Blog - Tetsuya Kitahata

С Новым 2006 Годом!

2006-01-01T12:25:29+09:00

謹賀新年

Я (Тэцуя Китахата) поздравляю Вас с наступающи новым годом -- 2006.

皆様にとって来るべき2006年が良い年となりますように。

Happy New Year!

HOWTO: Apache Forrest + Japanese (PDF rendering)

2005-11-05T10:19:28+09:00

HOWTO: Apache Forrest + Japanese (PDF rendering)

Feedbacks welcome. (tetsuya at apache dot org)

0. Download Apache Forrest :-)

blaｈ-blah ... (run "forrest seed" whereever you want: /$PATH/$TO/ -- edit/create xdocs/***.xml in japanese ... etc. etc.)

1. Download Free Japanese Fonts ("Sazanami Fonts" might be the best).
http://www.terra-intl.com/fonts/sazanami-gothic.ttf (1)
http://www.terra-intl.com/fonts/sazanami-mincho.ttf (2)

2. Create Font-Metric Files (XML)
% java -cp $FORREST_HOME/lib/core/fop-0.20.5.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader /$PATH/$TO/sazanami-gothic.ttf /$PATH/$TO/sazanami-gothic.xml
% java -cp $FORREST_HOME/lib/core/fop-0.20.5.jar org.apache.fop.fonts.apps.TTFReader /$PATH/$TO/sazanami-mincho.ttf /$PATH/$TO/sazanami-mincho.xml
Note: You can download and use sazanami-gothic.xml and sazanami-mincho.xml if you use (1) and (2) above. If you download other font files or use Windows default fonts (MS-Mincho/MS-Gothic), you should create font-metric files equivalent for them by yourself.

3. Create new "userconfig.xml" file -- e.g. /$PATH/$TO/font/userconfig.xml

4. Edit /$PATH/$TO/resources/conf/sitemap.xmap ("fo2pdf" section)

Note: Apache Forrest 0.7 provides PLUGIN functionality, so perhaps you should do above for these 2 files
$FORREST_HOME/build/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf/output.xmap
$FORREST_HOME/plugins/org.apache.forrest.plugin.output.pdf/output.xmap

5. Change "Skin" config-- edit $FORREST_HOME/main/webapp/skins/common/xslt/fo/document2fo.xsl
REPLACE: font-family="serif" -> font-family="Gothic"
REPLACE: font-family="sans-serif" -> font-family="Mincho"
REPLACE: into

6. Yell out! "Run Forrest! Run!" with girlish voice --- :-)
% cd /$PATH/$TO/
% forrest site

SC UniPad - The Unicode Plain Text Editor

2005-11-05T08:53:17+09:00

SC UniPad - The Unicode Plain Text Editor

It was very nice for me to find "SC UniPad". I had been wondering how to deal with Cyrillics using keyboard (Should I buy another keyboard merely for the input of Cyrillic letters?). "SC UniPad" provides virtual keyboards.

The wonderful thing is -- UniPad is also able to convert Unicode characters into XML character reference, easily.
e.g. Меня зовут Тэцуя. (Меня зову т Тэцуя.)
e.g. किताहाता तेतुया (किताहाता तेतुया)

--- ah, plus UniPad can convert them into UCN (\u...). Java engineers who should deal with "Resource Bundles" can reap the maximum fruit from it.
e.g. ىيتاﺦاثا (\u0649\u064a\u062a\u0627\ufea6\u0627\u062b\u0627)

I learned Russian/Hindi/Arabic etc... @ the university (more than 10 years ago). Perhaps, I will remember them.

Line Breaking Properties

2005-10-27T09:05:06+09:00

Line Breaking Properties

http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr14/

Are these implemented by Apache FOP?

I am now seeking the way to deal with "Japanese hyphenation" (kinsoku shori: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A6%81%E5%89%87) and "Punctuation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation) .... hack, hack.

ApacheNews + PDF

2005-10-19T12:27:02+09:00

ApacheNews + PDF

For What It Worth :-), I've just added category based PDF files to "Apache News Online". For fun ;)

ex.1 http://www.apachenews.org/archives/news_apache_jakarta.pdf
ex.2 http://www.apachenews.org/archives/news_apache_webservices.pdf
ex.3 http://www.apachenews.org/archives/news_apache_xml.pdf
ex.4 http://www.apachenews.org/archives/news_apache_http.pdf

Backslash ..

2005-10-15T03:40:55+09:00

I think this tells everything ;-)

PL/SQL + PDF = PL/PDF

2005-10-13T13:55:40+09:00

Generate PDF files / Oracle HTML DB

http://plpdf.com/

Memo, memo ...

Donation to Gmane

2005-10-06T21:53:03+09:00

Donation to Gmane

http://gmane.org/donate.php

I made a donation to Gmane (To be precise -- Gmane Hardware Fund) a few days ago. My name appeared on the list here, soon. (Tusen takk, Lars!)

Donation to the Python Software Foundation

2005-09-30T02:37:54+09:00

Donation to the Python Software Foundation

http://www.python.org/psf/donations.html

I donated some money to the Python Software Foundation the other day. Surprisingly, my name has been listed here within 24 hours. 24-HOURS! I could not believe it! (On the contrary, there are some Foundations which *NEVER* contacted me ... plus, my name listed nowhere -- I am still not sure where my donations might have gone :-( )

Needless to say, today I made an additional donation to the PSF -- with my sincere gratitude to the Foundation.

Women@apache announcement / Japanized

2005-08-25T05:34:10+09:00

http://japan.cnet.com/news/ent/story/0,2000047623,20086628,00.htm

Disk Stakka - CD/DVD Manager / MSDN

2005-08-18T01:18:29+09:00

Disk Stakka - CD/DVD Manager / MSDN

http://msdn.imation.com/

As I mentioned before, I am now MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) Subscriber. Luckily enough, I could get it from MSDN for gift campaign of this subscription -- comprehensive CD/DVD manager, "Disk Stakka".

Really nice tool. I often felt that managing CD/DVDs had been really boring. I love "Disk Stakka". According to the blurb :) -- "Disk Stakka makes traditional disc management obsolete". Perhaps, it would be true.

San Diego

2005-08-15T04:16:13+09:00

San Diego

For some reason, I found a nice website about San Diego, California written in Japanese. :-)
http://www.sandiegotown.com/

Note: ApacheCon US 2005 -- 10-14 December 2005

Orkut / Japanese

2005-08-08T00:45:42+09:00

Orkut / Japanese

Seems that we can switch orkut.com's interface language to other than English (Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Traditional & Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Russian).

In order to switch orkut's interface language, go to "home page" and click on the "settings" button.

Reality Mining

2005-08-02T23:46:28+09:00

Reality Mining : MIT

http://reality.media.mit.edu/

Cool. For some reason, this reminded me of Apache Agora (Project).

Flash Mental Calculation

2005-07-07T04:16:19+09:00

http://www.soroban.com/fanzan/indexE.html

It might be very interesting to challenge "championship number 3 digit 10 rows" calc. Try it out!

JavaOne Tokyo 2005 (15 - 17, November)

2005-06-30T05:39:07+09:00

http://jp.sun.com/javaone/index_e.html

MSDN Subscription - activated

2005-06-17T14:48:12+09:00

MSDN Subscription - activated

I activated my MSDN Subscription account, again. I had been a member of MSDN Universal for three years (paid US$6,000 or more for it! year 2000 - 2003), and had left because I'd completely lost my motivation to work for information technology for the last three years.

Still expensive! - oldie but goodie

Fortune 1000 Web Sites

2005-06-12T03:11:54+09:00

http://www.port80software.com/surveys/

... Really?

Bye-bye "Sub-Marine"

2005-06-11T13:40:55+09:00

Bye-bye "Sub-Marine"

http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5737961.html

Seems that America is now trying to change the bad patend system, granting the patent to the first inventor, into the opposite system - principle of first-to-file - "Global Standard".

Good news, indeed. We are in the days of 21st century, not in the days of Christopher Columbus.

Google Sitemaps

2005-06-11T02:11:01+09:00

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

Great! By using this, perhaps I will never be annoyed by "GOOGLE BOT ATTACKS" -- I'd upgraded my web server several times ($350/month now! -- structural/cumulative fiscal deficit!) because I have had so many bots coming.

Relieved. :-)

Microsoft Update

2005-06-11T00:25:52+09:00

http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/

plus ... seems that Mr. Furukawa, the Founder of Microsoft Japan, resigned MS-J CTO at last ... (sad) ... The end of MS era.

Vacation

2005-06-08T13:11:46+09:00

I will attend the ApacheCon EU 2005 (in Germany, July 20-22, 2005).

Plus, go to chicago in order to participate in another conference at Illinois, USA (August 17-21, 2005 -- plus summer vacation)

Journey-- :-)

Tech-On

2005-06-07T14:38:03+09:00

Tech-On! tech news--straight from Asia

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/

JBoss and NEC

2005-05-31T17:20:51+09:00

JBoss and NEC http://nikkeibp.jp/wcs/show/leaf/CID/onair/jp/flash_rss/378008/
(Japanese)

and

http://jboss.org/jbossBlog/blog/mfleury/2005/05/30/I_am_in_tokyo.txt

----

Congratulations.

I, personally, would like to recommend Marc to set up, launch "certification" and "education" programs (like SJC-P, SJC-WC) for the products of JBoss Federation (JBoss AS, JBoss Cache, Javassist ... ) in Japan. (I once suggested such a kind of thing to the Board of Directors, Apache Software Foundation -- October 2003, if i remember correctly ---- They'd REJECTED, though :-( )

Japanese IT engineers DO like "certification"s. Big Market. Good Luck.

MailingList Archives, News Server, and RSS

2005-05-28T22:59:02+09:00

MailingList Archives, News Server, and RSS

I am still wondering which would be "smart" choice for us to convert among MailingList Archives (e.g. ezmlm archives), News Server Archives, and RSS feeds.

I once tried (experimantal) to setup "colobus" and to convert targeted mbox archives to (semi-automatic) news server archives. Plus, converted them to HTML and RSS -- by using (hacked :-) some PHP scripts found at PHP.net

I know that there are strong needs for "automated cross-convert" system. You do not have to rely upon "blog", if there are nice converters from MailingList archives to RSS -- as Content Management System (CMS). Mmmmm ... Consulting Apache James would be the smarter choice? :-)

Additional Donation to the ASF

2005-05-25T14:00:50+09:00

Additional Donation to the ASF

Today, I've made out a check for US$750.00 at Citibank N.A. (Shibuya, Tokyo) for the purpose of my personal donation to the ASF (The Apache Software Foundation).

This was the first time (in my life) I issued a remittance check. (Transfer)
# We are not accustomed to use "CHECK"s.

I will write a message/letter to the treasurer in order to tell him/her the specific targets and projects that I wish to directly support by these donations - US$1,500.00 (donation via this CHECK plus donation via PAYPAL that I've made 3 weeks ago) , and will enclose a check for US$750.00 with the letter, physical mail -- in the middle of June, 2005.

Hope these donations to be harmonized with the current assets of the ASF.

Fear of POVERTY, Fear of CRITICISM

2005-05-10T10:42:03+09:00

Fear of POVERTY, Fear of CRITICISM

I'd been sick for these 3 years -- Fear of POVERTY.

I'd been sick for these 30 years -- Fear of CRITICISM (from the others).

I've completely lost my enthusiasm for works early in 2002 -- with frightful plastic debts.
I had to confess I had been at severe stage of alcoholism. I had to overcome.

----

NOW -- I am free! Free from these fears!

GOT OVER AT LAST!!

Love.

Donations to Apache (ASF)

2005-05-05T12:42:41+09:00

Donations to Apache (ASF)

This is the first time I contributed to the ASF (The Apache Software Foundation) via donations, financially - US$750. This is what I'd wanted to do for a long time.

Perhaps other people and so many companies in our country (Japan) can / want to donate and support the ASF, financially, because many people feel "thanx" to the continuous activities and great products created by the foundation. However, there seem less fully worked-out ideas for it. -- I am still wondering how (tax deduction? listing up donator's names?) to raise the funds from our country.
# E.g. In our country, people prefer to use "Remittion-by-BANK-Draft" rather than "CHECK" -- normal business practice in Japan

http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

1st anniversary of apachenews.org

2005-03-13T04:58:28+09:00

1st anniversary of apachenews.org

Seems that it is the 1st anniversary of apachenews.org.

Now, this has over 20,000 PVs per day.

I hope more apache folks (including the apache committers/members) to use this website -- especially, people in apache xml/webservices area.

----

http://www.apachenews.org/archives/cat_apache_jakarta_index.html
http://www.apachenews.org/archives/cat_apache_xml_index.html
http://www.apachenews.org/archives/cat_apache_webservices_index.html

Jakarta.JP Launched

2005-01-17T15:19:17+09:00

FYI:

http://jakarta.terra-intl.com/

(JAKARTA.JP)
http://jakarta.jp/