a VB.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 version.

One of the reports that I’ll use needs the date in Japanese format. [The Japanese date format uses eras. For example, we're in 2008; in japanese calendar, that's 平成20.] It took me some time to figure out how to do that.

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Tags: date format, jap date, vb 2005

Hello world!

06May08

Welcome to the geeky side of me.

I’d be posting a wide genre of topics. From source codes to Japanese language. Things that I’m currently studying or something that I’ve discovered. Boring or interesting topics. Anything under the sun.

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